Building the Kentville Station in HO

[Dan Conlin]

I have finally started my HO model of the Kentville Station, based on the 1902 plans along with my own two drawings. Man, this is a busy building - 75 windows!
I'll post some images of my progress.

Dan Conlin

[Dan Conlin]

Busy detailing the walls. Here's the east end. Windows are Grandt Line. Baggage door is chopped up Grandt Line.

Dan

[SamuelMClark]

Looks to be a good start, what's the actually over all length and width going to be?

[stem]

You must have seen Jim Taylor's Kentvillw station, haven't you?

http://home.xcountry.tv/~kestrel/id34.htm

[SamuelMClark]

Hey Dan hows the building of the station going?

[Dan Conlin]

Slowly. The window cornices are taking forever and I couldn't resist adding some interior detail as I do walls and floors. This is proving a bottomless pit. Friday night I worked on the lunch room dumbwaiter!
By the way, has anyone seen any station interior photos? I have a few of the Humphrey's room and one lousy photocopy of the main staircase but I am just guessing on interior features beyond the Gates plan. The demolition photos I have seen indicate that institutional pale green was a popular colour inside - which seems to match my memories.

Dan

[stem]

You know the rumour is that the NSHRA may have some of the prints from the building before it was destroyed... Jay Underwood?

I remember a Douglas Boston that nearly ended my model aircraft career. An Airfix no less with a single peg to mount the torso of the pilot. Uggh. 6 months later after scratch building the wheel wells, the interior around the side gunners and the entire cockpit I realized what artistic license really meant.

If you for instance instead of actually building all the interior walls to scale, wrapped a shaped (curved or square) piece painted the interior color with a few sparse details like a door painted on around the interior of the window no one would be the wiser and you might save your sanity. On the other hand if you're bound and determined to create a craftsman version where you can lift off the roof and marvel at the interior detail, that would be pretty cool too.

All I know is after I finished the Boston 85% of the detail was imperceptable that I had spent 6 months twiddling with.

[briantrainman]

Dan, what materal are you using to scratchbuild the walls with?

Brian Lilly

[stem]

Oops.. sorry for the sob story.

If you've already built the dumbwaiter, you've already entered the abyss.

I'll be the first one to ooh and aah over the detail. Love to see some progress photos!

[SamuelMClark]

Hey Dan, hows the station going? Also did that Gypsum you got when we were in Windsor how's that turning out?

[Dan Conlin]

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while. I had a good friend die recently and I'm dealing with some elderly parents facing their own health crises.The Kentville station model is slowing going along. To answer your question Brian, the walls are made of scribed bass wood (1/16 " thick). This thickness makes cutting all those doors and windows easier. Samuel, I did a quick experiment with the gypsum crumbles taken from one of those cars and they look very promising - it will be great to have model gypsum cars carrying gypsum from real DAR gypsum cars!

Dan

[SamuelMClark]

Hey Dan how goes the build?

[stem]

You should package it Dan! How close did you come to the original cars and what model are they?

Always thought for a pre-47 layout running it all the way to Deep Brook would be a heck of a layout.

[Dan Conlin]

I caught up on the Kentville Station over Christmas. Walls are pretty much done along with floors. I never thought Id get all those window cornices done.
All I have to do is put glazing in the windows.

[stem]

This is beautiful. Right down to the interior detail as well. Are you going to do a bit of lighting too?