Project Update: Raglan Road by Bar Mills

I haven't posted a single Raglan Road update in two months!!! I have been working on it all this time. I have almost finished the factory. I took it back home few weeks ago to do final weathering but haven't done it all yet. The pictures are coming once I am through. It will be quite big step from what I have posted two months ago.
I have been working on other structures as well but the result is hardly noticeable. The reason for that is that I did little bit of this and little bit of that. I was about install Sinner's Salvage windows but realized that they were wrong size. There were actually windows for the pharmacy. I had no other windows left. I believe the kit has exchanged hands few times and somewhere along the line some windows have been removed. I ordered new set of windows and moved on to Hubcap Heaven. Then I realized that it had its windows missing as well. I switched to the pharmacy. It had one sheet of parts missing. Nonetheless, I continued working on it, i.e. shingling the walls, until windows for Skinner's Salvage arrived. I have been working on it ever since occasionally adding few rows of shingles to the pharmacy walls so I don't go insane doing it all at once.

Project Update: Wicked Wanda's by Bar Mills

It is Halloween time. Time to bring up to life some dead projects. I hope I will be able to go all the way this year and finish the project. The diorama is taking up very valuable space on my modeling room floor and collecting dust. Also although I am very careful about it it is all possible that our cat may get into the room. That most likely would result in some damage to everything that is on the floor. It is time to finish the diorama and exchange it for some cash.
I had just installed the fence before I put diorama on back burner. I wanted an outhouse and a dog house in the back plane which I planned to scratchbuild. After many months of procrastination I bought doghouse kit from Vectorcut and scratchbuilt the outhouse. I don't have any problems designing, engineering and scratchbuilding things. The bigest problem for me is determining dimensions. It seems all it takes is googling it up. Many times it works fine. However, in case of dog house I got this table of dimensions based on dog breed. Having no knowledge of different breeds meant more research and trying different variations to find out what looks best so I decided not to follow this path and purchased the kit. I think it looks pretty nice. After installing outhouse, doghouse and shed I planted tufts, weeds and such in the back while I had good access. Then I installed Wanda's. Now I need to add grass and tufts around the building and add details and little people. Sounds like not so much...

Project Update: Pop Gracins by Bar Mills

I have new project to report. It is Pop Gracins by Bar Mills. Well, it isn't exactly very new. I removed parts from the sheets back in August but due to all work on Truck Stop I didn't progress any further. With Truck Stop out of the way and sense of guilt I have put some serious effort over past week. The result is that I am quite close to finishing the kit. It won't happen this week due to coming weekend being busy but next week most likely Thursday of Friday I should be done. It means I will be able to squeeze out only two posts out of it...

Project Update: Truck Stop kitbash based on EF13B by RailroadKits.com

The last few modeling sessions felt more like work than fun. I needed to finish the diorama and ship it to Lancaster, PA before start of Model Railroad EXPO. Therefore, I felt quite a bit of pressure. The second I finished it I dropped all tools, walked out of the modeling room and watched TV for the rest of the evening although I could have done some work on other projects. I still haven't finished vehicles for the diorama. I started weathering them but had to stop because it became evident that I had to give more time between steps for paints to dry and cure. For that reason one of the pictures shows tractor trailer with blue masking tape over its windows.
Now that I am free I can probably push forward few other projects. Well, I am not exactly free. I have to finish weathering vehicles for the Truck Stop but with long drying time between steps I'll have plenty of time for something else. Perhaps I'll be able to do blog updates more often. I have few "What's in the box" posts to do as well as few reviews which I haven't done in a quite some time.