There are some small, specialty structures on and around a typical turntable. This page captures how I have built those.

This small structure sits on the turntable itself. I contains the controls for controlling the movement of the turntable. The parts came from the Diamond Scale Products core turntable kit. It consists of 5 white-metal pieces. I trimmed what little flash there was on the parts and got them ready for assembly.



The interior of the structure will be visible, so I painted it a cream color (the paint is wet in the photo).



I then glued 0.010"-thick clear styrene to the back of the walls to represent the glass.



After installing a piece of 0.020"-thick white styrene for the door, I coated the windows with Krylon Crystal Clear Glaze. If you use it sparingly, the results are great. It is important to use the clear styrene as a backdrop.



Next, I used 5-minute epoxy to glue the four walls together.



From a small piece of styrene, painted with an alumimum color, I created the console of the control cab. I used a toothpick to make some red lights on the panel, just in case they are visible through the windows.



I painted the exterior of the building with a light cream color and a "Dirt" color for the accent. The door was painted with "PRR Tuscan Red".



From the other angle you can see that I painted the interior side of the door also, and you can see the console through the window. These are all extremely close-up photos, so they do show flaws in the painting, which are invisible from normal viewing distances.



To make the scene as real as possible, we need to install an employee who is controlling the turntable. The next three photos show the progression of me hand-painting one of the Preiser figures.







The roof has been glued on. It didn't fit initially. The clear styrene for the windows interfered with the tight fit of the roof part. I filed it down (on the inside) until it fit. The roof still needs to be repainted, because in all that filing I scraped some paint off.