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Thank you for the encouragement. More walls to come, eventually.
Mitch
Geezerbill
It's no fun cutting the window glass out the old fashioned way. Spoiled by the newer kits but I'll survive. I thought about trying to paint in tape holding the sun blocks in the windows. I discovered masking tape was invented in 1925 but in HO scale who would notice?
Carl
Thank you Wes, Mike, Bill, Carl, Ken, Ed and admin for your encouragement.
Looking a long way ahead, I have never worked with envirotex lite before and I was wondering if it had any fumes? The boxes of resin castings have an odor when I open them and I have to let them "gas off" in an open box in the garage before I can stand to use them. Forget about cutting them. So if I am filling my basement with fumes from the envirotex that would not be a good situation for me. If I need to go to plexiglass water like I did with the shipyard now is the time I need to decide. Then there is using acid to weather the corrugated roofing. I am sure that must be fumey but at least I could try to do that outside.
Mitch
When I used it on my mill there is no odor, I made about six or eight pours a 1/8 in thick and tinted is as I went along that way you can change the color if you like as you go along also I did not paint the bottom and epoxied the logs in place at the same level hope that this helps a word of caution be sure to have a timer on hand that is a very important part of the pour.
Carl
Take your time, follow the manual, and let your friends here on the forum help you through the process of an Envirotex pour. Trust me...it'll be worth it!
As far as etching the roof panels, you for sure don't want to do that inside. Personally, I think I've used acid for the last time on my models. I hate the stuff! If you'd like to check out an easier, more controlled method...take a look at my Deer Creek Mine construction thread. It's all the way down at the bottom:
http://www.craftsmankituniversity.com/vanforum/index.php?p=/discussion/514/deer-creek-mine-official-forum-build/p3
Bill, thank you for the advice on the Envirotex and the corrugated aluminum. I probably read your description of finishing the panels when your were detailing them in the Deer Creek Mine build but since I was not going to be building that kit I really didn't study them. I appreciate your help and criticism.
Mitch
The walls look fantastic!
Jim
Thank you for your advice Mike and I am glad you are following along.
Carl, do you have an envirotex story to share?
Mitch
Just about the time I was making my last pour I had my wife Sandy help me by watching the timer. So I mixed up everything and was ready to go I said to Sandy did you start the timer and she said yes so off we go, I started to pour and everything looked OK until the resin stop coming out of the pitcher It got hard and set up so I had this stream of Envirotex that was getting hard and there it was I could let go of the pitcher and it stayed right where it was.
Sandy started the timer when I was starting the pour not when I started mixing and I asked her how is the time and she said you have a lot of time left.
With some cursing and noise I broke off the stream off at the pond and with luck it broke off even with the pond so I was able to make one more pour to cover the damage that was done.
The best part of the story was Sandy said it was all my fault I did not argue with her, I brought the now well known pitcher to the Expo to let everyone see that anything can happen.
Carl
PS that was the year that I was inducted to the Craftsman Structure Hall of Fame.
So I guess that anyone can get in.
Does anyone else have a sawmill story they would like to share?
Mitch
Geezerbill
I have glued some of the Styrofoam insulation together to get my heights correct for the components that need it so I can put off building the log pond as long as I can. Since this will be part of my layout I need to do more imagining before I commit to something. The starting base size will be at least 4 X 4 feet maybe more.
I am building the flat car ramp and deck and I feel there should be a moss growing on the timbers of the ramp from the constant moisture. Maybe some of the deck to we will see.
A couple more pictures thrown in.