Okay , I thought lets show this one , its HO scale, to all the people and see if they can figure out what kit's its origins are. ???????
Material is USA Gypsum hydrocal white.
Its coloured using a heavily brewed dark tea and extra scoops of coffee.
Let the guessing begin !!!
mike lynch...HAIRBALL
SECOND SET OF PICTURES
MIKE
Wonderful FSM Chippy Hollow bash - love the imaginative work.
--Rich
our first contestant says fsm CHIPPY HOLLOW HARDWARE..............but that's only part of it !!!
no winner yet !
mike lynch.......HAIRBALL
I don't know my kits good enough to see what was bashed here , I do know I love the work that has been done , marvelous build.
Barangould Tannery ?
Jaime
Don't have a clue, but really neat looking structure. 8)
Gee , am I going to have to offer a dozen box of honey glazed donuts ( tim hortons of coarse ) as a prize. ??????????
If you have ***built*** FSM kits and know your stuff , I thought this should be easy.
Okay you guys off to your closet stash of FSM kits and study the box tops.
mike lynch...MADMIKE3434................HAIRBALL
Looks like Chippy Hollow and Swakhammers welding.
Donuts !!!
Jaime
Quote from: SteveCuster on December 22, 2019, 01:44:34 PM
Looks like Chippy Hollow and Swakhammers welding.
[/ LADIES AND GENTLEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS. WE GOT A WINNER. !!!!!!!!!!
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MIKE LYNCH.............HAIRBALL
Nice bash.
Yes - I thought that might be the answer. How is the Swakhammer's casting any different to the Chippy hollow's? Or are we talking about something apart from the stone walls?
Cheers, Mark.
Very nice work!
@S&S RR Yes John he's talking the cast walls. About half of Swakhammers is cast walls.
@hairball Mike: After looking at it again I can see basically how you combined some of it but not the whole picture. Love it.
This is the sort of thing George loves to see.
--Rich
Quote from: mark dalrymple on December 22, 2019, 05:33:15 PM
Nice bash.
Yes - I thought that might be the answer. How is the Swakhammer's casting any different to the Chippy hollow's? Or are we talking about something apart from the stone walls?
Cheers, Mark.
I took rubber molds of Chippy Hollow main building, poured 4 walls of the front in hydrocal and 2 of the sides. I used a mill file to straight the joints where the 2 fronts butted together for front and back. I found a picture of the grandfather clock sign and glued that to wood and mounted to the front to disguise the joint seam. A lot of strengthening was done inside with wood to support the joint.
The Swackhammers side addition was cast exactly as in the kit. it was a little wider than where it joined up to the main building so made another casting and cut it to give me those short pieces.
From there I just continued to develop ideas and add to the design.. I think I glued the grant line windows, engine house or rico e h windows on the inside , because georges windows are designed to fit his structures only. The bricked in window openings were cast from some brick wall.
In the end I just kept adding detailing to it as I saw fit. If you keep looking at it, you just keep adding more and more. It got sold on ebay after the conversion from HO to O scale.
Its probably my most creative project started by the simple idea of wanting to make the main building larger and how to accomplish it.
mike lynch.....madmike3434..........HAIRBALL
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond so in depthly, Mike.
I've had a closer look following your explanation and can see subtle differences. I think you could do the same bash (almost) with just Chippy walls. Clever window problem solving. They worked very well.
Cheers, Mark.
the chippy main building is already doubled, makes no sense to use more of those same walls and cut them down shorter.
The swackhammer side edition adds a lot of variety both in windows and doors. Also contains the main wood cutting section for their grandfather clock cases. The dust collectors and piping without that flat roof to work with would not add the additional character needed to make this an outstanding design.
In my opinion.
mike lynch..........madmike3434...........HAIRBALL
Very nicely done.
Tom ;D
Mike, with the hubbub of the holidays I completely missed this post until now. Beautifully done. I really like the dust collector detailing and the red shingles. Are the shingles really as red as they appear in the photos, or is that a result of the lighting? They are very striking--I want to try that on a structure.
--Opa George
OPA..............those are Campbell roll shingles.
From the looks of it I might have used ROOF RED floquil or testors a very little bottle.
Judging by the amount of blackness to the shadowing in shingles, must be a very dark mix of USMC BLACK Fiebings leather dye and 99% pure isopropanol rubbing alcohol...........that's less than 1% water.
I would use an ink bottle drawer snorkel and just keep adding snorkel fulls of dye to the mix till I got the desired look.
Hard to be 100% correct but I think I might have used dullcoat on it also ?? George of FSM wrote about it its strange reaction to painted roofs washed over with alco ink, actually aging the roof cover. Wrote the article in Narrow Gauge and Short line gazette late 80's early 90's ????
The stone colour was done brewing up a heavy coffee and tea mix...........no idea why I did that. Later was to discover FW acrylic inks and alcohol was better.
mike lynch.............HAIRBALL