This is my first Campbell's kit build. In doing my research on Campbell's kits I noticed a lot of negative comments, such as they are 40 to 50 years old, they are just a bag of sticks and that they were not much more than a scratch-built kit. I have done a few smaller scratch-built structures on my layout, so none of this scared me off. So, here we go...
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Here is the box that the kit came in. I was impressed with Campbell's service. I received the kit less than a week after ordering. They included a nice sanding stick with my order. Free stuff is always good. I also ordered extra hanging sides of beef.
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There is a lot inside the box, some of which is pictured here. I could immediately see why many called these kits scratch-built type kits. There are none of the complete laser cut wall sections with door and window openings already done for you. What is there includes many pages of drawings and templates, that were done in the 70's and 80's by a lady named Sherry Collins. I mention her name because of the very good quality of these drawings. I was a residential general contractor for many years and I saw many blueprints that were not as good as these are.
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After spending a lot of time reading over the instructions I realized that by following them step by step I would achieve my best result. The first portion of the kit to be built is the Slaughterhouse section, which is the biggest sub-assembly and an entire kit in it's own right. Each wall requires several wood wall sections be glued together and the door and window openings need to be cut out. The locations are lightly stamped onto the wood wall sections and this picture shows one of them with the window openings highlighted with a pencil
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The instruction say to use either masking tape or light paper on the back of the wall sections that have openings that need to be cut out. I used masking tape. My research said that in some instances the wood from these kits might be brittle with age and that the backing would help prevent the wall sections from splitting.
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This picture shows the tools that I used to cut out the openings. First I used my pin vise to drill holes at each corner of the opening and then used a sharp new blade in my Exacto knife to cut out the opening while using a steel rule to guide the initial cuts. It usually took about 6 cuts for each line with extra cuts at the corners. Don't force out the wood that you will be removing. It will come out easily when the cuts are all the way through. Use the door or window as a guide and with a little filing they will fit nicely. In the upper left you can see one of the walls with the sections glued together and bracing installed. One way that I differed from the instructions was in the amount of bracing used. I like to use a lot of bracing.
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Here is one of the front wall sections with the openings removed. Many complaints about these kits that I read about concerned having to do this step, instead of the openings already laser cut for you. Having done some small scratch-built structures already, this was not a problem for me and it shouldn't be for anyone. It just takes a little patience and care laying out the openings and being careful while cutting them out. More in a minute
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Here all of the Slaughterhouse walls have been assembled and braced. You can see that I marked all of the wall sections with their correct number. I did this before starting because there are a lot of pieces and I wanted to make sure that I had everything I needed.
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I used rattle can dark grey primer on both sides of the assembled and braced walls. You can see the first dry brush coat of antique gold on the lower right section. You can also see the doors and windows painted with light avocado craft paint and the corner bracing material. Some small trim pieces for around the freight doors and for support beams for the front canopy have also been painted. The instructions are very good in telling you what to do next. I didn't mention before that I sorted out all of the different sizes of strip-wood into bundles that I labeled with the correct part number. I have found this to be very helpful and recommend this to everyone. It takes away a lot of confusion once you start building.
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The front and back walls have been dry brushed with first the antique gold and then a cocoa bean color. I used this color combination on another kit in the past and I think it gives a nice natural wood color result.
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Doors and windows have been added. You can see the strip-wood trim around the door openings. I sponged on some of the cocoa bean color to the door and window castings and the wood trim pieces for an aged paint look.
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The rear and right side walls have been glued together. I have added the acetate for the window glass and used brown construction paper for the window shades. The unpainted strip-wood is to support the second floor cardstock floor. I deviated from the instructions here because of my extra bracing. The instructions show the floor supports glued directly onto the wall sections. I thought the extra bracing more important, so I did it this way. You can also see the corner trim pieces on the rear wall.
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The front and left side walls are shown here. The two horizontal wood pieces on the front are the supports for the front canopy. To this point, I am very pleased with how the kit is coming along. I can see that having done a few laser cut wood kits and also some scratch-building has helped me be better prepared for this kit. The well done instructions and the excellent drawings help a lot. You just have to take your time and consult each before taking the next step. That's it for now, more later.
Looking great, Jeff.
This is one of my favourite offerings from Campbell, and one that is in my stash. I agree - their drawings are some of the best in the business. You could easily build a 1:1 scale structure using them. I would think that when buying direct from Campbells the kits would be fairly fresh, and so not too brittle. I'll be watching your progress.
Cheers, Mark.
Nice job so far.
Wow. Very nice.
That's a lot of building to fit inside a small box.
