{"id":1459,"date":"2019-10-12T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-01-07T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T15:10:40","slug":"2019-se-lounge-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/2019-se-lounge-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 SE Lounge Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After some thinking, I decided to build the small shelter<\/a> for the swap project. Its design is not intended for extended exposure to the outdoors; rather, I built it as a display model for photography or for an afternoon steamup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started out by gathering my supplies back in May and picked away at the construction over the summer. I decided to build a plywood substructure and panel it with the popiscle sticks; I read that others were having issues with warping when using just the sticks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than the plywood and some dimensional lumber, I had all of the other materials on hand: popiscle sticks (my wife Robin uses them for her garden), some 30 year old stripwood I had stashed away and some plastic vegetable garden markers for the hardware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following gallery shows the various steps of the project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Testing the plywood substructure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With the peaks cut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With the windows cut out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The base timbers in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Starting the siding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Siding complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roof panels in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roof panels in place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trim started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hardware started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Painted and roofed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I spray-painted the main structure with Rustoleum Flat Red Oxide primer and then did a few washes of diluted Polly-S Grimy Black. The support timbers were painted from a 30-year old bottle of Floquil Grimy Black. The roofing material are Avery labels coloured with a wide black Sharpie marker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m pretty happy about the way it turned out and hope the recipient feels the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After some thinking, I decided to build the small shelter for the swap project. Its design is not intended for extended exposure to the outdoors; rather, I built it as a display model for photography or for an afternoon steamup. I started out by gathering my supplies back in May and picked away at the … Continue reading “2019 SE Lounge Swap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-model-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}