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#31
Scratchbuilding / Re: RGS COAL ORE CHUTE
February 12, 2020, 09:42:58 AM
GREG that would take some research to find out how the ore or coal is delivered to the top.   Most likely because its for ORE, an elevated mine would be up there with trackage.

Basically saw the 2 sets of plans and thought those are neat, maybe I might want to build one of them if the cost of plans was reasonable, which the set I got were.  Think these ended up over $25 ?  I set a limit and stuck to it.

mike
#32
karl............the white box and the yellow box version of first kit #25 water tank.

  I used to see wanted ads for the WHITE BOX version, think was Jimmy D.  Probably less made of those making the desirability higher along with price asked.

I also remember when people were selling EMPTY FSM kit boxes and plans.

George must have worked up a real sweat producing some of those 5000 units.

mike lynch.................HAIRBALL
#33
that's what outside decks are for .......opening floquil paint and cracking the cap on sweet and sour staining mixture.

I made some and used it once then stopped.  Am pretty sure I went to FIEBING LEATHER DYE and 99% pure isopropinal alcohol.  Tended to stick to USMC black as giving me exactly what I wanted to achieve, I also believe I was experimenting with Fiebing in various shades of browns, before I laid down tools in 2013 and started building 1935 Chevrolets full size HOT RODS.

3 of them, 2 done and roadster under construction in garage still in 2020
mike
#34
Your going to find building the early kits, compared to the #100 and up, will require lot of crafting and updating of the materials, like you are doing with the brick.

Like the #35 2 stall engine house verses the later release again of it as #135, many changes and improvements.

If your going to build each one numerically, that's going to be extremely enjoyable to watch. Have fun.

mike lynch... MADMIKE3434... HAIRBALL
#35
Scratchbuilding / RGS COAL ORE CHUTE
January 31, 2020, 10:47:45 AM
THIS IS THE OTHER SET OF PLANS THAT WERE ON EBAY THAT UNFORTUNATRELY WAS UNABLE TO WIN.

MIKE LYNCH   MADMIKE3434    HAIRBALL
#36
Scratchbuilding / Re: plans for coal dock
January 30, 2020, 03:27:12 PM
I agree and that's probably why both the FSM #60 and the #155 were always for sale on ebay., because very few actually built them because of the elevated ramp needed.

But a 2 level MRR with the upper designed specifically  for similar buildings or even Ore docks could be utilized  . I'd just like to scratch build one in O scale----------so many plans so little time.

The other design I got outbid on , was a up the side of a hill type, also very interesting.

mike.........HAIRBALL
#37
Scratchbuilding / plans for coal dock
January 30, 2020, 02:06:30 PM
I saw this on ebay and managed to purchase these set of plans, lost out on the other coal chute plans.

Got it in my hands today full size print.  Studying it, I see FSM #60 coal dock and also FSM #155 elevated coal dock that was shown built up on this site.  I can see where George got his influence to design a similar one into a kit.   Plans has all the right wood sizes and heigths so it could be built in any scale.  Shows coal cutes to both sides, interesting.

mike...........HAIRBALL
#38
Dioramas / Augustus Beadlebaum blacksmith shop
January 26, 2020, 12:13:51 PM
This is O scale and not sure if it was yorke kit #112 or whether I scratch built it from northeastern scale siding board and batton.  Its based on the Johnstown calif yards structure.  Yorke and Stoney creek both produced a model of this structure.

From the original design I changed the grandt line windows to another style as shown.
I made the roof vent as long as possible.
I made a hydrocal one piece stone & concrete foundation.
Freight doors are scale wood and grandt line engine house hinges.
Roof is made of HO scale campbells corregated roofing.

Zeke Pugwump at the door and his 2 brothers at the shed are visiting today.

A seagull has perched on the sign hoping to get a free lunch today

mike lynch....MADMIKE3434................HAIRBALL
#39
Kit Building / Re: Millett for MAP
January 20, 2020, 10:11:01 AM
The weathering on this SRMW kit is fantastic.  It truly represents an older building suffering the ravages of time without being overly weathered.

I remember building this one once, but not weathering it this nicely.

mike lynch..........HAIRBALL
#40
As I was creating the PUGWUMPS BROTHERS rail services, I made elevated water tanks, oil tank, sand and drying house, an engine house, and also a mechanized coal dock , all to be lined up on either side of the track to the engine house.

I started by constructing an ore dock and the vision was that a rail would run to it and dump into the tapered structure.  But during the construction I had an idea, what I really need is a coal dock for the locos, but the regular type wasn't to my liking for a remote engine facility.

Got to thinking and came up what you see here a steam powered coal fired mechanized coal lift.  A rear track where gondolas could pull up and the contents shoveled into the bucket lifts.

I never got around to building some kind structure where cord wood would be stored in a roofed structure and passed to the fireman on the wood burning locomotive.

mike lynch.......HAIRBALL
#41
Dioramas / Re: Zephyrus
January 14, 2020, 11:02:55 AM
I kept trying to figure out why there was a crane on a pedestal mount in the background.............all becomes clear now !!!!!!!!!

Great build love the whimsy.

mike lynch..............HAIRBALL
#42
Dioramas / Re: PUGWUMP BROTHERS porter engine house
January 13, 2020, 08:01:00 PM
the windows are all grandt line, raised seam roofing is builders in scale and the corrugated roofing is from them also.  I am not sure if I completely detailed this one inside.

mike.....HAIRBALL
#43
Dioramas / PUGWUMP BROTHERS porter engine house
January 13, 2020, 11:54:26 AM
I bought this banta engine house kit o scale minus the wood windows and doors.  Was cheap so jumped on it.
Walls are usa gypsum hydrocal white with real nice stonework I believe from roger Malinowski.  He does real nice work.

Visiting today is Zeke Pugwump head of the company and thats 2 of his brothers Lionel + Bart.  Has pet pig Aretha in truck bed and they are out at all the family facilities looking for the 3 doggies that went missing after a photo shoot of "Day at the Vets"

I used alcohol and indian ink mix , to colour the stonework.  Because the windows and doors were all missing I had to create new spots to fill the holes with wood and grandt line windows.   The upper clerestory set of windows also got filled in with wood.   Roof is my usual rusting process with what looks like a dusting of bragdon pigments.  That's a Bachmann On30 porter locomotive just peeking out.

Ground cover is woodland scenic products and beach sand from lake Ontario, one of the 5 great lakes on the border.

mike lynch.............MADMIKE3434..............HAIRBALL
#44
Dioramas / Re: Dave's Saucer City
January 12, 2020, 11:37:20 PM
great stuff, but can we bypass all the electric cars they are planning on shoving at us and just head straight to one of these ?????????

mike lynch
#45
Rolling Stock / PUGWUMPS BROTHERS SANDHOUSE..........
January 11, 2020, 11:51:46 PM
While i was constructing various structures to service the PUGWUMP BROTHERS RAIL SERVICES, the consortium of these structures will service the railroad.

These PUGWUMPS are very industrious and building a great business.

Here is my version of a SANDHOUSE with drying room.

mike lynch..............HAIRBALL
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