Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking great, John - and I'm jealous of your work area!

Chippies is one FSM kit I could almost find enough room for on my layout!

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

Looking great, John - and I'm jealous of your work area!

Chippies is one FSM kit I could almost find enough room for on my layout!

Cheers, Mark.

Hi Mark


Thanks for stopping by and the kind words - the work area has been evolving for more than 20 years. And this little area is generation two because I had a similar space in my previous house.  I wished I had pictures of some of the forum members work areas when I was getting started so I decided to post these - I hope they help someone.

[S&S RR]

I got started on the Chippy's build yesterday (casting are in the painting process). Once again I'm going for a color that matches the area I'm modeling.  I can't make a case for a railroad shipping in building materials when there are mountains with locks of stone to be utilized.  I will post pictures when I have something to show.   I also started pine tree production again to complete the area behind the site for my Brambell's build.

[Vilius]

We are waiting for the pictures... Load of them.

Vilius

[tom.boyd.125]

John,
Great watching the FSM Brambell's build come together on your layout.    
Thanks for sharing your work.  Looking forward to the next yellow box FSM Chippy Hollow build too ! 
Tom

[S&S RR]

John,
Great watching the FSM Brambell's build come together on your layout.    
Thanks for sharing your work.  Looking forward to the next yellow box FSM Chippy Hollow build too ! 
Tom

Tom


Thanks for stopping by the thread - I have the parts out of the next yellow box and will have an update later this evening.

[S&S RR]

I'm back at my three projects at once mode - it is just the way I like to work.  I'm starting work on the smaller trestle in-front of Mt. Aiden - this one will make the curve back to the reversing loop.  This is not an easy job because it requires me to lay on a temporary bridge that protects the track in the yard.  I need to do some plaster work, then some painting and scenery before I can start the construction.  The bents have arrived on location in a FSM box as you can see in the picture. For those that have order kits from George you will recognize the brown cardboard box that George always ships his kits in.  It is amazing how many of these boxes I have in the layout room all being repurposed for storage.  I counted 26 of them when I was under the layout last week working on the tear out of the old layout to make room for the helix.  I have lost count of the number of kits that I have bought directly from George but I know it is at least 26.


So anyway the purpose of this post was to show the area were Chippy's is going to go.  The base will be cut out of the plywood directly under the temporary 1:1 scale bridge.

[S&S RR]

I forgot to mention that when I take build process pictures of the layout I'm using my iPhone and skip the step of sizing them before I post them.  This results in a larger picture that you need to scroll to see everything.  I know there are some that hate that but sorry it saves me time and I have a layout to finish so I'm limiting the amount of time I spent on posting to the forum. 


I just had a thought - that I will try tomorrow. If I take the pictures in the square format with the iPhone this might not be a problem.


Test tomorrow.

[S&S RR]

Well I decided to get sidetracked and test the square format.  Here it goes - this is the same area only shot from the Mt. Allen Trestle.

[S&S RR]

Looks like the scroll bars are still there on my screen so it only helped but did not solve the problem.

[S&S RR]

Project number two right now is making pine trees so I can finish the scenery on Mt. Aiden.  Here is a progress shot of my workbench - I think I'm up to about 40 trees so far.  I hope to make about 150 in this batch.  This layout eats trees very quickly - but that should make a dent.

[S&S RR]

And finally for tonight project three progress report.  The Chippy Hollow build. I primed the main castings and have added three shades of Pastel chalk so far.  I'm going to color my castings to look like the rocks from the surrounding mountains were used to make the walls. I need to look at these for a couple days - I'm trying to decide if I want to add a gray mortar and if I want to lighten them up with lighter brown shades or just a slight dry brush.  What do you think?

[ak-milw]

For me it would be gray mortar and a light brushing.

[S&S RR]

For me it would be gray mortar and a light brushing.

Andy


Thanks for the input.  I'm playing with it this evening.  I will post pictures when I get something I like.

[Zephyrus52246]

I think the chalk method looks like it works better than paint and I need to use it next time I do stonework.  Looks great.  I don't have the scroll bars and see the pictures in their full sized glory.  Is it a settings issue or my far superior Windows computer (poking a sleeping bear  ).


Jeff