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Latin ferrum iron + Latin equus horse + -logist
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

From My Workbench

 

This is the first posting I have had in a while, I have been totally slammed with building models for my RR club, we had a Narrow Gauge Mini Meet here in Dallas that was a total blast, and lastly prepping for the LSR convention next month. I will be giving a clinic on "Intro to scratch building structures". If anyone is interested in a pdf version of this please post a request with your email.

Anyway...I have been partnering with Bart at my railroad club to overall the lumber mill area of the layout. Bart is working the scenery aspect and I am tackling the structures. 

The first was a Master Creations Lumber Mill. If you have ever built a Master Creations kit, your up for a challenge. The kits that they produced were innovative, complex, and were limited. the challenge is the instructions are little hard to follow, and from a personal viewpoint, laser cut work from the perspective of its use in siding a structure, although looks great, I prefer to use board on board. With that said, 80% of this mill is scratch built. I used the framing, details and windows from the kit however replaced just about everything else. 

So if your up for a real challenge, try a Master Creations kit, you will have an unique structure.


The second structure is a BTS log dump, if your familiar with logging operations you know that these were used to remove the logs from the railroad car and dump them into a log pond. These ponds were staging areas for log to be fed into the mill using the log flume you see above.


BTS kits are really great, actually BTS is the same company as Master Creations. There kits are some of the best on the market today and reasonably priced as well. This was a fun kit and took about a weekend. 



 Well I am off to finish up my contest models for the convention. After that I will start with more logging "stuff".

Here is the BTS Website if your interested in some really cool and innovative product.

3 comments:

Carvin' Tom said...

Beautiful Job! It looks real....and old!
I'd love to get a PDF of your talk. I don't build very many buildings but I have done some stuff as background for caricature carvings.

Thanks,

Carvin' Tom

Mike Jobe (espeemike on the blogs) said...

Hey Tom thanks!
As soon as I have got it finished up I will send it to you.
regards
Mike

Carvin' Tom said...

I am most anxious to find out how you produce buildings with such authentic "grunge" on them. I love the tattered roofing material, too.