Building a Tiny Train Scene With Amazing Details!

Let's put paint and rusty weathering on the water column at the 1:20.3 scale locomotive shops on our large-scale Colorado narrow-gauge railroad. This week, we are painting and weathering the brass and steel scratch-built water column. As it is highly detailed, care must be taken not to hide any of the fine details or jam up the working parts with paint. While there is no such water column at the Chama shop, however, on our railroad, there is now! The main water supply is still the wooden water tank. And that is the next project. We borrowed one of the tanks from the outside part of the railroad as a placeholder, but now to build the actual wood tank.