Jaime
Quote from: mark dalrymple on December 11, 2020, 12:53:50 PM
Looking great, Jeff.
This is one of my favourite offerings from Campbell, and one that is in my stash. I agree - their drawings are some of the best in the business. You could easily build a 1:1 scale structure using them. I would think that when buying direct from Campbells the kits would be fairly fresh, and so not too brittle. I'll be watching your progress.
Cheers, Mark.
Hello Mark, thanks for looking in. Working on this kit is a pleasure using the well explained instructions and the excellent drawings. You'll have fun when you build this one. I haven't had any problems with the wood being brittle.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 11, 2020, 05:22:41 PM
Nice job so far.
Thank you Curt, the slaughterhouse is only the main sub-assembly and it is bigger than a lot of kits that I have built. There are 4 more sub-assemblies that adjoin the main structure. I'm looking forward to them all.
Quote from: NEMMRRC on December 12, 2020, 08:42:28 AM
Wow. Very nice.
That's a lot of building to fit inside a small box.
Jaime
Hi Jaime, you're right, it is a large building that comes out of a small box. It is due to having to glue sometimes three wall pieces together to form a finished wall, but it is going together nicely to this point. Thanks for the kind words.
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The slaughterhouse walls have been assembled, the second floor cardstock floor has been installed and a roof beam has also been installed. I had to trim the second floor floor to fit after I changed up the instructions regarding the placement of the floor supports due to the added bracing I placed on the walls. I also used a larger roof beam than instructed- I used some 3/16 square wood from my stash, rather than the 1/8 square that came with the kit.
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Another view of the assembled slaughterhouse walls. I really like the wood color that combining the antique gold and cocoa bean colors gives. I think it is a good natural wood look.
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A top view of the slaughterhouse showing the roof beam and the second floor cardstock floor. This is it for the slaughterhouse sub-assembly for now. Next up is the rear addition, which is the warehouse.
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Here are the warehouse walls. Each wall has at least two pieces and the center bottom wall has three pieces. I added 1/8 square wood bracing after cutting out the two window openings.
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Here is as front view of the warehouse walls ready for painting.
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As with the slaughterhouse walls, I sprayed the warehouse walls with rattle can dark grey primer on both the front and back sides. More in a minute
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The warehouse walls have been assembled after adding the corner posts. After installing the freight doors I added some 2x4 wood trim pieces. I thought that the plain wood slab doors needed some dressing up. I also put in some window shades made from brown construction paper that are flowing out of the open window.
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Another view of the warehouse walls after assembly. The plain tall wall goes up against the rear slaughterhouse wall and I haven't added the freight door trim pieces yet.
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Next up is the foundation for the slaughterhouse and warehouse assembly. The short walls are cardstock that needed to be cut out and the bracing, which came with the kit was then added. The clearly written instructions made it easy for this step to be completed.
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The kit came with some plain clear embossed plastic sheets that are meant to be the foundation stone walls. I must admit that when I first saw these clear plastic sheets I was not impressed, but after spraying them with rattle can dark grey primer, painting individual stones with various colors and then applying a light grey wash for the mortar color I liked the result.
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Here is a view of the foundation wall. I think that I will apply an AI solution wash and then some weathering chalks later on, but I like the look so far.
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Here is the completed foundation assembly. The kit provides a cardstock floor that must be cut out and then the foundation walls were glued to the perimeter. Everything fit perfectly. I added extra bracing, I like bracing, to the whole thing using wood from my stash. More in a minute
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The slaughterhouse is just sitting on the foundation for now.
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The warehouse has not been glued to the larger building yet and it is also sitting on the foundation. I added a sign to the rear wall of the warehouse.
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I added another sign to the warehouse as well as the freight door trim pieces. What I have done so far would normally be a good sized kit, but there are still several more sub-assemblies to go. I am really enjoying this kit. Next up are the front loading docks and then... I am only about halfway through the instruction sheets. That's it for now more later
Excellent modeling Jeff. That is a great color.
That is looking great Jeff, nice wood-weathering .
A little late to the thread Jeff.....good looking build. 8)
Quote from: GPdemayo on December 14, 2020, 08:40:03 AM
A little late to the thread Jeff.....good looking build. 8)
Me too. Ditto on the looking good. I do like the Campbell offerings. Haven't built one in ages though. There are a few in the stash.
Jeff,
I have this in my stash and am following your thread. All the required edge gluing of wall sections is a pain, but I still like Campbell kits. You're doing a great job on this one, nice to see all the progress.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 13, 2020, 06:29:49 PM
Excellent modeling Jeff. That is a great color.
