2025-2026 Winter Challenge - Feed Mill

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking really good, Mike.

Cheers, Mark.

[Michael Hohn]

Looks great Mike.

Thank you, Curt.

[Michael Hohn]

It's really coming together nicely.

Jeff

Jeff,

Thank you!

Mike

[Michael Hohn]

Looking really good, Mike.

Cheers, Mark.

Thank you.

[Larry C]

Mike that is looking soooo good; well done.

[Jerry]

Mike very nicely done.  great job.

Jerry

[Michael Hohn]

Mike that is looking soooo good; well done.

Larry,

Thank you.

Mike

[Michael Hohn]

Mike very nicely done.  great job.

Jerry

Jerry,

Thanks much!

Mike

[Bernd]

Playing catch up here Mike. Nice neat work. Building looks great with the many roof angles.

Bernd

[Michael Hohn]

Bernd,

Thank you. 

Variety in roof levels and angles seems to be in the very nature of feed mills new and old. It has presented a challenge.

Mike

[deemery]

I saw this place in Vermont (516 Mill Rd, Hartford VT, near White River Junction): 




Unfortunately I couldn't stop to take photos and these aren't the best roofline views, but I did remember the location so I could go back and find it on Google Street View.  I thought you'd be interested in the inspiration.  It's along the tracks but above a source of water (White River is about 40' down from here) so I'm guessing it was a steam powered grain mill.

dave

[Michael Hohn]

So New Englandy!  I like the colors.

Thanks, Dave.

[Michael Hohn]

Chimney

Sometimes I forget about chimneys until after the roof is done; what a pain then.  This time I remembered, and built a little platform for it to sit on, nice and plumb:



The chimney is a Tichy part, painted a brick color. After placing the subroof, I added mortar by slathering on a light gray-colored powder mixed with isopropyl alchohol:



After it dried, I wiped off the excess on the brick with a wet (spit) finger:



I added more metal siding, row by row.  Here's an early stage:



I finished the metal; time to add roofs.  First, a subroof::



Trim was added around the perimeters.



Both of these small roofs are ready for the styrene "metal" roofing.

Mike

[PRR Modeler]

This looks very good Mike.

[Michael Hohn]

This looks very good Mike.

Thank you.