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each the upper roofs, soldering a lower brace on to them sothat the shop roof can be removed. Also, from PSC is a 60 milwire mesh, fashioned into rainwater collectors at the low endof the roof eves. The eve dam is fashioned from 1/32” x 5/16”wood strip. Conventional eve troughs were a labor intensivemaintenance burden that blue collar labor didn’t warrant.Roofs over front doors had no rainwater collection systems ofany kind.I made my own enginehouse doors from 1/32” thick stripwoodof various widths. I anchored only the top and the bottomhinges, leaving the middle two hinges for show. As thedoors will be left open (Photo 7), the hinges will not be allthat visible. I also mounted the window glazing behind thepanes before they became part of the door (Photo 8). Therear enginehouse opening is protected by a pair of slidingdoors which have simulated corrugated iron material ratherthan wood sheathing. The doors each have a 24 pane windowunit hung under a 1/16” styrene channel for a rail with 0.015”x 0.060” flat wire trolleys bent into a question mark shapedbracket. As with the brick and window sections, I used copiousamounts of Testors plastic putty to fill the cracks and joints.78Colors are a personal matter. I mixed a brick color usinga bottle of Tuscan Red, 8/10 th of a bottle of Rust and half abottle of Thinner and airbrushed it on the walls. Mortar lineswere added using interior water based house paint thinnedout about 10 parts wet water to 1 part paint. The interiorwalls were painted in a grungy antiqued white with a grimyblack wainscot that is thirty scale inches high. I used an Indiaink wash to tone down some of the brick. Richard Bourgerieapplied some weathering chalks to bring up the grunge factor.Pieces subject to handling were sprayed with Dullcote. uSept. 18 & 19, 2009indianapOlismidwest O scalemeetNew Location!Ramada Inn Indianapolis7701 East 42nd St.317-897-4000 • $78/nightnTwo day O Scale swap meet withover 180 tables in one large exhibithall. New & collectible 2-Rail trainsand products available from leadingmanufacturers and dealers.nRates for 2009 have been reduced!2 Day Adm.: $15; Tables: $45Sign up for the O Scale Kings or OScale Trains and get a $5 rebate.nAdvance registration by Aug. 1stincludes a custom laser name tag.Tables are $55 after Aug. 1st, soregister now. Request a registrationform by writing to:Indianapolis O Scale Show, JamesCanter, 1203 Rotherham Ln, BeechGrove IN 46107 or call 317-782-3322.Future Dates: 9/17-18/2010,9/16-17/2011, 9/21-22/2012July/Aug ’09 - O Scale Trains • 17