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LSC TV documentary special- Devon's MIK 2016

The MIK - Annual Build Challenge
#81

Oh I totally relate the only buildings that survive here are the 4 I’ve cast in cement! I redid the car barn’s wooden roof 3 times and ignored the towers lack of one all together. I did a simple wooden facade of store fronts and sidewalk. Only I know what it was…

I left my custom fire fighting/ canteen/battery car out overnight and critters stole my home made nozzle and hose from the reel. It was brass painted red. I had other hoses to connect to the tender that are frayed and destroyed…

I’m raising my layout, I can’t take their digging up my track or covering it …

The notion of a foundry opened immediate chores. Little did I know! Half way…

John

#82

John, that’s why I toyed with the idea of energizing my rails with 10 - 20 kilo-volts when not in use. Very low amperes of course. Just enough to give them furry little buggers a good shock, so they learn to avoid my railroad. The problem is, one of my loops goes around a tree that they do nest in. So I cant win either way.

#83

David Maynard said:

John, I compete though I do not plan on winning. I build running models and stuff that needs to live outside. So all the cutsie trim detail is pretty much out for me. Anything that would get ripped off by snow, taken away by tree rats or otherwise destroyed I don’t put on my buildings. I also don’t do detailed interiors, because I don’t expect anyone to get down on all fours and look through 1:24 scale windows and try and read the writing on a wall calendar (also in 1:24th scale).

That said, I am also way behind schedule, and I have just been informed that I need to be somewhere else this afternoon. And I will also be somewhere else tomorrow afternoon. So, my entry may be a Derrick and a pile of aluminum panels.

Doing this for an interior layout totally changed my perspective. I certainly would not have built this the way I did if it was going outdoors to live. I agree no one will get down on the ground to look in the windows of an outside building. But put it indoors 3 feet high on a layout that is all about detail and now you have to do the small things. I am enjoying it though. . .Its HO for us dexterity challenged people.

#84

Devon, I know where you are coming from. I was just saying where I was coming from. Some interior would be needed on outdoor structures, so they don’t look like empty boxes, but not the same kind of interior that an indoor, eye level, foreground model should have.

#85

David Maynard said:

Devon, I know where you are coming from. I was just saying where I was coming from. Some interior would be needed on outdoor structures, so they don’t look like empty boxes, but not the same kind of interior that an indoor, eye level, foreground model should have.

David,

I understood completely where you were coming from and didn’t feel you were negatively commenting at all. You pointed out a big difference between the two aspects of the hobby. The difference between indoor and outdoor layouts generally (there are exceptions such as Ray and others) where outdoor layouts tend to be larger and less detailed than their indoor counterparts where minute detail comes into focus. I am of course make a huge generalization. I know that for me at least my vision for indoors and outdoors have entirely different focal points.

One of the reason i chose this project over an outdoor one is because knew I would fuss with details that I would never even consider outdoors for their durability as well as them getting lost in the scope of things.

#86

So not much is getting done this weekend, well on the building anyways. I did finish my book I had to read for school and get my 7 page paper written, and then there was watching the kid play three games of hockey and tomorrow is another game of hockey and then some trivial stupid football game plus two more assignments. I hope to get the one wall done tomorrow.

On a side note I am proud of the kid and his team. They are in a tournament here in town. Yesterday they got beat up bad lost 0-8 ouch. But today they shrugged it off and won their first game 5-1 (with my kid making a goal and getting an assist) and then tonight they were engaged in one of the worst games of hockey I had seen for poor sportsmanship by the other team that was instigated by the worst officiating I have seen. I mean this was a car crashed wrapped in a shipwreck and tied of with a plan crash. By the end of it the other team had 4 ejected players, a coach, and two parents. Our boys for the most part stayed clean and when they did react it was in defense of another player. My kid got the crap beat out of him and he simply got up smiled and skated away as the other kid was ejected. They won 3-1. But in a dismal display of awful sportsmanship, there was a shining moment. The goalie for the other team was a real class act. Several times while his team was just falling apart and yelling and screaming at the refs he would skate away clear of the commotion and just chill out obviously not impressed by his team. At one point he even skated down the ice on a particularly long interruption to visit with out goalie. We thought at first there was trouble, but after the game our goalie said he was just frustrated and wanted to apologize to our goalie for the crap his teammates were pulling. Nice to see a young man rise against the tide and be an upright guy. After the game he was visibly upset and I went and shook his hand for being a man. Proud of that kid and I don’t even know him.

Tomorrow they play or the 3rd and 4th slot. Go Warhorses!!!

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

#87

Thanks for sharing your experience, Devon. After many years of coaching football and lacrosse, I have found that players are generally a reflection of their coaches, both good and bad. It is nice to see a young man who rises above all the turmoil and shows good sportsmanship and respect for the other team. Thank you for acknowledging his behavior. That will certainly reinforce his positive attitude.

#88

Good job, Devon. Over the years, off and on, I’ve coached my sons’ baseball, flag football, and basketball teams and I am well aware of what you’re talking about, believe me. You, your son, your son’s coach and team, and that opposing goalie deserve a Highly Respected for this one!

