Golden Valley Route - Structures - White Rock Freight House

Monroe - White Rock Freight House

6-3/4”Lx3”W

In the kit are precision laser cut wood walls with tab and slot construction for easy, quick, and sturdy construction. In the kit you will find real corrugated metal roofing, vintage advertising signs, water slide decals for the door numbers, white metal detail parts including pallets and boxes, cans, and pallets loads.

The box:

Unboxed:

The first weathering using 'Weather it' by A-west

The 'insides' / backsides got a coating of a gray primer

Loading dock

First I did the loading dock. I used Polly Scale boxcar red, SP lettering gray and Tie brown in a mix to try to get a creosotish 'look'. Then I used fine sandpaper to wear it down.

I believe the steps need a little bit more sanding, but otherwise I'm happy with the result.

Main structure

'Cheating' to get the right corners...

In a MRR magazine I read about a neat trick to lift panels: One uses a blade to carefully lift individual panels. I think it does the trick...

The structure has been painted with SP lettering gray and the trimmings with E/L Gray (NYC-ish scheme...) To roughen the painting a bit further, I've used a Dremel 'steel brush'

The doors

The doors have gotten an initial wash of grimmy black, than I brushed on Humbrols 27003 (a color one can polish!).

Then I put on the decals, and added som rust and a wash of Grimmy black again. Alas I didn't succeed with the decals. Wood is a different story than plastic... The paddlocks are painted with Humbrol #12

Roof

The corrugated plate roof has now been glued in place. the copper sheet was cut in 1/2" * 1" pieces and painted a light gray color. Then glued in place slighly overlaping. The rust is made up of different combinations of: PS roof brown, rust and zinc chromate. (later I gave the roof a wash of good ol'e 'grimy black')

Lights

With lampshades from Miniatronics and a few 1,5 volt lamps it improves the interior

I hid the wires in black straws glued to the inside of the building:

The sign

The sign glued in place (after sanding it with a P600 paper...)

Extra detailing

The structure looks nice the way it is, but there is something missing.
Using a needle and a sharp blade, I scribed the panels and made the spikeholes. About 500 or so pounce/pricks later...I'll have to get me a pounce(ponce?) wheel...

On a module

Here the structure is on one of my modules(work in progres...)

List of materials

Here is a compiled list of (some of) the items I've used when assembling this excellent model

Manufacturer	Number	Description
Monroe Models		White Rock Freight House
Polly Scale		Boxcar Red
Polly Scale		SP Lettering Gray
Polly Scale		Tie Brown
Polly Scale		E/L Gray
Polly Scale		Grimy Black
Polly Scale		Roof Brown
Polly Scale		Zinc Chromate
Humbrol	27003
Humbrol	12	Copper
A-west		Weather it
Miniatronics		Lampshades