Lamson bash

[Mark Dalrymple]

Those shingles have come up nicely, Dave.

You managed to tone them down well.  Its looking great.

Cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

Well, I'm not going to finish this in time for the contest, but I did start work on the 4th building today:

The roof is just sitting loose on the structure.  The epoxy is setting up, and I'll start work on the shingles. 

add Shingles need to be trimmed, plus ridgepole:


dave

[PRR Modeler]

Nice looking building Dave.

[jbvb]

Indeed.  Do I recall correctly that this is a plaster building?

[deemery]

Indeed.  Do I recall correctly that this is a plaster building?

Yes.  The quality of the castings is outstanding.  The (Grandt) windows fit perfectly (occasionally there's a little drip of plaster to remove) and the pieces are of an uniform thickness and square.  

In the kit, this structure has a single story brick annex.  Instead, I'll build a wood (clapboard) warehouse/storage building along the tracks.  But first I'll do a bit more test arrangement and think about the connecting walkways.  The model (and prototype) had an unique 2nd story curved walkway, and I'll try to fit something like that into the arrangement.  

dave

[deemery]

Here's the hole where Lamson will go:

I covered the cardboard lattice with plaster wrap today.  I also trimmed Building #4's roof shingles.  I'll add the roof ridge tomorrow, and that building will be done.  And then I'll do some more rough scenery on the 'hole'.  The expectation is that most of the ridge behind the structure will be forest.  I also need to add the track for the spur in front of the buildings

dave

[GPdemayo]

Good work on the brick structure Dave.....

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave,

Nice work on the structure.  The shingles look terrific. Good luck with the "hole".

Have fun,
mike

[deemery]

I've been working on the layout location where Lamsons will end up.  Earlier I put plaster wrap over the cardboard lattice.  Today I added "stratigraphy".








This is the Heki "Slate foil rock plastic sheets" from Scenic Express:  https://www.sceneryexpress.com/SHALE-CLIFF-FOIL-STONE-33-x-14-1_2/productinfo/HK3138/  I use a hot glue gun to attach this to the plaster wrap.  They don't have the same level of detail as Cripplebush Valley Rubber Rocks, but they're also a lot cheaper.  The next step will be to fill in around the cliff pieces with plaster or Sculptamold filler, then add some more texture to the rock faces.  You do need to pay a bit of attention to these, there's an "up" and a "down" to the rock faces.  And you want the strata to align.  I added a dip from right to left, which should add a bit of interest and keep this from looking too "plopped down."

The plan is to cover this with a fair amount of foilage, so they're not particularly stark cliffs, but rather weathered cliffs peeking out behind trees, bushes, etc. 

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Your molds look great to me Dave.

[Dave Buchholz]

Dave, got any pics posted of your layout overall. I see snippets here and there. I'd love to see some wider angles of progress pics!

[deemery]

Dave, got any pics posted of your layout overall. I see snippets here and there. I'd love to see some wider angles of progress pics!

That assumes there's "progress" to show...  Mostly the room is a catastrophe.  But I'll do some clean-up and take some wide angle shots of the train room in a week or so.

dave

[Rick]

Dave, good job getting plastered and stoned.   

[deemery]

Dave, good job getting plastered and stoned.   

   I was at a geology talk at UNH, and beforehand showed one of the professors those photos.  "I was doing stratigraphy today.  See, I added these strata."  And then we talked a bit about strata and how to portray it.  He said, "Some of those gaps between the plastic 'rocks' would make good faults, particularly if you dig them into the hillside a bit and added extra plants."  He always gets a kick out of seeing my model geology.

dave

[Jerry]

Looks like your off to a good start.

Jerry