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Photo courtesy of the Baltimore County Public Library
I am currently in the process of building a pair of modules for the club module layout of the Four County Society of Model Engineers (FCSME). The modules will represent an area of Baltimore City known as Woodberry and a specific complex within that neighborhood, the historic Poole and Hunt Foundry (pictured above).
I am terribly slow at these things, so I expect this to proceed at my usual snails pace. Case in point, I began the process of designing these modules in 2012. So.... :o
Let's get started.
Matt
Matt,
That's quite an undertaking. This will be fun to follow. :D
Let's begin with a quick introduction of the club.
http://www.fcsme.org/ (http://www.fcsme.org/)
Four County Society of Model Engineers (FCSME) became a module club after losing its permanent home some years ago. It currently has over 40 members and exhibits a large layout, at mostly Maryland locations, multiple times a year. This year the club layout will be making an appearance at the show in Springfield. I will not be able to attend, but hopefully forum members will be able to check out the layout.
The club specifications are close to those of the NMRA, with some deviations. The time frame of the layout is August of 1955. The geographical location is limited to the area of Maryland around Hagerstown. My Baltimore prototype location is close enough to that location. Other modules have represented areas throughout Maryland and West Virginia.
I have been a member of the club since 2012 and this will be my first modules in the layout because I am S...L...O...W.
Next: my design process.
Matt
Quote from: ReadingBob on January 10, 2018, 07:39:43 AM
Matt,
That's quite an undertaking. This will be fun to follow. :D
Yes it is. I have always tended to take big bites... :D
Thanks for following.
Matt
Matt,
I will be slowly following along.
Tom 8)
As I said, I began designing these modules when I joined the club in 2012. Among my many other interests, is a love of the history of tools and industry. I originally came across the Poole and Hunt company while researching historic tool makers of Baltimore. While Poole and Hunt never played a major role in the tool making industry, their terrific complex, still standing, seemed to call to me as a modeling opportunity.
The foundry was constructed in about 1853 when Robert Poole and German Hunt moved their operations from Baltimore out to the then suburban mill town of Woodberry. The mills of Woodberry used the waters of the Jones Falls to power their factories. Most of the early mills were for processing grain. Later many textile mills sprang up throughout the valley. Poole and Hunt built a very large foundry and erection shops to fabricate and machine parts for railroad locomotives and railcars, artillery pieces, battleship parts, as well as some architectural metal work. The large cast iron columns for the US Capitol dome were fabricated in this Woodberry shop.
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Poole & Hunt letterhead from my collection
After Poole and Hunt closed, the Balmar Corporation took over the premises. They were another very diverse fabrication shop, although, at this time, they were known for their line of tractors and similar equipment. Following Balmar, the property had several smaller tenants and was eventually redeveloped in the early 2000s. Part of the complex was lost in a deadly 1995 fire, but today much remains as artist spaces, offices, and a popular restaurant, Woodberry Kitchen.
My task is to reasonably represent this historic property in HO scale.
More in a few.
Matt
Ambitious project Matt.....I'll be looking in. :)
Armed with my research I began to develop a plan that would represent the Poole & Hunt complex within the parameters of the FCSME standards. The first major hurdle was the relationship between the property and the railroad. The original mainline of the Northern Central Railway ran past the front gate of the factory. A spur entered through the gates and ran through the buildings. My first design attempts replicated this and drastically deviated from the club standards. Eventually I determined that the spur would have to become the mainline. A Sanborn map shows the relationship between the buildings and the railroad. This has been an invaluable resource for designing the modules.
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All of my design work has taken place on Sketchup. It has allowed me to produce 3D scale models of the modules and really visualize how it should go together. After many versions and changes, here is where the design currently sits. This should largely be how the final modules look, although I am sure that I will tweak things as construction unfolds.
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The most major change will likely be the amount of track. As I mock up the buildings on the actual modules, the trackwork may prove to congested. Also on the layout the outside lines run to the right and the inside rails run to the left. Given my available space and the way that the prototype buildings are laid out, the turnouts from the rail would require trains to enter in reverse. I'm not sure I like this. My interests lie in model building and not operations, so I might be satisfied with just the mainlines running through, but sidings would be better, but they have to function well without clogging up the main. This is a conversation I expect to have with some of my fellow club members. You might think that after 5+ years I would have this figured out, but here we are. :o
Next: Details of the plan.
