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kebmo's water tower and handcart repair shed

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  • TomMich
    That is a great scene Kevin. I like the oil bottles on the window sill. It adds a nice touch.
  • kebmokebmo
    edited September 18
    i got some more details placed today. now i move onto the spout assembly (i think),
    and then figuring out how to light it, and then finish the roof and glue it down.
    front with doors added

    right side finished
    rear finished


  • kebmokebmo
    left side finished
  • Jim M
    Every side is great. Nice job all around.
  • vietnamseabeevietnamseabee
    Very nice, Kev….the foam board base in the last pic looks like the makings of a stone retaining wall…..accidental cutting or is that the plan?
    terry
  • kebmokebmo
    thanks jim.
    terry, purely the result of a bad cut.
  • KKarnsKKarns
    Great progress Kevin! Details and scene composition are really well done. First picture of the interior floor...love the color and weathering!
  • TomMich
    Turned out very nice Kevin! You should be proud of your work.
  • MuddyCreekRRMuddyCreekRR
    Looking great...I still have plans to light mine...just ran out of time for the NNG...
  • kebmokebmo
    thanks fellas. muddy, a light in the shed and another one in in the middle area? i think that's what i'm gonna do.
  • kebmokebmo
    edited September 19
    KKarns said:

    Great progress Kevin! Details and scene composition are really well done. First picture of the interior floor...love the color and weathering!

    well thanks ken but let's face facts: brett designed all the scenes. i pretty much tried to duplicate what he came up with.
    as far as the floor, the only thing i did a little different was to hit it with silverwood whereever i thought the sun would be beating down on it.
    the kit is just that cool. if you build by the book you end up with a great model.

  • KKarnsKKarns
    Not giving yourself enough credit Kev! You still build, detail, and create the work in your own style. Still loving that first picture!
  • MuddyCreekRRMuddyCreekRR
    I have one on the front....one in the middle....and one just above the spout on the tank.....all the wires are in place.....my plan was to make the tank/roof assembly to come off....batteries in there....but that changed with rush to NNG.....wires are in place...still may happen
  • kebmokebmo
    MuddyCreekRR said:

    I have one on the front....one in the middle....and one just above the spout on the tank.....all the wires are in place.....my plan was to make the tank/roof assembly to come off....batteries in there....but that changed with rush to NNG.....wires are in place...still may happen

    my plan for next week is to test the leds that i already have to make sure they work, and if they do i'm gonna put one inside the shed (probably just glued to the ridge board) and the same for the middle area. if i can find a couple of lamp shades i'll add them. once the lights are in i can glue the roof on and finish shingling it.. then the spout assembly and i'm finished. i think this is the fasted i've ever built one of brett's kits. i wanted to build this one really bad, and by george i think i have. it's really bad... da doom tch.
    i'm here all week. don't forget to tip the bartender....


  • glandesjr
    Hi Kevin:
    Your build looks great. What a super job you've done and you should be proud of it. I'm curious to see how you do the lights. I did not add any lights to mine as I struggled with their placement. I did, however, build it with a removeable roof so at least you can see inside. Looking forward to your completed build, Kevin. Take care, my friend.
  • MuddyCreekRRMuddyCreekRR
    I built mine to remove the roof....just have the rafters and ridge pole attached.....I got mine done is less that 7 days from partial completion to DONE....
  • Karl.AKarl.A
    Looking good Kevin, all the scenes are coming together nicely.
    Even though I did the promo build "by the book" I hid a straw in the very front right corner of the shed so I could run hidden wires up later from under the base. I also left my roof not glued on so I could add the lights to the ridge beam. One for the workshed area and one for the walk through.
    Maybe one day I'll get around to adding lights, doubtful, but I have the option easily available.
  • Robert.GRobert.G
    This looks really great Kevin. Nice job !! And that's the Alabaster guitar man on the screen ?? :wink:
  • kebmokebmo
    Robert.G said:

    This looks really great Kevin. Nice job !! And that's the Alabaster guitar man on the screen ?? :wink:

    heheheh....no. i was watching a video of a some guitar guy with a guest player. she was 17 yrs old and a fantastic blues player. that's what i had on in the background. i can't remember her name.

