Description for this item:
\"Built Up Mini Diorama in O Scale!\"
Rubbles Depot Model Originated as a Kit by Thomas A. Yorke Enterprises/Scale Model Masterpieces O/On3/On2/On30 1:48/1:43-Scale
This *built up* mini diorama constructed by NMRA National Contest Award Winner Richard E. (Ben) Bendever includes the *original* beautifully detailed Thomas A York casting of stone, wood, and brick. First offered as a kit (kits now available) in 1979, is constructed according to the kit plans, drawings and the staining and weathering recommendations which been updated in the kit to currently available products including easy to learn techniques in Doctor Ben\'s How-To #2: \"The ABC\'s of Staining Castings\" booklet/instructional (included in the kit).
New additions to this kit which are included in this built up diorama is the Loading Dock which can be positioned on either side of the Depot/Station and also rotated to fit your space. Another feature of this model are the Hollow-Cast Tower Sections (including other parts of this model to reduce weight) for you to light and detail, or we can do it for you. Would you like this model attached to a base, too? Just Ask!!
See the below images of drawings & casting views showing the features of this model as available for both the original 1970s kit and are included in the current Rubbles Depot kit. If you have a question, please ask & we typically will answer very quickly. The image(s) best describes this item & design. Thank you for your business!
Additions available for your old 1980s Rubbles Depot Kit...
Rubbles Depot LOADING DOCK KIT *NOW AVAILABLE*
(INCLUDED in O Scale Kit) by Scale Model Masterpieces
Our Loading Dock kit consists of 16 Brick Pedestals, Scale Wood Lumber, Layout Drawing, & Plans to Update your old Rubbles Depot into a functional Station. This Loading Dock KIT is included in 1/48-SCALE SMM Rubbles Depot Depot Hollow-Cast Tower Sections *NOW AVAILABLE*
(INCLUDED in O Scale Kit) by Scale Model Masterpieces
All New for our O-Scale Rubbles kits are these two (2) one-piece LabStone hollow castings are direct replacements for 1980\'s versions of this O Scale Rubbles Depot Kit (also available separately). So, don’t sell that 1980’s HO Rubbles Depot Kit cheap on because you don’t want to pour acetone inside the original Tower Sections to melt out the foam inserts! These Hollow Tower Sections are exact replacements. We also have replacement parts for the HO Rubbles Depot Kit Roof Sections, Eave & Corbel Supports available for HO & O Scale, too!
Want to know what others think about this kit? Read the Charlie Getz HO Rubbles Review in the Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette, July/August 2010 issue. Above is the the Drawing Sheet for this kit. Instructions are full-size LASER printed and included is a color image! This is an original Thomas A Yorke Enterprises casting now owned by DEBENLLC Products & Publications.
Are you tired of the costly, smelly petroleum based weathering and painting products that seemingly evaporated overnight? Do you like paying $5.00 for a half ounce of these very same products? Good news, Doctor Ben’s has now brought to you a line of easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly, finishing and weathering stains in four ounce re-sealable jars that are Color Fast and are Ready-To-Use when you are!
Some of our Other O/On30 Stuff
5-Piece Depot/Station Platform Detail Set *BRAND NEW*-Scale Model Masterpieces #9060 O/On3/On30 1:48-SCALE
This is the very same 5-Piece Depot/Station Platform Detail Set that is included in our O-Scale Rubbles Depot Kit which is shipping NOW! (SEE below). This Platform Detail Set is Color-Cast in shades of brown or grey. This set is sold as “umfinished” Color-Cast Resin details and colors may vary from on set to another. Coloring & Weathering techniques are recommended using Doctor Ben’s Weathering & Stain Products! SEE Below!
AND, just like our HO Rubbles Depot Kit, our O-Scale Rubbles Depot offers Hollow-Cast Tower Sections as well as other weight saving casting techniques that will reduce the weight and save you shipping costs! How can we do this? Because we cast using high quality, dental grade LabStone that is much STRONGER than ordinary plaster & Hydrocal products that other folks use.
Also, just like our HO Rubbles Depot Kit, our O-Scale Rubbles Depot offers Standing-Seam, Color-Cast Copper Patina Roof Panel, Corbels & Eave Supports. Watch of the Pilot Model on our website this week!
Another new Product for O / 1:48-Scale....
VERTICAL ROUND STEEL TANKS 7-Tank Set *SPECIAL*-SCALE Model Masterpieces #9010 MULTI-SCALE
This 7-Piece Tank Set includes:
- 2-#9001 Half-Buried Steel Tanks
- 2-#9002 Small Vertical Steel Tanks
- 1-#907 Medium Vertical Steel Tank
- 1-#908 Large Vertical Steel Tank &
- 1-#9009 X-Large Vertical Steel Tank
The sizes/dimensions are shown in the image above right. Also shown in the image are four scale figures in O, S, HO & N scale for you to view the figure\'s proportion to the Tanks. Click on the image to enlarge the image in your browser. We have \"Hollow-Cast\" the Medium, & Larger tanks to save material and shipping costs. EXAMPLE: The 1980s version of the #9009 X-Large Vertical Steel Tank weighs 1 pound, 7 ounces. Our same casting weighs 7.2 ounces! In fact, all seven of the tanks in the *SPECIAL* weigh less that the \'original 1980\'s\' casting. Bases are not yet available for this miniature tank farm, but that shouldn\'t stop you from creating you own bases using Doctor Ben\'s Baby Building Blocs. Add a 2-Pounder to this order and save yourself some shipping costs by letting us combine your purchases into a single shipment today!
