Buffalo Canyon Mining Company in On30

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friscomike

Quote from: IWannaRetire on February 03, 2025, 01:12:32 PMMike, thanks for posting this detailed thread. You seem to be as budget-minded as I am, and you're getting great results.  Scratch-building is exactly what I enjoy reading most on a forum.  It's why I was on RR-L and freerails (RIP) before. 

Quote from: friscomike on February 01, 2025, 09:38:14 AMI am thrilled with the results of my 3D resin printer (Mars 3). Here is a sample of details parts that might be hard to find and cost a fortune to ship...

Shipping small things is my frustration as well.  I live halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, not a retail desert by any measure, except hobby shops!  There's a guy in a small hobby shop in my closest downtown who's open sporadically, with no apparent regularity.  That's fine, I understand.  But when I introduced myself on my first visit and said "I'd like to re-enter the hobby with some scratch-building" he grumbled: "Nobody scratch-builds anymore."  End of conversation. No offer of "I can order for you from Walthers, etc" 

About an hour away, there's an excellent brick and mortar, Des Plaines Hobby, near O'Hare Airport.  Being an hour away, I'm always making my list and checking it twice.  He has ordered products for me from his large list of vendors as well. 

Ordering online myself for one or two small items usually costs as much or more to ship as the item.

I'm following the 3D printing threads and mentions here closely.  My son-in-law has just related an interest in it for a different hobby, and my grandson is approaching just the right age...



   

Howdy Marc, thank you for your post.  I appreciate your comments.  It sounds like you and I are on the same train.  The nearest hobby shop to me is over an hour and half away. We persist, though.  It is a fun hobby.  Have fun, mike

friscomike

Howdy folks,

The Parish Livery and Drayage continues.  I designed the outside walls with rafter tail slots.  I love being able to cut so many rafters with the laser instead of gluing them in a jig. After a few adjustments, the main roof rafter design was finished and the cut and fit test was completed. Parish needs 13 for the top roof and 40 for the side roofs.

 

Everything is cut on the laser for Parish Livery except the front skin, roof cards, and floors. I distressed the wood and started on all those battens soon.

I scored guidelines and attached the rafters to the roof.
 

Top rafters with ridge pole


The assembly of parts is next.

Have fun,
mike






friscomike

Howdy folks,

I decided to go with horizontal clapboards on the front instead of B&B. The clapboards are 6" showing. The guidelines are 12" apart. Transfer adhesive will hold the clapboards in place. I tried several kinds of paper and cardstock, then decided on good ole manilla file folders. I painted the front a tan or weathered white and the rest of the structure barn red. The doors and windows were painted brown.

 

Assembly of the parts


 

 

Final roofing is next.

Have fun,
mike






friscomike

Howdy folks,

This post will describe the colors on the stable.

Here is a photo of the first coat of barn red wash. I'm using Peterpools technique. The wash is diluted Dr. Ben's barn red stain with rubbing alcohol. I am using Dr Ben's stains and pigments on the structure.



I've used Peterpools technique for weathered barn color on several models and like it. Here is his recipe:

1. A wash of Acrylic Barn Red (the red undertone color of a worn and faded wall)
2. Burnt Umber weathering powder
3. Wash of A&I
4. Dry Brushing with the following colors:
- Goose feather ( light tan)
- Country Twill ( Light brown)
- Black for the lower board stains
- Country Twill again



Have fun,
mike




friscomike

Howdy folks,

The roofing was the final detail on the structure.  I wanted to use cedar shingles but ran short.  I decided to use printed paper shingles for the first time and they turned out nice.  The funny thing was that I ran short of paper shingles, too, so decided on a board and batten (leaky) roof on the open-air side of the stable.

Main roof


Open area roof


Top view showing singles and B&B lathing


Roofing is done, so it is off to details...did you say hay bales?

Have fun,
mike



friscomike

Hay folks,

The hay loft needed hay, so I experimented a bit and settled on making hay bale cores from dimensional wood.  Here is the process:

1. Make Hay bales: size is 3'x 18"x 15" 1:1 cut from basswood into two sizes. One size is 1.5' long and the other is full size. More about the half-size later.

2. Coat hay bale wood with contact adhesive.



3. Cover with flock.



First coat of flock.



4. Spray with a second coat of contact adhesive.

5. Cover with a second coat of flock.



6. The next step was to square up the bales and then use fly fishing tippet to simulate baling wire or string. 



7. Finally, make a faux hay loft viewable from the front loft door.



Loft



Next up are signs and the final assembly.

