A steam powered flour mill from Keep it Rusty

[nycjeff]

Still adding some of the smaller details. A non-working light fixture above the side door and some wood bracing on the front of the rabbit hutch. I used some 1/32 square wood that came with the kit. How do they cut it that small without it breaking ? Now the hutch looks right to me. The security bars on the window look cool.



I'm very pleased with how the wood step walkway and the whole front wood deck and awning frame came out. I'd like to think that I've improved on an already good looking building.



A look at the roof. I like how the backside of the false front looks. Another nice design feature of this kit. The fake owls and the real pigeons and pigeon poop add some nice detail to this area.



I'm pleased with the front produce display, I think it helps the whole front addition come to life. I still need to add some little people though.



The light fixture above the door and a look inside the storage barn along with all of the flour sacks make the right side very interesting to look at.



This will do it for this part of the build for now. When I place it on the layout base I'm sure that more details will be added. I've really enjoyed this part of the kit and I'm looking forward to the next part- the mill building with all of its attached additions.

[Zephyrus52246]

Great job on the first structure.  I've got this kit somewhere in the pile and am following your thread with interest.

Jeff

[Rick]

Jeff, you've created a great looking diorama.

[GeorgeD]

Very nicely done. Jeff. I agree with the others on your fine detail work.

George

[nycjeff]

Great job on the first structure.  I've got this kit somewhere in the pile and am following your thread with interest.

Jeff

Hello Jeff, thanks for looking in and for the kind words. Hope to see you try this kit- it's a lot of fun to build.

Jeff, you've created a great looking diorama.

Hello Rick, thank you for the nice comments. This is only the first part of this large kit's footprint.

Very nicely done. Jeff. I agree with the others on your fine detail work.

George

Hello George, I appreciate the feedback. This kit comes with a ton of details.

[nycjeff]

It's time to move on to the next biggest part of this kit- the mill building. It's the large structure to the left in this picture.



Here's a view of the footprint of the mill building structure. It stretches over 9 inches across and about 6 inches in depth. It's a big one.



We start out with the four 3D printed walls of the core of the whole thing- the mill itself. The detail on these walls is very impressive. I've only seen detail like this on plaster walls before, but these are much thinner and lighter. The large blank spaces on the two bottom walls are where wood additions are attached to the mill.



I only had to do a little filing at the base of the corner of the walls before assembling them. I first dry fitted them and then used some super glue to assemble them. They went together easily and the assembled structure is very solid- no bracing needed.



Per the instructions, I didn't paint the walls until they were already assembled. I used a rattle can dark color- it's almost black, but it doesn't show that dark in the picture. My workbench lighting I guess.



That's it for now, more later.

[friscomike]

Howdy Jeff, 

You finished the other structure with a blast.  I'm looking forward to the main mill building construction.

Have fun,
mike

[deemery]

Jeff and Craig:  I think it's unfortunate that one wall section has the large blank area where the wood wall goes.  That limits the kit's utility for kitbashing.  Better, in my view, would be to provide a small notch where the walls/roof fits in (which a kitbasher could fill), and maybe a slightly offset interior wall to butt up against the stonework.  

But I'd be interested in the views of others.  

The wall sections look great, including those corner quoins.  That's an architectural detail that's pretty common here in Dover NH on wood buildings, to get the effect of much more expensive stone architecture.  

dave

[nycjeff]

Hello Dave, I see what you mean about the limits to kit-bashing by the blank wall spaces. For myself, in building this kit, I plan on doing my kit-bashing to the wood structures that attach to the main mill building. Maybe you can talk to Craig about making some wall pieces available for modular construction. They would be great. The level of detail in these 3D printed walls is amazing.

[nycjeff]

This series of pictures shows the stages for coloring the mill building walls. Per the kit's instructions I sponged on several colors. I first used a brick red color. This was the primary brick color and I used more of this than the others.



Next I used a slightly orange color. Craig used a terra cotta color on his build, but I didn't have that exact color.



Next was a dark brown color that toned down the brightness.



Finally, a little antique gold was added followed by more of the dark brown to tone things down. The multi-part laser cut windows all fit their spaces nicely. On his build Craig painted the quoins on the corners a different color. I thought about it, but decided to just paint the window lintels a dark grey and leave it at that. We'll see, I can still change my mind if I want too later.



The texture of the 3D printed walls is really brought out by the adding of colors. You can see the shadows between the different brick rows clearly. This was my first experience with this type of wall and I like them a lot.
My only complaint is that so much of the mill building's walls will not be visible after adding the wood walled structures to the front and the sides. The rear wall will not be visible on my layout except to the little people in passing trains.
That's it for now, more later.

[nycjeff]

Howdy Jeff,

You finished the other structure with a blast.  I'm looking forward to the main mill building construction.

Have fun,
mike

Hello Mike, thanks for taking the time to comment. I too am looking forward to the mill building. The 3D printed walls are amazing.

[Pennman]

Jeff,

The General Store building turned out really nice and I'm sure this next
structure will as well. I'm liking the colors you used for the stonework,
especially the orange/brown effects which will make it stand out more.

With the kit sold out, I wish Craig would reconsider making a few of the stone walls for sale.

Rich

[Jerry]

Jeff nice coloring on those stone walls!

Jerry

[Rick]

Jeff, I think you nailed the colors on those walls.

[craftsmankits]

I agree, nice coloring on the walls.  It would be nice if Craig would offer this as a separate kit.

Mark