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Sierrawest - Machine Shop Build
Restarting the previous build thread for the Machine Shop that got deleted. Still working thru the weathering on the 100+ castings. I am using Brett's new weather technique (easy with awesome results) on the Oil Drums and Tanks which can be found in a Tutorial Video that Brett plans on posting on his website soon.
That's all for now...
Alan
That's all for now...
Alan
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Fantastic job on the kit. I was enjoying watching you build it and glad you are back at it.
This will make a fantastic scene with your logging cars and the tractor repair shed. I wish I had this kit ever since I saw pictures of Anders Malmberg's build of the kit. Really looking forward to seeing what you are going to do with it. Keep up the great work.
Jim
Thanks for the post. Yep, I've studied that build from Anders and have pulled a few ideas from it.
Happy New Year!
Alan
Castings are done...finally.
If you remember from my original build thread, the Famous Front Stonewall on this kit which is made of resin shrank on all four sides due to age...I think its now 15 years old. Because of this, my other walls didn't line up correctly. To fix this situation, I put a piece of wood under the front wall to raise it up. To fix the sides, I created 2 worn looking beams (one for each side) from scratch and added a few NBWs to increase the walls width. If you look at Brett's white template right below the stone wall, you can see how it shrank by 1/4 inch...
On the other picture, I added the hand laid the railroad ties from Fasttracks. I used 2 shades of brown chalk, black chalk and rubbing alcohol to "crudely" stain them. I used Weldbond glue to hold them in place. Since the instructions call for the ties to be sunken in the ground, you wont see but the very tops of the ties when the diorama's complete Hence the ties don't need to be stained perfectly and it doesn't matter that the glue oozed out the sides.
Also, if you look inside the structure of the main building, up near the top of the 3 wood walls, I added an additional beam to help keep the walls straight. I also ran a wood beam down each corner. All the beams were stained and weathered to match the 2 beams I created for the stone wall. After building each of the wood walls, I kept them pressed under a stack of bricks for a week to take the moisture of the glue out of the them..but apparently that wasn't long enough as they still warped on me a little...
That's all for now...
Nice work all around.
The boiler scene...I'll go back later and finalize it such as clean up the wood burrs, add oil / grease spots and scatter around some more stuff.
I cant tell from Brett's pictures in the manual how the pipes should be weathered. The one with the insulation is probably pretty accurate but for that lower pipe I'm not sure if it would be rusted or have white water stains on it.
Alan
I think the weathering on the lower boiler pipe looks fine. Ken
The next step is to run the belts and drive shaft across the ceiling for each of the machines.
That is all...
That is all...
Alan, I have not been able to take on any major projects recently because I have found myself back in school. My workbench is now a homework desk. I have been able to work on a few smaller projects around the layout. An hour here-an hour there. I have an assembled and unpainted bulldozer waiting for some free time right now.
Dustin...don't we at least get a sneak preview of what youre working on for the Expo?