Last February I presented an assortment of structures that had been gathered for Carlin's main street. It's time to see what has been happening with some of these.
We will start with the American Model Builders railroad rooming house kit. Some time ago I had assembled the walls, base, and stairs. This was necessary to be able to create the pit in the scenery that the building would go into. Then I had finished the roof and added a few doors. After that it sat in a box while I worked on other layout projects. The photo below shows it how it was left. Now I am going back and finishing this building, adding the rest of the doors, the windows and any finishing touches.
The kit models double hung wood windows. The design of this kit allows for the lower, open-able section to be placed in any position so I have included some opened at various heights and others closed.
Inside the building a center view block was added from .030 styrene and painted black. Notches were made on the bottom to go around the two small magnets.
Some lighting was added to the outside of the building using a Miniatronics 1.5 volt lamp. The wires were bent into the shape of a support arm and painted silver.
Inside the building the tiny wires from the lamp are soldered to a Kato 77A board where I had removed the LED. The board has a 270 ohm resistor on it. Larger 22 gauge wires have been soldered to the input tabs of the board and those will be fed through a hole in the base of the building to connect to the 12 volt DC buss under the bench work. Also in this photo the window glazing consisting of .010 clear plastic sheet can be seen.
This is the finished building planted into it's pit and held in place by the small magnets. There is still more to do with some details around the area but the basic structure is now finished.
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