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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 13, 2024 16:22:39 GMT
Steve
Thanks for your interest, the quick answer is all or some of the above, i Kit-bash, scratch build , some are prototype some are fiction, and some have interiors.most are are lit.
A lot of the later creations are on bases because the layout is full with no room for expansion, but i still need to pass the long Ohio winters and i enjoy building, so i put them on a base with a little scenic detail, and makes them stronger and easy to handle.
I have a new interest in a ON30 logging shelf or modular layout i may soon start.
Thanks for asking
Jim
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Post by healey36 on Nov 13, 2024 16:47:06 GMT
They are all terrific, Jim. Your skills exceed mine twenty-fold (at least). I try to keep to a faux-tin look, so no super-detailing here. I've mined the pages of Toy Trains magazine, producing a few of Hal Carstens' cut-outs projects. Here's the Yardmaster's office and telephone shack:  A little bit of editing to black out the windows and doors, add a sign or two and a stove-pipe. Otherwise, as he drew it. |
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 13, 2024 18:02:51 GMT
They are all terrific, Jim. Your skills exceed mine twenty-fold (at least). I try to keep to a faux-tin look, so no super-detailing here. I've mined the pages of Toy Trains magazine, producing a few of Hal Carstens' cut-outs projects. Here's the Yardmaster's office and telephone shack: A little bit of editing to black out the windows and doors, add a sign or two and a stove-pipe. Otherwise, as he drew it. Very nice , I like them.
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 13, 2024 23:35:27 GMT
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Nov 14, 2024 14:15:21 GMT
Thanks for your interest, the quick answer is all or some of the above, i Kit-bash, scratch build , some are prototype some are fiction, and some have interiors.most are are lit.
A lot of the later creations are on bases because the layout is full with no room for expansion, but i still need to pass the long Ohio winters and i enjoy building, so i put them on a base with a little scenic detail, and makes them stronger and easy to handle.
I have a new interest in a ON30 logging shelf or modular layout i may soon start.
Thanks for asking Thanks, Jim! Whatever the process, the results are wonderful! My questions were not unrelated to my current challenge. Earlier, I had managed to model the old Cambridge train station, which fortunately for my project, continues to exist in renovated form as a real estate office. Now I've been asked to recreate the adjacent freight station, which was torn down years ago (I don't remember it, even as a child, and I'm well into my 70's!). There are few photos I've so far been able to find, and the best so far just shows it in the background behind the passenger station (I cropped the photo a bit):  I also have some cropped (and very grainy) scan from printed aerial shots, from which I believe the rough footprint can be figured out:  Finally, I found a more detailed shot of a PRR freight depot in another Delmarva location, from which I can fairly extrapolate some construction details not evident in the earlier photos (since my earlier research indicated the PRR and its predecessors had a tendency to recycle design and construction elements in its Delmarva stations):   Based on your designs, I think I'm going to employ vertical wooden coffee stirrer sections to emulate the board and batten walls shown above, but will reuse the technique I used on the train station build earlier (overlapping texture-patterned cardstock strips) to simulate a shingled roof. In any event, thanks for the insights!
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 14, 2024 15:25:50 GMT
Steve
What an ambitious project, would love to follow along with your photo progress.
Jim
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 14, 2024 15:28:07 GMT
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 14, 2024 19:25:04 GMT
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 14, 2024 22:57:20 GMT
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 15, 2024 11:53:00 GMT
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 15, 2024 18:03:00 GMT
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Nov 15, 2024 21:04:21 GMT
What an ambitious project, would love to follow along with your photo progress. Step 1: cardstock and foamboard mock-up, to check the dimensions (no spec's or actual structure to measure, just spitballin' from a few grainy photos!):   Next steps, already in progress: convert to basswood structure (used up my last sheets!) and order laser-cut doors and windows from Rail Scale Models. They're holding a place for it next to the old train station model at the RFC train garden, so I hope I can get it done before the December open house! Looking forward to cutting a lot of wooden coffee stirrers and cardstock texture printed strips soon! 
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 16, 2024 0:38:32 GMT
Thanks for taking the time to photograph and share the progress
of this project, The porportions look great.
keep the photos comming.
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Post by Jim Teeple on Nov 16, 2024 13:37:32 GMT
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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Nov 16, 2024 17:38:19 GMT
Thanks for taking the time to photograph and share the progress of this project, The porportions look great. keep the photos comming. Step 2: translate to basswood:   The roof structure is now glued and drying, while the side walls are just butted together in a test fit -- I can't glue them up until the doors and windows (ordered and on the way) get here, and I can cut the appropriate openings in the basswood. I used up the last of the pack of basswood sheets I initially bought for the train station build, so I ended up having to patch together an extension at the top of the front wall from scraps (you can see the reinforcements behind the seams in the wall in the second photo). I had planned to completely cover the visible wall surface with vertical wooden coffee stirrer sections anyway, and the location of the join is out of sight up under the platform roof, so I figured I could use this kludge to avoid another delay -- I'm trying to get the freight station installed next to the train station on the RFC train garden before our December open house! Stay tuned . . . 
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