Build Challenge 2016: Bar Mills Dock House at Cundy Harbor

[PennsyJ1]

Mr. Bob I sure do love following your build threads. There so many tricks and ways to prevent road blocks when building a structure. Thank you for taking the time to share.
It's beautiful so far can't wait to see the finished product.

Bill

[ReadingBob]

I take out the little bit of slack I have (be careful - it's still possible to pull the leads off of the LED's - ask me how I know  ) and glue the lamp shade to the tubing before I put a 90 degree bend in the tubing to finish off the gooseneck shape.  Once finished I painted the tubing Grimy Black and the lamp shade Dark Green.  The underside was already painted Reefer White by the way - I should have mentioned that earlier.    


To install I drill a hole, using a .018 drill bit, over the door where I want the lamp to be positioned in the building.




Then I feed the wires through the hole (still a challenge!)


And finally the tubing goes into the hole.  Whew!


I made up a little board with copper tape, a circuit limiter and an LED to light the interior.  I had places on the board to solder the leads from two of the goose neck light fixtures I used on this building.  This building has two separate circuits.  Each has one current limiter and three LED's and requires a minimum of 12 volts.


After soldering everything for the first circuit I did a quick test and my interior LED and two exterior lamps lit up (it's all for one and one for all - if one doesn't light neither will the other two).  The heavier wire you see in the picture is some left over wire that came with a garage door opener I installed.  I used that for the main power line.  I'd prefer thinner, more flexible wire but it works and I'm cheap so I use for things like this.  The unconnected end is for the second circuit that wasn't installed yet.


I needed one light in the 'middle' portion of the structure and the rest in the office building.  These all connected to the second circuit which will be in the office so I drilled holes in the wall and fed the wires through the holes.


Testing the second circuit after it's been installed and fixed.  The first time around I accidentally inverted the wires for the goose neck when soldering them to my homemade circuit board.  Whoops!  Easy fix though. 


More in a moment....

[ReadingBob]

Thanks Bill and Greg!

I saved the lighting for almost last.  After it was installed and working I put the roofs back in place (they're removable) and finished off the remaining details such as the weather vane and windows.  Now for the final pictures of the finished structure.
















John will have to figure out what to do with that long wire sticking out of his structure.   

Here endeth the Build Challenge portion of this Build Thread!

To be continued however, as I plan on building the rest of the Cundy Harbor complex.  Next up will be the Bait Boat (cuz I needed something simple after this one!).

Thanks for following along! 

[ReadingBob]

Oops...I see some of my pilings got knocked a little out of whack.  They have some flex to them and can easily be straightened out when the structure is placed in it's permanent home.   

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Great build thread and well done on the lighting tutorial.

John's is really going to get busy on his layout to show your fantastic structures.

Again, very well done my friend.

Tom

[ReadingBob]

Bob,

Great build thread and well done on the lighting tutorial.

John's is really going to get busy on his layout to show your fantastic structures.

Again, very well done my friend.

Tom

Thanks Tom!  Very much appreciated.    

I suspect that the wonderful coastal scenery that John is coming up with will really enhance the appearance of this structure.  I really enjoy seeing structures surrounded by great scenery.   

[Vilius]

Excellent job, Bob.

Vilius

[postalkarl]

Hi Bob:

What can I say but WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful job. Love the lighting.

Karl

[Janbouli]

Thanks for sharing this great build and all the mini tutorials inside. You are great with the small stuff Bob , would make a great Normal scale modeler, I believe you have done N-scale in the past.

[ReadingBob]

Excellent job, Bob.

Vilius

Thanks Vilius!  I really appreciate that.   

[ReadingBob]

Hi Bob:

What can I say but WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful job. Love the lighting.

Karl

Thanks Karl!  I really appreciate that!  The lighting is an added challenge (and boy can it be a challenge) but I really love the effect.   

[ReadingBob]

Thanks for sharing this great build and all the mini tutorials inside. You are great with the small stuff Bob , would make a great Normal scale modeler, I believe you have done N-scale in the past.

Thanks Jan!  Yes, John was an N Scale modeler when I met him and I built a few kits for him in that gauge.  They're just as much fun although I'm not sure I'd be able to do the goose neck lamps in that scale.  I'm sure somebody has done it though.  Believe it or not these aren't the smallest LED's available.   

[Timbob60]

Great job on the dock house. I agree that the lighting puts it over the top!

Geo2rge aka timbob60

[Oldguy]

Very nicely done.  And as with many other build threads on here, a lot of very good building information presented and shown. Thanks again.

[cuse]

                      WOW!