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I am revisiting this thread after a long absence. I am rebuilding my main RR, see my thread over on the logging Minning and Industrial section, And Harlow is undergoing a massive transition. Harlow was at the end of the line, and due to it's tight curves, code 55 rail with spikes that were too large, and interfeared with the flangeways, and the nightmare 3 way stub switches, which I could get to work, but on one else could, Harlow did not get used much. the new Harlow is in the middle of my RR, so it will see a lot of trafic. it is mostly flat, and has 21 inch radius curves on the main, plenty enough for my tiny critters.
The biggest change is Harlow covers more than three times the space that old Harlow did, with a similar number of industrial spurs, and some big passing sidings, and code 100 track, where My RR will share the main with the Southern, and code 83 elsewhere.
Old harlow had no three story buildings and I have form five , four, and three story buildings in this new much larger Harlow; ( see kitbashing for city buildings in this section). St. Stevens's, kitbashed for the old Harlow, looked too small for the new larger Harlow, and has been moved to the new urban center of State Line Ga., on the 3rd level up. I considered scratchbuilding a church, but I'm in a hurry here. the only kit I found that had close to the right look was this Faller village church. it has a tower, not shown in this photo from the instructions. The church has stucko walls, which I did not like originally, but the texture is awesome, and spraypainting the walls flat black, and then auto primer gray, and finishing them with a dusting of white, while the gray was still wet, got an excellent look to the stucko texture.
The main thing s I don't like about the kit is the little rectangular anex anging off the wall behind where the altar goes. I will leave that off and scratchbuild a three or five sided bump out with arched windows, for the middle of that wall. Then also the kit has a tile roof, aproppriate for Europe, and parts of the states, but not Eastern TN in 1928, so I will have to rework the roof with shingles, or metal roofing. I am having a lot of fun with this. the European manufacturors pack a lot of detail into thier products. the stone trim on this model is exquiste, especially after being painted with flat black, and then dusted with the gray auto primer.
I am having a lot of fun tweaking this European church into a church that will look at home in Southeastern TN. more photos as I make more progress especially as I get to the new addition, that will be a focal point of the new harlow city scene.
Bill Nelson