Hello Curt. Thank you, I kind of stumbled on the color when experimenting while trying to get a natural looking wood color. Dark grey primer, dry brushed antique gold and finally dry brushed cocoa bean.
Quote from: Janbouli on December 13, 2020, 07:05:34 PM
That is looking great Jeff, nice wood-weathering .
Hey Jan, thanks for looking in and for the kind words
Quote from: GPdemayo on December 14, 2020, 08:40:03 AM
A little late to the thread Jeff.....good looking build. 8)
Hello Greg, thank you, I'm having a great time with this build.
Quote from: ReadingBob on December 14, 2020, 09:11:22 AM
Quote from: GPdemayo on December 14, 2020, 08:40:03 AM
A little late to the thread Jeff.....good looking build. 8)
Me too. Ditto on the looking good. I do like the Campbell offerings. Haven't built one in ages though. There are a few in the stash.
Hello Bob, I keep hearing that people haven't built Campbell's kits in a long time. I don't understand why, with the talent level of all the people on this forum I know that the scratch-building aspect of these kits it not out of the reach of most formum modelers. I think they are great and I definitely look forward to doing others.
Quote from: jerryrbeach on December 14, 2020, 09:48:16 AM
Jeff,
I have this in my stash and am following your thread. All the required edge gluing of wall sections is a pain, but I still like Campbell kits. You're doing a great job on this one, nice to see all the progress.
Hey Jerry, I think that you will really enjoy building this kit. I have a small confession to make, I'm not edge gluing the wall pieces. I mount them on some painters tape on a stiff backing and then glue on the bracing, which seems to hold the wall pieces together nicely. I kept reading about glue getting on the front of the wall surfaces and interfering with the stain and/or paint look. I heard that Bob Parrish has a nice tutorial regarding edge gluing, but I couldn't find it.
Thanks to all for looking in, I'm really enjoying this build. My next post will be about the front loading dock and the cattle ramp with it's timber supports. I've never glued so many small pieces of strip-wood together.
Jeff,
Great start on this kit.
Will follow along.
Tommy
Jeff,
Nice build on this one. I can just smell the sugar pine in the kit. Well done sir.
Tom ;D
Quote from: tom.boyd.125 on December 16, 2020, 11:11:27 AM
Jeff,
Great start on this kit.
Will follow along.
Tommy
Hello Tommy, great to have you along for the ride
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It's a little hard to see here, but I have the front loading dock sections taped to a piece of paper to hold them down while I glue on the floor joists. As with the walls, the loading dock comes in four separate pieces. Again I didn't edge glue the pieces.
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After the floor joists, beams are glued on in the opposite direction The plans give detailed templates for this work. I don't have any wax paper or tracing paper, so I transferred the template dimensions to a separate piece of paper.
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The 28 posts have been added and the cross bracing between them as well
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A better view of the bottom of the front loading dock.
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I've used my AI solution stain to add some color to the dock
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A view of the top after staining. I counted up 66 separate pieces of strip-wood used on this dock. That is a new record for me. I know that some board by board kits use many more than this, but for me this is something different. I will use some weathering chalks and maybe some more AI later. More in a minute
Quote from: ACL1504 on December 16, 2020, 05:33:26 PM
Jeff,
Nice build on this one. I can just smell the sugar pine in the kit. Well done sir.
Tom ;D
Hello Tom, great to have you with me and I'm so glad you are on the road to recovery.
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Next up is the cattle ramp sub-assembly. Here are the pieces the kit provides. After reading the instructions, I decided to deviate from them to make the ramp more stable. I will explain as we go
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First I added the bracing, cut out the window openings and also installed the floor joists. When assembled, these pieces glue onto the left side of the structure. I thought that I would strengthen them up by adding back walls to the ramp and the little ramp landing structure.
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I've started to build the support structure below the ramp landing structure, you can also see the base for that structure.
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Here I'm working on the support legs below the ramp. It is very easy to measure the size of strip-wood needed by just taking it off the blueprints. As I said before, they are very well done and show both front and side views as well as exploded isometric views. It makes it easy to do complicated small pieces like these.
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Here is a view of the almost completed cattle ramp sub-assembly. You can see my transferred drawing on the paper below the structure. I painted the wall sections the same as the other walls in the kit, but I only stained the wood support structures with AI solution. I think it gives a nice contrast to the painted areas.
