I am putting this feed store, a kit from Branchline Laser Structures, on a siding in a small town on my layout.  Locale: upstate New York.  Time: early 1950s.  I am going to put interior lighting for the first and second floors, so I want to put a bit of interior detail in the structure, in addition to details on the rail and truck docks. 

My questions:

Yesterday (and will continue today) I decided to open up some of the bigger boxes in which I had packaged unbuilt structure kits for possible shipment overseas. I wanted to inventory what I had, both as a list, and with photos.

I had way too many ! I just bought up kits over the years as I found them at attractive prices, and/or rare, or no longer available.

I'm currently working on a river crossing for my small branch line. To prepare the bridge I painted the bridge deck dark brown and the ties gray with the intent of using PanPastels to add rust and overall weathering.

I've used PanPastels before on hand-laid wood ties with great effect but never on plastic. The pastels worked almost like magic. See a couple in-progress photos below. 

Hello! Just starting my first layout, a small HO 2x8 foot shelf. Looking forward to technical and operations side of it but dreading putting together those kits for industries to serve — just not my thing. Looking for suggestions either for ready-built or kit builders for hire. Thinking perhaps of grain silos, warehouses, oil or gas depots, etc. Thanks and Happy New Year everyone.