Large Scale Central

Wood finishes?

I’m currently building some station platforms for the layout and I’m just wondering what people here use to finish the wood structures you have?

I’ve had very good luck with boiled linseed oil. I use it on red cedar and old pt decking.

Dave M.

And I’ve mixed the boiled linseed oil with oil based stains to produce various colors. For my last project I used Olympic water based deck stain from Lowes because I could get it in little sample cans for under $3 each and I wanted a paint like color. You can see what the Olympic stain looks like in this thread and my experiments with stains for a bridge in this thread. Here are a few teaser photos…

Nice building. Eventually, I’m going to have to build a large haunted cookie factory for my layout.

Daniel Collins said:

Eventually, I’m going to have to build a large haunted cookie factory for my layout.

Would you please invite me for the grand opening!