I am working on the background behind the whole layout. This section is behind the sawmill insert from the last post
background behind sawmill
Will post the sawmill area with the insert back in place when I finish a few more details o the Sawmill
Working on various areas, after a time away.
Saw mill in progress
Sawmill almost completed, but still some details, as piping, a railroad logging car log dump, and more vegetation, and finally some hills and trees on the background.
Cattails at the mill pond
This more completed and other projects posted soon
This time partially completed Lumber Mill, kit bashing an old Suydam kit with changed windows, doors, reconstructed missing parts and eventually scratch built additions.
First side, adding new windows and doors from Tichy Train Group, with weathered and rusting corrugated siding
Assembling the structure on a steel machinists plate. Handy to hold things in position with magnets, since the walls are steel.
Assembling with Epoxy and CA Glue
Next brick portion
Brick incinerator building
Adding Weathering to Doors etc.
Freight Door
Then starting to plan positioning on the layout on the Lumber branch.
Mill Side
Whole area plan showing places for Log chute, pond area, log dump, stream and separate scratch built finishing building and loading dock
Partially completed Mill on Plan of area
In the process of designing and constructing a larger city building, gluing up small sections and pilasters to form the building, and then adding the window frames.
Starting construction
Adding piece by piece and modifying some sections
Front wall taking shape
Starting to see structure come together with side walls
Building without first floor commercial facades, using machine tool hold down blocks for weight and right angles.
Next, airbrushing the structure and the windows their finish color.
Some of the airbrushed parts.
Then adding the first floor structure and trying fit in a location before putting all the finished roof, window detail, adding some interiors, and lighting.
Trying building in rough position.
Will put more on completing this and other buildings in future posts.
Starting to work on multiple structures for the layout using kit bashing and scratch building. I’ll be putting up various progress on building in the coming weeks. The first area is the passenger station area in the city.
Passenger station area test ideas
This second view in same area with some added wall ideas
Station area in the city
The longer shed part of the station is at a lower level and further along.
Almost finished train shed area
Will put up progress on this and other areas as I move along.
I have been concentrating on working on the branch line this week, so here are some photos of progress at the future site of the sawmill.
Getting the sidings in place for the log slide to the pond and a siding for finished product.
Next a series of Photographs showing creating the terrain around where the mill will be.
Adding slab of foam for base of mill area.
Adding slope down base.
Using some hydrocal rocks from rock molds and plaster cloth.
Then filling with more rocks and blending with sculptamold
Next will be determining the contours of the mill area (buildings, pond etc.
Forrest being added to multiple parts of the layout, with modified commercial trees in the background and Supertrees and self made evergreens in the foreground.
Modified various trees populating the hills
Will still be modified a little more by subtle grey-blue toning, more as we approach the background
Setting up a few scenarios to photograph for a new mailer.
Setup for a back cover, with a Covered Hopper
Will be doing some Steam Engine and other subjects for the mailer, but here is this first shot
Milwaukee covered hopper
Another post about designers and railroads. A few posts back, talking about Raymond Loewy’s design for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Famous GG1. Here we have the iconic Logo for the New Haven Railway.
New Haven Railroad Logo
Herbert Matter’s NH Logo. This a page from my Type book studying Graphic Design in college.
In 1954 Patrick McGinnis took over the financially strapped New Haven Railroad. His wife Lucille convinced him to come up with a new visual look, to compete with Car and Air travel. Herbert Matter’s fresh clean and modern designs are still seen in some stations and occasionally on a metro-north locomotive as a tribute to the great design. It still lives on even as the New Haven was absorbed into Penn Central about 50 years ago.
Just returned from W. Springfield MA from the biggest model train show in the nation. Quite an experience. Over 400,000 square ft of dealers, manufacturers, modular layouts, etc.
Car in the parking lot right where I pulled in. No doubt I was in train land!
The show is in 4 buildings. this is the entrance to one of the four (Mallary Complex)
Mallary Complex
They have some canvas covered walkways between buildings
covered walkway
This is inside showing less than half of the largest building (Better Living Center)
Partial BLC Hall photo
Some of the manufacturers show a model in progress-undecorated.This is a Rapido Pre-production model at their booth
Pre-Production Alco RS11
They also have some special things like this Real 1895 Baldwin steam engine, built for SD Warren Paper Co, that has been restored to full steam operation.
SD Warren-No-2-2Ft gauge
All in all , a very enjoyable weekend