Great progress

I would say you are certainly making good progress. Love the train station. I use mockups too.

The two buildings on the right are mockups of modular industries. I will be building them and others in future months,

I Agree!

Very nice work.

I agree with your changes to the Saw Mill - out of the box it just doesn't look "right" - at least not to me.

-George

Roof Weathering

I'm in the same boat with you on the powders.  I can't seem to produce things consistently that I like the look of.  I've definitely gotten better by using LARGE, soft brushes and applying powders lightly in a lot of layers seems to do the trick.

However, I've grown to love the weathering washes from AIM products if you want to try something else.  I can get consistent results with these by just applying them with a brush or a sponge dabbed lightly in the solution.  You can even experiment with the bragdon powders you have on hand already by taking some and mixing it with some rubbing alcohol.  I'm pretty sure that is what the AIM solutions are (their powders + alcohol) but there may be another ingredient or two mixed in there. 

Great work and thanks for sharing the photos!  Makes me want to get back in the basement and make some progress!

I like the DPM modular kits

I like the DPM modular kits too.  The brick work masters appear to be hand cut.  I seem to recall Cliff Grandt telling me that Bob Lunde first carves a master in plaster and then casts the mold in something called Beryllium Copper which makes for a durable injection mold at a  a very reasonable price point. Lunde Studios now have a new line of larger urban structures that may be of interest to you.

Lunde Studios

Bookmarked them, thank a bunch.

An overall shot of the

An overall shot of the sawmill complex.  A stream is to cascade down the rocks and under the plate girder bridge and fill the log pond.  The black paper is the start of a mock up for an access road which runs on top of the spur. So far all of my roads have been paved so I have been using styrene.  This time I plan to build a gravel road.  I suppose that I  will treat the spur as an extended crossing and fill it in with timber.  

Wow! I just remembered  when I was 20 that I rode my motorbike from Edmonton to Prince Rupert to spend the summer on an archeological dig.  At least 100 miles of the road between Prince George and the coast was gravel at the time.  Let me just say that meeting a logging truck coming at you on a gravel mountainous road is a very interesting experience. 

I got the saw mill painted (Floquil antique white with rattle can green doors and windows) I've had the paint at nearly a decade and it's still good though I wouldn't use it if I didn't have 365/24/7 ventilation in my train room. I am trying to come up with something for a saw mill interior.  The Walthers kit comes with an outfeed table which fits under the canopy but the rest is pretty blank.  I have the log bogey from a Cox Sawmill that I think that will use but i got to come up with some more machinery.  I not looking to be real accurate - I just want to suggest that something is there.

Here is my reworked planing shed, also painted antique white. I had previously used half of the building as a flat on another layout and was unable to remove the windows.  Thus the windows are painted the same color as the walls. The Walthers kit was wider and shorter. The single windows on the ends used to be double windows. The sides used to be just four bays long instead of six.  The roof is adapted from a couple of old Arlee Station kits.  The clear-story comes from a Walthers warehouse kit that I used elsewhere on my layout.

Bragdon powders

Be sure and keep an eye out for the videos from the 2011 NTS - we interviewed Joel and he gave a bit of a demonstration of his weathering powders on camera.