A Narrow Gauge Icing Facility

[Jerry]

Nice job Larry its coming along very nicely.


Jerry

[dick green]

Wow Larry

So many tips and techniques love the stair jig as I'm starting some steps tonight. Ythanmyou so much for sharing

Dick

[GPdemayo]

Great work Larry..... love the look of the wood shake roofing. 

[Larry.h]

Wow Larry

So many tips and techniques love the stair jig as I'm starting some steps tonight. Ythanmyou so much for sharing

Dick

Glad you like it. The stair jig is so easy to make. I've built 4 different ones for different spacing and number of stringers

[Larry.h]

Great work Larry..... love the look of the wood shake roofing. 

I really like these Builders-In-Scale shingles. They have been in my stash for years.

[Larry.h]

I've made some more progress on the icing facility. I built the upper and lower platforms, assembled the refer walls, and made some of the upper deck supports.

The wood for the platform is all stained using leather dye and alcohol. I hadn't used leather dye in a while as I was using Prismacolor markers. The leather dye certainly goes much faster and will cost less in the long run. However I like the control of using markers.

I did the usual wire brush and knife procedure done by many of the folks on the forum. Then cut the deckboards to seven scale feet long. After cutting and staining, i laid them out on blue tape while checking for square as I went. Once the deck boards were laid out, I glued the beams to the bottom side of the deck boards. In order to assure an even overhang I made a quick guide from styrene. It is simply a scale 6x6 with a scale 3x3 attached.



The Beam is then glued flush with the guide.



The glued up decks. The faint line is caused by the masking tape. Once they are weathered, they should disappear.



The next step was to glue the walls of the refers used for ice storage together. The refers are styrene Colorado & Southern kits from San Juan Models (formerly Grandtline) I also glued the roof hatches on. Glueing the roof to the walls will come after everything is painted. Since the refers are a storage facility with an enclosed base, the under body cannot be seen. My story is that they used the trucks and underframe to make a logging car.



I wanted to get a feel for the look and size of the icing facility, so I laid the parts out. So far I am liking what is going on.



The next project is to build supports for the upper deck. Some supports have cross members, and some have an angle brace at the top. It is the angle braces I'm attacking first.

On a previous model I'd build a fixture for this. So, building a larger one for these was next. To insure that the braces are even and square, I made sure the guides are square to the edge of the styrene. That way when they are sanded flush on the NWSL True Sander, they will be square and true.



The brace guides were added next. By using a small 45 degree angle, they were perfectly aligned.



Cutting the angle brackets was easy using a miniature saw and miter box from umm-usa.com.



Then it's just a matter of gluing the brackets to the post and letting the glue set.



Once the glue is set the assembly is sanded flush on the sander. Then carefully pried out of the fixture.



Four down, five to go.

[PRR Modeler]

Looks great so far.