Campbell's #411 Schrock Meat Company

[deemery]

Nice job on the stone corners, that's a tough part of those kits.


dave

[nycjeff]

Nice job on the stone corners, that's a tough part of those kits.


dave

Hello Dave, thanks for looking in. Thanks for the nice comment, I agree, the stone corners were not easy to match up, but the end result is worth the effort.

Continuing on...



The front canopy was mounted on the main building next.



This was one area where I did not follow the instructions. First, I added extra bracing to the underside of the front canopy roof. I did not think that just gluing the rafter assemblies to the underside would be sturdy enough. In fact I added extra pieces to the rafter assemblies and then glued them to the bracing. I did not use the rack hangers supplied with the kit, as I said before two of them broke while removing them from the sprue. Instead I cut some pieces of styrene and glued them into the rafter assemblies. This made it much easier to attach the rack to the underside of the roof.



Another view of the underside of the front canopy roof. You can see the new styrene piece that I added to the rafter assemblies here. The fourth one was not needed.



Next I began work on the slaughterhouse shingle roof. I added bracing on the underside using 1/4 inch square strip-wood.



I began gluing shingle rows to the roof card. The lined roof cards make it easier to keep the shingle rows straight. This is the first time that I have used paper shingles that come on a roll, but they seem to work out pretty well. I don't think I will have enough with the one roll that came with the kit. We will see.



One side is done.  I placed some roll-roofing paper in several spots to simulate missing shingles and also applied some weathering chalks. More in a minute.

[nycjeff]

Next I began work on the roof-top water tank assembly. There are three support pieces. I transferred the template drawing to a piece of paper and used this as my guide. Once again the excellent drawings helped me. Measuring the many pieces of wood against the drawings takes all the guesswork out of the process.



The three tank support brackets are shown here, as well as the tank floor, the tank itself and the tank roof. The tank wood surfaces went easier than I thought, they fit around the tank easily and I only had to trim one wood stave to make it fit perfectly. I colored the tank the same way as all of my wood walls. I will stain the wood bracing with my AI solution and the cardstock roof card will get more roll-roofing material.



The tank support assembly has been completed and stained.



Another view of the tank support assembly and the tank roof with the roll-roofing material is also shown.



Her I am adding the tank rings using black thread. Per the instructions, I drilled a starting hole and then layed the thread into thinly cut grooves in the tank wood exterior. I used super glue in several locations to hold the thread in place. The lightly grooved lines that I cut in the tank wrap made this job much easier than I anticipated. You can also see the two tank ladders here.



Here I am assembling the tank ladders. Once again I transferred template drawings to a piece of paper. I didn't work directly off of the drawings themselves because I didn't want to damage them. I am getting near the end of the instruction sheets so that must mean I'm almost done, I haven't glued any of the many sub-assemblies together yet. I have really enjoyed working on this kit and my scratch- building skills have been improved quite a bit. That's it for now, more later.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking really nice, Jeff.

That's a neat little tank support sub-assembly.

Cheers, Mark.

[Keep It Rusty]

I love that little tank support deck too!

[postalkarl]

Hey Jeff:

That's coming right along. Can't wait to see more.

Karl

[nycjeff]

Looking really nice, Jeff.

That's a neat little tank support sub-assembly.

Cheers, Mark.

I love that little tank support deck too!

Hello Mark and Craig, thank you for the nice comments. That little assembly is one of many in this kit that came out well because I followed the excellent instructions and the well-done drawings. I like it too.

[nycjeff]

Hey Jeff:

That's coming right along. Can't wait to see more.

Karl

Hello Karl, thanks for looking in. I'm getting into the home stretch with this one. I've had a great time building this kit. It was my first Campbell's kit. A few more small steps and it will be time to put all the many sub-assemblies together.

[Opa George]

Excellent work on this structure, Jeff.  Nice detailing all around so far.  I used to work in a grocery store that still did it's own butchering from swinging beef and I remember the transport rack running from our receiving dock through the back warehouse and into the meat department cooler.  Your model captures that detail well, although in this instance I imagine the rail is to get the sides out of the shop and to the loading dock.

