Finishing a re-cycled fire station

On my last layout which was from 2002 to 2013 I had a California Department of Forestry fire station which I built from a Rix Products kit.  If I had taken any photos of it on that layout I can't find them now.  When researching things for this layout I found that the fire station in Carlin was of a similar design but with an extra door.  Since I still had the old model, I decided to use it again on this layout but with some upgrades.

One of the things I wanted to be able to do with this structure was to pose each of the doors either as opened or closed.  The solution I came up with was to use Velcro on the back of each door and on the inside of the roof of the building to store the doors when they are open.  The fit of the doors into the wall is snug enough that they don't need any glue to stay in place.

The building sits on a removable base that has blocking of styrene strips around the inside of the walls that hold the building in place.  The building can be easily picked up to change the position of the doors or move around the fire engine models.

Some of the details added were rain downspouts made of .035 styrene rod added at each corner of the building and some signs that were made on the computer and printed on paper.  I only have a couple of fire engines right now representing different eras but plan to add more in the future.  As the layout is modeled in different eras from the mid 1970's to mid 1990's I plan to have at least 2 set of fire equipment that can reflect those different eras.

Building the propane dealer - Part 3

With all of the detailed piping done on the base and with the chain link fence installed around the perimeter, the base was ready to be glued into place within the styrene strip borders.  That area in front of the tanks will get some additional N Scale ballast gravel to blend it in with what is on the base.

As mentioned before, the office building that came with the kit was used in another area of the layout as it would not have fit in the area I had for this facility.  Turns out that the prototype facility that this model is based on has this modular trailer as an office and I wanted to include something similar in the model scene.

This is my scratch built version of the office trailer.   The prototype is estimated to be 50 feet long but I compressed my model to 40 feet.  The structure itself was made from Evergreen styrene sheet and strips.  The roof vent was a cast resin piece from California Freight and Details, the office door was from Tichy, and the steps were made from Plastruct stairs.

Here is the scene with some details added.  The ladders were made from Plastruct ladder stock, the barriers and trash can are 3D printed models I purchased and painted.

The spare customer tanks came with the kit.  They were in two halfs and required a bit of modelers putty, sanding, and painting to get them to look right but do add something to the scene.

Here is the entire lineside industry ready to go to work.  Just need to add one or two propane delivery trucks.