Matt
Moving from left to right on the above layout plan, the first structures, tucked down in the valley will be the Baltimore Rowhouses from last years Challenge.
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The build thread is here. http://modelersforum.com/kit-building/walthers-row-house-kitbash-build-challenge-2016/ (http://modelersforum.com/kit-building/walthers-row-house-kitbash-build-challenge-2016/)
They will be hidden a bit by the valley and mainline, but they were destined for this space and will still be visible through the bridge. I feel like the topography is important here, both to add visual interest to the modules and to represent the actual elevation changes in the Woodberry neighborhood. The models are not the focal point, but are important to set the seen in Baltimore.
In reality, this space is pretty tight and I am going to have to get creative when it comes to scenery and elevation changes in this location.
Matt
The next foreground building will be the Erection shop.
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This will be open on the fascia side and utilize a Walthers overhead train kit. That kit will dictate the dimension of the building. The erection shop interior will be detailed and the mainline will travel though the "rear" of the building, just as the prototype siding does.
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The Erection Shop is the large peaked roof on the left. The other brick building to the right will not be modeled.
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The Drive-Thru. This will have to grow to allow for a two track mainline to tunnel through.
Matt
The largest building on the layout will be the foundry itself.
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This is built of a combination of materials including brick and stone. Much of the bulk of the building will be hidden by the small sheds and miscellaneous building that surround it. Because it spans the joint of the two modules, it will have to come apart. I have some ideas of how to build this quickly(for me) and light weight so that it can be transported separately.
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This is the end of the foundry buildings. It will face the valley.
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Various small sheds and auxiliary buildings surround the foundry. They will offer the opportunity for plenty of variety and detail.
The most prominent of those surrounding buildings is the ornate brick structure that once contained the cupolas(furnaces) for the foundry. It is now home to the Woodberry Kitchen restaurant. It will be a pretty challenging build, with all of those brick arches, but it will be a recognizable focal point for the modules.
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Matt
Matt,
Jimmy Simmons' Monster Modelworks has several sizes of laser cut brick lintels that should make it easier to construct your buildings. You might want to check out his site.
Quote from: jerryrbeach on January 11, 2018, 10:41:12 AM
Matt,
Jimmy Simmons' Monster Modelworks has several sizes of laser cut brick lintels that should make it easier to construct your buildings. You might want to check out his site.
Thanks, Jerry. You are reading my mind, as those Monster products are exactly the ones that I have in mind for the Woodberry Kitchen structure. Thanks for following along.
Matt
So I spent some time this weekend fabricating a foamcore mockup of the large foundry building. I am now in the process of shifting it around on the modules to determine spacing. I will also mock up the Erection Shed, the Blacksmith shop, the Machine shop and the Office, so that I can get a better feel for the scale and location of everything. But I ran out of foamcore...
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Matt
That mock-up is a piece of work in itself, loving this thread Matt.
Ditto what Jan said. Your pre-construction advance work evokes that done by museum curators. Eagerly following...👍🏻
Very nice Matt.
Very interesting, Matt.
I'm enjoying your thread.
Cheers, Mark.
What a great project, this will be fun to watch. I will be following along.
Thanks to all for following along.
While we wait for more foam core, let's finish our tour.
The next building in the rear is the Blacksmith Shop.
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This building will likely be built using parts from Railroad Kit's E.F.Smith and Co. as well as some scratchbuilding. This will actually reverse the materials, as the original blacksmith shop was stone with brick additions and the kit is brick, but I doubt many will notice. Here are some shots of the complex as it stands today:
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Matt
The next and last building along the backdrop will be the company's office building.
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This building is going to be kitbashed from two DPM Laube Linen Mill kits.
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Matt
The last of the foreground structures will be the Machine Shop.
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This structure is the one that burned in 1995 and so there is very little of the original left.
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This building will be scratchbuilt and (hopefully) have a detailed interior. This will be tricky with a traveling module, so I reserve the right to change my mind on that. Also, in the Sketchup drawing, addition runs past the main building and also shows an open interior. This will actually be a shorter addition with no detailed interior. Only the main machine shop will be open.
