I have to give a HUGE shoutout to Rich for building this for me. It will make the Coors Brewery industry on my new layout, a wonderful addition.
Now I'm really pressed to finish the benchwork, so I can start working on the layout.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Southgate, I believe that there is underground piping from the brewery directly into the bar area of the mansion.
Rich
Alton Junction
Well, they never have to go far for beer!
Southgate Oops. Got my wires crossed. This is not for your RR. That 1/1 mansion does look out of place right there by the brewery, but it is what it is, huh?
Oops. Got my wires crossed. This is not for your RR. That 1/1 mansion does look out of place right there by the brewery, but it is what it is, huh?
Rich,
Outstanding. All those corners and roof angles to match could not have been easy.
Definitely worthy of being featured in MR.
Jim
Southgate Beautiuful job, Rich! Now you can fill that remaining 60% of the basement with the brewery as a nice backdrop for the mansion... Dan
Beautiuful job, Rich! Now you can fill that remaining 60% of the basement with the brewery as a nice backdrop for the mansion...
Dan
Michael plans to build the brewery. Hopefully, he will post photos of the entire facility once he is done.
It looks great! Nice job on the roof.
Mike.
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Congrats. It turned out great.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Rich:
The roof view gives a good idea of how complicated it was to assemble. Well done.
If I can make one small suggestion, paint the chimney flues black on the inside with a little bit of a wash around the top outside.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
My favorite, took this one with my HO drone.
A couple more views:
Wot Dave and Wayne said.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Dave and Wayne, thanks very much, I appreciate it.
I agree with Dave. Very well done indeed.
Wayne
I have to say that it is quite a bit better than "good enough". Its very well done, especially for a first project!
Finally finished my first scratch build. The photo below is the completed mansion with the shingles installed. For this purpose, I wound up using shingles from Micro Mark. They are more gray than the blue shingles on the actual mansion, but they could always be spray painted to get a closer match.
I am pleased with the result, but if I had it to do over, I would do some things differently. For one, I would lay narrow strips of shingles on the ridges before installing the larger sheets of shingles, so that the cuts would not have to be so precise.
The adhesive backed paper shingles stick well to the styrene plastic, but not so well if one paper sheet overlaps another sheet. However, I started using a light smear of Woodland Scenics Scenic Glue over the paper shingles to be covered with overlaps, and that works well to hold the shingles in place.
If the cut is not perfectly precise, a bit of paper backing may show as a white spot. I used small dabs of Polly Scale Light Undercoat Gray to darken the white spots, and that works quite well.
One last bit of advice. Use an Optivisor when aligning the shingle seams. Otherwise, slight mis-alignments will show up.
Overall, I am pleased with this effort, and I hope that Michael feels the same way. It is not perfect, but it is "good enough".
I agree, very good. The shingles will make it come alive.
That looks great Rich!
Very nice work.
Sheldon
I did a little more detailing, sprayed the entire structure white, reinforced the walls and roof, glued the roof to the walls, and glued the entire assembly to the base. The shingles are next.
Yes Rich is doing a fine job on this scratchbuilt mansion. I'm just glad he's doing it instead of me.
BATMAN I dunno Rich with your first big success and all these ah gentlemen egging you on to go bigger and better, one thing is for sure, you're going to need a bigger house.
I dunno Rich with your first big success and all these ah gentlemen egging you on to go bigger and better, one thing is for sure, you're going to need a bigger house.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
doctorwayne richhotrain .....with this scratch build under my belt, I am sure that I could more nearly replicate the freight house by scratch building it. I dunno, Rich. As well as you've done on the mansion, making zillions of little tiny bricks may take some time, and then you'll need to figure out what to use for mortar. I'd stick with the DPM myself. With a couple of readily available kits and some basic building materials (brick sheet and plain styrene) you could build Bertams, too. Wayne
richhotrain .....with this scratch build under my belt, I am sure that I could more nearly replicate the freight house by scratch building it.
.....with this scratch build under my belt, I am sure that I could more nearly replicate the freight house by scratch building it.
I dunno, Rich. As well as you've done on the mansion, making zillions of little tiny bricks may take some time, and then you'll need to figure out what to use for mortar. I'd stick with the DPM myself.
With a couple of readily available kits and some basic building materials (brick sheet and plain styrene) you could build Bertams, too.
richhotrainI am sure that I could more nearly replicate the freight house by scratch building it.
Yes.
BRAKIE Rich,Great job! That C&EI inbound freight house at Dearborn Station should be easy.. I would use DPM wall modulars.
Rich,Great job!
That C&EI inbound freight house at Dearborn Station should be easy.. I would use DPM wall modulars.