East End Market

[Mike Engler]

Randy..

I think you are on to something here...

I've heard of rivet counters but never clapboard counters.

see ya
Bob

I think Frank is on to something or on something.

[Mike Engler]

Frank- I read this thread tonight and it is a great job from beginning to where you are today. Very much in the image of a Bob Van Gelder masterpiece. Enjoying the heck out of it.

[Erieman]

Randy..

I think you are on to something here...

I've heard of rivet counters but never clapboard counters.

see ya
Bob

I think Frank is on to something or on something.

Guys,

Yes, I counted clapboard to determine the height of the building components. It has worked out pretty well. Raymo has been to the building several times and we decided to use the clapboard measuring system. clapboard comes in 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5 inches. After layout out the building, I used some selective compression to bring it into a better scale. As far a clapboard counting, sometimes you have to do what you have you have to do.

Frank / Erieman 

[Erieman]

Frank- I read this thread tonight and it is a great job from beginning to where you are today. Very much in the image of a Bob Van Gelder masterpiece. Enjoying the heck out of it.

Mike,

Thank you for your kind words. Glad you are enjoying the story and build. FYI, Bob Van Gelder is my hero. I have many of his buildings on my layout. The first kit of his, I built as is. All the rest have been modified one way or the other, mostly somewhat larger. Bob does a beautiful job of designing a product from New England. While Arizona is a long way from New England, I grew up back East. After building many of Bob's kits, I decided to do some scratch building. If you go to my thread - Morristown & Erie - Western Division, you will see several of my scratch built structures including Ironia Station, Chester Station, Yakima Apples I & II, several towers and Duffy's tire garage. I really enjoy scratchbuilding as you can tell. Having recently completed O.V. Hooker from SRMW, I decided to build East End Market after Raymo posted pictures of the building. Co-incidentally, These two structures reside in St. Johnsbury, Vt. and are very close to each other. Talk about a small world.  Thanks again for your kind words, Stop back in again as the building continues toward completion. I need to have it done by September 16. We are having a regional convention in Scottsdale in mid- September.

Frank / Erieman   

[Erieman]

Mike,

Here is another picture taken a few minutes ago that I thought you might enjoy. Today was a busy day, but not in the model railroading sense. As many of you know. we are going to sell my mom's house. She is 99 and no longer can live there. today, we had a garage sale starting at 6:30 and going to noon. That was a long, hot slog in a non air conditioned garage. It sort of took the energy out of me, so what little I did on East End Market was slow going and somewhat ridden with a couple of mistakes. Back on the correct path, I have been able to inch along on the front of the building as you can see. I have installed the right wing of the front bumpout. The left wing is done but not yet mounted to the building. The right second floor porch has been constructed, but not glued. That's for tomorrow, I hope. After seeing the porch in situ, i have come up with another way of installing the front and side walls of the porch. Visually it will look the same, but simpler and just as strong. Well, more about that tomorrow. Enjoy the pic and have a great evening.

Frank / Erieman 

[Erieman]

Have not had a lot of time to work on the building today.  I did however build one porch for the main building. Lots of tickling to get everything just right, but behold. Most of the the left side porch are done and ready for assembly and painting. spent most of the day at our convention meeting. Time is running short. Anyway, thought everyone would like to see the progress.

Frank / Erieman

[coors2u]

As always fantastic work Frank. It's really taking shape.

[Erieman]

As always fantastic work Frank. It's really taking shape.

Dustin,

Thank you for your kind words. Progress is being made, slowly but surely. This project is fun and a bit of a challenge. as I mentioned to Mike Engler, I have to thank Bob Van Gelder for all his wonderful kits and his design characteristics. You can learn a lot for one of his kits and then branch out to scratchbuilding. While it is not that simple, it is a good approach. I now have 7 1/2 weeks to complete this model. PHEW. I'm sweating already and its not from the heat outside. Stay tuned, more pictures later.

Frank / Erieman

[martin.ojaste]

I've been casually following along this build. I didn't have much to say until I saw the last pictures. The structure looks really good. The details of the overhangs (s) and siding start to make this model look quite pleasing. I can hardly wait until the rest of the embellishments are added.


Good workmanship.

[Erieman]

I've been casually following along this build. I didn't have much to say until I saw the last pictures. The structure looks really good. The details of the overhangs (s) and siding start to make this model look quite pleasing. I can hardly wait until the rest of the embellishments are added.


Good workmanship.

Martin,

Welcome to my build. Glad you are enjoying this project. no that I am in the meat of the project, it really is starting to look like something. There are a lot detail parts to build. The front porch about 16 pieces in what you see. Lots and lots of little pieces to go. Stay tuned for more photos in the next day or so. I want to do some of the rear building components soon as well. Thanks for stopping by.

Frank / Erieman

[Erieman]

Today was quite productive. The main door for the building was installed along with the left side porch. I have also installed the fascia around the roof line. Additionally, the brick foundation on the left side of the structure was added. Tomorrow I plan on starting on the garage elements on the rear of the building. There actually are several bump outs on the back. Progress is being made each day, no matter how little. more tomorrow. Hope to see you then.

Frank / Erieman

[Erieman]

We all like pictures, especially of a structure in its environment. Well, While not finished, I have placed the East end Market into the final scene location. I have started working on the back of the structure, but not at light speed. Lots of little details are taking their time. I called the LHS to see if they has some scribe lumber. While talking to them, I looked down on the floor ( everything seems to wind upon the floor) and there is what I am looking for. whoops. The good thing is that I don't have to drive down there today. speaking of the floor, the wife came in earlier and made a comment about my housekeeping. I will admit that the floor and my work surface for that matter, is quite a dump. Anybody else suffer from this? Anyway, enjoy the pic. More tomorrow on the rear of the building.

Frank / Erieman

[S&S RR]

We all like pictures, especially of a structure in its environment. Well, While not finished, I have placed the East end Market into the final scene location. I have started working on the back of the structure, but not at light speed. Lots of little details are taking their time. I called the LHS to see if they has some scribe lumber. While talking to them, I looked down on the floor ( everything seems to wind upon the floor) and there is what I am looking for. whoops. The good thing is that I don't have to drive down there today. speaking of the floor, the wife came in earlier and made a comment about my housekeeping. I will admit that the floor and my work surface for that matter, is quite a dump. Anybody else suffer from this? Anyway, enjoy the pic. More tomorrow on the rear of the building.

Frank / Erieman

Frank it looks great!  Tell Phyllis that if you had a bigger layout room you wouldn't have to store so much stuff on the floor.  I'm just trying to help!   On second thought - better not talk to Phyllis about expansion plans - she will talk to Amy and this will go very bad. 


Speaking of expansion - when you add trees on the hill in the background it will make that wall look like it is moving out. Great place for the smaller trees. I really like this picture!

[Erieman]

Good Morning John,
Mums the word on any expansion. I know who the boss is!!! TREES, ah yes, Well they are on the list for the next 7 weeks. I will do what I can. I agree, the trees add a wonderful dimension to the layout. Thank you for your kind words. I'll be posting some more pics on East End Market later today. Progress is slow but constant.

Frank / Erieman

[bparrish]

Frank...

What a great location.

thanx
Bob