Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 3) Started 7/27/19

[S&S RR]

Looking good, John.

I really like the yellow for the doors.  It works very well with your stone colour.

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


Thank you for the kind words and for following along, I went with a very dirty yellow. After all, this is a welding shop located in the middle of a railroad yard.  By the way, the name is going to be Grandpa John's Welding, after my dad, who was a welder by trade.  His father, also named John worked in the rail yards in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He got a job fixing cars when his job as a furniture maker was slow. At one time Grand Rapids, MI was world famous for their fine furniture. It could be that working with wood is in my blood.

[S&S RR]

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The stone wall sections are ready to be placed on the baseboard. For now they are just sitting there waiting for the rest of the reinforcements and then the roof cards.

[S&S RR]

The stone wall detail is setting on a piece of strip wood so the wet glue from the reinforcements will not glue it in a position that I don't want it. That is why you see some air under the right side of the structure.  I'm using up some big basswood strip wood for the reinforcements.


Correction: The little end casting is on upside down. Fixed it when I added the roof card. I must have been tired when I put this together.

[MAP]

Coming along really nicely John!  Thanks for all of the progress pics.

[S&S RR]

Coming along really nicely John!  Thanks for all of the progress pics.

Mark


Thank you for following along - starting to make some progress, it's modeling season.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

The walls are truly looking beautiful.

Karl

[Jerry]

Always a pleasure to see a new post John.


Beautiful coloring on the stonework.


Jerry

[S&S RR]

Hey John:

The walls are truly looking beautiful.

Karl

Karl


Thank you for your very kind words.

[S&S RR]

Always a pleasure to see a new post John.


Beautiful coloring on the stonework.


Jerry

Jerry


Thank you for following along and the kind words.  New work leading to new posts coming soon.

[S&S RR]

I made some more progress on the structure builds, today.  On the Fox Run build the roofing materials started going on.

[S&S RR]

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On the Swakhammer build the main clapboard buildings got a coat of flat black paint on the interior and started to go together.  I'm gluing them together, before doing the outside staining.