Lamson bash

[deemery]

Me to wife, "Here, drink this tea."  "Why, is it poison?"  "No, I want the tea bag."  (It's one of those bags that looks like window screens [/size]

I think I can construct an elevator cage on that top floor of the mill tower that will be visible through the windows.  After some research on industrial elevators, they were more common earlier than I thought.

dave

[deemery]

Quick update.  I did some stuff that will kinda look like a freight elevator through the windows.  But more importantly, I figured out how to connect the gable roof to the main roof and then do the shingles with the assembled roof on the workbench.  (The trick:  construct a temporary support to hold the gable into position when shingling.)  The plan is to do the back side of the roof first, then add the gable and do the front side and gable.

dave

[nycjeff]

Hello Dave, I've been enjoying your work on this build and am looking forward to the completion of the mill tower/ elevator. It sounds interesting.

[deemery]

I started shingling today.  I colored the shingle material more-or-less the way Bob Van Gelder suggests, with an assortment of markers.  First I 'painted' each color on the side of the shingle sheet, to see how the colors looked.  In general, they come out darker than you'd expect, which is why Bob emphasizes using the lighter colors more frequently.  Then I randomly painted shingles on a sheet of material in about the recommended proportions.   The pens are above the painted areas in the same order.

Here's a painted sheet:

This looks a little too random colored to me, but maybe when installed it won't look quite so speckled.

I propped the roof onto some 1-2-3 blocks which holds it close to level, and started attaching shingles.  As Bob recommended, I'm using a glue stick.  This seems to work well, but you have to make sure you get good coverage before attaching the shingle strip.  I have a piece of wax paper underneath the roof that I put the shingles on before applying glue stick.  I tried glue-sticking the entire roof, but that seemed to not work as well as doing individual strips.  This is how much I got covered with that first sheet of shingles.  I'll do some more sheets and more shingling tomorrow.

And when I'm done, I will probably apply some chalks to generally tone everything down.   One thing I wish is that the shingles were cut a little deeper into the strips, there are some places where I don't have perfect overhang and the connecting material shows.

dave

[deemery]

Back side roof is almost installed.  It needs the final row of shingles, and trimming on left and right edges.  I'll go back over this with Pan Pastels to tone down the 'spots'.


Also the 'simulacrum' of the freight elevator.  With the roof on, this won't be very visible, it's enough to suggest there's an elevator there, which is what I need.


dave

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking good, Dave

The freight elevator will look great through those windows.  I'm thinking once the chalk goes on those shingles it should pull things back enough.  I'm thinking next time maybe leave off the darkest copic?

Cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

Looking good, Dave

The freight elevator will look great through those windows.  I'm thinking once the chalk goes on those shingles it should pull things back enough.  I'm thinking next time maybe leave off the darkest copic?

Cheers, Mark.

The "hole" for the elevator shaft is a piece of black construction paper painted a flat black.  That worked pretty well.  

My plan for tomorrow is to apply the Pan Pastels on the back side (which won't be very visible where this structure will go.)  The local slate here is pretty dark, so I'm guessing the net result will fade out the lighter colors, and the darker colors will just look 'a bit darker'.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.

dave

[westtexjohn]

Nice work Dave.

[deemery]

Sometimes you try something, look at the result and say "WOW!"

Pan Pastel Neutral Grey Shade applied over top of my 'splotchy' shingles...

dave

[ACL1504]

Dave,

Coming along nicely, looks great.

Tom

[Mr. Critter]

The grey overcoat really toned 'em down.  They look far more homogenous, now.

Is there a name for those gusseted 90° steel blocks in your picture, by the way?  Because I want to try to find some.  I see them in a lot of posts, and they look useful.

[deemery]

Those are (steel) angle plates.  They come in various sizes, those are 2".  I have a bunch of 1", too.  They come in various price points, depending on how precisely ground they are.  I buy the cheap ones from tool sellers at train shows.  Mostly I'm using them for weights (as here) or for aligning building walls, etc. 

The critters with holes in them are 1-2-3 blocks.  Same story, I buy the cheap ones.  Shop around for good prices. 

dave

[Mr. Critter]

Merci!  Aligning walls as the glue sets is precisely how I see myself using them.  To my knowledge, there hasn't been a proper train show here since Montreal Locomotive Works closed its doors, so it's off to the internet I go.  Armed with terminology, now, by your good graces.

Nice to know the name of the 1-2-3 blocks, as well.  Lagniappe.  I work with a factory full of machinists, but I've never seen (or maybe, never noticed) either of those contrivances in the Toolroom.

[deemery]

Another chunk of roofing done.  Tomorrow I'll finish the 2 sides of the gable, then lock down all the edges with a line of Testor's Canopy Glue.  


dave

[Bernd]

Another chunk of roofing done.  Tomorrow I'll finish the 2 sides of the gable, then lock down all the edges with a line of Testor's Canopy Glue. 


dave

Staring at that roof makes the eyes go a little goofy after a while. Building looks great.

Bernd