Superior & Seattle Railroad Build

[S&S RR]

Today, I finished construction of the warehouse deck. Tomorrow, I will add the legs and glue it to the warehouse. 

[S&S RR]

Today's progress pictures of the Brambell's build.  Finished the front porch and added more details. Next step is to add the completed deck.  In my version of the model Brambell's has added a new cedar shingle roof to the warehouse since the war.

[ak-milw]

WOW!!

[S&S RR]

WOW!!

Andy


Thanks - slow but sure it's coming together.   Posting these pictures is a great way of creating the "stuff I have to fix list".

[S&S RR]

I spent a few more hours on the build tonight and glued down the cement footings for the deck.  The deck is just sitting on the footings while the glue dries. I need to make some adjustments to the height so it clears the doors. George suggested in the instruction to wait until the pit area detailing was complete before actually gluing it to the footings and warehouse.  In the second picture,  I glued the cement sections of the fence to the baseboard.  A chain link fence goes on top of the cement.  As I explained early in this build thread, I need to modify the pit area trestle for two reasons.  First, it needed to be narrower to fit my spot on the layout. Second, my trestle is for truck traffic because the rail siding on the S&S RR fits great in the original location and there is not enough room behind the warehouse to get a truck to the back side of the yard. In the instructions George explains that the original use for this building was for a coal facility.  Hence, the coal shoots on the back of the pit.  For my application the rail cars will use this location.

[GPdemayo]

Looking great John. 

[sdrees]

So John,

Who had the pigeons first, you or Frank/Erieman? Nice looking build.

Steve

[S&S RR]

Looking great John. 

Thanks Greg

[S&S RR]

So John,

Who had the pigeons first, you or Frank/Erieman? Nice looking build.

Steve

Hi Steve


Thanks for stopping by the thread.


I don't think Frank or I are the first to have pigeons but Frank's seem to S**t more than the one's on the S&S RR.

[S&S RR]

Today, I started building the trestle - that in my case will carry truck traffic from the front to the back yard of the complex.  Some redesign was required  to get the height right, but by the end of the day we had a plan and bent production had begun.

[Erieman]

So John,

Who had the pigeons first, you or Frank/Erieman? Nice looking build.

Steve

Hi Steve


Thanks for stopping by the thread.


I don't think Frank or I are the first to have pigeons but Frank's seem to S**t more than the one's on the S&S RR.

John / Steve

I think the proper term is bird poop or bird poo, not bird s**t. Just saying. And yes, it was someone on this forum ( or maybe the other forum) that told me that I needed more bird poop on my buildings. Now you are going to ask who was that person. Well, give me some time and I will go back to that build and find out who mentioned this delicate item. I think the birds with a little excrement provide a little more to the story.  But thanks for asking. TTFN

Frank / Erieman

[deemery]

A nice polite term for 'droppings' is "fewmets"    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewmets  That goes well with knowing your collective nouns (venery), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal   Example, "we could tell by the fewmets that a kit of pigeons had visited recently." 

Oh, and a suggestion:  At the top of the brick chimney, there's flat black around that round chimney topper.  Suggest toning that down with a dark grey, in general I save pure black only for shadows.  It doesn't "scale" properly. 

dave

[S&S RR]

So John,

Who had the pigeons first, you or Frank/Erieman? Nice looking build.

Steve

Hi Steve


Thanks for stopping by the thread.


I don't think Frank or I are the first to have pigeons but Frank's seem to S**t more than the one's on the S&S RR.

John / Steve

I think the proper term is bird poop or bird poo, not bird s**t. Just saying. And yes, it was someone on this forum ( or maybe the other forum) that told me that I needed more bird poop on my buildings. Now you are going to ask who was that person. Well, give me some time and I will go back to that build and find out who mentioned this delicate item. I think the birds with a little excrement provide a little more to the story.  But thanks for asking. TTFN

Frank / Erieman

I think the details make all the difference with our models - even if we can't agree on the PC name for them. Just saying. PFM

[S&S RR]

A nice polite term for 'droppings' is "fewmets"    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewmets  That goes well with knowing your collective nouns (venery), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal   Example, "we could tell by the fewmets that a kit of pigeons had visited recently." 

Oh, and a suggestion:  At the top of the brick chimney, there's flat black around that round chimney topper.  Suggest toning that down with a dark grey, in general I save pure black only for shadows.  It doesn't "scale" properly. 

dave

Dave


Thanks for the suggestion - I added it to the fix list.  One of the things I'm finding with photographing my models is that color contrasts seem to be exaggerated.  The chimmy top is concrete but the inside is flat black.  The difference looks much greater in a photograph than to my eye. The gray concrete color is lighter and brighter and the flat black seems to have more gloss and is darker in the picture. 

[S&S RR]

I'm taking a little break and thought I would post some progress pictures from this morning.  I started assembling the trestle.