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Regular poster 129 posts Mulvaney66 Regular poster 129 posts
Mulvaney66

mage(24).jpg mage(25).jpg mage(26).jpg mage(27).jpg mage(28).jpg mage(29).jpg Not making very much progress on this build but wanted to post some updates.  Hopefully the boss (wife) will let me start purchasing some machinery for the interior soon. Still deciding on power for shop?  Era is set in late 50's so thinking maybe steam converted to a Bates diesel unit.  This will be for future logging layout.

 

 
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ChrisS Regular poster 267 posts
ChrisS

Beautiful work!  What's your

Beautiful work!  What's your setting?  Strikes me as a West Side-esque logging company.

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Freelancing 1907 Southern Utah in Sn3

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Mulvaney66 Regular poster 129 posts
Mulvaney66

West Side Influence

I have seen a lot of West Side modeling and this definitely influences my structures.  This building is based on set of plans published in Timber Times 3 part article in 1994 called Loco Shop From Hell.  My eventual logging layout will just be fictional freelance shelf point to point setup
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Graeme Nitz OKGraeme Prolific poster 1,695 posts
Graeme Nitz OKGraeme

Nice

Nice model, although I think the retaining wall behind is a bit out of scale!   ;-}

Graeme Nitz

An Aussie living in Owasso OK

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Greg Williams GregW66 Prolific poster 1,305 posts
Greg Williams GregW66

Great work

I particularly like that some pieces of wood are showing saw marks. I used to work in a sawmill and became very familiar with what rough sawn lumber looks like. You've captured it well.

GregW66
Greg Williams
Superintendent - Eastern Canada Division - NMRA
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Mulvaney66 Regular poster 129 posts
Mulvaney66

Thanks

I mill my own lumber on a mini table saw then weather with sweet and sour (vinegar and steel wool).  Thanks again for comments.

 

Tulsa
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Gerard New member 3 posts
Gerard

Looks good so far

Nice job on that wood coloring.  Looking forward to you doing some machines.

 

Jerry
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wesgarcia Regular poster 145 posts
wesgarcia

Outstanding Workmanship!

Wow! The pictures are amazing. You should enter it in a contest, it is sure to win. Keep up the good work.

 

Wes

Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Michael Tondee MRH Author 5,522 posts
Michael Tondee

You're killing me!

Please though, don't get the wrong idea.  The modeling is spectacular! The thing is  that when I switched from N to HO, I contemplated even going to On30 but decided against it because of space constraints and money. Now I've got a good chunk of money tied up in HO and I keep seeing all this spectacular On30 work!  Guys like you and Verne Niner make me wish I'd given a little more thought to the larger scales.

Michael

Michael, A.R.S. W4HIJ

 Model Rail, electronics experimenter and "mad scientist" for over 50 years.

Member of  "The Amigos" and staunch disciple of the "Wizard of Monterey"

My Pike: The Blackwater Island Logging&Mining Co.
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