Goodwin & Wolfe Distillery

[Mkrailway]

Marty


Very nice work! I'm really enjoying the thread.

John, I glad you are enjoying the thread. I am trying to explain why and how I am building the structure rather than just showing photos of each detailed step. Hopefully a few new ideas and techniques will come out of it.

Marty

[Mkrailway]

Marty


Very nice work! I'm really enjoying the thread.

Marty,

Ditto to all the above comments. Well done sir.

Tom

Tom, ditto on the thanks. 

[Mkrailway]

Hello, It's been awhile since I've posted something here.

It's been a rough few weeks trying to figure out what and how I was to do the next step. I decided to forego the LED lights, not because they are difficult, but because I could not get the "right" look for the lights and shades. So I gave up for now.

So i moved onto the Wall braces. It sounded like an easy thing to do, but you guessed it, it was more challenging than frying an egg on my driveway in January.

The wall braces are 16-18" in the prototype which translate to ~3/16" for the structure. Do you think I could find a 3/16" circle cutter or hole punch anywhere that was not priced at $40+US. I looked everywhere in hardware stores, craft stores, scrapbooking, jewelry tool suppliers, machine tool supplies. Yes, they wee some, but way beyond my budget. So plan "B".

I dug around in the junk stuff from my Dad's workshop and found a very old leather hole punch. However, it was a 1/8" punch, so I drilled it out to 3/16" and tried to sharpen it as much as I could.

I then proceeded to punch out 64 circles from 0.010" styrene. I found the cutting board as a backing provided the best cut circles.



The prototype had some small details that I wanted to replicate. I found the needlely thingy was the best applicator for the small parts.



I cut rod slugs and welded them on first and then added a cross to the rod and circle. The excess strips were cut off at an angle to replicate the prototype wall braces.



I then added NBW to add more detail and dimension to the detail.



I made only 12 masters and then cast a silicon mold and then cast a whole bunch of copies.



The copies were then cleaned up and left to "cure" before I would move to the next step. But more on that in the next post.

That's all for now.

Marty

[ACL1504]

Marty,

Wow, great job on the slugs. Very inventive on your part. I'm duly impressed.

Tom

[Mkrailway]

Marty,

Wow, great job on the slugs. Very inventive on your part. I'm duly impressed.

Tom

Thanks Tom. It's amazing what living on a budget will do for invention.

Marty

[Mkrailway]

A few days later I began working on how I wanted to treat the wall braces. I was going to paint then green, actually I tried priming with Vallejo primer and CN Green paint however it did not look right, but decided on making them look as they did before the building was renovated in the 1990's. Remember the layout is placed in the early 1970's and the wall braces had decades of rust due to lack of maintenance.

So a base coat of Camao Earth brown was applied. While the paint was still wet a heavy coat of red and brown chalks with touches of orange were dusted over it. Then a very light coat of matte varnish was applied.



The wall braces were then epoxied onto the blocks where the ceiling.floor joists would have been. A series of rusting chalks were applied. First a light raw sienna wash below the brace, then a smaller wash of burnt umber and then a thinner line of orange. When dry it was scrubbed together with a stiff hogs hair brush. Later I tune the rusting to be less intense.



Next I attacked the tower wall caps. (Notice the roof slates have been dusted with a whitish/grey/sand chalk to show the lead leaching from the ridge caps.)



Earlier I had made for hydrocal blanks to be used for the tower peak. These were sanded down to the same thickness and width.



These were then cut/trimmed and fitted to the tower wall using epoxy to hold it all together.



Then I used the same chalks I used on the walls to blend in the tower wall caps. (Notice, the rust streaks from the wall braces are getting more realistic.



The walls all got a dusting of greyish chalks to tone down the fresh paint look on the windows, doors and dormers. When all is said and done the structure is pretty well done.



I now need to add a base to the bottom of the structure to hold the docks and porches in place because they all broke off with me handling the structure. With some details, etc the build will be finished soon.

When that is done I will post the final steps and images. See you then.

Marty

[sdrees]

Hi Marty,

This is a really nice thread because the building techniques are very different.  God job.

[Mkrailway]

Hi Marty,

This is a really nice thread because the building techniques are very different.  God job.

Steve, I'm glad you noticed the techniques. Which one did you think was the strangest?

Marty

[madharry]

Beautiful!

Mike 

[Mkrailway]

Beautiful!

Mike 

Thanks for dropping by.

Marty

[ACL1504]

Marty,

Wow, great job on the slugs. Very inventive on your part. I'm duly impressed.

Tom

Thanks Tom. It's amazing what living on a budget will do for invention.

Marty

Marty,

Yes, it is and you make the building of the building look so easy. I love the finished look. Well done sir, well done.

Tom

[Mkrailway]

Tom, appreciate the feedback.

It is really easy to build ... figuring out what and how to is the tough and lengthy part.

Marty

[Mkrailway]

It time for the secret to come out!

All my buildings and places in the layout/diorama have a judicial theme (a meme from the "Judge" herein), this building is no different. It is from the two main characters of the Rex Stout mystery novels of Nero Wolfe. Nero Wolfe the beer loving genius detective and the milk loving Archie Goodwin.

Nero's cases are full of irony and twists, so I felt it necessary to continue the theme.

For example, Archie has the tough guy image yet drinks only milk? That is so wrong! I felt he would be the one who would own a whiskey distillery. He was so cheap/under paid he would not drink what he made, but to flog it to the punters. So Archie gets first billing.

Nero is not a stupid man and realised that the more people drank whiskey there would be more cases for him to solve. Plus there would be more beer for him. Nero gets second billing as he bankrolled the business and did not want to be seen to be doing what he was doing to get more business.

Therefore, Goodwin & Wolfe .. And a play on words the prototype of Gooderham & Worts title.

So the cat is out of the bag.

Marty

[rpdylan]

Really nice work! Thank you for posting your build- very informative!

[Mkrailway]

Really nice work! Thank you for posting your build- very informative!

Bob, You're very welcome. Sharing helps grow this craft.

Marty