Category: Construction

Here’s the progress to date on Mal-Vern Liquor.  Note the prominent location at the entry way to the layout.  The core was fashioned from layers of styrene sheet.  You can see the photo laminate sheets I’ll use on the left.  Fluting for the awning was easily formed using Plastruct half round.

Scene composition is always a slippery slope, especially for freelance or proto-freelance layouts such as the LAJ.  If you cherry pick and select a random collection of the most interesting structures you have what looks like a model railroad.  Go too far in the other direction and you don’t have enough to sustain interest.   […]

CF-7 #2619 idles in front of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory.  The addition of  A-Line windshield wipers wraps up the project.

Completion of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory at 4940 District Blvd. is the final structure along the back wall between the tracks and the backdrop.  Since the layout is proto-freelanced, I took an interpretive approach as opposed to modeling it exactly.  The weathering is slightly more pronounced and I borrowed a few features from the […]

Wrapped up my CF-7 project…..finally!