Hello all. I am new there!

I am  a french n scaler, and i am building a N scale layout in my basement inspired from Rio Grande Railroad. The first part is a small town called Turtle Field. This part is finished. The second part called "Spirit of Denver" represent Denver around the merger with SP.

For this part i have started to build a model inspired by the Colorado Convention Center. I love this building because the Ligth rail is passing throught.

This buildding have a structure in evergreen strips :

When I first saw the articles in the April and May 2009 issues of Model Railroader by the late Dean Freytag, I knew I wanted to build it and I knew it would be right for Blue Island on my layout. It seemed like such a large project, I didn't get to it until 2014 after retirement, and it was a dead-of-winter project taking 150 hours and over 1,300 pieces of styrene sheet, strip, and structural shapes.

Adding "pitch" (black tar) around chimneys and roofing is a great detail to add to structures.  I always have a hard time applying the pitch whether using scale lumber of a small brush.  The pitch always seemed to come out a scale foot wide. 

Atlas released their HO scale C420 and RS36 in factory Iowa Interstate paint nearly six years ago.  In that time, I've often been tempted to buy them, but resisted, since the prototype units were no longer on the roster in the 2005 era I model.  My willpower finally met its match earlier this month when friend and fellow IAIS modeler Scott Thornton offered to sell me his IAIS C420 850 and RS36 900 models for next to nothing, both with Tsunami sound and working beacons already installed.