Frank/Erieman twisted my arm to put pictures of my model on this forum. I won the Best in Show at the PSR Convention in Scottsdale this weekend along with the Favorite Model Award and Presidents Award.
My model is based on the Sturgeon's Sawmill located in Sebastopol, California. It is a working museum of a steam powered sawmill. It is open to the public about four times a year when they have it in operation.
I was able to get a set of plans from a modeler, Boone Morrison. I adapted the sawmill for the rail delivery of logs to the mill for a future layout. I drew my own plans and templates to construct it to my needs.
I am including pictures of the original sawmill so that you get an idea what it looked like.
I want to thank those that have helped me in this project.
Good Evening Steven,
It looks like my help in posting was unsuccessful. Anybody out there that can give Steven some help in posting larger that the average pictures? This is a beautiful model and everybody needs to see bigger than a postage stamp. Help please.
Frank / Erieman
Quote from: Erieman on September 21, 2015, 10:20:26 PM
Good Evening Steven,
It looks like my help in posting was unsuccessful. Anybody out there that can give Steven some help in posting larger that the average pictures? This is a beautiful model and everybody needs to see bigger than a postage stamp. Help please.
Frank / Erieman
If he's on a Mac, he can use Photos.app or iPhoto to resize the pictures. Set the size to be "no greater than 640 x 640 pixels". Can someone who uses Windows suggest an application?
dave
Attached are more pictures. It looks like I finally got it figured out
This is the final group of pictures
Great job on the mill Steven.....thanks for taking the time to post and welcome to the forum. 8)
Oh, don't be shy about posting.....we all love pictures here! ;D
Steven,
THANK YOU for sharing your work with the Forum members and on your model build receiving an NMRA Regional Best of Show Model Award. ;)
Your scratch built diorama is really nice . 8)
Tom
Superb modeling Steven , and thanks for sharing with us.
Yes, thanks for going through the hassle of posting these!
dave
Steve,
The award is very well deserved. Great diorama and scene. Thanks for sharing.
Tom ;D
Beautiful structure and diorama. Congratulations on the award.
Jeff
Quote from: Zephyrus52246 on September 22, 2015, 06:35:41 PM
Beautiful structure and diorama. Congratulations on the award.
Jeff
Ditto
And thank you for the original pictures of the Sawmill, very nice pics
Eric Québec city
That is one good looking sawmill. Excellent work. I am glad that you shared it with us.
Great work Steve. We hope we will see more some day.
Great work Steven. Hope to see more and more of your builds....that is the only way I learn.
Thanks for all your nice comments everybody. I especially want to thank Frank/Erieman for his support through this whole process. He has been a great help. My next build will probably be Sierra West Scale Model's Shelby's Marine and promise that I will keep everyone informed during the build process. But I want to start to build a layout this Fall now that I have the room in my garage.
Steven
Great build! Congratulations on you win. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I hope you will share your next build with us.
Hiu Steven:
Extremely well done model. Great coloring and weathering. I'm sure it will find a great home on your future layout.
Karl
Karl,
Thanks for the nice comments. I need to stop building models for a while and start building my layout.
Steve
This deserves another showing. I posted two years ago that we needed to see more, and Steve said he was going to do Shelby's Marine, and did he ever.
This scratch sawmill is terrific work, and Steve showed his talent for colors and texturing, and some very excellent weathering.
And even better news- he is hard at work on his layout.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the nice comment. I need the layout for a place to put my models.
Looks great Steve!
Thanks for the kind word Mark.
If it wasn't for seeing that stop sign in back in photo 3362 I would have thought that baby was real!! That's an awesome job! Thanks for those awesome pics! I love to look at photos.🚂🚂🚂