Comments on: Scratch Building 101: Sinclair Station, Part 2

By: Custom Sinclair Service Station : N Scale Limited

Custom Sinclair Service Station : N Scale Limited — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:43:01 +0000

[...] most visitors to the site know I built a little Sinclair service station a few months ago as a tutorial for basic scratch building. Sense creating that little service [...]

By: Scratch Building 101: Section House : N Scale Limited

Scratch Building 101: Section House : N Scale Limited — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:56:21 +0000

[...] our first installment of Scratch Building 101 we built a small Sinclair service station using sheet styrene for the walls. Now I will teach the basics of modeling structures in [...]

By: Christopher Hutchinson’s Sinclair Station : N Scale Limited

Christopher Hutchinson’s Sinclair Station : N Scale Limited — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:01:45 +0000

[...] most of you know N Scale Limited author Chris Brimley wrote a series of articles on scratch building a Sinclair service station. This article was intended to be for the person who has never scratch built a structure before, [...]

By: Frank Giacobbe

Frank Giacobbe — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:35:34 +0000

Hutch,

I just checked your final build on the Sinclair station and I have to say that it’s really well done. I like the fact that you applied additional weathering to it to make it your own. It’s also exciting to see something built from plans from this site. Now I suppose we just need to get some new Scratchbuilding 101 articles up for you and others to try!

By: Hutch

Hutch — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:06:02 +0000

Chris,

My version of Sinclair Station was completed this morning. Thank you for the time and effort you spent writing this article and building the structure itself. I am happy to have completed my first project and it is so rewarding to have built a structure that will draw attention on my model railroad for years to come. Even though this is a small structure, it will be something I can be proud to have completed.

Hutch

By: Progress on Sinclair Station - Appalachian Southern

Progress on Sinclair Station - Appalachian Southern — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:11:23 +0000

[...] some initial painting and work on the front doors. The original article on this project appeared here at N Scale Limited, as built by Chris Brimley. Scratch Building Sinclair Station Scratch Building [...]

By: Chris Brimley

Chris Brimley — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:31:01 +0000

Hutch,
A trick I like to use when welding two small parts is if it is a long thin piece like the trim on the front. I will put a drop of the cement at one end, then position the piece and glue up the rest. This way you are not getting too much glue down so you end up with a big old finger print.

With tiny pieces I wont touch the part with my hands. I use an X-acto knife to pick parts up and place them. You can gently stab the parts with the tip and the mark left is nonexistent. Or if you can build up a little static electricity on the blade, then part will just stick to it until placed on the cement.

By: Hutch

Hutch — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:16:17 +0000

Ah, bi-fold is exactly right…That makes more sense now. The lock is a dead give away and I missed it.

Nope, I better model them closed, I don’t have the skills yet to try something like that. I am just learning how to plasti-weld these tiny strips of styrene :)

Thanks for the help.

By: Chris Brimley

Chris Brimley — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:11:47 +0000

Hutch,
What it looks like to me is the outer doors are a bi-fold and the two inner doors are hinged on that center post. That is my guess because of the placement of the lock.

Yes, the doors are in a fixed position, I tried to keep it a fairly basic construction, but model them open and do an interior if want, might look cool.

Need anything else, just ask and good luck

By: Scratch Building Sinclair Station - Appalachian Southern

Scratch Building Sinclair Station - Appalachian Southern — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:49:45 +0000

[...] structure. Thanks to Chris Brimley at N Scale Limited for the encouragement to start. His article, Scratch Building Sinclair Station, is the guide I am using for this project. It is a welcome reprieve from laying track for the past [...]