Large Scale Central

Hecla Mine, Burke Idaho

Serving our famous deep fried squirrel giblets.

donā€™t forget the gravy :innocent: :sunglasses:

Here are a few of my office squirrels. This was taken last spring looking out the window at my office.

See Dan you guys have real squirrels. We have tree rats. Those are huge. Fried chicken kinda huge. When I was stationed in Fort Sill Oklahoma for artillery school one of the instructors took a group of us camping for the weekend. Among other things we ate some interesting things. One was a big red squirrel the size of a small rabbit and a rattle snake. Both were excellent eating

Fired up the printer to start making windows. Need lots of windows. Inam gonna buy another sheet of foam tomorrow.
But its gonna take a lot of windows and a few doors.

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Devon, are you using both of you printers now, or just the newest one? Look forward to seeing all the windows in place on the mine structure.

Designing and printing windows is the main reason I got a printer to begin with.

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If your following Roosters little Washington street station build, you might want to look closer at the pic and get some furnace tape and some striping tape
https://com-largescalecentral.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/optimized/2X/b/b7148297ede4edef64637e817a78fe2d134a9786_2_666x500.jpeg
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I am going to steal his idea for the window glazing and use chrome vinyl behind the windows. I am going to ā€œtryā€ styrene for the raised trim though.

But I am impressed to say the least out how well that building came out using striping tape.

Dan, my little one is having issues. It needs another new screen. The replacement i but in was a dud. And I havenā€™t fixed it yet. I will, I intend to run both.

David can you tell me the name of that post , when I click on it all I get is the picture. Is this a current project?

I got the picture from post 122 of this thread Pete. I donā€™t know that Rooster ever did a thread on the actual build, but if you look close at the pic you can guess at the materials used. Rooster might say more if asked.
Could be he cut the muntins from a piece of red vinyl but Iā€™ll lean toward striping tape myself.
JMHO YMMV
and for the alphabet police ABCDE FGIKLN PQRSTU WXZ
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Rooster did enlighten me a little bit on how he built it and I am using many of the techniques.

The main structure is simply foam. He carved the lines to make the clapboard straight into the foam. If I understood him correctly the trim is styrene. for the windows he laid down chrome vinyl and then took pin striping tape to make the mullions.

Since I am printing my windows I am thinking of using a styrene backer with chrome vinyl laid over it that is then in turn glued tot he back of my windows.

With that said, I am making my structure out of solid foam for the main body. I will use styrene strips for the trim boards. Havenā€™t settled on the siding yet but I like Roosters clapboard or I might glue on styrene battens. The windows and doors will all be printed. Roof is going to be corrugated pop cans with the same rusting paint that I used on the MIK.

This brings me to color. With black and white photography there is no way to tell what color this building was. As bright as the trim is in the pictures i assume it is white. But what color to paint the main structure. I have all along thought barn red. But for some reason I have been leaning toward a dark hunter or forest green.

Thoughts?

Here is the first window.

So its a printed window with a piece of furnace tape (i dont have chrome vinyl like I thought but do have a roll of furnace tape) stuck to a piece of styrene that I used super glue gel to glue it to the back of the window.

I like it. Gives it a nice opaque glazing where the ā€œglassā€ reflects back.

Nice looking window. 1 down and ??? to go :upside_down_face:

I like that idea of "reflective"glass. I might be stealing that idea for the few upper windows on my feed mill.

Well that idea is not mine. Thats a rooster suggestion

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Iā€™m gonna agree with red and white

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But you didnā€™t tell me how you cut your lines

I believe I did in a ā€œprivate messageā€ that you asked me on the side instead of this thread?

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