Over my weekend (Tues and Weds) I finished up my freight house project:
Although, after setting it on the layout I realized I can see right through it, so I’ll have to work up some kind of view block.
Nick
Nice…Is there any window glazing installed? One thing you could try is installing the windows, then dull coating from inside. The windows will look shiny from outside, but you will not be able to see through them.
Tom
is this a kit that is available? it’s exactly what I’m looking for for my layout. Could you write back with the name and maker?
I would just add floor plates, if there aren’t interior floors provided, painted concrete grey, and a back wall painted black. If you feel like it, you could add round or square concrete columns at whatever the regular bay spacing is (the distance between the pilasters on the exterior); these should be about a scale 24" wide, you could just make them straight vertical. However, the real building columns would likely have a flared column capital at the top, like an upside-down cone or pyramid shape, to support the floor above. Then, if you really want to go for it, you could place a few rectangular boxes and/or palettes, or other junk scavenged from various kits or just mocked up quickly, to represent various items in storage sitting inside. With a floor, a row of columns, and a handful of brown rectangles, it’ll look like a really detailed interior!
Walthers Cornerstone Cornerstone Series(R) Background Building - Kit Commissary/Freight Transfer Building Walthers Part # 933-3173, HO scale, $34.98
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3173
Gil
Thanks guys.
Gil has it right. The building is a Walther’s Commissary/Freight Transfer Building background kit. I use a couple long out of production Bar Mills railroad signs, for the Reading and Delaware & Hudson signs.
WP&P - I like the idea of a partial interior. I’ll have to play with that and see how it turns out.
Nick
Nice building!
I usually put a piece of black matte board or other cardboard or paper painted black in the back of the model building.
The other “theatre” trick is to paint the inside of the building black as well. I use both strategies with success.
Chris
I have a background building (Arrowhead Ale, re-badged to the Strumpet Brewery) with a lot of windows. I used a product called Canopy Cement to glaze the window panes. This is a clear glue that is designed for attaching the glass cockpit canopies on model aircraft. It doesn’t “craze” the clear plastic, and dries clear itself. When it is used as a glazing, though, you get more of a “bullet glass” effect. You can see light through the window, but no details. Everything is completely de-focused. So, you can illuminate the building, but not bother with interior detailing.
Hi Nick. Another tip would be to add window shades. These can be fashioned from ordinary writing paper painted with depot buff or coach green. Not only does this improve the look of a model, it also helps hide an empty interior.