Ken Brunt said:
I hope there’s no tunnels on your RR…
Ha! No tunnels where this will be running on my layout that’s for sure! Also, I hope to one day take this to one of the shows our Garden Railroad Society attends and run it for, hopefully, everyone’s enjoyment, especially kids, and we run on the floor, so that shouldn’t be a problem. I got a long way to go though.
You knocked the bricks out of the park. Very believable weathered brick. Great job on the whole thing.
I’ll be watching to see how this shapes up. I love how the car appears to be bowing and straining under the load of that chimney. Very cool.
Very cute build. Will be interesting to see it take the corners. A few too many birds on the chimney and it may tip over.
I love it!!
Todd Brody said:
Very cute build. Will be interesting to see it take the corners. A few too many birds on the chimney and it may tip over.
…a light breeze might do it in. I’d like to see Santa get down that 
A Really nice job on that chimney! and I like how the car is straining so under the weight.
Your RR must be flush with money this being a travelling pay station… for a chimney that tall they must burn piles of cash ! I can see it now the guys are out in the hills working and here comes the tall chimney puffing a green back tinted smoke and the guys come running!
This sure fits into the whimsy requirement.
Seeing that chimney, I have to cry, ‘Holy smoke Passaroman, the chimney is over the top of that roof indeed!’
Well, over the top we were asked for, and over the top you sure have delivered!
Very nice work so far. I love the finish on the brickwork, the door, as the good Doctor said, and that cartoony-looking woodwork sure is shaping up nicely, too.
Can’t wait to see this beauty in all its finished splendor!
Well as I said at the beginning, my flat car is the base for a whimsical/fantasy structure you’ve seen in one of the popular fantasy movie series…part of the fun for me will be to see how long it takes our friends here to (hopefully!) recognize it.
I think these pictures might give it away now; it probably won’t be too hard to guess the structure I’m trying to imitate.
Here’s a view of the supporting beams and all:
I’m working on the back elevation first, for practice:
I started painting the interior walls AFTER I attached the wall template…to quote one of the characters in the movie, “What an idiot!”
Anyway here’s how the rear elevation and the sides are shaping…you can tell that in order to fit this on a flat car, I am forced to use some serious selective compression, and the viewer is humbly asked to suspend your plausibility meter on the compression!
Boy do I have a lot to do in the next week. If I have this right, we have one more weekend to completion?!?!?!
edited for a couple of hideous typing errors!
I do not know were it is from beyond your imagination… It will be very cool!
That is going to be crazy going around your layout.
It looks like something from Harry Potter? Another movie with a crooked house was Willy Wonka?
You got it, Todd. It’s the Weasley’s house in Harry Potter, The Burrow. I found these pictures from the picture itself, and unbelievably the actual architectural set of drawings presumably used by the set people. The internet never stops amazing, does it?
Obviously with the size and time limitations, not to mention my own skill limitations, I can’t duplicate the plans, but I’m aiming for a good and interesting representation. A lot yet to be determined on that score.
One week to go…
… you can sleep when you finish the challenge (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
You sure are capturing the feel of the place! Well done!
Now that finally explains the gigantic chimeny. Very nicely done and it is amazing that you actually have elevation drawings of it. Job well done…so far.
I agree you are capturing the look nad feel of that house and I’ll say it again this is going to look a riot going around your RR.
You should put some loose pieces on it that will fall off as it goes along. The challenge will be to make it around without losing any parts.
Maybe maybe maybe I can pull this off…I’m thinking just maybe; it’ll be really close…
It was another seventy degree day here in the mountains, unseasonal would be an understatement. It was all I could do on my day off here to stay indoors and work on this build. I did go out in the afternoon and start laying a second loop for the track that’s laying in the back yard.
Anyway, here’s some pictures from yesterday and today’s work:
I’m enjoying this a lot!
Devon Sinsley said:
Now that finally explains the gigantic chimeny. Very nicely done and it is amazing that you actually have elevation drawings of it. Job well done…so far.
You got the “so far” part right! We’ll see…a lot still to be done.
Todd Haskins said:
I agree you are capturing the look nad feel of that house and I’ll say it again this is going to look a riot going around your RR.
You should put some loose pieces on it that will fall off as it goes along. The challenge will be to make it around without losing any parts.
I think it might be enough challenge to make it around! So far the entire structure remains in balance to where it won’t tip over one way or another as it travels, but I’ve still got a ways to go. Yikes.
This is after all a travelling Pay Station and Branch Line Managers Headquarters so we don’t want any of the manager’s six kids falling out of windows or anything like that.
They ROW crew will deserve some extra pay. They will have to trim trees to their tops