Disclaimer: These items are UNFINISHED/UNASSEMBLED LabStone RESIN parts-Weathering & Finish Required. Assembly (when necessary) using most plastic cements and painting may be completed by hand or an air brush. Want to know how to weather your finished model? Scroll down to find out how! If you have a question, please ask & we typically will answer very quickly. The image(s) best describes this item & design. Thank you for your business!
More Products Developed Directly from the Creations of NMRA National Award Winning Dioramas by Richard E. (Ben) Bendever
Ready-To-Use Aged Driftwood Stain-Replace Floquil-4oz. #1097
Railroad Weathering 8-Color Set & How-To Booklet #1313
Ready-To-Use Weathered Rust Weathering Solution 4 Ounce #1054
Chicago Brick Industrial Weathering Pigments #1366
Weathering Stain Set #1-FloquilStain Colors-#1077
Doctor Ben\'s Hypo Cement for Plastic & Metal #2925
Doctor Ben\'s Baby Building Blocs Assorted #8899-Buy 6, 7th FREE!
Ready-To-Use Weathering Solutions Set #1 - #1180
Ready-To-Use Realistic Rust Weathering Solution 4 ounce #1050
27-Color Armour & Railroad Pigment Sets! #1310 & #1311
11-Color Pigment Sampler Sets! #1314 & #1315
Ready-To-Use Realistic Oak Weathering Solution #1081
Ready-To-Use Natural Pine Weathering Solution #1082
Fresh Dry Rust Industrial Weathering Pigments - #1374
And Hundreds More!
Using Industrial Weathering Pigments COPYRIGHT 2008 DEBEN LLC
We are always looking forward to hearing original ideas & response from our friends & customers who have enjoyed using our products. Got a story to share, or am image that you are especially proud of? Send them in, we have thought that we should have more User photos. As always we are happy to return your requested material to you.
For use in 1/87, 1/64, 1/43, 1/48, 1/35, 1/24, 1/25, N-scale, HO-scale, S-scale, O-scale, HOn3, Sn3, Sn2, Sn42, Sn3.5, On3, On30, Gn15 and military models!
Are you ready to do some weathering?
Using Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments® as a single component of the Doctor Ben\'s Weathering Products®, the Industrial Weathering Pigments are an even more powerful tool in creating a more realistic model. Not a powder; and not a chalk, the Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments are easily applied using a soft, but stiff, ordinary hobby brush. However, be careful, a little bit goes a very long way! I\'ve been using the Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments to tint Hydrocal for years. Just a 1/4 teaspoon make a whole lot of difference when tinting white Hydrocal to an earth tone color. Very cool!
To the left are additional great Doctor Ben\'s products and as we get more images we\'ll get them posted here as soon as possible! The Doctor Ben\'s Weathering products work best in conjunction with other Doctor Ben\'s Weathering Products as well as competitors\' products--hey, why not!
Remember, they\'re not chalks, and they\'re not powders, but they ARE Industrial!
Using Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments®
I\'ll try to keep this short, because realistically, I didn\'t spend the total of an hour from start to finish. The materials that I used for this project are as follows: on package of Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigment - fresh Rust, one bottle Doctor Ben\'s Aged Driftwood, a short-bristled, soft, but stiff brush (the brush in the photo is a Floquil brush that has been cut off short), an a small container of water to wash out the brush (if I need it). Step 1: I began with a basic resin casting (Pine Canyon Models) and sprayed it with the least expensive can of flat black paint found at a local home center. If it happens to be sunny outside, lay the casting in the sun to warm up so that the paint will dry faster. Spray the bottom first & when the bottom is dry, flip the casting over and spay the details from ALL sides. Apply a second coat if when the first coat is dry & you can still see the white of the casting. My question is why don\'t the casters add a little color to these castings? It would make the finishing process much easier & we could see the details much easier!Step 2: Brush on the Doctor Ben’s Industrial Weathering Pigments with a burnishing action. Just keep scrubbing the pigments into the various cracks and crevasses, without being too neat about it. In this project, to simplify the process, I just used the Doctor Ben’s Industrial Weathering Pigment #1119 Fresh Rust; and you can see that it looks good. If you use several of the various colors of Doctor Ben’s Pigments, however, the diversity of the colors will give better details. You could use some of the lighter brown colors for the wood, but for this project I will color the objects with another technique (shown in Step 4 and Step 5).Step 3: I typically skip this next step, but there are folks out there who are interested in how I usually seal a finish. Now you may have heard of using ordinary hair spray for attaching foliage to scale tree trunks. I go down to the local Big Box store and purchase the least expensive \"pump\" hair spray that I can find. These products are usually made up a alcohol and lacquer. I will use this inexpensive hair spray as a sealer to activate the Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments adhesives and done, the pigments are literally sealed to the casting. Now you will have to play with this and not to worry, you can\'t get too much hair spray on the pigments. But, if you get too much hair spray on the unfinished casting, you will see a slight sheen such as the group of the