Awesome building John!!! You have given me lots of ideas. BTW I like your yard.
Chuck
WOW! John, that tower look taller than the one at North Platte. I bet nothing will get past the guys who will work in there.
Chuck Inlow said:
Awesome building John!!! You have given me lots of ideas. BTW I like your yard.
Chuck
Thanks Chuck…I’ll like my yard a lot better if I can get all those Gargraves turnouts working smoothly! Should be real interesting.
Alan Lott said:
WOW! John, that tower look taller than the one at North Platte. I bet nothing will get past the guys who will work in there.
Thanks Alan, I may have gotten a little carried away to say the least with the height of the tower! I have to take it off and straighten it up so I might cut a couple of inches off while I’m doing that.
Well I got the door temporarily positioned…it fits perfectly! I cut the door by heating up a utility knife to red hot, then sliced through the material to cut out what will be my upper window. I tried to cut with the dremel disk but it was obvious all I was going to do it tear up Dave’s nice door.
Since I had to remove and reposition the tower, I took the opportunity to seriously cut down on the height; it looks much more in proportion to me now.
I am ALMOST finished I think. Oh boy.
The last picture is a close-up of my youngest son’s creation, which he put together on the workbench across from me while I worked a few days ago. He’s a wizard with the hot glue gun and the utility knife, very good at salvaging materials too! It took him about an hour.
So far I spent $9.98 and another $6.68 in scale lumber at Caboose Hobbies. I also spent $6.50 on thick magic glue, or super glue I should say. I don’t know if that counts or not.
I like that tall, skinny tower.
I’m getting entirely too much enjoyment out of doing this project! I decided to go for some lighting, however being a zero when it comes to lights and electricity (I tried Christmas lights on a battery for this…fail!!), I resorted to the Dollar Store, as pictured below. I’m into this projects for another $4.40 only, because I already had the blue flashlight laying around.
I may eventually buy some of these kits, which would make it possible for me to light things without knowing how to wire or do resistors or anything else: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Led-Smd-Caboose-lighting-6-x-2-x-4-One-color-and-two-Solid-Red-Tail-Lights-/121273589202?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c3c781dd2
Here’s the lights, and the second picture is the warehouse lit by the flashlight concealed in the back end wall.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/stfrancisconsolidatedrr/light2.jpg)
Oh no…I should have been asleep two hours ago! But I couldn’t help myself. I finally got everything FINISHED, project finished, mission accomplished, yes, and the lights are in!
These pictures show the lights much MUCH brighter than they actually are, but I don’t know how to adjust for that with the camera, but I am so happy to be finished. I enjoyed this so much, and got so much inspiration and motivation from everybody. I’ve been following all the other builds as much as time permits and I didn’t want to fall way short by comparison!!
I don’t know exactly what I spent, but it was less than $20 I’m sure. In putting together this build I ended up going through lots and lots of boxes of all kinds of spare detail parts, and I had no idea of all the stuff I had laying around, I’ve forgotten most of it. Plus I cannibalized some extra cars, especially the interiors. I have a ramp for the back deck, but I didn’t install it because it would have put me over the 90 scale feet limit.
As I understand it, we are posting final pictures in a separate heading? I hope I can take better pictures; handling a camera isn’t one of my big talents. I included two pictures below with different settings on the camera.
Thanks for all your encouragement and kind comments. I second the comments of a couple of the other builders…I can’t wait to start another structure project for my freight yard. Maybe in the next few weeks I hope.
Love all the details you placed in the office for the “Grand Finale” photos. They are really neat.
Doc Tom
Nice work!
I really enjoyed this model. Everyone did great but this one is one of my favorites.
Jake Smith said:
I really enjoyed this model. Everyone did great but this one is one of my favorites.
I agree Jake this one is a Winner. John did a great job.
It’s on the Podium fer sure.
John Caughey said:
It’s on the Podium fer sure.
The incredible colors and neat railroader look with all the details is getting my vote.
Doc Tom