Walthers Northern Light and Power
While we're working on the AHM GP18 rebuild, there's also some structure making going on....
I picked up 2 Walthers Northern Light and Power Buildings at a train show for $10. Now these 2 buildings were on sale cheap because they're HO scale and I was at a show that was mostly O gauge.
Both of them had all they're parts welded on with orange tube testors glue. I used and wood door shim and a hammer to dismantle as much of the buildings as I could. All the windows came off nicely using this method.
I painting all the remaining parts with brown primer and then used the airbrush with Rustoleum Sunrise Red. Then I used a wash of Testor's black gloss with a lot of mineral spirits. The buildings are turning out nice.
One of them had an addition of interior details. I have to wonder why you would model an interior, but not allow it to be seen by welding on the garage doors and frosting all the windows.
I decided that I needed windows that you could actually see through. So I fired up 123d and made some windows and printed them with my 3d printer. They turned out pretty nice....
Let's take a look:
That's how you do it.....
OK let's look at the new window frames that let in a lot more light so you can view the interior....
That's how you do it......
