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Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2010Kitbashing An Old Classic Structure.
Found an old (1960s) Campbell Produce Shed kit on Ebay about a year ago and finally got around to building it for the layout. The prototype existed in Yorba Linda California for many years, and since I'm modeling southern California it seemed like a natural. It arrived from the seller missing a few pieces, but nothing that couldn't be easily replaced; so I more or less followed the original instructions but substituted more modern detail parts wherever it was possible. The way-over-scale Campbell windows were replaced with similar-sized Grandt-Line parts, and Grandt-Line NBW casting were also used here and there. The campbell paper shingles were replaced with Northwestern HO scale corrugated iron roofing sheets, A-Line supplied an air- conditioner, Walthers some roof turbines and the unpainted Preiser figures, and Sequoia made the plumbing pipes, a new heater vent, a bunch of fruit boxes, and an electrical meter box as well. I added a coiled-up hose made from very light insulated copper wire, an aluminum- tube roof-drain downpipe, and a couple of birds on the roof as a final touch. The floor is not painted, just stained a variety of colors to look like a 50-year-old and hard-used floor. I mixed my own paint colors to get the blue, off-white, and light grey color-scheme I wanted, and used four different shades of red-browns over a dirty grey to duplicate the mottled colors on the rusty old corrugated-iron roof. The Campbell-supplied signage was just printed paper with black lettering on a white background, and looked toy-like; so I made my own signs from sheet plastic and balsa and painted them black with white lettering: a commercial style that was ubiquitous in California up until the early 1950s. Doesn't look bad for a 50 year old kit, and it captures that distinctive "California commercial architecture" look that I'm trying to duplicate on my layout. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33885727@N03/4644306152/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/33885727@N03/4643696987/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/33885727@N03/4643694405/sizes/o/ > The way-over-scale Campbell windows were replaced with similar-sized > Grandt-Line parts, and Grandt-Line NBW casting were also used here and [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > used four different shades of red-browns over a dirty grey to > duplicate the mottled colors on the rusty old corrugated-iron roof Really nice job - maybe could use a few more scuff marks on those white posts, but the only real question I had was the front roof: should there really be a catenary in those chains if they're holding up their load?  SignatureSteve >> The way-over-scale Campbell windows were replaced with similar-sized >> Grandt-Line parts, and Grandt-Line NBW casting were also used here and [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > posts, but the only real question I had was the front roof: should there > really be a catenary in those chains if they're holding up their load? What he said and that woman looks like she's going to smack the bald guy clean off the dock! > What he said and that woman looks like she's going to smack the bald guy > clean off the dock! That tickled me too. In fact I named the produce shed after George Bach, a short, rotund German immigrant who runs an extremely good German deli about ten miles east of my home. George has an even shorter and more rotund German wife who's the terror of the deli, and when I saw the picture of the arguing couple in the Walther's flyer I thought "Hey! That's George!" and immediately ordered them. Serendipity. ~Pete > Really nice job - maybe could use a few more scuff marks on those white > posts, but the only real question I had was the front roof: should there > really be a catenary in those chains if they're holding up their load? Good eye, Steve, and I probably should have mentioned that: it's a copy of an actual roof that used to be here in Redlands. At some point the original roof's wooden underpinnings had been replaced/ shored-up with steel trusses (spare Walther's grain bin parts), and that left the old support chains hanging slack and doing no real work. Why didn't they remove the unneeded chains at that point? Dunno. But probably because it was something that wouldn't have made any structural difference and *would* have cost more money. I enjoy finding odd little details like that in real life and incorporating them into my layout. At the other end of the layout I'm planning to duplicate a junkyard/ recycling business that used to exist in San Bernardino during my college years. It incorporated several large and visually interesting cranes, and endless piles of half-sorted junk as well as an actual dedicated Santa Fe siding. The name? Swear to God, it was "Heap & Heap". (I've got pictures.) ~Pete > Why didn't they remove the unneeded chains at that point? Dunno. But > probably because it was something that wouldn't have made any > structural difference and *would* have cost more money. Oh yeah, that makes sense. SignatureSteve On 5/27/2010 5:53 PM Steve Caple spake thus: >> Why didn't they remove the unneeded chains at that point? Dunno. But >> probably because it was something that wouldn't have made any >> structural difference and *would* have cost more money. > > Oh yeah, that makes sense. Makes sense (to the building owners IRL) *and* is a nice little touch on the part of the model maker. Twibil's gettin' good. I spend a lot of time looking at buildings, and I see that kind of thing all over the place. SignatureThe fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags. - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com) On 5/27/2010 12:55 AM Twibil spake thus: > Found an old (1960s) Campbell Produce Shed kit on Ebay about a year > ago and finally got around to building it for the layout. The [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > instructions but substituted more modern detail parts wherever it was > possible. Nice, very nice. My one nit to pick is one that many, if not most of us get wrong: the lettering on the sign. Problem is, it's really hard to find the correct fonts for these things, unless you make photocopies of actual signs. How did you make the signs, by the way? Individual letters? I'm always taking pictures of signs to add to my collection. To me, that's as important as any architectural detail. But aside from that, this is really good stuff. SignatureThe fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags. - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com) > Doesn't look bad for a 50 year old kit, and it captures that > distinctive "California commercial architecture" look that I'm trying > to duplicate on my layout. Super job, I can almost smell the dry rot! On May 28, 12:45 pm, Special Agent Melvin Purvis <videoc...@aol.com> wrote: > Super job, I can almost smell the dry rot! Sorry. I think that's my sox. > Found an old (1960s) Campbell Produce Shed kit on Ebay about a year > ago and finally got around to building it for the layout.[...] Good work, good pics. wolf k. |
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