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The roofs have been added. I used black construction paper, painted grey and then sanded the edges per Jason Jenson's video. A great tutorial if you haven't seen it. I'm really pleased with how this sub-assembly came out. It is a testament more to the instructions and drawings than to my modeling skills. You can't see the back of the structure in this picture, As mentioned before I added back walls for more strength. I will try to take a picture and include it next time. More in a minute
When my wife walked into the train room she said it looked like my work table had exploded. I wasn't even aware of the mess. Here is a picture, I don't think it's that bad, but I certainly can't run trains on my lower level
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Two of the large drawing pages have been folded to smaller size for convenience. Maybe she has a point, but I'm too busy right now and I think I know where everything is...
That's it for now, more later
Very nice modeling on the ramp.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 16, 2020, 08:21:17 PM
Very nice modeling on the ramp.
Yeah! I agree 100% with Curt. That ramp looks wonderful. Very nice work. ;)
The messier your desk/bench, the more creative you are ;)
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 16, 2020, 08:21:17 PM
Very nice modeling on the ramp.
Hello Curt, thank you, I enjoyed building the ramp. It's a nice little piece of engineering.
Quote from: ReadingBob on December 17, 2020, 07:45:16 AM
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 16, 2020, 08:21:17 PM
Very nice modeling on the ramp.
Yeah! I agree 100% with Curt. That ramp looks wonderful. Very nice work. ;)
Thank you Bob, it went together surprisingly easy because I followed the excellent instructions and drawings
Quote from: Rusty Robot on December 17, 2020, 07:56:10 AM
The messier your desk/bench, the more creative you are ;)
Hey Rusty, I'll show my wife your comment. For some reason, I don't think that she will agree with you, but I think you're right.
Jeff, REALLY nice work on this kit. The loading dock turned out excellent.
I'm also a card-carrying member of the messy workbench club. It's really a good feeling, though, when you clean it all up before starting a new kit (and getting it messy again).
--Opa George
Jeff your really doing a nice job with kit!
Jerry
Just caught up on this kit build, great job and a really nice explanations. I too love the directions they provide, your comments are equally great.
Jim D
Coming along great!
Quote from: Opa George on December 18, 2020, 08:10:23 AM
Jeff, REALLY nice work on this kit. The loading dock turned out excellent.
I'm also a card-carrying member of the messy workbench club. It's really a good feeling, though, when you clean it all up before starting a new kit (and getting it messy again).
--Opa George
Hello George, it's nice to have you along. I was pleased with the way the loading dock came out. As I said, it was a record number of strip-wood pieces for me in a small sub-assembly. And about the workbench- it's only messy if you can't find something, right ?
Quote from: Jerry on December 18, 2020, 09:00:24 AM
Jeff your really doing a nice job with kit!
Jerry
Hello Jerry, I appreciate the kind words
Quote from: Jim Donovan on December 18, 2020, 10:20:28 AM
Just caught up on this kit build, great job and a really nice explanations. I too love the directions they provide, your comments are equally great.
Jim D
Hey Jim, I'm learning with each build thread how to do a better job explaining what I'm doing. Campbell's does a great job with their instructions and drawings.
Quote from: Oldguy on December 18, 2020, 10:37:16 AM
Coming along great!
Hello Bob, nice to have you looking in and thank you for the compliment.
Thanks to everyone for looking in. I'm having a really good time with this build. I can't say it enough, Campbell's does a great job with their instructions and especially their drawings. They make it easy to turn a box of sticks into a nice model. I look forward to doing more of their kits in the future.
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Here is the view of the back side of the cattle ramp. I deviated from the instructions by adding a rear wall to the ramp and the small ramp landing structure. I felt that they would make the assemblies more solid and easier to glue onto the main building. I used pieces of siding from my stash.
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The next sub-assembly is the wagon shed- here are the wall pieces
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The door and window openings have been cut out and the bracing has been added. This small structure was assembled like the others. First sprayed with dark grey primer and then dry brushing with the antique gold and cocoa bean colors.
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The roofs for the warehouse and the wagon shed were next. Both are shed roofs with vertically run rolled roofing material. I did not use the material provided in the kit, I used some paper from my roof stash box which is a black on one side and grey on the other. Because the rolled-roofing is being run vertically I wanted to seal the seams with wood battens. I used scale 4x4 strip-wood painted brown. You can see it in the picture. You can also see that I braced the roof card with two pieces of 1/8 square wood- I love to brace !
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Here is the roof after adding the battens. I applied some weathering chalks to start the aging process.
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Next, per the instructions, I added end fascia boards and rafter tails using 2x6 wood provided in the kit. I like how the roof came out. I wasn't sure about the battens, but in the end I was pleased. More in a minute.
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Here is a view of two sides of the warehouse with the roof glued on.
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The other sides of the warehouse with roof.
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The wagon shed with the roof glued on.