Get back to your build, but in the meantime…Go Warhorses! And GO DENVER BRONCOS!!!

#89

Devon

Looking very nice, I like some of your techniques on the water tank, great looking tank rings

Dennis

#90

Large Scale Central TV
The Steam Propulsion Laboratory: Building the “Badger Works” Episode 5

Welcome to the fifth and final installment of our 5 part series “The Steam Propulsion Laboratory: Building the ‘Badger works’”. I am your host D. James Sinsley and on this episode we will wrap up the construction of the Steam Propulsion Laboratory. As a grand finale we will introduce you to one final radical invention produced by the Badger Works that was way ahead of its time. Sit back and enjoy this final look at one of America’s most secret operations and a great contributor to the industrial age.

Well to recap the SPL was built under the disguise of the Sinsley Mountain Logging & Mining Company which was a real operation near Wallace, Idaho. On the outside is was a simple two bay engine house built from local materials source in the nearby Challenge Town. It was constructed with granite stone quarried close by. The shingles are cut from Western Red Cedar cut on site. The framing was a new product invented by Barnabas Ford that he called layered lumber but was later come to be known as plywood. It was made at Loyet Lumber in Challenge Town and haul to the site by a peculiar looking horse found at an amusement park. Finally the roof was produce by the very shiny and very large new tin works, Taylor Tin.

Some of the features of the SPL that are of note are the early use of electric lights. A Barnabas invention the steam dynamo was used to generate the electricity and later was adapted for use on locomotives to power the lights.

A small forge was built to do the iron work and in these photos is not quite complete.

A nice water tank was placed on the roof to water the locomotives inside. A little wooden box was placed at the back to hold the wood for the forge. Eventually it was used to house the switches to turn on the lights.

Now for a special treat we will introduce you to one last invention of Barnabas Ford and the crew at the Badger Works. Capitalizing of the hovering steam locomotive, Barnabas decided to invent a hovering craft that would be a platform for carrying things. He mounted an invention he called a motion picture camera to it that was able to record an ongoing picture as the device flew around. It was powered by four steam turbine fans. He called the invention the quad copter drone. The invention never caught on until the military found the SPL files and revisited drone technology. Here is the only known video taken by Barnabas’ steam quad copter.

Edit: Video was flagged for copyright by Yutube I think because of the music playing in the background. I will record a new one.

Thanks for joining me on this journey into the workings and construction of the Steam Propulsion Laboratory. Until next year, I am D. James Sinsley, good night.

Sinsley Mountain Logging & Mining Co.

Engine House Build

Llagas Creek 6’ section of track $3.40

50 spikes $1.00

Shipping $1.00

Subtotal $5.40

Brass tubing $0.50

Tree branches $2.00

Subtotal $2.50

Solder $9.00

$9.00

LED Lights and resistors $5.21

Muriatic acid $4.71

Total $26.82

#91

Well it is done enough to show off. Things left undone. The interior walls need to be planked. With those big doors and windows you can see in easily and at the thigh it will be placed people will notice. I purchased for the forge two 5mm flickering LEDs (one red one amber) to simulate the fire. I also made it to hold a Bachmann Annie smoke generator in the hood so that when it is piped with a chimney I am hoping smoke will billow out. I would like to put a quenching barrel and anvil in there as well as some tools. I want to add plumbing from the tank. I want to add some handles to the big doors and hinges to the cargo door as well as a hasp and lock. The wooden box on the back will eventually hold two switches. One for the lights and one for the smoke unit.

I am real happy with the over all look of it. The trees are Ty’s foam and bondo trick using the fake plant from Hobby Lobby. It took two steams to make them. The sign is the herald that Stan put together for me. I have enough to put a smaller version on three locomotives as well. Stan does great work. Another big thanks for making this project happen is Brain at Llagas Creek. I told him I needed so code 215 rail for this project and was on a time frame. He had it to me in a couple days and shipped it before I even paid him. Great guy and the track looks great. Also a big thanks goes to Gary Armitstead for jumping in and producing me some CAD drawings for the octagonal roof for the water tank that supplied the cut angles to make it all fit perfect.

And of course the biggest thanks goes to Dave “the Tin Man” Taylor for hosting this competition and producing the tin for these builds. This is just such a fun way to share in something with a bunch of great and talented people. No matter where the voting goes I am a grand prize winner for having participated and I adhered to Rule #1 all the way.

#92

Hey Devon, It looks like the copyright police have found your video and don’t like it. I get and error that says they will not let it play in this country. Sorry, I’m not leaving the country just to see it.

On a brighter note, the engine house looks great. The shot of the floor and forge looks outstanding. That’s going to be a very nice model for the indoor layout. I still really like the foam rock work around the base and doors too. Well done, rest up.

#93

Wonder if that’s because there is music playing in the background. Probably. I was watching a movie and the credits were rolling. Bet that’s why. I will shoot a new one. Thanks for catching it.

#94

When I see buildings like this it almost makes me want to move everything inside. I love all the different textures and it really looks sharp with all of those shingles.

Well done.

#95

Devon, Your Engine house looks wonderful!. I like the water tower on the roof. All the small details and time you took made this building stand out… Great work!..