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T&D Feeds 10 years and counting

May be wrong place but I need to understand and how to correct the fact at only one of the “images” in this post download, that is the map. The rest of the posting show a blank square but not image.

This is issue is not unique to this specific series of postings. Help

Mike

Mike, I get the same for the original (2019) posts by Craig. Looking at his image links, they are Facebook based, (I think) and FB keeps changing the way it works so you can’t cross-post pictures.
Craig needs to address and edit the posts with his original pics. Send him a message.

Loss of images due to change over to new forum format? Craig would need to fix it.

Yes I think I originally posted links via Facebook and didn’t realize that FB would mess up the links.

I do need to go back and rebuild this thread with photos embedded.

Okay so the evening light was just too tempting to not take a staged photo. Note that these are the “smaller” structures of the feed mill.

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So I haven’t posted much on this thread for a while ( and I know some of the pictures aren’t working. Darn Facebook picture links).

But I’ve been working on parts.

These two silos are where the feed trucks got loaded from. Brass frame and styrene shell. All will get covered in siding… Keeping me busy until the 7th.

Found a few more photos.


Wrong thread… Oops.

And now I need 20 characters.

Being lazy and still have updated the old posts, but I must have a hole in my head as I’m taking Devon’s crazy idea of clapboard siding to the extreme! Thankfully I only have one of these long walls to do as the other side gets connected to the rest of the feed mill. And no I’m not that crazy I want to model it just to cover it up!

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Finished up the remaining long wall.

Now just have a 114’ roof sections to cover. Ugh.

One of the defining features of T-D Feeds to me is the store front area that was a long Cleveland St. When I think of T-D Feeds this is what immediately comes to mind.


Since I’m working on this sub structure at the moment, I’ve got to readdress the rock wall at the front. Years ago I made a plaster mold, carved the details, then RTV cast the plaster and made a resin copy. Thankfully I still have the RTV mold of this, but I’ve only got the left side. I had carved the right side but never made a mold of the right side.

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The other thing is the awning and the angled windows. I’m planning on detailing the interior as this front edge of the building will be very close to the front of the layout.

The angled windows are very cool. It’s a great design element that was discarded in more recent years. Not only is it an interesting design element, it’s practical as it makes the glass much less reflective and thus more transparent.

Yah the angled windows are a neat feature for me as well. Since I now have some clear acrylic on hand, I think I’ll just use that instead of real glass. Probably be a lot easier to glue the thin strips between the panes.

I might try using that scrap of foamed PVC that Cliff sent me for the rock wall areas. Small enough that if it drives me nuts I don’t have much to do but big enough to get technique down. And everyone has said it glued with PVC cement so I can do them as flat panels.

Funny thing, that piece came from Bruce to me, and then to you. That bit of plastic has traveled!

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And now, that lonely piece of PVC foam has come to its final home and meaning in life. For a long time it has been thinking, “What am I, chopped liver?” But no; it was chopped foamed polystyrene. And after so many reductions, and journeys, and near uses, and being stuffed in a box for years, this little piece of plastic has come into the hands of a master model maker!! Ready to be shaped, painted, and put on display like a super cool thingy! And not just any thingy, like a backing for some lame photograph, but a model masonry wall of some sort!!!

So Craig, you go Dude!!! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[edit] OK, I had 1 more beer than usual… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Got this thing all framed up.

Goal for the month is to get this substructure done and put outside. There’s a far bit of interior work that I’ll need to do before I can glue the roof on.

Devon will appreciate this and completely understand my insanity.

So the feed mill had a retail store section that was framed by some big picture windows. I just called my sister and her friend to ask them about why they remembered about the inside…

My sister says the shelves went the length of the building with the chicks in the back for sale. Call her friend and Jane says the same thing. Retail sales counter on the right hand side in the middle, low shelves all the way down. Remembers buying bird and dog food from the back left corner. :joy: With chicks and ducks in pens in the back.

Pencil whipping some ideas and researching typical shelving arrangements.

Yeah , but you need to get the stuff on the shelves in the right place and brand names in the correct position.LOL
Sorry Craig I couldn’t help it!

Yah. No. I’m not going all Ray style here with custom built stuff. I’m lazy and will just use some random stuff. Might try and swing by the craft store and see if I can find some random things like different shaped beads to stand in. Just enough to make it look like something is there.

If I can find some files or reasonably priced 3d prints of some chickens and ducks I might throw those in a visible spot in the back with 2 young girls representing my sister and her friend ( they used to walk downtown and go look at the baby chicks).

A Michaels or Hobby Lobby has a whole section of doll house stuff

Chicks are about 4" tall and about half of that is legs so if you can fing 1/16" diameter yellow beads that should do it. I suggest a couple boxes with the tops removed (brooders) and red leds placed inside to simulate the heat lamps. :grinning: