Going back through you building of your layout, I was looking for the height between the three levels. Accessing your staging yard must be a bit of a pain, also the height of each section of the helix looks like 3.5 inches. Always looking for new ideas to incorporate in to my rebuild.

A Cliffhanger 😂 Thankyou for the video

Thanks for the interesting and entertaining update. That's a good looking scene. The lumber mill looks great 👍

Not enough of a run for me to finish my bowl of popcorn. Maybe think about putting in a gravel road going across the main and siding to give the illusion of a larger operation. At the saw mill I worked at in my younger days one track was for unloading log cars the other was for loading wood chips and saw dust. So what you have created is a side operation for a switcher which then runs around to the finished siding and picks up loaded flat cars and leaves them on the siding for collection.

Lookin' good Rainer, yeah, i know about " plywood city" ....lol. 👍

Rainer looking great like that rock face method

Thank's for the follow up, looks like a typical Canadian lumber mill, great job, looks great.

Very nice! Appreciate the update.

Great job on your layout. I've got a couple of Silver Streak wooden kits to build. One is a boxcar and the other is a caboose. Got several kits to build before I even get to them. Cheers from eastern TN

Very nice 👍🏻

I did the same thing, but I went back and cut a foam board and put that in the windowbox. I still can remove the foam if needed.

That works out good

Awesome techniques and demonstration. I have a similar situation with the basement escape hatch window. I cannot permanently block it either. I will reference this video when I get to that point with my railroad. Thank you for the idea.

Thats a good idea! I have a window I will have to figure out too. That is smart!

Nice background scenery. Looks like your daughter left her curtains when she moved out. Happens to a lot of us.

Great idea and execution! I will consider your solution for my own window "problem".

Windows are a pain, given what you want the background to look like not bad. In the past I used a background photo, drilled holes into it at angles so when I placed tree branches that I made it gave a projected appearance of a tree coming out of the background photo.

Looks great. Maybe a new curtain wall colour and set in as you mentioned.

Good looking solution to the window problem

Rainer excellent job , I am planning same idea for my backdrop, what brush did you use for the painted trees , looks fantastic

I have learned so much from you.Thank you

Great job, It looks very good and does the job, well done.

Nice job on the upgrades. That Kadee coupler height gauge is a great tool and we use ours all the time.

That would still be a fun little kit even at twice the price.😀 I think it would look good attached to a small gas station building to make a complete mini scene.

Nice save of a pretty dubious kit. I'm curious why you did the wall weathering after assembly instead of beforehand. I would have though that working on the walls flat would have been easier. (Just a beginner trying to learn.)

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Looks like the sort of thing you'd see in a railyard yard for utility vehicles and equipment

Looks good. It could work as a utility shed for one of your industries.

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Rainer you did a great job, lots of details in a short period of time

Off related topic. Why do we get into it and spend money on it. The railroader in the link has done a first rate hob of articulating the benefits of the hobby for our not so understanding family members to understand. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2jQfqyHZ5mArqM

Nice easy kit. It was sold in the UK under the Knightwing brand, they`ve ceased trading but there still around in shops.

well done, you made a great job of a cheap kit.

These kits have roots in the very distant past when standards for plastic kits were not as high. They were designed from a scratchbuilt funeral home featured in an E.L. Moore article in RMC back in the late 60's. The kits were originally marketed by AHM, then by Tyco if I recall correctly. In addition to the funeral home, there was a house and a hardware store. I also used the lean-to elsewhere in combination with the garage from their brick hotel to create a small machine shop. The other "shed" was intended to be the kitchen wing of the house. (I used one of these as a barber shop.) Back in the day, I liked the colors they were molded in and found that just shooting them with Dullcote pretty well got rid of the plastic appearance.

This looks like the “rooming house” kit that Model Power marketed years ago. This kit was also marketed as a”farm house” with a few different details. I built both of them. If memory serves, the base is marked “Pola” under side. A layer of paint really improves the look of this kit. If you happen to have some Campbell windows in your parts box, they should work to fill in those openings in the leanto.

The kit is a repop of the AHM homes released in the early 1970's. They were made by Pola then Heljan and others. My own kits had made in Western Germany on the box. They are fun kits and benefit from a substitution of the windows and doors.

Very nice job on that Walthers kit. I've built the Walthers Cornerstone chicken coops and out buildings and they were nicely detailed. I'm currently building a Woodland Scenics Railway Express Agency (REA) building and I took your advice on painting the walls flat black but I painted the backs of all the pieces flat back and painted the fronts with grey primer. Once assembled I'll go back over the joints with some black acrylic to keep light leaks to a minimum. There's a product called Gallery Glass that allows you to make your own window glass and it comes in clear or opaque. Cheers from eastern TN

Walthers has their Cornerstone kits which are a more recent line (20-30 years) and they are better detailed for the most part. The Trainline are more basic kits they have accumulated from other manufacturers (Model Power, AHM, IHC and others) that introduced them in the 1960s and '70s. More basic than Cornerstone and were state-of-the-art at the time they were produced originally. You're right in that they all need painting prior to assembly to improve their looks. The black interiors really do help block out interior lights. Make sure you always save any extra doors/windows/walls and other parts for your junk box. They come in handy at times and might have provided those needed windows and doors for that lean to. Enjoying watching your layout develop.

I think these "inexpensive" kits are a great place for someone to start. They can populate an area of your layout fairly quickly. As time, funds, and experience allow, they can be changed out for something different. They are also a good base to start scratch building on. The deck and balcony could be rebuilt in strip wood. And the wall parts can be rearranged or combined with other kits to make something different. Great job. Take care. Steve.

Rainer you did a great job on that kit , cool video

A suggestion. 2 layouts ago I had a similar situation with the layout going into a closet and on to a duck under. I could not wire in any lighting to brighten it up so I compromised and painted the ceiling a light grey and glued stretched out cotton balls to it. I have the illusion of low clouds and maybe a little rain was on the way.

My first HO collection consisted of about 30 of these tank cars and I made the same modifications as you. Living in a coastal area, I had to paint the metal parts to protect against rusting. I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane you have just taken me. Thank you. Cheers 🇦🇺

Thanks for the vid. Looking forward to seeing more progress. Cheers 🇦🇺

Another great video. Thanks for sharing your progress. Makes me think about getting some work done on my layout.

Are the support block ends cut at an angle of just straight across?

I like watching build updates - motivates me to work on my layout. Thanks for sharing.

Looks good. I wonder uf a mirror under the overhang might work to give the illusion that terrain runs back like your river?

Rainer : Question GoPro , I lost a battery other day for my GoPro, got super hot, expanded while in the GoPro , any ideas on why , prevention ?

Rainer looks fantastic, that is what I need to do next

Great share and nice update keep up the working process looks great . All takes time but worth it in the end . Enjoy the rest of your day and week 😎🚂TSM