Lamson bash

[Philip]

Looking great Dave! 

[deemery]

Progress from the last couple of days....

Walls are painted.  Top pieces is thinned white over stain.  Bottom piece is thinned paint over raw wood.

Next step is the doors & windows.  I also cut trim pieces from strip styrene.  These were all soaked in 10% SuperClean, left to dry overnight.  I arranged them on double-stick paint on cardboard.

And then I sprayed with Badger white primer.  When that dried, I went back over the pieces with Golden fluid Titanium White, my 'default' white paint.  I also painted some 1/4" corner pieces to use as bracing.  The corner pieces won't be quite as noticeable in the interior as 1/4" square stripwood, but will provide most of the same strength.

I also added bracing to the gable ends (a center post) and the bracing/support for the floor to the long walls.

Next step is to add the painted corner posts to the gable end pieces and then  trim along the roofline.  I'll add the corner bracing to the 2 long walls.    Then I can start to assemble the walls, along with the floor.

You can see those 1/4" corner pieces on the bottom wall, since I moved the weights off for the photo.  I need to touch up the paint on the center brace wood, that's the back wall so it would be visible through the windows.

add 4 walls glued together.  You can see the different 'white tone' between the walls and the corner trim. 


dave

[tom.boyd.125]

Dave, your SRMW Lamson build and the new wooden addition looks great ! Tommy

[PRR Modeler]

Great looking progress Dave.

[deemery]

Test-fit on location:

And test-fit with the windows.  The castings stand out nicely.

I have trim to add for the outside of the freight doors, but that stuff wouldn't stay in position for the photo.  

dave

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave,

The warehouse looks perfectly placed to provide more switching on the layout.  The structure looks great, too.

Have fun,
mike

[deemery]

Howdy Dave,

The warehouse looks perfectly placed to provide more switching on the layout.  The structure looks great, too.

Have fun,
mike

Now I'm no ops expert, but there's 3 concurrent car spots.  Left to right:  forthcoming raw materials (lumber, etc) loading dock, left loading door, right loading door OR a hopper spotted farther right for coal unloading.

(Of course, this isn't a big enough facility to justify 3 car spots every operating session.  Rule 1 is applied to traffic generation.)

I showed the top photo to a geology prof today.  He said, "clearly your sediment beds have been subject to some tectonic deformation, which is why the lines aren't perfectly even."  :-)

dave

[Michael Hohn]

Dave,

You've put some thought into this building and it shows.  Having three places to spot cars is a plus for operations.

Mike

[PRR Modeler]

Dave are you going to put an viewable interior in the warehouse?

[deemery]

Dave are you going to put an viewable interior in the warehouse?

Plan is to leave the loading doors open and put crates inside. 

But last night (as I was laying awake in the middle of the night, unfortunately my usual sleep pattern these days), I realized there's no door to put stuff -into- the warehouse from the factory area.  So as I work through the final layout of the buildings, I'll have to think about how to fix that.  (Where's the "Headbang" emoji???)

dave

[deemery]

Yesterday I did the glazing for the windows.  Newer Tichy sets come with glazing, the older sets from my stash of window castings pre-dates that feature.  After trying a bunch of ways to produce glazing, here's what I've come up with. 

• measure the window opening/glazing size (digital calipers)
• in a program that can draw rectangles and let you set the size (I'm ashamed I'm using an old version of PowerPoint), draw the glazing rectangle.  Then add more rectangles, so they share the long edge.  I did 20 windows for this project.
• print that out, then tape a piece of clear styrene (I'm using .010), aligning to the top left corner of the row of windows.
• scribe/cut along the long edges of the set of window castings.
• Cut along the bottom of the set of window rectangles.  The result is a bunch of hopefully correctly sized rectangles held at the top by the tape.  I usually have to do a bit of sanding to get a tight fit.  That's OK (although on a large mill building that gets tedious!)

Now the lack of the doors to move cargo into the warehouse bothered me enough that I 'fixed it'.  I started with a pair of the 5-panel (Tichy) doors I used elsewhere.  I trimmed the top of the framing (in part because the door frame is slightly shorter than the top of the window opening, a layout mistake) and cut left and right side from the framing.  Then I carefully glued a new .020 x .080 styrene header to the top of the pair of frames and touched some glue along the bottom. 


Finally, I marked and cut the opening for the door.  I worked from the inside so the wall would lie flat on the workbench.


Then after some trimming and sanding, a test fit (from the outside, but the door frame will actually be on the inside.)


So I'll paint the frame and doors, and then glue them into position, along with the other windows and doors. 

add A look at the new door opening.  A key attraction of the Lamson & Goodnow prototype was the covered walkways.  I'll do one from the main mill (covering those 2 windows) to the new door opening in the warehouse.


dave

[deemery]

Windows, some doors added, and roof temporarily set in place:


And a look at the whole complex:

The warehouse will actually sit up a bit higher, I need to add the brick foundation.

dave

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Dave.....

[deemery]

A quick foundation.  I measured the depth I needed to add to the building (about .250).  Then I dug out some wider styrene strip (.125 x .375) and placed that wider strip on the floor bracing.  I cut pieces to length, glued them together to form the foundation box.  Then I measured how much more I needed to add to get to the .250 exposure for the foundation.  I glued styrene strips on top of the box to achieve the correct exposure.

Next I cut some N Scale Architect (HO) brick sheets a bit wider than the .250 exposure.  I glued those into position with the foundation box resting on the model, so the brick was snug against the bottom edge of the clapboard siding.  I trimmed that, producing a brick foundation.

Finally I painted that my standard brick color (Vallejo German Red-Brown primer).

So now the building has its foundation.  Next step will be the roof shingles.

dave

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave,

The foundation looks perfect.  It adds even more realism to the warehouse.  The freight door framing sets off the doors.  Nice inclusion of the flat car next to a door.

Have fun,
mike