Have fun,
mike

friscomike

Howdy folks,

Parish Livery and Drayage is complete for now.  It will get animals, figures, more hay, and a corral when I plant it on the layout.  Until then,  here is the finished structure:









Hope you enjoyed Parish as much as I did.  The next build is Nowlin's Gas, my current build.

Have fun,
mike

friscomike

#67
Howdy folks,

The next build is a gas station kit that I'm calling Nowlin's Gas.

Backstory

Pate and Winnie Nowlin moved from Arkansas to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Pate was working on a ranch but wanted something better. In 1889 the government opened almost two million acres of unassigned Indian Territory for settlement. The prospect of owning land was Pate's dream as he had always wanted to farm. The two loaded their belongings including Winnie's heirloom China into a wagon and lined up for the land rush. During the rush, they lost their wagon and all they owned in quicksand on the South Fork of the Canadian River. Down but not out, they climbed up the southern bank of the river and joined a new community of Sooners that became New Castle. They staked out their 160 acres of land and began farming. Sadly, they could not make a go of farming alone, so they built a gas station in town to support the farm. Alas, still they could barely make ends meet, so they decided to go to Texas where they had heard about a new gold rush in the southern part of the Texas panhandle. They sold their 160 acres and farm implements and headed southwest to Texas. That brought them to Quitaque, Texas where they built a stone gas station from locally available materials and hoped to make a good living by supplying fuel and oil to the miners and mining equipment companies.

I hope you enjoyed the backstory of Nowlin Gas. This is mostly true except for...

The Nowlni's Gas is a Thomas A. Yorke Enterprises design now labeled Scale Model Masterpieces and sold by DebenLLC (Doctor Ben).

The kit appears to be cast gypsum. The castings are sharp and impressive. The kit comes with fish scale shingles, but I don't know if they represent slate or asphalt shingles. I saw a similar design on an old country house and they were a warm red color. 

The instruction book is augmented from the original Thomas York book and includes several excellent tips and guides left out of the original manual.

Here is Scale Model Masterpieces pilot photo.



I have become especially fond of gas stations since attending a clinic on gas stations at a Narrow Gauge Convention in Colorado. This kit should be fun. Has anyone else built it?

I finished cleaning the castings and making the modifications that Doctor Ben recommended in the instructions. The corners are supposed to look like columns with brick walls in between the columns. The original kit didn't provide for this look, but the updated instructions do.

The kit includes a large base with recesses for the walls to fit into. The walls fit easily into the base, but the end walls were flat against the side walls. A correct look would have been for the side walls corners would look like pillars. One of the modifications recommended in Doctor Ben's instructions was to continue the mortar lines around the corner of the end castings. I used a fine Zona saw to make the cuts. See the below.

Kit contents



I started by adding mortar lines to the end castings. The lines continued around the casting.



The castings received a base coat of khaki paint, that dried overnight. I like to paint or prime castings so the mortar lines are easier to flow color. I painted the walls before I glued them together.





Assembly required beveling the wall bases with sand paper. I used epoxy for glue.



Next up is the canopy and canopy columns.

Have fun,
mike





friscomike

Howdy folks,

The canopy is next.  It consists of cast end wall, rafters, and roof cards.

 

The underside of the canopy

   

That's the canopy with its support columns.

Have fun,
mike





friscomike

#69
Howdy folks,

I decided to paint the trim green and the door and windows a weathered red.



Details

The gas pumps look a little skewed here, but it is the distortion from the camera.



Kerosene tank



Air compressor, shed, spitoon, bench, and chemical fire extinguisher.



Grease rack



Figure (in process)



Signs

  

Telephone pole.



That's it for now.  Next will be the station before scenery is added.

Have fun,
mike





elwoodblues

Mike,

Nowlin's is looking great.  The details will give the garage life.
Ron Newby
General Manager
Clearwater Valley Railroad Co.
www.cvry.ca

PRR Modeler

All the builds you have shared look outstanding Mike even if most of them I have seen before. Outstanding is still Outstanding.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
Freelanced PRR Bellevue Subdivision

Rick


friscomike

Howdy folks,

Ron, Curt, and Rick, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.  

Here are a few photos before the scenery and figures:

 

 

That's it, now on to the dirt!

Have fun,
mike




GPdemayo

Gregory P. DeMayo
General Construction Superintendent Emeritus
St. Louis & Denver Railroad
Longwood, FL

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