Schwarz Foundry - 2019 Challenge Build - aka FSM Sewall's Foundry

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John,


That is really coming together nicely!

Jerry


Thank you - it is a nice little structure.

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What a great looking structure! I love all the build threads because, as a relative newcomer to FSM kits, I've seen most of them in pics, but not as "intimately" as you get through a build thread. This is really nice. I'm looking forward to the weathering blast! Nice work!


John

John


Thank you for following along, there will be weathering.  This structure is way to clean to be a foundry.

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As usual, the stone work and shingling look especially good.

Vince


Thank you for following along and the kind words.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

Look great. I'm following along.

Karl

[Rail and Tie]

John, I am really enjoying your build. Very clean work.
Question: In the last pic what is going on with the window frame in the lower left corner of the building?  Is that meant to be a rotted out window?


Keep up the great work as usual!  O and by the way, you picture lighting is always fantastic.

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Hey John:

Look great. I'm following along.

Karl

Karl


Thanks - great to have you along for the ride.

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John, I am really enjoying your build. Very clean work.
Question: In the last pic what is going on with the window frame in the lower left corner of the building?  Is that meant to be a rotted out window?


Keep up the great work as usual!  O and by the way, you picture lighting is always fantastic.

Darryl


Thank you for following along and the kind words. Yes, the window casting that comes with the kit is a rotted out broken window and that is what I used. It will take some work with the weathering to get this just right.  This is a working foundry that needs some repairs.


Thank you for the comment on the lighting.  I have three LED spot lights above my workbench that are identical to the lights in my valiance on the layout.  I have to be careful, I sometimes put me and or the camera between the lights and the model when I take pictures and we end up with a big shadow across the model. You can see the shadow on the workbench but not on the model in some of the photographs on the last page of this thread.

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I have completed as much of the detailing on build A and B as I can without mounting them to the baseboard.  As soon as I add the shingles and rafter ends to building C it will be time to glue them to the baseboard.

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This structure will be weathered heavily since I have never seen a clean foundry and it's located in the center of a yard full of steam locomotives. Once this is mounted to the base board the chalk dust will be flying.

[Opa George]

John, looking very good in all the details. The shingles are a standout for me.  Beautiful!
--George

[deemery]

Really, George Sellios?  A stone overhang?  There'd have to be some heavy duty framing underneath that.  (I remember discussing overhangs with Jim Mooney of Bar Mills.  I have the Cundy hotel and I said I wanted to replace the wood siding with brick, more in keeping with my city.  Jim said, "How will you do the overhang?  There'd be a lot of weight underneath all those bricks."  I'm still pondering that.)

Coloring looks great! 

dave

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John, looking very good in all the details. The shingles are a standout for me.  Beautiful!
--George

George


Thank you for the kind words and for following along.

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Really, George Sellios?  A stone overhang?  There'd have to be some heavy duty framing underneath that.  (I remember discussing overhangs with Jim Mooney of Bar Mills.  I have the Cundy hotel and I said I wanted to replace the wood siding with brick, more in keeping with my city.  Jim said, "How will you do the overhang?  There'd be a lot of weight underneath all those bricks."  I'm still pondering that.)

Coloring looks great! 

dave

Dave


Someone slipped the building inspector some C notes on this one, but it sure does look good.  I just corrected two of them and in my mind added 8 inch I beams under the overhang and then covered them with wood. [size=78%]  [/size][/size]The two I corrected where with the dormer.  The roof was flat or slightly running back against the slope of the main roof - I recut it and gave it some slope.  The other was George had the metal roofing that was there, because of the leak caused by issue one, running horizontally. My metal roofing runs with the slope of the roof.  George is an artist - and usually he is modeling something he saw. Sometimes it's something the building inspector missed. I know George, with his later kits, would have people look at his kits and "make sure I didn't do something wrong with the mechanical stuff". [size=78%][/size]Probably because someone let him have it on some of these earlier kits. [size=78%]

[deemery]

When building an older FSM kit (#100, Jacob's Fuel), I was struck by what a great draftsman George is.  But I'm sure my father would point out that being a good draftsman doesn't necessarily qualify you as a structural engineer :-)

(And on the Cundy Hotel, I'm thinking about a brick barrel vault and stone pillars.  That probably has enough strength.)

dave