seven wooden barrels in the image to the left. See the slight sheen on the top of the bottom right barrel top? yep, that what you get, and with a whisk of the brush and some Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigment, it is gone. Like I stated earlier, I rarely seal the Doctor Ben\'s Industrial Weathering Pigments. When I demonstrate these products at hobby shows, folks are amazed of the handling that some of the demonstration pieces get and how weathered they remain.Step 4: The process of applying the Doctor Ben’s Aged Driftwood can be found here. So briefly, shake up the bottle of Doctor Ben’s Aged Driftwood for just a second or two, depending upon how thick you want to stain the parts. The Doctor Ben’s Aged Driftwood is quite concentrated, and can get too thick if you use the same bottle for some time. If this happens to you, just add a couple of teaspoons of rubbing alcohol to the bottle and shake very well; allow it to settle and check. If it is still too thick, repeat the process. Now use your trusty burnishing brush to apply the Doctor Ben’s Aged Driftwood to the sides of the wooden details and then the tops. Step 5: So, here is the big secret: I have an article around here somewhere about using Sharpie permanent markers for detailing brickwork and coloring details. Yes, that\'s correct, and the colors are permanent, and will not fade over time. For instance, I used a red marker to color the soda machine and a yellow marker to color the gas pump. I also used more markers to detail some of the wooden boxes and door, too.
Included with this Industrial Pigment Set set is our *original* Doctor Ben\'s \"How To #1: The Art of Turning Toys into Models\" booklet (a $3.75 value!). This booklet is for novices and professional alike.
Each year we attend numerous hobby shows and we have some basic techniques that we share with our visitor where folks can take our products home and begin using them just like at the show-no experience necessary!
Now you have the chance to learn what many thousands of other folks have learned without having to pay a $7.00 admission fee to get in the door. Read on down to see some of the information in this very valuable booklet!
Below are the thumbnails for the 27 colors in the Railroad Set #1311. Click on each of the images to see better the item color and names.
27 Color Railroad Weathering Pack #1311
27-Color Set in 2oz* Re-Sealable Containers
Depending up the brand of your monitor, the type of graphics card that you computer has, the lighting in your room and a dozen other reasons, some of these colors of the above images may look identical. We can assure you that these colors are quite different. Watch for the upcoming Doctor Ben\'s \"How-To #2: Weathering & Painting with Industrial Pigments”. Yes, I said *painting* which is something that you can’t do with the other brands, either! And part of this *new* booklet will introduce a brand new tool: The Doctor Ben\'s \"Pigment Palette\" which enables the user to paint items such as the sides of railroad tracks already installed one a layout!
*Each of the eight containers are measured as a 2 ounces by volume container. Each container is about 3\" in diameter and 1 3/8\" tall. Finally, it is no secret, there are lots of copy-cats out there trying to capitalize on our Doctor Ben\'s products, but really, do you actually have time to play chemist? And nobody said that you have to have all 60 colors. Besides, by using Doctor Ben\'s products the work is already done for you with \"contest proven results\". Why would you settle for anything less! Second best is still second place and if you are anything like me you\'ll want your models to be winners every time!These are the very same products that we\'ve used to build Fine Scale Miniatures (FSM), Master Creations, Thomas A. Yorke, Builders In Scale, and many other craftsman kits for our customers, and now you can have these same products, too! Quick and easy, that\'s how we like to do it and just like what our motto says,
We Turn Toys into Models!
Products Developed Directly from the Creations of NMRA National Award Winning Dioramas by Richard E. (Ben) Bendever
Featured Doctor Ben\'s Products
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User friendly,
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Color fast—does not fade!
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It\'s Doctor Ben\'s.
We are always looking forward to hearing original ideas & response from our friends & customers who have enjoyed using our products. Got a story to share, or am image that you are especially proud of? Send them in, we have thought that we should have more User photos. As always we are happy to return your requested material to you.
Ready-To-Use Aged Driftwood Stain-Replace Floquil-4oz. #1097
*BRAND NEW* Railroad Weathering 8-Color Set & How-To Booklet
Ready-To-Use Weathered Rust Weathering Solution #1054
DBSC Industrial Weathering Pigments Chicago Brick #1366
*Special* Weathering Stain Set #1-FloquilStain Colors-New!
Doctor Ben\'s Hypo Cement for Plastic & Metal
Doctor Ben\'s Baby Building Blocs #8899- 2 Pounder Special!
*NEW* Ready-To-Use Weathering Solutions from Doctor Ben
Ready-To-Use Realistic Rust Weathering Solution 1050 NEW
ALL NEW 27-Color Armour & Railroad Pigment Sets!
*NEW* 11-Color Pigment Sampler Sets!
Ready-To-Use Realistic Oak Weathering Solution #1081
Ready-To-Use Natural Pine Weathering Solution #1082 NEW
DBSC Industrial Weathering Pigments - Fresh Rust #1374
... And a Hundreds More!
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