On the end of this building I will model the small millrace that runs along the edge of the complex. It will serve to add some dimensional depth to this end of the module.
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So that is a very quick rundown of the plans for this 2' x 8' space. It is, admittedly, very ambitious, but it has waited this long, why not go big? Right?
Up next, making stuff.
Matt
I'm hip dude. Go big or don't go.
ed
So this thread has been languishing, but I have been working on the modules. Slowly but surely.
I completed more mockups for the structures.
A view from the left:
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And a view from the right:
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I also completed an Micro Engineering thru-girder bridge with scratchbuilt abutments and a billboard (Build thread: http://modelersforum.com/modeling-signage/making-a-billboard-from-an-old-plasticville-piece/ (http://modelersforum.com/modeling-signage/making-a-billboard-from-an-old-plasticville-piece/))
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I also got the approval of the club modular committee, albeit with one modification. The drive thru on the erection shop will be eliminated as it is not prototypical. I am OK with this, as I am actually in agreement that it is an unlikely real world scenario. The prototype is a siding going through the building. A double track mainline is a little far fetched. It will also simplify the build, which is important when I am slooooow.
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More in a few,
Matt
Good progress Matt..... 8)
Thanks, Greg.
For fabrication of the bridge abutments I used some 1/4" balsa that I have in my stash.
I cut all of the pieces to length.
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Laminated two pieces to form the ledge for the bridge.
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Used the same method to fabricate the returns and used a handsaw and a plane to continue the ledge.
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Some scribed lines, a spray of gray/grey primer and some weathering with some Bragdon powders.
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And under load.
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Matt
Really nice modeling.
Some of you may remember(or not) the stone wall casting that I made a few years ago.
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This will be the bases for many of the stone structures on the modules.
I sliced and spliced a plaster casting from the above mold to create a modular wall section for the machine shop. (modules on modules)
Here is the master wall section in its mold box awaiting silicone.
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The first plaster test copy. The windows are from Tichy. I am deviating from the prototype and setting the windows in like typical masonry windows. I am afraid that the cased openings shown below on the real world structure will not look right to the viewing public. Plus this is easier, and in the interest of time, easier wins.
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And the beginnings of a machine shop. These pieces are cast in resin for durability.
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The front of the building will require a wood cornice. Here is an historic photo of the front of the building, now no longer standing.
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The master for this was constructed from strip wood and dollhouse moldings.
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And a detail shot of the master.
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And the resin castings from the mold.
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And all of the castings, cornice, modular wall and original full stone wall, laid together to show how it will be joined to create the front facade.
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Now for much filing gluing and filling.
Matt
Quote from: PRR Modeler on August 08, 2018, 09:20:36 AM
Really nice modeling.
Thanks, Curt. It's progressing at a snail's pace!
Matt
That looks great! But I'm a bit surprised you didn't make the pilasters a separate part, with an indent on each wall where the pilaster would be glued in place. (That's how my old Model Masterpieces CM Roundhouse was cast.)
dave
Dave,
While I had thought about creating a recess for overlapping the pilaster from one casting to the other (and nixed it due to concerns about proper layout and accuracy,) I had not thought of casting the pilaster as a separate piece. That would go a long way towards eliminating joints and be easier to get right. This is my first modular casting so I erred on the side of simple, but I will definitely think about that for the next time. Thanks!
Matt
Wow, Matt. That is some serious, heavy duty engineering skill. Inspiring. Thanx for sharing.
Working today to assemble some castings.
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Matt
The castings are now assembled and ready for paint.
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Matt
I spent some of my vacation time painting and weathering the machine shop.
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Now for some work on the interior.
Matt
Great stone wall.
I have painted both the inside and the outside and installed the windows. I also scratchbuilt a door. Now I am figuring out the roof structure.
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Exterior
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Interior (front of building) with door in place.
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Interior (middle of building) with mocked up machine locations
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Interior (rear of building) showing stockroom door cutout and failed plaster wall.
The failed plaster wall was made using a small, thin piece of casting made by pouring a puddle of leftover resin into my stone wall mold. That was glued onto the interior face of the exterior wall casting and buried in Durham's wood filler.
