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SW Twin Mills build with a little twist
...well, quite a few twists actually 
But let's start at the beginning - I'm Nejc Roskar, I come from Slovenia in Europe (sounds familiar? Yes, Melania Trump is from the exact same country
).
I'm building a logging layout, Logging at the turn of the 20th century. It's based somewhere in Slovenia, but logging machinery from USA will be used too. Railroad is based upon electrified logging railroad in Mislinja, Slovenia (you can see one picture of the locomotive here: http://www.rr-vel.si/mislinja/zgodovina.htm ). Rollling stock will mostly be scratchbuilt (well, it already is to be precise). There will be Victorian era town (plus a village including a few blacksmith shops with water driven machinery) on a module 4, here's a glimpse at the cobble stone streets:
Modules 3, 2 and 1 are main, logging ones. I'll build a large bandsaw mill and a small venetian sawmill on module 3:
...big machine shop, woodworking shop, steam electricity plant, and some smaller structures on module 2:
...and we finally arrive to module 1, which is reserved for SW Twin Mills:
Although I have quite a few SW kits, everything else on the layout will be scratchbuilt, but I'll use all the castings for details
I'll made many modifications, here's the list:
- adjusting the machinery to smaller logs
- fully detailed interior of the old sawmill
- lighting will be installed in both mills
- scratchbuilding or modifying new mill machinery
- adjusting everything, because of the small space available
Let's go to the pictures!
Front and rear wall of the old sawmill:
Modified side walls (those three openings at the left wall are due to the three steam engines:
Boiler house walls (for two boilers, both will be visible through open doors):
New sawmill floor:
Scratch built old sawmill floor:
Log haul:
Slightly modified front dock:
Slab bin:
New mill sorting platform, with one more speed reduction and slightly changed log deck machinery (similar to SW O scale one):
I scratch builded main saw (among others, using a lot of SW castings from other kits). First, the difference between new and weathered saw blades (using the same technique as Kevin and Bill, with dremel tool). I wanted it only slightly weathered:
Bottom saw during construction (note the sawdust conveyor for bringing sawdast to the boilers):
Finished bottom saw (husk), smaller top saw will be attached to the ceiling:
Log carriage machinery is based on Phillips Brothers Sawmill carriage (see here from 5:23 on:
):
...that's it for now, I'm building with full steam, so expect next update soon!
Any comments are very welcome!
Best regards, Nejc
But let's start at the beginning - I'm Nejc Roskar, I come from Slovenia in Europe (sounds familiar? Yes, Melania Trump is from the exact same country
).I'm building a logging layout, Logging at the turn of the 20th century. It's based somewhere in Slovenia, but logging machinery from USA will be used too. Railroad is based upon electrified logging railroad in Mislinja, Slovenia (you can see one picture of the locomotive here: http://www.rr-vel.si/mislinja/zgodovina.htm ). Rollling stock will mostly be scratchbuilt (well, it already is to be precise). There will be Victorian era town (plus a village including a few blacksmith shops with water driven machinery) on a module 4, here's a glimpse at the cobble stone streets:
Modules 3, 2 and 1 are main, logging ones. I'll build a large bandsaw mill and a small venetian sawmill on module 3:
...big machine shop, woodworking shop, steam electricity plant, and some smaller structures on module 2:
...and we finally arrive to module 1, which is reserved for SW Twin Mills:
Although I have quite a few SW kits, everything else on the layout will be scratchbuilt, but I'll use all the castings for details
I'll made many modifications, here's the list:
- adjusting the machinery to smaller logs
- fully detailed interior of the old sawmill
- lighting will be installed in both mills
- scratchbuilding or modifying new mill machinery
- adjusting everything, because of the small space available
Let's go to the pictures!
Front and rear wall of the old sawmill:
Modified side walls (those three openings at the left wall are due to the three steam engines:
Boiler house walls (for two boilers, both will be visible through open doors):
New sawmill floor:
Scratch built old sawmill floor:
Log haul:
Slightly modified front dock:
Slab bin:
New mill sorting platform, with one more speed reduction and slightly changed log deck machinery (similar to SW O scale one):
I scratch builded main saw (among others, using a lot of SW castings from other kits). First, the difference between new and weathered saw blades (using the same technique as Kevin and Bill, with dremel tool). I wanted it only slightly weathered:
Bottom saw during construction (note the sawdust conveyor for bringing sawdast to the boilers):
Finished bottom saw (husk), smaller top saw will be attached to the ceiling:
Log carriage machinery is based on Phillips Brothers Sawmill carriage (see here from 5:23 on:
):...that's it for now, I'm building with full steam, so expect next update soon!
Any comments are very welcome!
Best regards, Nejc
Comments
A wonderful job on the mill you have gone to the limit.
Carl
I like the finishes you have created on your machinery. Very realistic. Glad to see your work.
Mitch
Currently I'm finishing the old mill machinery (husk, carriage, edger, rollers) + rollers in new sawmill. Next step will be upper husk in new mill and steam engines. Later two cut off saws and two overhead log turners (pulleys and friction cones will be visible in the new sawmill only) will be assembled...
Phil, thanks for the advice
Partly cloudy:
...and cloudy, where I have taken those pictures:
That picture of a bottom husk during construction was taken under my working light and I'll take some more pictures of some details and repost it...
Nejc
...and here are better pictures with more or less same content as a few days ago:
Sorting platform:
Carriage:
Old mill front wall:
Old mill front dock:
Here's slightly changed pond dock:
One of the walls for the boat house:
Boiler house front wall:
Log haul:
And two shots of a bottom husk nearly done:
Nejc
Really cool to see such nice comments from the experts...
Carriage for the old mill:
The hog/grinder:
One of the live rolls:
Another live rolls system:
And trimmer (lifting system for the press rolls still to be added):
I'll post pictures of everything built so far together in a few days
Best regards, Nejc
Yeah, it's really quite a joy placing everything together. Every part of the sawmill machinery that lays on the floor is done - I'll post pictures tomorrow, as promised. I'm currently working on the upper husk, next in line are two cut off saws and overhead log turner...
New mill floor:
There's a driven conveyor belt leading into the hog. Same wheel that drives the hog also drives the conveyor up to the slab bin:
Close up of the endless chain drive:
I had to change the bottom husk a bit - at first I didn't take the falling (freshly cut) lumber at the back of the head saw into account:
Live rolls behind the main saw:
Better look to the carriage cable drive:
With stairs added:
Old mill floor:
Same conveyor that drives off the excess sawdust from the bottom husk of the new mill, drives off the sawdust from the edger too:
Old mill carriage:
There will be only bottom husk here. Cable drive for the log buggy and slightly different carriage drive are visible here:
Live rolls in the old mill:
Pond, as it looks like at the moment:
Old mill and new mill floors:
You can see a lumber flow here:
Green one isn't a regular one, lumber is carried over to the live rolls that eventually lead to the edger only if really necessary...
That's it for now
Regards, Nejc
Coming along nicely
Joel
Ed, so glad you pointed this out
Despite being small, technical heritage is very rich in Slovenia, specially logging, ironworks and mining. For example, there were many logging railways here in the past and one of the main transportations for logs were logging cableways. There's one restored near Bled, although not working anymore. Those cableways were real technical achievement, designed by our engineer, Lambert von Pantz.
Regards, Nejc
Jerry