--Opa George

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Getting caught up again on your nice build. Well done.

Tom 

[Jerry]

Jeff nice job on those brick corners!!


A job well done.


Jerry

[nycjeff]

Excellent work on this structure, Jeff.  Nice detailing all around so far.  I used to work in a grocery store that still did it's own butchering from swinging beef and I remember the transport rack running from our receiving dock through the back warehouse and into the meat department cooler.  Your model captures that detail well, although in this instance I imagine the rail is to get the sides out of the shop and to the loading dock.

--Opa George

Hello George, thanks for the nice comments and you are right, the front rack is for freshly dressed sides to go out of the building. The structure on the left side that looks like an enclosed stairway is actually a cattle ramp so that the cows can move themselves up to the second floor.

Jeff,

Getting caught up again on your nice build. Well done.

Tom 

Hey Tom, thanks for looking in and for the kind words. I've had a good time with this kit.

Jeff nice job on those brick corners!!


A job well done.


Jerry

Hello Jerry, thank you. The stone wall corners were a little tricky, but I'm pleased with how they came out.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...



The kit provides a large billboard like sign for the left side and I thought I would do something different when mounting it. I was looking at one of Steve Custer's excellent build threads and I noticed that he had a different method of mounting signs on a building wall. He built a wood backer board for the sign and then mounted the sign to that. I have some thin balsa wood in my stash, so I assembled some pieces with small bracing as shown. I didn't want to risk warping this thin wood with AI solution, so I colored it around the edges with weathering chalk and then pasted the sign on. I think it came out great, thanks Steve.



Next I glued the roof-top water tank to its base. It's a little hard to see clearly but I cut two slits in the tank roof to accommodate the ladder that goes from the base up to the roof.



Next I glued the roof onto the main slaughterhouse building walls. I finally got around to using a bag filled with sand to weigh down the roof while the glue dried. This worked out very well. I'm not sure why it took me so long to use this method, but now I'm glad to be doing it this way.



Jumping ahead, everything is glued together and mounted on a homosote material base. You can see the large sign on the wall. The skylights were added to the roof. These were small assemblies that took some time to get right, but I think they look good. You can also see where I left some shingles off and exposed some roofing paper. I like this look. I applied some weathering chalks to the shingles as well. I'm very pleased with how everything is coming together. The cattle ramp and loading docks really add too the look of the building.



This is a front view. I made a sign for the upper gable and used the wood backer board method again. The smokestack is left over from an RDA kit. Frank Baker was nice enough to send me a picture of this kit that he built 35 or 40 years ago and he added a smokestack. I thought it looked nice, so I did it as well.



This is a view of the other side, here I also added a sign and you can also get a better look at the smokestack and the water tank. More in a minute

[nycjeff]

This rear view shows off the foundation and boiler house stone wall look very well. It also gives a good look at the rafter tails, which is always a tedious job, but is always worth the effort. I can see in the picture that I have to level out my roof-top water tank. I added a steer skull above the door as shown. I had a long horn steer in my stash for some reason so I cut off it's head and painted it white. This is a slaughterhouse you know.



Here is a view of where this kit will live on my layout. It's next to the hole in the center of my helix at the end of my upper level peninsula. There will be a small stockyard in the rear of the building for the cattle arriving on the spur track seen at the bottom right. The tunnel portal at the bottom left is where trains come out of the top of my helix. The center track is the return loop at the end of the upper peninsula.



I've spread some joint compound at the seams of my scenery base areas. The base for the kit will fit right into this space. A small stockyard will go to the right of the building. It will be a little lower than the building so I will have to build a ramp to get the cattle from the pens into the cattle ramp.



This is the base being laid out. There are a lot of sub-assemblies to be mounted on the base after painting.



Here the base has been painted with my dirt paint color and the first layer of ground cover has been added. Some of the mod-podge and water mix that I use to cement my scenery in place is still wet. I use a 1/4 mod-podge and 3/4 water mixture. That's it for now, more later.

[PRR Modeler]

Everything looks great Jeff.