Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Today, I completed the four walls to the Brambell's warehouse building and glued them together. It is great to see this build starting to go together. 





Do you think I used enough clamps?  I sure didn't want this thing to move on me - and it's square!

[deemery]

There is no such thing as "too many clamps"


dave

[S&S RR]

There is no such thing as "too many clamps"


dave

Dave


You got that right? I seem to keep collecting more of them and they always seem to be in use.

[deemery]

I use the Irwin (also American Tool, I forget which company bought out the other) "one handed" clamps A Lot!  I've found the off-brand versions (Sears, as well as Harbor Freight) to be markedly inferior.  The other clamps I use a lot for this kind of work are 12" brass bar clamps.  I don't use those spring clamps like you have at the top as much, in part because there's no control over clamping pressure. 


dave

[postalkarl]

Hi John:

you got to do what you got to do. Nice clamp job. Wall lookk pretty darn nice too.

Karl

[S&S RR]

Hi John:

you got to do what you got to do. Nice clamp job. Wall lookk pretty darn nice too.

Karl

Karl


Thanks for the kind words, and for stopping by the thread.  It is really nice to be building structures again.

[EricQuebec]

As usual a very outstanding work !!! But there is something that I think breaks all the realism of your work: the vertical line of separation between the two wall casting, especially on surfaces covered with bricks. Are you planning to spend a few hours (admittedly very extremly boring) to fill this space with putty ??
Just my two cens
Eric Québec city

[S&S RR]

As usual a very outstanding work !!! But there is something that I think breaks all the realism of your work: the vertical line of separation between the two wall casting, especially on surfaces covered with bricks. Are you planning to spend a few hours (admittedly very extremly boring) to fill this space with putty ??
Just my two cens
Eric Québec city

Eric


You make a great point - the problem is that you can't fit a piece of paper between the castings so there is nothing to fill with putty - it is truly a line.  This is one disadvantage of using metal castings rather than hydrocal where it would be very easy to fix this.  If you look closely at the pictures George provides with the kit he hid the line with some Ivy and a well placed detail casting. That is how I plan to solve the issue. Thanks for the input - every picture I take during a build is to blow things up and create a punch list of things to fix before I move on with the build.  Having more than one set of eyes on these pictures is one of the great advantages to posting on the forum.  Eric thanks again for following along and you comments and suggestions are very welcome.

[S&S RR]

Here are some progress pictures of the Brambell's build now that I have moved it to my workbench where all the detail work will be done.





So I put this picture on the big monitor in my office and it looked like the left side of the building was leaning out.  So off I went into the layout room and took more pictures and got out the square and convinced myself that it was an optical illusion from either the lens of my iPhone or the angle of the picture. I have a few touch up areas and some casting joints to hid but I think it's a good start.








A few of the detail castings are sitting around on the workbench drying.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Thanks for the picture with the square, John. - I don't think I would have believed you otherwise!!!  Looking good!

Oh - and my computer has bounced more photos to you again - hence the lack of emails from me.

Cheers, Mark.

[ACL1504]

John,

The build is looking great. Love the stone work.

Tom

[Zephyrus52246]

I see the pigeons!    An FSM trademark.  You're doing a great job so far.

Jeff

[S&S RR]

Thanks for the picture with the square, John. - I don't think I would have believed you otherwise!!!  Looking good!

Oh - and my computer has bounced more photos to you again - hence the lack of emails from me.

Cheers, Mark.

Thanks Mark


I don't think I believed my eyes until a but a square on it.  It appears that there is a little fish eye affect with the iPhone lens.  I'm going to play with it and see if I can repeat it. 


I hope we can figure out what's going on with the emails - your pictures are making a great contribution to the F&SM thread.

[S&S RR]

John,

The build is looking great. Love the stone work.

Tom

Tom



Thanks for the kind words and stopping by the thread. 

[S&S RR]

I see the pigeons!    An FSM trademark.  You're doing a great job so far.

Jeff

Yes the pigeons - they sure are fun to paint.  It is all about the details!  Thanks for the kind words and stopping by Jeff.