Railway design, construction, and gardening

Zak, Thanks. As with all my buildings, I am using cedar. Pickup 1 bys and rip them down to size. The plans are from Garden texture which I blow up to 1:20.3 scale. Not sure about how quickly I finish a building, but its what I do. I am retired and moved south to build a railroad. Winter is when I do buildings and spend a large part of each day in the workshop. Jack

Another installment documenting the construction of the "Lumber Barons House". Once the roofing is finished I be ready to build the porch steps and install the windows and doors. You will find some pictures here of the progress. Enjoy. Jack

You'll find the latest pictures of the Lumber Baron's house here. Hopefully by the end of the week I will get the glass in the windows and doors and all of them installed. Took a short vacation to visit friends so I'm a bit behind schedule. Jack

Howdy Jack,

      Holy Moly this is your best yet. Awesome building.

                                                       Regards,

                                                        Zak

Thanks Zak. As with all things in life, one tries to improve on each new experience. In my case it is sometimes learning to cover up mistakes. Jack

The Lumber Baron's House is completed and you can find pictures here. I showed my method of providing some stibility from wind blowing over my buildings. The "legs" are placed in holes filled with portland cement and are easily removed if need be for maintance. Haven't had a building disturbed by the wind since first trying this method. As you can see, the front and back are about the same with the exception of the doormers. The house is positioned to overlook the lumber mill from the front (the rear view) and what will be the downtown area from the rear. The downtown area will be the next area to be constructed.

Have commenced the next building project. It will be three stores loosely based on the Garden Texture's 20th St Series. I am constructing them as one unit. So far this is what I have. The front, with the windows (less trim casings) and applying the siding. Here are some pictures.

Looks interesting.   Looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks Trigg. As requested, here is this weeks progress. Finished the front of all three buildings. Also cut the end wall and the interior walls and although not shown here, have placed the windows in the end pieces.

Jack:  Looking very good indeed!  This view is execelent

This view enhaces the different building heights.  With the facia boards in place it is beginning to look as if it were 50 years old. 

Tom. The "BOSS" took that picture and liked it also. Today I started putting the trim casings on the doors and windows.

I just noticed something in that pic. Look at the top right window on the left building. Now look at the lower pane of that window. It looks like a broken piece of glass.

That is amazing. Hadn't notice that before. It would be neat, but as yet I haven't place the window panes in the frames. Must be a shadow or something on the camera's lens. Won't place panes till windows are cased and paintet. That way I can spray them.

Buildings are starting to shape up. Have assembled  the building and finished it all around and the roofing applied to the sidewalk overhangs. Have placed the support beams for the main roofs. This week I hope to have the flooring in place and the roofs on. Then it will be time for the board side walk and base. Here are the progress pictures for this week.

Another week and some more progress.If all goes well should finish by the weekend. Here are some pictures. Meant to include one of the finished roofing, but some how got two of the sidewald framing. Oh well will include the roofing in next report. Have the windows all ready for installation and have yet to complete the doors although the transums are finished.