Portable Saw Mill

[Rick]

Larry, nice colors on the shed's wood.
Neat little scene.

[Larry C]

Dave thanks for the pic.

Rick thank you; a little at a time.

[Philip]

It takes zero pressure to have fun, Looking great Larry!

[Zephyrus52246]

Nice colors on all the pieces.  Great work.

Jeff

[Rick]

Larry, will you add a crane or another device that will be used to load and unload the machines and shed?

[Larry C]

Philip thank you. It's been great therapy since I lost my buddy.

Jeff thank you; much appreciated.

Rick yes I'm going to build, what I call a jib crane, to load and unload the equipment
as well as the logs. Using the same plan I used for Andrew's Boat Works.

[Larry C]

Now comes the fun part; starting with the details. Figured I'd start with a workbench which is 8ft. by 3ft. This was made from 6x6's for the frame and legs and 3x12's for the top along with a 2x10 for the front and 2 pieces of 1x6's for the drawers. Also used track nails for the drawer pulls; of course all the wood was grained, colored with chalks and clear alcohol then given a liberal coat of A&I.

All the details are from my new and improved parts bin. Some were soaked in blacken then buffed with the dermal while others were colored with chalks and/or paint.



Needed something to under the bench and this box of junk came from my newly acquired detailed parts. It was sprayed painted with grey primer then colored with chalk and gun metal paint. After everything dried I gave the parts a thin coat of rust.



Here's the bench glued in place with the box of junk underneath along with a HO scale barrel from the parts bin. Printed some signs and glued a couple to the side of the shed.

Next will be to build some sort of carriage to help feed the logs into the saw and also get all the new, to me, detail parts organized. Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments and/or suggestions.

[friscomike]

Howdy Larry,

Nice work on the details and workbench.  The diorama is really coming together.

Have fun,
mike

[Jerry]

Larry the details look great.

Jerry

[KentuckySouthern]

Nice work bench, if it were my shop there would be half a pint of dried up paint I spilled by the vice.  It looks a lot like Dad's bench.   

[Larry C]

Mike, Jerry, and Karl thank you guys so much. Doing the details
is my "happy place".

[Philip]

  Looking Cool!

[Larry C]

Thanks Philip.

[Larry C]

There are a couple of things I need to get done before I start thinking about details. This one of them:



After receiving the care package from Jerry I wanted to get the parts organized so I knew exactly what I had on hand. Also there are a few tanks and boilers not shown as well as a small kit to build at some point. All these detail parts should keep me going for quite awhile.



Also I wanted to get the logs placed then I can fill in with the detail parts. All the logs were taken from the back yard cut to size; most are a scale 8 ft long with a couple @ 16 ft long. The hole in the foam will be filled with a "jib crane", yet to be built, which will unload the logs off a flat car as well as place them on a carriage to be fed into the saw.



This is the back of the diorama. I do want to leave room for some LPs to walk around the scene plus try not to overcrowd the overall look. I did order a few extra items from SW that are logging specific. Next I think I'll cut, color, and install the belt from the vertical steam engine to the saw while I can still get at them. Also finish up the log carriage that I've already started. Still lots to do and am enjoying every minute of this build. Thanks for stopping by and for all your encouragement.

[Jerry]

Looking good!  Nice log carriage.

Your getting more creative with ever post.

Jerry