My Walthers sugar mill turned locomotive shop is nearly completed. I decided to take a few photos to see how it looked through the camera. The camera is very unforgiving, especially when tired old eyes don’t see quite as well as they once did. For what it’s worth, the building is supposed to look something like a shop building at Swindon, that is, when there were shop buildings at Swindon…
I used Polly Scale acrylic paints on the building. The orange brick is a mix of the colour mud and Seaboard Air Line Orange. I ended up using a mix of Atlantic Coast line Purple, C&O Blue, and SP Grey for the blue engineering bricks. I went back over both sets of bricks with an alternate color- tedious in the extreme. The engineering bricks have had a SP grey wash to tone done the odd darker blue C&O bricks. From the chicken pox appearance of the orange brick, I can tell it is going to need a wash too to tone down those bright Seaboard bricks, but also it’s obvious in the photos that there isn’t any mortar in between the bricks.
The first two photos were taken in the backyard with a couple of shots in direct sunlight to show the colors, then the balance in the garage with natural indirect lighting. A stock Heljan Class 47 was used to show the scale of the building along with a 1/87 Preiser figure. A 3.5 mm building and figure keeping a 4 mm scale locomotive company…
The building measures out at 570mm long and 80mm deep. In 4mm scale this building measures out at a respectable 143 feet long.
The poor fellow standing there all alone is me- not too many 4mm modellers around these parts... |
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