{"id":197,"date":"2001-11-06T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2001-11-06T09:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=197"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T09:17:48","slug":"dock-module-fascia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/dock-module-fascia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dock Module: Fascia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided on using sheet styrene for the fascia since I had a fair bit left over from the backdrop. I started with the lower fascia. It was a simple matter of installing the fascia cut roughly to the right shape, installing it on the module, marking the final profile of the fascia, de-installing, making the final cuts and reinstalling. OK it was a bit of a fiddle, but worked out just fine in the end. I used #5 brass screws from Lee Valley with #6 cup washers to hold the fascia on. The cup washers are highly recommended; they spread the force of the screw over a wider area and help keep the styrene from tearing. I also created 3&#8243; wide wings at both ends of the module as per Iain Rice&#8217;s suggestions. They help frame the module.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo before the paint went on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/3548622175\/\" title=\"Fascia Installed by Station Studios, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2426\/3548622175_3bef794839_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Fascia Installed\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> After installing the lower fascia, I turned to the top fascia. I first cut a 3\/8&#8243; piece of plywood to the same footprint as the module. This piece sits on standards above the module proper. I then cut a 4&#8243; wide piece of styrene for the top fascia. Again, these were installed with screws and cup washers.<\/p>\n<p>The fascias then got several coats of dark brown semi-gloss latex paint. The brown colour was based on my flat earth colour but darkened considerably by the addition of black to the tint:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/3549431068\/\" title=\"Turnout Controls by Station Studios, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3206\/3549431068_9b76a2a6be_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Turnout Controls\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided on using sheet styrene for the fascia since I had a fair bit left over from the backdrop. I started with the lower fascia. It was a simple matter of installing the fascia&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/dock-module-fascia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pmtco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}