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It's a little embarrassing to post this here, given all the beautiful models people make, but maybe someone will find it useful.
My wife and I decided taking trains out piece by piece was too tedious, so I decided to build a car barn/engine shed. It's an 18 foot x 26 inch frame, made of doubled 2x4s sistered together, with plywood sides. The shed itself is 16 feet long and has an open bottom (screened with hardware cloth and window screen). The second roof is open under one side. The roof is made of plywood covered with asphalt-impregnated roofing membrane, the stuff that comes in rolls. the roofing suppots are made of plywood and were cut to the sahpe of the roof and then screwed to the plywood sides. For access one whole 6 foot roof panel can be removed, and I'm also cutting a door in the back.
We need to paint it and detail it some, and I need to trim the roofing material a bit, but this is the basic idea. It's more for storage than for operations, though I managed to get four tracks in there using a couple LGB 1200 series switches.
Any detailing ideas? I thought of painting it red, and then adding a switch tower on the front corner. I might make a logo for our tain and pain that on the door. Maybe add some lights?
My wife and I decided taking trains out piece by piece was too tedious, so I decided to build a car barn/engine shed. It's an 18 foot x 26 inch frame, made of doubled 2x4s sistered together, with plywood sides. The shed itself is 16 feet long and has an open bottom (screened with hardware cloth and window screen). The second roof is open under one side. The roof is made of plywood covered with asphalt-impregnated roofing membrane, the stuff that comes in rolls. the roofing suppots are made of plywood and were cut to the sahpe of the roof and then screwed to the plywood sides. For access one whole 6 foot roof panel can be removed, and I'm also cutting a door in the back.
We need to paint it and detail it some, and I need to trim the roofing material a bit, but this is the basic idea. It's more for storage than for operations, though I managed to get four tracks in there using a couple LGB 1200 series switches.
Any detailing ideas? I thought of painting it red, and then adding a switch tower on the front corner. I might make a logo for our tain and pain that on the door. Maybe add some lights?