CLYBOURN FREIGHT STATION

First, I sawed off all the caucasian pink accessories that had been glued onto the model, then I repainted it. Existing signage, I just painted around. The chimney was missing, so I found a replacement in my box of spare parts.

The building had been glued to something else, so there were some rough spots where old glue didn't let go. I worked that in later.

I wanted to be able to see inside the building, and the kit didn't come with a floor. An index card was easy to turn into a floor. Paint, and later, draw in the boards.

Being able to see inside also meant doing something with the interior. To hide the snap-fit tabs, I cut more index cards to fit and printed some signs and details to paste onto them.

I've been collecting sign images from the Internet, and this was a great place to use the feed and seed ones. I glued them to index card to add some stiffness and dimension.

To enhance the dock, I scribed the existing boards a little deeper, then ran over all of them with a Zona saw parallel to the board grooves to make wood grain texture.

The office end got a little detailing such as the safety stripe, a thermometer, and some blinds.

I added the plastic ramp onto the opposite side, and covered the opening with a paper and wood door, then painted everthing representing wood under the dock door level blue for some contrast. The rail-side dock wall I painted to look like weathered cement.

The magic of Powerpoint allowed me to create a new sign for Clybourn Station, rechristening it Clybourn Feed & Seed. I felt it was appropriate to honor the origins of the building by keeping the name.

Merchandise is courtesy of the first iteration of my feed and seed sack project. I was in a hurry to finish, so these sacks have fruit crate labels instead of being properly labeled with feed and seed graphics.

Populated with some farmers, workers, and stacks of crates, Clybourn Feed & Seed is a thriving rural railside business.