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The other sides of the wagon shed. Next up is the boiler house which has stone walls similar to the foundation.
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The walls of the boiler house are cardstock, to which the embossed plastic stone material will be glued. Bracing has been added to the edges and the window and door openings have kit provided strip-wood around their perimeters. According to the instructions you are supposed to mount the windows on the back side so that they appear to be recessed. I dry fitted them that way, but did not like the way they looked, so I decided to mount them on the outside like all of the other windows.
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Here are the stone walls for the boiler house after the individual stones have been painted. More in a few
Nice progress, Jeff.
Looking good.
Cheers, Mark.
Very nice Jeff.
Quote from: mark dalrymple on December 19, 2020, 07:09:46 PM
Nice progress, Jeff.
Looking good.
Cheers, Mark.
Hello Mark, thank you for checking in.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 19, 2020, 07:43:46 PM
Very nice Jeff.
Hello Curt, thanks for the kind words, I'm having a great time with this kit
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Here I have applied a watered down wash of water and light grey paint to the stone wall. At this point it looks drastic, but...
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When you wipe off the wash with a tissue you get the result shown on the right. It leaves behind a nice mortar joint color and also tones down the color of the painted stones. The good thing is that if the result is not dark enough, you can just apply another coat of the wash. I learned this technique watching several videos on the interweb.
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Here the plastic stone sheets have been glued onto the cardstock wall pieces and trimmed to fit. The door and window openings have been cut out and you can see the windows mounted on the outside of the walls. As I said before the recessed windows just didn't look right to me. I also added some painted wood trim pieces around the door opening. I think that I will leave the door ajar to give an idea of an interior. Next is the roof for this sub-assembly and at this point I am about 3/4 of the way through the instructions. That's it for now, more later
The stonework looks great Jeff..... 8)
Jeff,
Warehouse and stonework both look great!
Hey Jeff:
Looking great so far. When I worked in Hobby Shops back in the 70's I bought and built most of their kits. Did A diorama of both dock and the buildings that went with them. Donated them to The Gatsme Model RR Club.
Karl
Quote from: GPdemayo on December 20, 2020, 08:48:12 AM
The stonework looks great Jeff..... 8)
Quote from: jerryrbeach on December 20, 2020, 09:42:55 AM
Jeff,
Warehouse and stonework both look great!
Hello Greg and Jerry, thank you for looking in and for the kind words. I have to admit that when I first saw the embossed plastic stone sheets, I was skeptical, but I am very pleased with how they came out. I guess that the 40 to 50 year old stuff still works pretty well.
Quote from: postalkarl on December 20, 2020, 12:54:12 PM
Hey Jeff:
Looking great so far. When I worked in Hobby Shops back in the 70's I bought and built most of their kits. Did A diorama of both dock and the buildings that went with them. Donated them to The Gatsme Model RR Club.
Karl
Hello Karl, thank you. I keep hearing that everyone built Campbell's kits back in the 70's and 80's. I like this one a lot and look forward to building more. The scratch-building aspect of these kits makes them more enjoyable to me.
Looking good Jeff! Nice job on the stonework.
The first wood kit I ever built was the Campbells Sheriff's Office. Botched it up pretty good too. ;D I've build a few more over the years. Bret's Brewery was a lot of fun and turned out pretty well. It had a stone addition as well with the same type of construction.
Jeff,
Well done. I have a few Campbell kits left under the layout. I may get to them one day, well, probably not. 8)
Tom ;D
Quote from: ReadingBob on December 21, 2020, 07:29:00 AM
Looking good Jeff! Nice job on the stonework.
The first wood kit I ever built was the Campbells Sheriff's Office. Botched it up pretty good too. ;D I've build a few more over the years. Bret's Brewery was a lot of fun and turned out pretty well. It had a stone addition as well with the same type of construction.
Hello Bob, thanks for the encouragement. I'm having a lot of fun with this kit as well.
Quote from: ACL1504 on December 21, 2020, 07:58:14 AM
Jeff,
Well done. I have a few Campbell kits left under the layout. I may get to them one day, well, probably not. 8)
Tom ;D
Hey Tom, thanks for looking in. This being my first Campbell's kit, I know I'm way behind everyone else but I'm having fun with it. From the pictures I've seen of your layout room and the amount of kits waiting to be built under your benchwork, I don't see how you can get to all of them.
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The boiler room walls have been assembled and the roof beam has been installed
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Another view of the assembled boiler room. The back wall goes up against the main slaughterhouse building so it is not finished. The short exposed wall is there because the boiler room overlaps the end of the slaughterhouse and goes up against the warehouse wall.
