WPF for 16 - 20 Dec, 2011

[nik .n]

Wikious

Shot of a 2-stall engine house/machine shop I'm working on.

Absolutely amazing. My attempts are nowhere near that level of detail.

 

My only questions: How do you make your boards for the siding? Where do your source your material? And how do you get such precise angles on your roof trusses?

[rclanger]

VAMidlandRR.

Thanks for the compliment. The trackplan is an adapation of MR Black River Junction. You can see both the Black River Junction and mine by clicking here.

 

[Wikious]

nik .n

 

 

 

Absolutely amazing. My attempts are nowhere near that level of detail.

 

My only questions: How do you make your boards for the siding? Where do your source your material? And how do you get such precise angles on your roof trusses?

Thanks! The siding boards are 1/16 x 1/4 inch basswood strips with a line scribed down the middle. You could probably use wider boards, but I wanted to make sure the lines stayed mostly vertical over the whole building. I get my basswood strips from my local Hobby Lobby, since their prices are about what I can find online, and with no shipping costs. I used  a miter box for my trusses. The one by Midwest Products (it's white and plastic) works well- it has cuts for 30, 45, 60, 90, and 67.5 degrees. It'd be nice if it wasn't plastic, but it works pretty well.

[CSXDixieLine]

Created a mockup of the CSX Etowah River bridge near Emerson, GA to determine what supporting benchwork needs to be constructed:

Jamie

[el-capitan]

havnt been here for a while, but just finished up an italian restaurant and drug store. Lighting, paint, etc all finished, just waiting for the tenants to move their stuff in.

[wedudler]

Here's the picture to my video.

Coal train through Silver Creek.

Wolfgang

[G Paine]

Nice video showing some excelent work. At about 2 minutes in the video I noticed an outside 3rd rail. Is this the start of a dual gage track?

[wedudler]

Yes, these are two dual gauge modules. The module with 3'-treste and Silver Creek.

Wolfgang