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George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16947 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/04/2021 :  8:27:07 PM       Poking around, cleaning up after 7 months of very little modeling, the thing I really want to do now is complete my kitbash of Rix's "Vicky's Fashions" HO injection molded Smalltown USA modular building (1 point). When I last posted its picture it looked like this: I've started building its interior in between developing Venetian Blind textures for its windows. I'll update its thread as I go: http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=52557 James Country: USA | Posts: 6915 leeflan Fireman Posted - 01/05/2021 :  11:19:48 PM     Hey Crew, Some Y’all may remember that on the previous version of the L&WS, I had the “Louisville Fertilizer & Gin” cotton processing complex, based on the actual complex in Louisville , GA and served by the 10-mile Louisville & Wadley RR. One of the structures was a large corrugated, slant-walled seed torage house. The current layout is based on the Wadley Southern Railway, which covered the 20 miles between Wadley and Swainsboro. The largest industry in Swainsboro was the J. C. Coleman Cotton Oil Mill, a division of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. Since no known photos exist of the Coleman complex, I’m using the cotton gin and processing plant from the LF&G complex, but the dang seed house is just too dang big, 9” x 12,” to fit my available space, 5” x 9,” so I need to build a new one. In his excellent article in the March-April 1988 Prototype Modeler, “Cotton Oil Mills,” Cyril Durrenberger included information and pictures of a small facility in Elgin, TX that included a much smaller seed house, also corrugated and also, with the distinctive slanted walls. This is the basis for my project. Following is a picture from Cyril’s article and a later color photo purloined from the Bay. With my 5” x 9” footprint in mind, I doodled around for a while to come up with drawings of the front and side views of the structure. I used what I think is the 6’ chain link fence to come up with some reasonable proportions that would capture the look and feel of the building while fitting the available space. Here are the sketches I came up with. Since this isn’t my first go around with a corrugated seed house, I’ve got a pretty good idea how to "git ‘er done." Here’s my starting point: a piece of 3/16” foam board, a coupla sheets of .040 Evergreen styrene, and a whole bunch of Campbell corrugated to be cut up into a bazillion itty-bitty pieces. OK, Crew, with pencil, HO ruler, and square in hand, as well as a passle of #11 blades, it’s time to git to some serious cuttin’ and pastin.’ Since this is a simple 1-point project, I’ll just keep progress posts in this thread. Take care and I’ll catch Y’all later. Steve Edited by - leeflan on 01/05/2021 11:21:19 PM Country: USA | Posts: 2460 Larryc Crew Chief Posted - 01/07/2021 :  11:21:14 AM     George sounds like a fun project; enjoy. Country: USA | Posts: 898 Larryc Crew Chief Posted - 01/07/2021 :  11:22:56 AM     Glen that looks to be a nice project. Should make a fine looking structure. Country: USA | Posts: 898 Larryc Crew Chief Posted - 01/07/2021 :  11:31:18 AM     Steve that looks to be a very interesting build. I've never seen a building with slanted walls before. Enjoy. Country: USA | Posts: 898 mikethetrainman Fireman Posted - 01/07/2021 :  12:28:36 PM     Good morning all. Looks like some very interesting projects. Everyone is getting a good start. I was wondering that since everything here is up in the air because of the move to the new house. If it would be alright to use one of the project that I built and photoed over the last year. I have done a couple of back ground building to go behind my upper yard. I have one that I want to use for the challenge. It started as a back ground building but grew in a full stand alone building. Mike Mace Northern Division of the Santa Fe Edited by - mikethetrainman on 01/07/2021 12:29:07 PM Country: USA | Posts: 1903 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/07/2021 :  5:56:29 PM     James. That's a lot of windows. Sure will keep you busy with the venetian blinds. In the past I've used Excel to make venetian blinds. Steve, wow, what an unusual building. Do you know why the walls are slanted ? Being metal should be a nice opportunity the do some rust effects. Looking forward to your build. Mike, Just join in. Always enjoy your work. Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Edited by - robert goslin on 01/07/2021 6:00:03 PM Country: Australia | Posts: 2953 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/07/2021 :  5:59:33 PM     Here's where I'm at with the boathouse. I've added all the trim around the door frames, and corners. And have made up the upper level door from balsa Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2953 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/08/2021 :  11:59:07 PM     I don't know what the interior is like on the original, or if there even was any, so I'm just making up my own. Have made up the interior floors. Just used some stirrer sticks, glued to a balsa subfloor. I'm going to have interior stairs, so used Rusty Stumps stair stringer kit. very easy to build with their jig. And the upper floor is just a piece of corrugated cardboard. Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2953 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/09/2021 :  10:22:37 PM     So where is everybody ? Regards Rob My current build. http://railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53468 Country: Australia | Posts: 2953 CNE1899 Engine Wiper Supporting Member Posted - 01/09/2021 :  10:27:10 PM     Hi everyone, I want to join this challenge to help get my butt in gear. I want to do 4, a scratch built tank car from the 1890s, in Z scale. Is the use of brass okay? And 5, I also need to restart work on a barge I started a year ago. Finally 8, I need to start bench work for my fist layout (the mini) and possibly track work. Scott Note, Can't seem to link my threads.:-( Country: | Posts: 296 Glen Haasdyk Fireman Posted - 01/09/2021 :  10:38:53 PM     I'm still here. I was just about to comment on your progress Robert. I like the complex angles that are being incorporated in your construction. I'm still progressing on my station, just haven't posted an update quite yet. Country: Canada | Posts: 2536 robert goslin Fireman Premium Member Posted - 01/10/2021 :  12:13:03 AM     Welcome aboard Scott. To link your other threads, you need to add it to you signature. Thanks Glen. here's my basic interior. 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