25: The first step in building the platform is to make a
pair of end supports from styrene.
no. 4061. This was chosen in part to harmonize with my pump
house. The walls and ends are simple to cut from the sheet.
The windows I used for this structure were Grandt Line no.
5030, with a Tichy Train Group no. 8032 door. The larger load-
ing doors were scratchbuilt in the same way as the doors
in my Southern Pacific depot, described in my column for
Model Railroad Hobbyist in
page 36, and are
described below.
With the sizes of window and door openings identified, they
were laid out and then cut from the Evergreen sheet. To
achieve a snug fit, I like to cut these openings close to the exact
size and then file the openings so the parts will drop in.
Once these wall openings were correctly sized, I assembled the
building. I used scale 6" x 8" styrene strip inside each corner,
and added exterior corner trim of scale 1" x 6" styrene, as you
see in (27). Next was to airbrush the entire assembly. I chose
a single paint color for the structure, along with all trim strips,
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Getting Real Column -15
MRH-Mar 2013