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A top view of the assembled boiler room.
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Next is the boiler room roof. I added some bracing to the bottom of the roof cards and the small black circle at the bottom right is the hole for the smokestack. You can also see the floor that I cut out of some thin styrene. This was necessary because I plan on leaving the door ajar. I will paint the floor with some dark grey paint to simulate concrete. The bracing on the sides will give me a gluing surface to match up with the bracing at the bottom of the boiler room walls.
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The roll-roofing material has been added. I used black construction paper painted grey and then sanded the edges to simulate age. I then used some weathering chalks.
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The roof has been glued on. You can see the top cap that I made of the same construction paper. I then added some weathering chalks to the roof material. When I was sponging on some of the cocoa bean color to the windows and trim boards, I also put some on the stone walls. I think it gives another layer to the overall look of the walls. More in a minute
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Another view of the assembled boiler room. While sponging on some of the cocoa bean color to the windows and trim boards, I applied some to the stone walls. I think it gives another layer to the overall look of the walls. You can see the ridge cap that I made from the same construction paper.
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Top view of the boiler room roof. The shed roofs of the warehouse and wagon shed were vertical roll-roofing material with battens on the seams, I wanted something different for this roof so I went with a more traditional style of roll-roofing.
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Two more loading docks needed to be built. I used the same method as used on the front dock.
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Next is the roof for the front loading dock. The roof has kit supplied corrugated material. I cut this into 3/8 wide strips, sprayed them with dullcote, sprayed them with rattle can light grey and then another coat of dullcote. After all this dried, I dry-brushed some rust colors on the strips and then glued them onto the roof card. Below the roof are three of the 5 rafter assemblies. I transferred the drawing to a small piece of paper and used this as my guide. The small dark vertical pieces are hangers for the rack that will be suspended below the roof. I broke two of these removing them from the sprue. I'm not sure how I will attach the rack to these small delicate pieces. I am already planning another sturdier method. That's it for now, more later
Looks great Jeff.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on December 21, 2020, 06:29:15 PM
Looks great Jeff.
Hello Curt, thanks for checking in and thank you for the compliment.
Nice job on the stone corners, that's a tough part of those kits.
dave
Quote from: deemery on December 26, 2020, 03:11:24 PM
Nice job on the stone corners, that's a tough part of those kits.
dave
Hello Dave, thanks for looking in. Thanks for the nice comment, I agree, the stone corners were not easy to match up, but the end result is worth the effort.
Continuing on...
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The front canopy was mounted on the main building next.
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This was one area where I did not follow the instructions. First, I added extra bracing to the underside of the front canopy roof. I did not think that just gluing the rafter assemblies to the underside would be sturdy enough. In fact I added extra pieces to the rafter assemblies and then glued them to the bracing. I did not use the rack hangers supplied with the kit, as I said before two of them broke while removing them from the sprue. Instead I cut some pieces of styrene and glued them into the rafter assemblies. This made it much easier to attach the rack to the underside of the roof.
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Another view of the underside of the front canopy roof. You can see the new styrene piece that I added to the rafter assemblies here. The fourth one was not needed.
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Next I began work on the slaughterhouse shingle roof. I added bracing on the underside using 1/4 inch square strip-wood.
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I began gluing shingle rows to the roof card. The lined roof cards make it easier to keep the shingle rows straight. This is the first time that I have used paper shingles that come on a roll, but they seem to work out pretty well. I don't think I will have enough with the one roll that came with the kit. We will see.
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One side is done. I placed some roll-roofing paper in several spots to simulate missing shingles and also applied some weathering chalks. More in a minute.
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Next I began work on the roof-top water tank assembly. There are three support pieces. I transferred the template drawing to a piece of paper and used this as my guide. Once again the excellent drawings helped me. Measuring the many pieces of wood against the drawings takes all the guesswork out of the process.
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The three tank support brackets are shown here, as well as the tank floor, the tank itself and the tank roof. The tank wood surfaces went easier than I thought, they fit around the tank easily and I only had to trim one wood stave to make it fit perfectly. I colored the tank the same way as all of my wood walls. I will stain the wood bracing with my AI solution and the cardstock roof card will get more roll-roofing material.
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The tank support assembly has been completed and stained.
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Another view of the tank support assembly and the tank roof with the roll-roofing material is also shown.
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Her I am adding the tank rings using black thread. Per the instructions, I drilled a starting hole and then layed the thread into thinly cut grooves in the tank wood exterior. I used super glue in several locations to hold the thread in place. The lightly grooved lines that I cut in the tank wrap made this job much easier than I anticipated. You can also see the two tank ladders here.
