A New Build - A Closer Look

The finished O scale shed ready for placement on a new module.

You have seen this structure in a couple of Wordless Wednesday's and a post a few months back. Using walls and boards from last years hands-on clinic at the Schomberg Show I came up with a neat little structure that will be used in my next On30" module. I did have to dig into my parts box for some roofing and wood supports. A extra piece of Gatorfoam became the base and my files had a lot of signs for the walls. The interior is also detailed from my parts box. The captions tell the rest of the story...George Dutka

This is the plaster casting and wood pieces we practiced our PanPastel colouring with. Once I got home I needed to figure out what to do with it all.

With a bit of cutting to one of the plaster casting and gluing the end walls worked out well. The scribed wood was cut for a rear wall and small piece of front wall. The door is also made from this stock. The strip was cut to finish off the front wall.

The walls are squared up and glued together. The roof boards are cut and glued from stock I had on hand.

An overhead view of the roof truss. The basic weathering is PanPastels but I added a coat of india ink-alcohol mix. Some Bragdon powders are added as soot and rust steaking.

The roof is a mix of leftover paper corrugated roofing left over from a few kits. This material is brush painted with Floquil rust. I also used some Minute Man roll roofing which is HO scale but still looks good on this O scale model. The roof is highlighted with Bragdon powders rust shades and soot. Some of the detail parts used are seen here. The stationary engine was planned for this scene but was not used due to lack of room.

Lots of details are added to the exterior and also inside the opened doorway. The hinges are from my parts box cut in half. I bent some wire door handles. Pieces of wood, wire and newspapers are scattered around the scene.

A styrene stack is added along with some added trash on the roof. Some holes are seen as the structure is kind of run down. Some signs are added to the walls and laying around the exterior.