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Who is going to keep Ed in line here if you taking a hiatus from here. somebody needs to
the owner of des plaines hobby passed away.
thanks.
i saw it in model railroad hobbyist ezine that the owner died.
i don't care what they say at rr-lines.....
for $34.00 and a $7.50 1 year warrantee.......
as i said earlier, i have decided to scratch build an o scale model of the idaho hotel, in silver city idaho.
i decided to use brett's method for the second floor of the railroad camp, so i bought up a bunch of clapboard and 1x8s, and i'll start on that part after i finish up this part:
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i've been building a lot of railing sections in a snazzy little jig i made. i'm using 2x4s for the top and bottom rails and 2x2s for the spindles. the sections in the jig have 2x4 spacers between the spindles, and there are two 2x10 styrene strips in the bottom of the jig keeping tje 2x2s 1" off the bottom and perfectly centered in the top and bottom rails. the 2x4 spacers keep the spindles 6" on center, right were they belong.
this hotel was built in 1863 and is still open for business today. (well probably not today cuz they shut down for winter. silver city is a ghost town, but i suppose there are plenty of tourists to stay open for, especially when you're probaby the only game in town. it looks pretty desolate.
can't ya just see john wayne riding into town to get a room at the hotel above the saloon>
i'm not going to post a build thread of it on this forum because it's not one of brett's kits. i have a thread started at the other forum though.
the swsm news of the day for me is....my friend's wife is coming over today to photograph o'neill's and the rr camp. she's good but she never really shares her photos so i'm not quite sure when i'll get them but when i do i will post them here.
the photo i posted of the hotel is in one of it's post opening back up in '72. it's had many iterations over the years. here's pic of it that's more along the lines of what i'm going to be building, tho it's from a kit. (bar mills). i've wanted to build this structure since i modeled in n scale.
i haven't settled on what i'm goin to use for roof material. i decided to paint the balcony structure bluegrass green (the trim color for the main building for o'neill's) and tone it down in the same manner. at first i thought brett was nuts, but it turned out so well i wanted to use it again.
sorry for the venting.
as is always the case, i see things i might have been better off doing differently, but hey...it is what it is, and what it is is finished.
Thanks for posting all these final pictures for us to savor.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ
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