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Here I am assembling the tank ladders. Once again I transferred template drawings to a piece of paper. I didn't work directly off of the drawings themselves because I didn't want to damage them. I am getting near the end of the instruction sheets so that must mean I'm almost done, I haven't glued any of the many sub-assemblies together yet. I have really enjoyed working on this kit and my scratch- building skills have been improved quite a bit. That's it for now, more later.
Looking really nice, Jeff.
That's a neat little tank support sub-assembly.
Cheers, Mark.
I love that little tank support deck too!
Hey Jeff:
That's coming right along. Can't wait to see more.
Karl
Quote from: mark dalrymple on December 27, 2020, 03:13:27 PM
Looking really nice, Jeff.
That's a neat little tank support sub-assembly.
Cheers, Mark.
Quote from: Rusty Robot on December 27, 2020, 04:43:01 PM
I love that little tank support deck too!
Hello Mark and Craig, thank you for the nice comments. That little assembly is one of many in this kit that came out well because I followed the excellent instructions and the well-done drawings. I like it too.
Quote from: postalkarl on December 28, 2020, 06:06:01 PM
Hey Jeff:
That's coming right along. Can't wait to see more.
Karl
Hello Karl, thanks for looking in. I'm getting into the home stretch with this one. I've had a great time building this kit. It was my first Campbell's kit. A few more small steps and it will be time to put all the many sub-assemblies together.
Excellent work on this structure, Jeff. Nice detailing all around so far. I used to work in a grocery store that still did it's own butchering from swinging beef and I remember the transport rack running from our receiving dock through the back warehouse and into the meat department cooler. Your model captures that detail well, although in this instance I imagine the rail is to get the sides out of the shop and to the loading dock.
--Opa George
Jeff,
Getting caught up again on your nice build. Well done.
Tom ;D
Jeff nice job on those brick corners!!
A job well done.
Jerry
Quote from: Opa George on December 29, 2020, 01:11:28 PM
Excellent work on this structure, Jeff. Nice detailing all around so far. I used to work in a grocery store that still did it's own butchering from swinging beef and I remember the transport rack running from our receiving dock through the back warehouse and into the meat department cooler. Your model captures that detail well, although in this instance I imagine the rail is to get the sides out of the shop and to the loading dock.
--Opa George
Hello George, thanks for the nice comments and you are right, the front rack is for freshly dressed sides to go out of the building. The structure on the left side that looks like an enclosed stairway is actually a cattle ramp so that the cows can move themselves up to the second floor.
Quote from: ACL1504 on December 29, 2020, 02:34:33 PM
Jeff,
Getting caught up again on your nice build. Well done.
Tom ;D
Hey Tom, thanks for looking in and for the kind words. I've had a good time with this kit.
Quote from: Jerry on December 29, 2020, 05:10:22 PM
Jeff nice job on those brick corners!!
A job well done.
Jerry
Hello Jerry, thank you. The stone wall corners were a little tricky, but I'm pleased with how they came out.
Continuing on...
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The kit provides a large billboard like sign for the left side and I thought I would do something different when mounting it. I was looking at one of Steve Custer's excellent build threads and I noticed that he had a different method of mounting signs on a building wall. He built a wood backer board for the sign and then mounted the sign to that. I have some thin balsa wood in my stash, so I assembled some pieces with small bracing as shown. I didn't want to risk warping this thin wood with AI solution, so I colored it around the edges with weathering chalk and then pasted the sign on. I think it came out great, thanks Steve.
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Next I glued the roof-top water tank to its base. It's a little hard to see clearly but I cut two slits in the tank roof to accommodate the ladder that goes from the base up to the roof.
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Next I glued the roof onto the main slaughterhouse building walls. I finally got around to using a bag filled with sand to weigh down the roof while the glue dried. This worked out very well. I'm not sure why it took me so long to use this method, but now I'm glad to be doing it this way.
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Jumping ahead, everything is glued together and mounted on a homosote material base. You can see the large sign on the wall. The skylights were added to the roof. These were small assemblies that took some time to get right, but I think they look good. You can also see where I left some shingles off and exposed some roofing paper. I like this look. I applied some weathering chalks to the shingles as well. I'm very pleased with how everything is coming together. The cattle ramp and loading docks really add too the look of the building.
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This is a front view. I made a sign for the upper gable and used the wood backer board method again. The smokestack is left over from an RDA kit. Frank Baker was nice enough to send me a picture of this kit that he built 35 or 40 years ago and he added a smokestack. I thought it looked nice, so I did it as well.
