Luke's Garage & Gas Station

[Hydrostat]

It looks great! I love those tires and spoked wheels. The handmade oil drum is fantastic! I tried making a 1/24th scale oil drum that way, using brass. It didn't work very well. I'll have to give copper a try.

I second that. Especially the tires are looking very good.

Cheers,
Volker

[fspg2]

Stuart,

Great details - super realistic construction. Please show more of it!

[Rail and Tie]

Stuart,

Fantastic work. Top Drawer on your gas station. I have some details that I am in the process of putting together a detail kit for a 20's to 30's gas station. If you would like to use some of these for your project, I am happy to share them with you for your project. PM me if you want the STL files to add some more clutter to you fantastic scene.

The coke icebox needs to be taller, but just found some better details on that.

Cheers!

Darryl

[finescalerr]

Nice job, Darryl. -- Russ

[Stuart]

Instead of using the 16 gallon oil drum on the exterior of the garage (as I originally thought), I decided to place it as a trash receptacle on the interior of the garage.  I have painted, aged and streaked it considerably to make it appear well used.  It will sit next to the shelf unit and just behind the tire as seen in the photo.  On the outside of the garage I will be placing a second 16 gallon oil drum with a funnel to serve as an old oil collection container.  Rather than fabricate the second drum in copper I created a 3D version and printed it with my resin printer.




This was my first attempt at using the hair spray method of chipping paint.  I need to refine my process as the chipping is a little abrupt, not very subtle.

[finescalerr]

Everything is most satisfactory including the barrel you consider imperfect. Your printed parts are perfect. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

I think the chipping looks fine for a ratty, banged up old drum. Sure, it could be more subtle but I've seen oil drums that looked like that.