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Power Plant
I can't believe it's 2012 already!
I have finished the power plant, which is the first building in a series of backdrop buildings that will go behind the Sleepy Hollow Yard, which is located directly behind the town.
The building is a Korber Power plant kit, with Lionel Smoke stacks mounted behind it. The power substations are custom structures that I purchased at the 2011 fall TCA York meet.
I painted the windows with Testors Dullcoat, and added Amber led lighting using leftover custom passenger car lighting boards that I developed.
I then added the Miller Engineering Reddy Killowatt sign to add additional interest. The sign is a nice addition, as it is generic, while still clearly stating the buildings purpose to the viewer.
Once I got started on the backdrop buildings, I couldn't stop. I had amassed a collection of old Lionel building kits that I purchased on Ebay when I first got into O Scale.
At the time I wasn't sure what I was going to do with all of them, but they have sure come in useful as kitbashing material for the backdrop buildings, which except for the Kober power building, are all made from the Lionel kits.
The lighting is the same amber Led lighting using my custom boards, and the windows have all been fogged with Testors Dullcoat to enhance the glow, and obscure the fact that the buildings are just narrow backdrops.
