The Lite and Narrow - 6
just a hobby knife. There are eight yard wall castings and eight
oven castings (sixteen ovens) for my battery. The basic kit comes
with wooden retaining walls that are optional to use. These are
also cast in LabStone and take stain very nicely. Depending on
your space limitations, you can have more or less. Scale Model
Masterpieces has an expansion kit with just the oven and yard
wall casting with the trunnel pieces.
Construction began by cutting the left column from each cast-
ing, leaving the left end casting complete. This was on both
the yard wall and the oven castings. Each casting was butted
together, then rubbed back and forth until they fit tightly
together. The castings were glued together using a combina-
tion of yellow glue and CA. I stained the castings with Dr. Ben’s
“worn concrete.” After drying, the castings were given a wash
of Builder’s in Scale blackwood stain to highlight the stones.
5: Stewart’s Gap beehives diorama. Larry car track and
loading tipple are to be added. Details to be added are
tools, mortar barrel, ladders and loading boards. The
ovens are constructed using Scale Model Masterpiece’s
coke oven castings.
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MRH-Dec 2013
