The basic kindling block looks like this. A piece of wood rescued from the wood stove this winter, roadbed cut with a router, ground cover from the kindling sawdust dyed green, brown paint under the sawdust to represent mud/dirt where it shows, processed shale collected from the beaches in Walton (maximum dimension < 1.2 mm) for the track sub-bed, and strong ceramic magnet disks embedded in the kindling under the ground cover For attaching accessories and initiating animation.
Three hoppers will be loaded with native copper ore from the old mine in Cape d'Or.
Five hoppers will be loaded with aggregate made from conglomerate gathered and processed from the beaches of Tennecape. Particle sizes do not exceed 1.2 mm nominal.
CN 8113 will be hauling two ore loads on the BOK Sub for the upcoming show. Many other loads will be in HO and O gauge cars. All loads are real Nova Scotia rocks and minerals mined or quarried in this province in the past and few still today.
The roster for the show: Atlas CN Alco S2 #8113, Bluford Shops Canada Southern 14-Panel Rib Side Hoppers #74028 and #73305, Atlas CN Trainman 90 Ton Hopper #40111, Atlas IC 2-Bay Offset Side Hoppers #69477, #69454, #69460, Bowser CN GLa Hoppers #117377, #117385.
For the Truro show the BOK will be DC.
Ravensburger it isn't but the twenty-six pieces are not hard to place (numbers on the bottom side in case I forget how it goes).
The kindling blocks are lightweight, stackable and fit inside a small box or case. All ready to assemble like a jigsaw puzzle.
My portable workstation for tools and accessories.
The BOK was designed to be very simple to move. It takes less than 15 minutes to assemble, and the same to take apart. It's a beautiful sunny day here in Dartmouth so I'll move the entire Sub to a table in the backyard to illustrate this portability. I am going to work on it outside all day.
My winter project BOK Sub will be on display at the upcoming Maritime Federation of Railroad Modellers Annual Convention. It is packed with unique and old school ideas and methods. It will be a work in progress for a long time to come, however, it is fully functional and fun already. I'll show and explain some of the features in this thread.