Watch as I build the Walthers Flour Mill kit as a tunnel portal in HO scale. Link to Franklin and South Manchester Video: • Visit to George Selios... Around 4:51 is the tunnel going into the side of the building.
This was a great idea and a concept that could be used on any number of the Walthers kits.. Love your distressing process... Thank you so much for taking the time to capture and share your process and thoughts.. Thank you
As always great techniques. I have had those same problems with Walthers windows. Very interesting idea with building placement. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Nice build and interesting concept. I’m sure there is a prototype out there somewhere. One location that comes to mind is in Cleveland Ohio at 6918 Bessemer Ave. While just an industry spur the track did go through the building and served a warehouse across the street.
Superb build, super video. Love the south side John Lee Hooker finish! It's funny, for that corner you've put the building on I could've been tempted to place an acute angled interstate corner, the "tunnel" of course going under the overpass, although there the road would actually lead to may be harder... Awesome channel :)
I’ve been waiting for the next build and am not disappointed. Really great way to create a tunnel under a building. I have a spot for a similar exit stage right Thanks for your continued creative videos.
Good video and solution. I did something similar using the DPM modules for the power plant in a corner. I am principally hauling coal so the power plant theme worked well. I agree with one of the other comments that a pipe ailing on the top of the retaining wall would be a great detail add.
Thank you, i build my railroad in modules, and I keep trying to figure out how to transition one to the next. I like this idea, I have been making tunnel port holes, or it disappears someplace and reappears in the next module behind a group of trees or mountain.
Great work! I am going to do something very similar with some DPM walls. The building will act as a "tunnel portal" where I have cut a hole in my wall.
It would look good to have a fence or low railing along the top of the wall since its so close to the tracks. If railing just a single piece across the top with the post about waist high. Maybe? I don't know. Just a thought I had from looking at it. 🤔
Yes, if you look at the Franklin & South Manchester video, he has fences all over the layout and it really adds to the detail. I cannot help but think he had some staff building details for his layout. I want to spend a week or so just building fences to scatter about. A lot of the scenery around the building needs refinement but it is fine for the video.
Hey, thanks for the comments. I do have a tendency to speak bluntly in my videos. One of the points of this video as well as my other Walther's videos, was to show how to build a pretty basic kit into something more interesting. Walther's has a long history of kits and some are better than others and most are better than many other plastic kits available for model railroads. But it is not the quality you see from companies like Tamiya. But they have a different audience (or so I would assume). I realize that most people who build their kits want an easy building for their layout and if I were in charge at Walther's, I don't think I would change much. But they lack detail and sometimes the fit isn't great, and the decals have issues, and the windows could use improvement. But plastic kits really just don't seem to have the character that you get with wood kits, which of course are much more expensive and much more difficult to build.
All your buildings & structures look to overly weathered to look at all realistic, way too grungy think Sellios started the whole grungy beautiful whimsical layout style.
Thanks for all the comments. I grew up in rust belt mid-west. When I started the layout, I had never even heard of George Selios. Although I am not modeling any specific era, my idea was sort of 1970s Penn Central style decay meets modern rust belt decay - kind of a combination of East St Louis and West Virginia, with some post-apocalyptic dystopia mixed in. I watch a lot of videos of abandoned buildings in places like Detroit and East Cleveland. If you go to those areas, it looks this bad. I like FSM buildings because they are so odd, but honestly, I am not a fan of the whimsical, and some of them are borderline absurd (like G Wilikers Machinery - although it is going on my layout).