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This is a view of the other side, here I also added a sign and you can also get a better look at the smokestack and the water tank. More in a minute
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This rear view shows off the foundation and boiler house stone wall look very well. It also gives a good look at the rafter tails, which is always a tedious job, but is always worth the effort. I can see in the picture that I have to level out my roof-top water tank. I added a steer skull above the door as shown. I had a long horn steer in my stash for some reason so I cut off it's head and painted it white. This is a slaughterhouse you know.
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Here is a view of where this kit will live on my layout. It's next to the hole in the center of my helix at the end of my upper level peninsula. There will be a small stockyard in the rear of the building for the cattle arriving on the spur track seen at the bottom right. The tunnel portal at the bottom left is where trains come out of the top of my helix. The center track is the return loop at the end of the upper peninsula.
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I've spread some joint compound at the seams of my scenery base areas. The base for the kit will fit right into this space. A small stockyard will go to the right of the building. It will be a little lower than the building so I will have to build a ramp to get the cattle from the pens into the cattle ramp.
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This is the base being laid out. There are a lot of sub-assemblies to be mounted on the base after painting.
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Here the base has been painted with my dirt paint color and the first layer of ground cover has been added. Some of the mod-podge and water mix that I use to cement my scenery in place is still wet. I use a 1/4 mod-podge and 3/4 water mixture. That's it for now, more later.
Everything looks great Jeff.
Jeff,
Very nicely done on the finished model. Good placement for it as well.
Tom ;D
Looks really good, Jeff.
I'll have to try to find room for my kit somewhere on my layout.
Cheers, Mark.
Jeff
Very nice work.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on January 04, 2021, 08:08:02 PM
Everything looks great Jeff.
Hello Curt, thank you. I've had a great time with this kit.
Quote from: ACL1504 on January 05, 2021, 08:29:01 AM
Jeff,
Very nicely done on the finished model. Good placement for it as well.
Tom ;D
Hello Tom, Appreciate the nice words, though not quite done yet. I have some work to do in getting the kit placed on the layout. Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
Quote from: mark dalrymple on January 05, 2021, 10:23:35 AM
Looks really good, Jeff.
I'll have to try to find room for my kit somewhere on my layout.
Cheers, Mark.
Hey Mark, thanks for the kind words. I definitely recommend this kit. It's really fun to build and it looks great when done.
Quote from: S&S RR on January 05, 2021, 11:01:11 AM
Jeff
Very nice work.
Hello John, I appreciate you looking in and thank you for the compliment.
A few more pictures of the Meat Company...
The only area I did not finish was the stockyard portion of the scene. I has previously built a Life Like mini stockyard pen kit and now I needed a ramp from the pen to the cattle ramp on the side of the slaughterhouse building. I had to have a way to get the cows from the stock car into the pens and then from the pens into the building.
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I took some measurements and drew out a plan for the ramp. Using strip-wood from the kit and some 2 x 8's from my stash, I started the side walls of the ramp. I cut a thin piece of balsa wood for the ramp.
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This is what I came up with for the ramp. I glued it to some thin styrene, then painted it and used some scenic materials.
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Another view of the ramp.
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Here is a view of the pens and the ramp. I painted the styrene base pieces brown, sifted on some dirt and other ground cover material as well as some sawdust to hopefully give the appearance of hay remnants. More in a minute
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The kit has been placed on the layout and I've started to blend in the scenery.
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I used some leftover foundation material for the small retaining wall between the building and the stock pen level
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The pens and ramp- have been placed on the layout. All I have left to do is to finish the spur track and blending in the scenery.
Excellent modelling Jeff. I have a few Campbell's in my stash that I must get round to building one day. Thanks for sharing.
Mike :)
That came out really nicely, Jeff.
Cheers, Mark.
Very nice modeling Jeff.
Jeff,
Well done, looks great.
Tom ;D
Quote from: madharry on January 25, 2021, 01:11:41 PM
Excellent modelling Jeff. I have a few Campbell's in my stash that I must get round to building one day. Thanks for sharing.
Mike :)
Quote from: mark dalrymple on January 25, 2021, 01:18:06 PM
That came out really nicely, Jeff.
Cheers, Mark.
Quote from: PRR Modeler on January 25, 2021, 02:16:12 PM
Very nice modeling Jeff.
Quote from: ACL1504 on January 25, 2021, 03:25:30 PM
Jeff,
Well done, looks great.
Tom ;D
Hello Mike, Mark, Curt and Tom, thank you so much for checking in and for the nice comments. I enjoyed building this Campbell's kit very much and am very pleased with the final result. It is a good addition to my layout.
Great build Jeff.....excellent addition to the layout. 8)