FSM Kit #210 - Icing Platform - 2022 Build Challenge (1)

[restocarp]

One more photo showing the office for the complex.



Matt

[NEMMRRC]

Without doubt a true railroad classic.


This one would look great anywhere. Great choice.


My buddy Piezcyk scratched this one for me over 20 years ago. He used plexiglass squares for the ice. He took a small welding torch, lit it and then flicked the ice squares and to this day they still look wet.


Looking forward to how this one will turn out.


Jaime

[postalkarl]

hey John:

You are quite welcome.

Karl

[S&S RR]

I really like this kit and hope to acquire and build it some day. I also like the small shed and auxiliary platform that George added the the end of his model on the F&SM.





I am looking forward to watching your build.
Matt

Matt


Thank you for the reference photographs - I spent the morning clearing my detail workbench for this build.  I'm going to take a look at the possibilities for some scratch built support structures to complement this build in my location on the layout. Stay tuned.

[S&S RR]

Without doubt a true railroad classic.


This one would look great anywhere. Great choice.


My buddy Piezcyk scratched this one for me over 20 years ago. He used plexiglass squares for the ice. He took a small welding torch, lit it and then flicked the ice squares and to this day they still look wet.


Looking forward to how this one will turn out.


Jaime

Jaime




Thank you for following along, it's great to see you back on the forum.  Keep telling yourself life is too short for all work and know play.  Thank you for the tip on the ice blocks - I will give it a try and post the results.

[tom.boyd.125]

John,
Did the freezing cold temps help you decide on this FSM build  
Tommy

[S&S RR]

John,
Did the freezing cold temps help you decide on this FSM build
Tommy

Tommy


Thank you for following along - I think the freezing cold temperatures are keeping me inside at my workbench.     I found some pictures at a local restaurant of ice cutting operation that happened every winter on the lake by my house. Ice was a big deal back in the days before refrigeration and electricity. My Grandparents used it until the late 1950's on their farm in Northern Michigan.

[Jim Donovan]

Just caught up and following along. I think I have this kit too.

Jim D

[postalkarl]

Lots of great pictures.

KARL

[S&S RR]

Just caught up and following along. I think I have this kit too.

Jim D

Jim


Thank you for following along - I have a couple more days work on the Branchline Water Tower and then I get going on this build as my primary project.

[S&S RR]

Lots of great pictures.

KARL

Karl


Thank you - more to come.

[S&S RR]

So I got a little side tracked on this build and built the FSM Water Tower #240 first, but I'm back at it.  My workbench has been cleaned and the box is back off the shelf and opened on my workbench.  Step one spread all the parts out on the workbench and see what is in the box. The detail castings have been sent off to the paint booth for priming.

[S&S RR]

Somewhere on the forum we had a discussion about the "before laser" kits that George put out.  This is one of them.  All of the window and door openings where cut out with a table saw. The builder had to finish the horizontal cut.  I use a razor blade to do this.

[PRR Modeler]

I'll be following John.

[Zephyrus52246]

So many sticks in that box.     Were all the parts hand cut on a saw?  I thought they were stamped out on some kind of machine.


Jeff