That’s a winner
John Passaro said:
Rick Marty said:
Beautifully done John!!!
Please explain what looks like an offset in the chimney???
I haven’t cut out the floor space yet to line it up with Dave’s chimney above, that’s all. Although an offset chimney might be interesting!!
OK, Thanks for the expanation, now it makes sense to th(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)ese old eyes
John Passaro said:
Rick Marty said:
Beautifully done John!!!
Please explain what looks like an offset in the chimney???
I haven’t cut out the floor space yet to line it up with Dave’s chimney above, that’s all. Although an offset chimney might be interesting!!
OK, Thanks for the explanation, now it makes sense to these tired old eyes(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Rick, I’m really interested in chimney caps since my engine house build a couple of years ago. For this build, I want to come up with something nifty. I mentioned before that at this altitude we have marmots and we don’t want these little devils in the chimney:
I won’t go this fancy:
But I like the flashing and I think I have time to do something like this:
I started looking around the neighborhood when I’m driving around, and it is truly fascinating to me the number of solutions to chimney tops there are and how creative and beautiful some of them are. And that’s just in little ole Denver. I know the English people have taken chimney tops, or pots as they call them, to a whole other level.
My kids always say it doesn’t take much to capture Dad’s imagination!!!
I’m afraid this is it for me gentlemen. I have a major life event taking place next Monday the 10th and won’t be able to work on this next weekend, meaning I’d have to finish my build by this Wednesday or Thursday at the latest. The plain logic is that there is still way too much to do to finish them properly, windows, doors, stairs, finish work, not to mention painting, and more…just too much left to do. Truth is I probably wouldn’t finish even with next weekend to work with. If I hadn’t gotten off to a false start I might have made it, maybe, but then the field stone building came out of the false start so I can’t complain. I’m happy with the field stone building, but if I’m being honest some of the craftsmanship on the tower isn’t that great, rough. I was improvising as I went and some of it worked and some didn’t. I’m thinking of this tower more as a practice building at this point, and I can cannibalize parts of it for other structures and start the tower over having learned a lot.
And I really DID learn a lot, which makes it all worthwhile.
I’m disappointed to say the least, but there’s not much I can do about it.
I’ll be checking in on all the other builds and I’m enthusiatic about seeing how they all come out—it’s a great group of guys we have here.
Anyway, here’s as far as I got:
Thanks to everyone!
John first I hope all is well , life comes at us all the time and I hope this is a minor thing in the grand scheme.
second the building looks great and I hope it will be in the running for a winner.
Gad, John. Here’s hoping all works out well. Your buildings turned out great. Best of luck! Let us know if we can help…
John, I hope this major life event works out to your liking. Will be thinking about you. The tower really looks good, but the stone building is impressive. Stick a chimney on it and call it good (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
John, I am sorry that you won’t be able to bring this build to a finish at this time.
I have been following your progress with great enjoyment, perhaps later this year you will share your finishing touches.
Great build and build thread. I do hope your life event turns out less serious than anticipated.
Thanks for sharing your build with us.
Coming along nicely regardless, I know the feeling. I doubt I will be able to finish digging…I mean finishing my station. Too many other things getting in the way.
good luck with the life event
Slap the chimney on that shack and enter that gem…
John,
Echoing the sentiments of others, may the life event be one of blessings, and may you stick the chimney on the stone building and call it “Good!”
Eric
Sorry to hear of a life event coming on you John. Like others I hope this is but a minor set back in the overall scheme of life
Its a damn nice start. That was an ambitious project and you really have done a nice job with it.
Restart!!********
So now that’s it’s all behind me and I’m fully recovered (the first six weeks were hell), I don’t mind telling you all that I had both my knees replaced the very day the Challenge build was due, and I seriously underestimated the amount of preparation time involved.
But now, in part inspired by Radder (including encouragement to revive old build threads), I hope to finish before next year’s Challenge comes our way.
So as I said at the very beginning, I had this space that needed a singal tower for the mine and yard. And this is what the area looked like:
There is no way I’d get the motivation to finish my build unless I had somewhere in place to put it. So, as you see in the following pictures, I tore everything down, built a platform that would hold the tower and miners’ barracks so it could be removable, then built a road leading to the area, including a start on rocks and scenery. Then I placed the exisiting tower and barracks in place in the condition I left them when I had to abandon the Challenge. I hope you don’t mind, bear with me if you will, but I’ll start with the area preparation and the road before I get to the build itself. So here we go:
So, the barracks comes into the workshop first. I attached Dave’s chimney first, minus the flashing as yet, installed an exhaust pipe for the stove (there will be two), and built a chimney topper (the roof is removable for future additions/modifications). I painted the inside walls of the barracks green. At this point there was a mutiny among the miners. They all wanted pin-ups on the walls, but one fellow, an old guy, held out for Vermeer paintings. When the dispute reached my desk, I sided with the old-timer.
More to follow! Thanks for viewing!
Double knee replacement, wow! Glad to see you have recovered. Looking forward to seeing the signal tower come together.
Great progress! My restart was interrupted by my headfirst dive into RailPro. I rapidly went from a toe dip to a full dive with the loan of a hand controller from a fellow LSCer. The windows and doors that were made for me should be enough to get me back in gear once I have this new system up and running.
I think I finished the barracks…now it’s on to figuring out whether I can salvage the tower, or have to start from scratch. Oh boy.
p.s. I searched the dollar store (aka Covid-19 store) for half an hour looking for smoke/exhaust pipe cap possibilities. Came up with this!:
Beautiful John