Great pics and videos, but we didn’t get to see the loader in action. 
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I’m back to working on the log loader vicinity, notably the backwoods smithy. Making some corrugated metal roofing right now (it is rusting as we speak) and then worked on covering the ugly white styrene floor.
At the start of the day it looked vaguely like this:
Here’s what I ended up doing (I bet there’s a better way):
- painted the styrene with a dark grey
- while wet, loaded on top some ground cover I scraped off the layout
- removed the bulk of the ground cover, leaving a thin layer stuck on by paint (you can see in the below pictures (2nd and 3rd) in the lower left corner the grey isn’t quite covered)
- after letting that dry a bit, added a thicker layer of ground cover
- spritzed on a heavy mixture of water, soap, and Titebond III which I hope will bond it all together
Some pictures of the first steps: paint, thin layer of ground cover
then added a thicker layer of ground cover and sprayed with the Titebond III mixture:
We will see tomorrow if this holds (sticky fingers crossed).
Cheers!
[edited to add a before picture]
Jim as usual your stuff is above the board, Oh,! that is why this year you wont be able to enter the MIK challenge, LOL
I echo Bill, Jim!
Amazingly enough, the Titebond mixture seems to have worked just fine. Whew! So, I went ahead and put the roof on, added details and put it out in the garden. Here are (too many) photos:
Adding the roof:
Adding details and a couple of workers:
And here it is out in the logging area near the loader and yet-to-be-finished tent cabins (note the yellow tint - fires are brutal today here in California):
Cheers (cough cough)!
Very nice.
Now you know how to cover that wood we see …
Wow Jim really looking great, I really Love the rust on the roofs.
Dennis
Dennis: You should like that rust, I made it based on your technique (muriatic acid and hydrogen peroxide)!
Hmmmmm I thought it looked familiar, Great job
Dennis
the posts are a bit on the sturdy side, but i adore the detailing!
If I was to do this over, definitely less chunky, and probably a bit shorter, posts.
Your ground cover blended in seamlessly! It looks like you built it in place!
Been a while, but I’m finally starting to build my tent cabins! My sister was nice enough to volunteer to sew up the tents and they seem to be working. Yay!
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Looks really good Jim! Now to find a place to ‘plant’ it…
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BTW: there’s more to do here. This is the inspiration:
I ran across these worker tents on the US Gartenbahn Schauanlage page on Facebook.
The spot to put them has already been prepared (mostly):
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Jim, your sister did a great job on the tents. The cabins will really bring the loader scene to life.
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those look great. They will really bring the whole "camp"scene to life. With the changes I am going to make to my outdoor I want to make more scenes and you and others have done instead of just plopping buildings on the layout. Between dogs and snow I am not sure how to do this and protect them. But I want to scale down the scope of the railroad and increase the scene detailing. Your moonshine theme and this logging camp were part of what made me want to change direction. You make such realistic scenes.
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No dogs, no snow, and the buildings still get beat up when I put them out on the layout. I have no idea how you guys do it in your harsher climate. I live in Pleasanton, after all…
Thanks guys!
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First tent cabin done!
Here are a few intermediate steps (beware: many pictures!)…
Framing:
Getting the rain fly detailed:
And more pics from all angles after final assembly and weathering:
I really like these tent cabins. Not sure I captured the original, which is really awesome, but this will do for me.
You 3D print guys need to show me how to do this with that technology. This is a lot of work. But I do like the mixture of materials.
Three more to build!
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