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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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 Posted - 01/27/2012 : 01:33:57 AM
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Frank Palmer
Crew Chief
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2012 : 7:54:20 PM
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Randy,
Unbelievable progress, three months from start to “she’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes”. The general store will open for business by next week. What percentage of the total layout does this represent? I’m just trying to figure when the golden spike ceremony will be. I may need to make reservations for one of those rooms up stairs in the general store.
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2012 : 10:22:45 PM
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Hey Frank,
I'm in the last side of this diorama,
this area is 12'x 30" with a 30" triangle bump out in front of the Mercantile.
My room is 22'x 11'4",
this is my second room size full diorama,
when its complete I'll photograph it alot,
then dismantle it for the next room size diorama.
This time around of the "Columbia Pacific Railroad" is the "Spring Creek" area,
pt.2 of the continuing story.
I've got two more room size dioramas already drawn up.
Randy
I save all my trees & buildings & bridges for future work,
not having to make trees really speeds up the scenery process,
I save my rail too to reuse.
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2012 : 06:53:49 AM
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Got the roof trusses framed & the roof joists on over the porches & the loading dock;
I'm thinking my traditional shake roof over the buildings & the front porch,
and corrigated metal roofing over the loading dock?
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2012 : 3:01:45 PM
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Wanted a American flag for the post office
of the wing of the "Simpson Creek Mercantile"
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Rick
Administrator
USA
17743 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2012 : 3:12:12 PM
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Randy, you're doing a great job again on this latest build.
A combination of shake and metal roofing sounds good to me.
I really like the last picture in the previous set of pictures you posted. |
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Tommatthews
Fireman
7282 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2012 : 2:02:43 PM
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| Randy, another nice build. Shorten the walls and few other changes, the basic shape would make a nice house. |
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Frank Palmer
Crew Chief
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 01/31/2012 : 3:42:00 PM
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Randy,
So you just build’em, photograph’em and scrap’em. I think you’re the only one in model railroading that does it that way. I tend to hang onto my stuff longer than that. But you are the Superman of layout building.
I’ll buy not having to make new trees saves time because I spend around 6 hours on a dead tree and up to 12 hours on a living tree.
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 01/31/2012 : 6:37:30 PM
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Well Frank,
if I lived in Florida I'd build them,
then give to the Sundance Central!
for me to keep enjoying the creating of new scenes in a small space (G scale modeling),
this is the best way for me,
until a warehouse falls into my lap to store them all.
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2012 : 6:32:33 PM
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"THE HUB OF THE COMUNNITY"
well I got the sub roof on & the corners of the building trimmed,
store keep is ready for business!
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BBLmber
Fireman
USA
4235 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2012 : 7:32:01 PM
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Looks great Randy, but you could use a small step at the post office door.
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2012 : 4:24:17 PM
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Hey Mark,
got that step in at the post office.
Didn't care for the front of my store before, kind of boring & the signs as they were,
so I chiseled off the signs,
and then......
kinda had a vision the other morning waking up how to improve the front of the store to make it more intresting.
so I got out the dremel to cut out a rough opening for a new/old upstairs door,
then added a upper deck & rail,
made new signs for the store & post office,
put a skirt of old boards below the front porch and addede some product poster signs.
also got the upper gable sided in with a attic window installed.
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Schoolmaster
Fireman
USA
1581 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2012 : 5:42:56 PM
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| That skirt around the porch deck with it's signs improves things tremendously, it's turned great into better. |
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Randy May
Crew Chief
621 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 12:32:49 PM
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Hey thanks John,
this morning I got the corragated roofing on over the loading dock;
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BBLmber
Fireman
USA
4235 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2012 : 3:11:20 PM
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Ah Randy, things look great, and the peolpe are going to flock to the store as we speak.
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Columbia Pacific Railroad "Spring Creek" area
