Monday, October 16, 2023

Transfer Station Renovation

I've had this piece of plastic Chinese-made crap for over three yrs. Recently I've been moving it & track around attempting to position it & a brace of tractor-trailers, plus maneuvering room for the semis, along a siding. Between the glue drying out or whatever it does & a crummy job on my part, various parts began to detach themselves.
(Have had to reattach that ramp & the left side of the loading dock several times because of poorly fitting parts. Three yrs. & several YouTube videos later, I now know not to trust that the plastic crap was correctly made.) While regluing (allowing for the poor fit) it occurred to me it was floorless.
Measured, cut & painted a piece of cardstock & slapped it in.
Weathered the bldg. a bit w/ excess floor paint.
Imposing, innit?
Final irony; re-laying track didn't work, it all ended essentially as it had been.
Anal obsession, or merely attention to detail? Noticed in the above image a bit of glue from the you're-damn-well-gonna-stick-this-time amount of glue I applied, & that the smokejack wasn't flush w/ the roof. Another case of bad fitting; had to snip a literal mm. from it for flushness. Then decided to repaint it w/ steel paint that was convenient.

Then decided the weathering looks excessive (in the photo, 'though not so much when viewed by the Mark I Eyeball at a distance of four ft. or so) & toned it down w/ weathering powder.

2 comments:

  1. Nice detail weathering the steps and under the door ...

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  2. Second Childhood Editor:
    I sure 'nuff got rid of all the plastic shine.

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