Junction Farm (BESTTrains kits)

[deemery]

Here's a mock-up.  The back 3 walls are assembled, and with that I can make sure the foundation is sized correctly and glue that together (tomorrow's project.)


That block of wood to the left is a bit of a stand-in for the house.

dave

[VagelK]

Great work, so far, Dave.

[deemery]

Now I really want the barn to sit properly on the foundation.  That means it should be either flush, or even better the walls should overhang the foundation a bit.  Given the location, i could get away with just fudging it to make sure the front and one side are OK. 

Three of the wood walls are assembled, the fourth is held in place with the clamps.  The foundation pieces are arranged with squares inside and outside to hold them square and in position.



The front looks pretty good.

Here's the visible side:

You can see there's some overhang at the back.  The question is whether I can redo the foundation to remove that.

Here's a look at the back.


And a look down the front.

Another concern I had was whether there'd be spacing between the foundation and the wall that dips down in front to add some bracing.  There's some warp on the wood siding piece, and I really should get bracing all the way down in front.  Good news is there's space there for bracing. 

So it looks like I need to remove about 1/16 from each side wall.  The walls have a flush edge against the front piece, and a dado on the back where the back wall fits.  I'll need to carefully remove that 1/16 from the edge here:

I'll need to do this on both side pieces.   I'll do that with my framing sander, I think. 

dave

[deemery]

Much better!


I'll need to add some filler in the back.  That's not a problem.  First I'll glue a spacer to align the back and sides.  Then after the 4 walls are assembled, I'll go back, fill the gap with plaster, and re carve the rocks.


Here's the framing sander, this is used for sanding the corners of picture frames.  It wasn't cheap, but it does a good job.   It's hand-powered.

If you ever see a framing shop going out of business, see if they have one you can get at a good price. 

This is it for today, I'll glue up the foundation tomorrow.

dave

[Larry C]

Dave great work getting things correct. Should be a nice addition to your layout when finished; have fun.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Coming on nicely Dave.

I agree, the weatherboard should be slightly proud of the stonework.  I assume a barn like this would have 6x2 or 8x2 framing.  It looks like there will be quite a bit of material to remove.

Cheers, Mark.

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave,

The barn is looking good.  I like the way you are mounting the wood on the stone.  I've seen a lot of similar barns on my travels up north.  Is the stone base going to be shades of grey?

Have fun,
mike

[deemery]

Howdy Dave,

The barn is looking good.  I like the way you are mounting the wood on the stone.  I've seen a lot of similar barns on my travels up north.  Is the stone base going to be shades of grey?

Have fun,
mike

Yeah, consistent with the other stonework on the layout (more-or-less granite....)

dave

[jbvb]

I had to do similar adjustments to Sylvan's resin "Barn With SIlos" kit.  I recall using sandpaper glued to a marble off-cut as a leveling tool.

[Pennman]

Dave,

I was unaware that this kit had a cast hydrocal foundation. It looks like a really nice kit and
your method of handling each segment looks great to me. It will be nice to see this in it final
location.

Rich

[PRR Modeler]

A lot of great modeling going on here.