Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

[S&S RR]

John,

Great job on MacKenzies. I built mine about 20 years ago and it was a lot of fun. I had it on my old old layout, three layouts ago.

I still have the structure but got rid of the diorama.


Tom

Tom


Thanks for the kind words.  It is amazing that you are on your third layout. I have enough expansion space with this one that I don't think I will ever start over again.

[bparrish]

John...

You have done some amazing stuff on scenicing.  I'll evaluate your railroad any time.

It's good to see you on a structure adventure.

Amazing stuff

thanx
Bob

[S&S RR]

John...

You have done some amazing stuff on scenicing.  I'll evaluate your railroad any time.

It's good to see you on a structure adventure.

Amazing stuff

thanx
Bob

Hi Bob


Thanks for the kind words.  I have a number of structure adventures to go!  I'd love to have you stop by and evaluate my railroad - let me know if you are going to be in the area.

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I got back at the Mackenzie and Isaac's coal builds, today. On Mackenzie's I added floors to the interior and painted the inside of the building dark burnt umber so it looks like old wood when you see through all the cracks in the windows and doors.  There will be no lighting on this build.  I'm modeling this as an old before electricity mill that has been long since forgotten. Here is the picture of the interior painting - the paint was still wet when I took the picture.

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Next step on Mackenzie's is the roof.  On Isaac's Coal I received the shingles I was waiting for so I finished the roof on the first building and got started on the shingles for the second.  I'll take some pictures later tonight.

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I made some real progress on the roofing for Isaac's coal.  Here is another example of you can never have enough weights.

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I also did a little mockup build for the roof on the Mackenzie's Mill. I like the way the Campbell shingles look when your modeling a roof that's past it's prime. Here is a few pictures of my little test sample.





I started by using the standard glue tape method over a piece of card stock painted with my khaki camo paint.

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This is for a color test so no points were given for straight rows of shingles.

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As you can see I really got after the shingles with a probe to get that weathered - way past prime look.

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Nest it was into the paint booth for some khaki paint.

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I sure have built up some paint on the floor of my paint booth over the years.

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Here is an after the paint picture.

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Next I went to work with the pastel chalk to get back the weathered color.

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Here is a picture with the building.

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While I was at it, I decided to take a look at it in the location I plan to put it on the layout.