Campbell's #411 Schrock Meat Company

[nycjeff]

Here is a view of two sides of the warehouse with the roof glued on.



The other sides of the warehouse with roof.



The wagon shed with the roof glued on.



The other sides of the wagon shed. Next up is the boiler house which has stone walls similar to the foundation.



The walls of the boiler house are cardstock, to which the embossed plastic stone material will be glued. Bracing has been added to the edges and the window and door openings have kit provided strip-wood around their perimeters. According to the instructions you are supposed to mount the windows on the back side so that they appear to be recessed. I dry fitted them that way, but did not like the way they looked, so I decided to mount them on the outside like all of the other windows.



Here are the stone walls for the boiler house after the individual stones have been painted. More in a few

[Mark Dalrymple]

Nice progress, Jeff.

Looking good.

Cheers, Mark.

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice Jeff.

[nycjeff]

Nice progress, Jeff.

Looking good.

Cheers, Mark.

Hello Mark, thank you for checking in.

Very nice Jeff.

Hello Curt, thanks for the kind words, I'm having a great time with this kit

Continuing on...



Here I have applied a watered down wash of water and light grey paint to the stone wall. At this point it looks drastic, but...



When you wipe off the wash with a tissue you get the result shown on the right. It leaves behind a nice mortar joint color and also tones down the color of the painted stones. The good thing is that if the result is not dark enough, you can just apply another coat of the wash. I learned this technique watching several videos on the interweb.



Here the plastic stone sheets have been glued onto the cardstock wall pieces and trimmed to fit. The door and window openings have been cut out and you can see the windows mounted on the outside of the walls. As I said before the recessed windows just didn't look right to me. I also added some painted wood trim pieces around the door opening. I think that I will leave the door ajar  to give an idea of an interior. Next is the roof for this sub-assembly and at this point I am about 3/4 of the way through the instructions. That's it for now, more later

[GPdemayo]

The stonework looks great Jeff.....

[jerryrbeach]

Jeff,


Warehouse and stonework both look great!

[postalkarl]

Hey Jeff:

Looking great so far. When I worked in Hobby Shops back in the 70's I bought and built most of their kits. Did A diorama of both dock and the buildings that went with them. Donated them to The Gatsme Model RR Club.

Karl

[nycjeff]

The stonework looks great Jeff.....

Jeff,


Warehouse and stonework both look great!

Hello Greg and Jerry, thank you for looking in and for the kind words. I have to admit that when I first saw the embossed plastic stone sheets, I was skeptical, but  I am very pleased with how they came out. I guess that the 40 to 50 year old stuff still works pretty well.

Hey Jeff:

Looking great so far. When I worked in Hobby Shops back in the 70's I bought and built most of their kits. Did A diorama of both dock and the buildings that went with them. Donated them to The Gatsme Model RR Club.

Karl

Hello Karl, thank you. I keep hearing that everyone built Campbell's kits back in the 70's and 80's. I like this one a lot and look forward to building more. The scratch-building aspect of these kits makes them more enjoyable to me.

[ReadingBob]

Looking good Jeff!  Nice job on the stonework. 

The first wood kit I ever built was the Campbells Sheriff's Office.  Botched it up pretty good too.     I've build a few more over the years.  Bret's Brewery was a lot of fun and turned out pretty well.  It had a stone addition as well with the same type of construction.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Well done. I have a few Campbell kits left under the layout. I may get to them one day, well, probably not. 

Tom 

[nycjeff]

Looking good Jeff!  Nice job on the stonework. 

The first wood kit I ever built was the Campbells Sheriff's Office.  Botched it up pretty good too.     I've build a few more over the years.  Bret's Brewery was a lot of fun and turned out pretty well.  It had a stone addition as well with the same type of construction.

Hello Bob, thanks for the encouragement. I'm having a lot of fun with this kit as well.

Jeff,

Well done. I have a few Campbell kits left under the layout. I may get to them one day, well, probably not. 

Tom 

Hey Tom, thanks for looking in. This being my first Campbell's kit, I know I'm way behind everyone else but I'm having fun with it. From the pictures I've seen of your layout room and the amount of kits waiting to be built under your benchwork, I don't see how you can get to all of them.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...



The boiler room walls have been assembled and the roof beam has been installed



Another view of the assembled boiler room. The back wall goes up against the main slaughterhouse building so it is not finished. The short exposed wall is there because the boiler room overlaps the end of the slaughterhouse and goes up against the warehouse wall.



A top view of the assembled boiler room.



Next is the boiler room roof. I added some bracing to the bottom of the roof cards and the small black circle at the bottom right is the hole for the smokestack. You can also see the floor that I cut out of some thin styrene. This was necessary because I plan on leaving the door ajar. I will paint the floor with some dark grey paint to simulate concrete. The bracing on the sides will give me a gluing surface to match up with the bracing at the bottom of the boiler room walls.



The roll-roofing material has been added. I used black construction paper painted grey and then sanded the edges to simulate age. I then used some weathering chalks.



The roof has been glued on. You can see the top cap that I made of the same construction paper. I then added some weathering chalks to the roof material. When I was sponging on some of the cocoa bean color to the windows and trim boards, I also put some on the stone walls. I think it gives another layer to the overall look of the walls. More in a minute

[nycjeff]

Another view of the assembled boiler room. While sponging on some of the cocoa bean color to the windows and trim boards, I applied some to the stone walls. I think it gives another layer to the overall look of the walls. You can see the ridge cap that I made from the same construction paper.



Top view of the boiler room roof. The shed roofs of the warehouse and wagon shed were vertical roll-roofing material with battens on the seams, I wanted something different for this roof so I went with a more traditional style of roll-roofing.



Two more loading docks needed to be built. I used the same method as used on the front dock.



Next is the roof for the front loading dock. The roof has kit supplied corrugated material. I cut this into 3/8 wide strips, sprayed them with dullcote, sprayed them with rattle can light grey and then another coat of dullcote. After all this dried, I dry-brushed some rust colors on the strips and then glued them onto the roof card. Below the roof are three of the 5 rafter assemblies. I transferred the drawing to a small piece of paper and used this as my guide. The small dark vertical pieces are hangers for the rack that will be suspended below the roof. I broke two of these removing them from the sprue. I'm not sure how I will attach the rack to these small delicate pieces. I am already planning another sturdier method. That's it for now, more later

[PRR Modeler]

Looks great Jeff.

[nycjeff]

Looks great Jeff.

Hello Curt, thanks for checking in and thank you for the compliment.