Nine doors suspended from the rafters so far. Approximately 142 sq ft all levelled using turnbuckles. Tomorrow I will link the doors together.
As I continue to install airborne doors, I can now experiment with ideas for multi-scale layouts/displays.
Seven doors up, ten by the end of the day.
Next section of the BOK ready to place.
Can now extend the BOK Sub layout With more kindling.
Just rounded the bend. Three tables and counting. Time to bring out more kindling and other gauges.
Two doors suspended and easy to level together. Third door soon. Off to the hobby shop for a few N gauge items to expand the BOK Sub First.
Hardware and rope to hang two more doors. There is a trade off between cost and working load limit. For my N scale doors I have gone with 100 lbs minimum.
Two more doors will be suspended in the air for N scale expansion. A turnout will be installed on the BOK Sub leading to other destinations.
My wife has approved of this door hanging concept. Now I can buy more hardware to suspend more doors and run more trains. Going to have some kind of fun this week.
Very easy to level the door with two turnbuckles.
The BOK Sub is now airborne and operational.
All of my doors will be suspended from the rafters. Two turnbuckles are used for perfect levelling. 200 lb nylon rope (operating), metal rings and metal woodscrew eyelets. The door knob hole will be used for electrical cables and I have full storage space underneath (no wooden legs necessary).
Once the roof dries I'll add some details.
Once the roof has firmly bonded to the walls, I'll finish it with another layer of sandstone paste.
Paper was sanded off the bottom of the walls and urethane applied to their exteriors.
I can still sand most of the paper off the roof to paint the inside without the two halves falling apart.
I didn't put any glue along the centre edges of the roof so that it would snap open like this, with only the paper holding the two halves together.
Glued walls together and the whole thing glued to paper for alignment and to hold the pieces upright. Made a bit more paste for the four outside edges.
Interior walls painted.
Before painting the interior walls, most of the graph paper has to be sanded off.
Walls are cut to size.
Sanded the walls, don't need to sand the roof.
I process sandstone from Cape Blomidon, NS into four particle-size grades for various applications in three scales. I use the finest powder with fast drying wood glue to make a paste that I apply to the structure's outside surfaces.
Cut timber lines with my striking knife. Roof doesn't need them.
Weight applied while the fast drying wood glue cures. This will keep all surfaces flat.
Coffee stir stick wood cut and glued in place on the graph paper.
Building a N-scale rustic farm shed is easy. First I draw the pieces on graph paper.
Thanks Ulrich. I thrive on unusual.
An unusual layout using an unusual benchwork, but who says we can´t go different ways to pursue our hobby?
It´s fun to watch it evolving! Keep them coming - those pictures!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"