  • kebmokebmo
    Between yesterday and today’s modeling session, I’m kinda freaked out. It started yesterday. I wanted to finish the waterspout mounting, so my first task was to create the two chains that connect the spout base to the frame. Step one was to bend wire into a ‘u’ to attached to a length of chain. I made up two chains with u’s added, and set up a jig to hold them steady while I superglued the u’s to the chain. In the process of doing that one of the chains disappeared. I still haven’t found it. So I cut another section chain and blackened it, and bent another u. while trying to thread it into the link I launched it into the ether. I bent another and launched it too. So I bent another one, and managed to thread it into the link. I got them both superglued to the chain, and blackened them both. I marked the drill holes per the instructions, and drilled the holes. While drilling the holes, one the chains disappeared. I still haven’t found it. I made up another one. Got it superglued and blackened and attached both of them to the frame. Now its time to glue the frame to the tank. I applied glue to the bands and the bottoms of the frames, and set up 1-2-3 blocks to hold it in place until today. I went downstairs to work on it again, and found that the chain on the left was hanging freely as it is supposed to, but the chain on the right had mysteriously gotten behind the frame. I took some alcohol and applied it to the tank near when I knew there was glue, then added some water (a brush full), waited a few minutes and pried the frame away enough to get the chain loose. Loose but not quite rescued. I had to apply the alcohol/water combo twice more before the chain was rescued. I dabbed a bit more glue behind the frame, and as I was putting the blocks back in place to hold in place I noticed that the chain on the left had gotten behind the frame. Process repeated. Then I pulled one of the chains out, so I had to do that again. Then I went to epoxy the waterspout in place, and found that one of the 2.5” chains had come off, so I had to do that again too. It’s just been one of those days. As I was reattaching the chain to the frame ( and this is the part that scared the shit out of me), the paper towel roll next to me started to unroll and the entire roll unrolled onto the floor as I was holding the thing in place allowing the super glue to set up. I got goosebumps typing that. Anyway, I epoxied the spout in place, set up the blocks to hold it, and got the hell outta there for the day.
  • KKarnsKKarns
    I usually don't remember my bad breams in such detail!

  • Jerry
    So Kevin tell us what your day was like!!!

    Jerry
  • kebmokebmo
    KKarns said:

    I usually don't remember my bad breams in such detail!

    i wish it was a dream.

  • kebmokebmo
    Jerry said:

    So Kevin tell us what your day was like!!!

    Jerry

    it was creepy!

  • ALCOALCO
    Who did you piss off from the spirit world?
  • sdrees
    So Kevin, I have been working on some of my old brass locomotives and you talk about these tiny screws that hold them together and the side rods etc and try to replace those if you lose them. You have got it easy.
  • MuddyCreekRRMuddyCreekRR
    You appear to be haunted.....exorcise the workshop. I feel your pain. I looked for 10 minutes for my chain a few weeks back while working on my water spout...and I found it superglued to my forearm. As for small parts....I've started cutting NBW off the sprues inside gallon plastic bags, and the same with small screws.....unscrew them inside a bag.
  • kebmokebmo
    MuddyCreekRR said:

    You appear to be haunted.....exorcise the workshop. I feel your pain. I looked for 10 minutes for my chain a few weeks back while working on my water spout...and I found it superglued to my forearm. As for small parts....I've started cutting NBW off the sprues inside gallon plastic bags, and the same with small screws.....unscrew them inside a bag.

    i never checked my forearms!
    good idea with the gallon bags. i'll have to start keeping one handy.

  • kebmokebmo
    sdrees said:

    So Kevin, I have been working on some of my old brass locomotives and you talk about these tiny screws that hold them together and the side rods etc and try to replace those if you lose them. You have got it easy.

    i wouldn't even be attempting that. i'm not mechanically inclined. hardly at all.

  • TomMich
    Kevin, today is a new day! Hopefully you will have a better one than the previous one.
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