Project 1 - A blower house What is a blower house? A building containing a steam engine hooked to a huge squirrel cage fan used to ventilate a mine. No, they weren’t overly concerned about the miners’ comfort (I’ve heard from several sources that “You’d freeze your a-- off every time those things kicked on!”), rather to prevent build up of ‘fire damp’ (from the German ‘dampf’ or vapor) - methane and other flammable gasses… Which could cause expensive delays when they exploded and killed your crew. Construction was the same as the beginner’s boiler house - ie crappy used plywood.
Painted to match the rest of the mine buildings
Test shot on the layout on the hillside above the #1 Adit
Project 2 - A '49 Mercury Sedan What can I say, there’s just sumptin about fat fendered Mercs…