Matt
Hey Matt:
As mentioned at the start this is quite the project. The row houses look just fantastic. as does the stone building. I will be following along with much interest.
Karl
A quick update to this thread to prove that I am, indeed, working on the modules.
I built my version of the small millrace in the corner of the right hand module.
The prototype again:
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I cut a triangular hole in the front of the table and built a small shelf.
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The walls were constructed with a method used by several modelers. I cast square rods of plaster and snapped off individual stones. Those were then laid up to create a master wall, which I then made a mold of and cast multiples. My joined ends weren't great, but I made them work with a little filing and filling.
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I included a concrete drain at the far end (a piece of cardboard tube,) a large drain pipe (a soda straw,) and a small drain pipe (a plastic coffee stirrer.) Those were drilled through the plaster walls and the wood supports beyond. All was glued in with epoxy. I then added some foam topography to form the stream bed. I carved and sanded this to create the banks, including some undercuts. I picked at the foam with an Xacto blade to roughen the undercuts up. The rest of the surfaces were sanded smooth.
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After sealing the joints between the walls and the foam with latex caulk, I painted the entire surface with my Home Depot reject ground colored paint and then sprinkled grout over the wet paint. I used wet water and glue to attach ground foam on top of this base. I used Bragdon powders to darken the stream bed to give the illusion of depth and wetness. The walls were painted using spray primer followed by craft paint applications. Bragdon powders were applied to the wall surface as well for weathering. I strategically placed real pebbles throughout the stream bed. The dried grass tufts are bristles from a disposable chip brush. The tire is a slice of a rubber hose, per a tutorial from Todd at HO Scale Customs.
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The final step was the application of a gloss polyurethane. I used several coats, allowing them to dry completely overnight. I ended up repainting the stones in the river bed to remove the gloss on them. This helped give the illusion that the water was flowing through them. There is not a lot of depth to the poly, but I wasn't looking for a raging river and I think it turned out pretty well.
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Until next time,
Matt
Beautiful modeling Matt.
Great modeling and thanks for the detailed explanation. Definitely learning and flagged for reading and note taking.
Jim D
looking great Matt , keep sharing those photo's.
Good looking scene, Matt. Could you explain in a little more detail how you make the plaster "rods?" I can imagine creating some formers out of wood or styrene and pouring plaster in but then I wouldn't get that cut stone look at you have achieved.
Quote from: vinceg on October 17, 2018, 01:15:14 PM
Good looking scene, Matt. Could you explain in a little more detail how you make the plaster "rods?" I can imagine creating some formers out of wood or styrene and pouring plaster in but then I wouldn't get that cut stone look at you have achieved.
Vince,
Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the process, but I basically used the same system that Roger did in the beginning of this thread:
http://www.modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2769.0 (http://www.modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2769.0)
I used hydrocal for my castings and found that I could very lightly score around the perimeter of the rod and then snap off a block. The backs could be sanded if necessary, but mostly I just used them as they were. I did have some difficulty getting my rods out of the form, and my form came apart a bit, but I had more than enough to make the short section of wall that I needed.
Read through Roger's tutorial. I think it is very thorough and will help you a lot.
Matt
I have begun fabrication of the roof structure of the machine shop. This is complicated by the fact that the building is both a cut away and joins the front fascia at an angle. In order to wrap my brain around it, I built the basic roof from cereal box cardboard. I then began building and gluing each primary truss to the cardboard. In between I installed Evergreen v-groove styrene sheet. On top of that I added secondary rafters and purlins. Once all of those are installed, I will install all of this to the building and then add the intermediate rafters. The interior ceiling and trusses will be painted brown. This will help hide some sins, including the fact that the v-groove should have run in the opposite orientation. :-[
The posts, girts and braces are whitewashed to lighten up the interior and draw the viewers eyes down into the main shop. A red high visibility safety stripe was added to the bottom of the posts to add some variety.
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I also built and painted the Crow River lathes. All of the machines are painted to represent and industrial green look. I felt the green would be more easily seen than a gray or black. They were weathered with Bragdon powders and the machined edges were highlighted with Tester's Silver enamel.
