WALTHAM CLOCK COMPANY ho bash

[hairball]

Okay , I thought lets show this one , its HO scale, to all the people and see if they can figure out what kit's its origins are.   ?

Material is USA Gypsum hydrocal white.

Its coloured using a heavily brewed dark tea and extra scoops of coffee.

Let the guessing begin !!!

mike lynch...HAIRBALL

[hairball]

SECOND SET OF PICTURES



MIKE

[richbeau]

Wonderful FSM Chippy Hollow bash - love the imaginative work.
--Rich

[hairball]

our first contestant says fsm  CHIPPY HOLLOW HARDWARE..............but that's only part of it !!!

no winner yet !

mike lynch.......HAIRBALL

[Janbouli]

I don't know my kits good enough to see what was bashed here , I do know I love the work that has been done , marvelous build.

[NEMMRRC]

Barangould Tannery ?


Jaime

[GPdemayo]

Don't have a clue, but really neat looking structure. 

[hairball]

Gee ,   am I going to have to offer a dozen box of honey glazed donuts ( tim hortons of coarse ) as a prize. ?

If you have ***built*** FSM kits and know your stuff , I thought this should be easy.

Okay you guys off to your closet stash of FSM kits and study the box tops.

mike lynch...MADMIKE3434................HAIRBALL

[SteveCuster]

Looks like Chippy Hollow and Swakhammers welding.

[NEMMRRC]

Donuts !!!


Jaime

[hairball]

Looks like Chippy Hollow and Swakhammers welding.

[/ LADIES AND GENTLEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS. WE GOT A WINNER. !!!!!!!!!!

STEVE CUSTER KNOWS HIS STUFF........U WANT THE DONUTS OR THE CASH EQUIVILENT b]

MIKE LYNCH.............HAIRBALL

[Mark Dalrymple]

Nice bash.

Yes - I thought that might be the answer.  How is the Swakhammer's casting any different to the Chippy hollow's?  Or are we talking about something apart from the stone walls?

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

Very nice work!

[richbeau]

@S&S RR  Yes John he's talking the cast walls. About half of Swakhammers is cast walls.

@hairball  Mike: After looking at it again I can see basically how you combined some of it but not the whole picture. Love it.
This is the sort of thing George loves to see.

--Rich

[hairball]

Nice bash.

Yes - I thought that might be the answer.  How is the Swakhammer's casting any different to the Chippy hollow's?  Or are we talking about something apart from the stone walls?

Cheers, Mark.

I took rubber molds of Chippy Hollow main building, poured 4 walls of the front in hydrocal and 2 of the sides. I used a mill file to straight the joints where the 2 fronts butted together for front and back.  I found a picture of the grandfather clock sign and glued that to wood and mounted to the front to disguise the joint seam.  A lot of strengthening was done inside with wood to support the joint.

The Swackhammers side addition was cast exactly as in the kit.  it was a little wider than where it joined up to the main building so made another casting and cut it to give me those short pieces.

From there I just continued to develop ideas and add to the design..   I think I glued the grant line windows, engine house or rico e h windows on the inside , because georges windows are designed to fit his structures only.  The bricked in window openings were cast from some brick wall.

In the end I just kept adding detailing to it as I saw fit.  If you keep looking at it, you just keep adding more and more.     It got sold on ebay after the conversion from HO to O scale.

Its probably my most creative project started by the simple idea of wanting to make the main building larger and how to accomplish it.

mike lynch.....madmike3434..........HAIRBALL