Pola N210 - Lokschuppen - Happy With the Outcome

I still have some details and "fine tuning" I want to address, but I'm really happy with the progress.
Some of the items worked out really well. The Cat weathering, crane weathering and the detail weathering on the fence and wheels by the doors really helped to set the scene.
In retrospect, I think a dirt brown would have been a better base ballast than the iron red. I may go in and try to address that somehow.

Now...where to put it? :)

MORE IMAGES HERE:
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Pola N210 - Lokschuppen on base

I have the building on the base and the ballast down. (The excess is still on) I think this will work nicely.

You can see the tracks leading into the building are up and out of the scene at the moment. I plan to do some heavy blending with additional ballast and paint to push it into the scene more.

The small scoop Caterpillar may stay as part of the scene. I like it. I'll also add additional trucks around the building - I figure the workers I'm planning to add will either drive their own trucks or carpool, but I need more than ONE truck in the scene! :)

Next steps:
• More weathering to the building
• The addition of a fence and/or shrubs to blend the building base into the ballast area
• Blending the tracks into the scene
• Adding weathered train cars - I have a crane car that will be awesome in this scene!
• Adding the workers and their cars

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Building Complete

Well, the first phase of the building is done. I've done a first round of weathering on the whole thing, but I'll go back once it's mounted up and do another pass.

One of the things I'll have to see about is the blending of the base that comes with the building and the base I'm going to have it sit on. I'll do some blending or use a fence and/or shrubs to push it in a bit.

Fantastic kit! (Pola Lokschuppen)


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Pola N210 - Lokschuppen

I started work on the Pola Lokschuppen or roundhouse kit and knew it was going to be fantastic to build right off the bat.
The pieces went together really well with little to no tweaking needed. Some of the parts had some extra mold snips needed, but that was rather minor.
The base had some nice details built into it as well - some small rocks and logs - that will add to the overall scene once I paint them up.

Loving it.

While this kit doesn't really go with my other looks and feels for Briddon (the fictitious town and city I see all my train stuff living in) I figure it would be easy to play off as some throw back architecture that someone liked long ago and built up. Either that or this is simply not part of the Briddon area at all. That would work as well. :)

the overall idea for this is taking time and adding some details to the overall scene. Folks working, some weathered train cars, weathering the building itself, and plants and vegetation around the scene. Should be fun!