Sewall's Foundry using RailroadKits castings.

[deemery]

The engineer in me looks at this and asks "What is holding up all that stone weight on the overhang?"    But it sure looks good!


dave

[NKP768]

Looks good Steve - good start

Doug

[Dennis Bourey]

Beautiful Job Steve!!!

[GPdemayo]

Probably a sky hook Dennis.....I've not used one in anything I've built, but it seems to happen in railroad related kits on occasion. 

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!

I shingled the roof with diamond shingles made with pinking shears and I ended up hating it so I started to redo it today.


Roof card is in place.


I added metal I beams under the stone overhang. I figured the metal beams with the brick posts makes the overhang slightly more believable.


I added the rafter tails and started shingling the roof.


Glued the 2 cupolas up on the roof.





That's all for tonight...over the next few days I'll keep working on the shingles.

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Looks just beautiful. Can't wait to see the finished model.

Karl S

[Jerry]

Steve another winner for sure.  Great work.


Jerry

[GPdemayo]

Love the wood shakes Steve.....looking forward to seeing them completed. 

[deemery]

I like the I-Beams, that's a nice touch and makes me feel better :-) :-)   You'll need a similarly strong column to hold everything up.

dave

[Bernd]

Steve,

Looking good. I like those individual shingles.

Bernd

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking really nice, Steve.

Did you scratchbuild the cupolas?  If so - what did you use for the vents?

I bought some pinking shears the other day - I hope I don't have the same reaction as you!  My intent was to try to make some diamond asbestos roofing, which was quite common in the day in New Zealand.  I also want to try to find a good material and technique for asbestos corrugated roofing, which was often used on industrial structures.  The undulations were generally wider than with corrugated iron.

Enjoying your work, cheers, Mark.

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!

Mark, I've had better experiences with pinking shear diamond shingles in the past but it's a bit of a struggle to get the cuts straight, at least for me. The cupolas are part of the casting set.

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Can't wait for some more pics. Can't wait to see what you do with the roof.

Karl S

[SteveCuster]

Hello everyone:

I mostly completed the main roof over the last few days. These individual shingles always bog me down a bit getting them done.


Working my way up...


Everything but the cap at this point..


The ridge cap is done and I added the roof cards for the cupolas.


Shingling the cupolas was a little challenging..I was concerned about knocking them loose. This building is really front heavy also, it really wants to tip towards the area with the overhang.


This is after a thin wash of gray paint. I always go slowly when coloring these roofs. They take too much time to get impatient and ruin all my work with a bad coloring job.


This is after a second wash of gray paint.


I colored all the shingles with some chalks. Mostly rembrandt 408.3. I'll add a few more color shades as I finish it.


I drybrushed all the shingles with Linen colored paint.


The same was done to the rear.


That's it for now for the roof, some more minor weathering on the little corrugated metal patches and around the chimneys yet but the hard part is done.

Hopefully later today I'll get working on the loading dock and the rear extension of the structure.

Thanks for following along.

[Dennis Bourey]

Beautiful job Steve.