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I added a glamour shot as well.
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More as more develops.
Matt
Hey Matt:
Looks like quite a job. I shall be following along.
Karl
Slow and steady wins in the end....
Very very nice work. Thanks for sharing.
Jaime
Hi Matt,
This is some project you started. Some different and interesting modeling. I will be checking in one in a while.
Matt,
I really like the cut-away structure and the interior view. The whitewashed posts with the red really remind me of a period factory interior.
Quick update between Christmas responsibilities:
I built an office for the corner of the machine shop using stripwood and some tulle fabric.
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I scratchbuilt a desk from cereal box cardstock for the interior of the office.
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Other details, including castings from Rusty Rails have been making an appearance and more will follow.
Matt
What a great add to the structure Matt, the office looks great.
Everything is top notch. Well done.
Wonderful detailing done in the office area Matt..... 8)
Matt,
I've been lurking and following along from the start. I love the small office area, fantastic job on it all by the way.
Tom ;D
Some progress on the foundry building:
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Matt
Another quick update.
I have continued work on the Foundry building. I fabricated some skylights to add detail to the roof expanse and because they exist on the prototype. I borrowed Opa George's leaf detail. I used real leaves that were crushed between my fingers.
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I also began construction of one of the additions that surround the foundry proper. This addition is influenced by the existing building but I used some Tichy window castings which are smaller than the real thing, so it looks rather different.
Here is the real building:
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And my model:
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I added the loading dock for interest:
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The light fixtures are sequins and wire.
Here it is place in its approximate position:
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And here are a couple of overall shots to remind everyone what the heck is going on. The addition building is not located in these shots but will be between the large foundry building and the tracks.
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Ever forward,
Matt
I realized that I had skipped some detail on the foundry build.
I moved to fabricating this structure even though the machine shop still has some work to do. I needed to step away from the machine shop due to some small details that were bogging me down.
I began the foundry with a foam core base. I used some of my original mock up, but modified it a bit. Remember that this building bridges the gap between the two modules and will have to be removable for transport. So it needs to be light weight. The entire top of the main foundry building is windows, so I started by building a whole row of them. I used a bunch of Tichy window castings and ganged them up between 1/8" square wood framing.
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Those continued around to the front of the building. Additional castings from an old Walthers Enginehouse kit were used for the upper windows. The building has a unique vertical board siding that I wanted to copy. I used the Real Wood paper product that Loren used to make shingles in this thread: http://www.modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2401.0 (http://www.modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=2401.0)
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The siding was weathered with alcohol and ink and Bragdon powders.
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The next step was to fabricate the foundry entry. For this I used some Minuteman brick sheet over cardstock.
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I ended up reducing the depth of this section which, due to the angle against the backdrop, necessitated trimming the facade down. I then added a couple sections of the aforementioned Walthers Enginehouse kit adjacent to the entry.
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The whole thing was then roofed, tarpaper on the flatish roof and shingles(individually cut paper) on the peaked entry.
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The last step before my previous post was to build up the return flatish roof around the side of the building.
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And that is where I was when I added the skylights and the brick addition mentioned yesterday.
Sorry for the out of sync posts, but you are now all caught up.
Matt
Very nice modeling.
Great job Matt. weathering spot on .
Quick update:
After a bit of a false start I built a door for the foundry entrance that I am happy with.
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I also added some more details including a smokestack and a dust collector.
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Matt
Hey Matt:
That is coming along quite nicely. Can't wait to see more of this project.
Karl
Some progress pictures:
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Matt
Very nicely done Matt.
I am busy with several other projects, but I have found time to advance the modules a bit.
I added a loading dock area to the foundry structure:
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And a detailed newsstand for the foreground:
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Matt
I have added the Ladle Building to the Foundry.
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As a reminder, here is what the building looked like in the early 2000s before it was restored. The Ladle Building is the one on the left. The Cupola Building on the right is my next challenge.
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Matt
Great modeling Matt! Thanks for the update pics.
Matt just read through the whole thread.
Very impressive work! Great details!
Jerry
Very well done.
I agree very well done!!!!! Dennis
Beautiful work!
Matt
Very nice work!