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Schoolmaster
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 Posted - 03/07/2012 : 10:57:15 PM
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The monotonous cutting of wood, staining, and glueing is driving me crazier. I noticed that as I have been building the Pier Warehouse and Hotel Martin, I have built a decent scrap pile of wood and plenty of bits left over from the Bar Mills #1 kit and the rolled tar roofing from the hotel verandah.
I have decided to see if I can make a structure from these spare parts in a day, actually 24 hours. I have spent this evening looking at my offcuts and deciding what to make (and what to make it from)
In N scale I model the Santa Fe in the late 50's and I have several books of Santa Fe Standard Plans complete with lumber bills of materials. Accordingly, I am going to proto-lance a standard Santa Fe Depot Closet. Proto-lance because my offcuts are board and batten, not Santa Fe standard drop siding or tongue and groove and the doors from the Bar Mills kit don't match either. This is a small stand-alone building of about 10 feet square, a definite contrast with 40 x 126 warehouse or 32 x 32 hotel and 12 foot verandah. Even the office space in the warehouse is 12 x 54!
Tomorrow, I'll start posting pictures of the build.
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Edited by - Schoolmaster on 03/07/2012 10:59:48 PM
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wesleybeks
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 01:03:55 AM
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Looking forward to it John.
Your idea sounds like something out of Karl A`s (UK Guy) crazy idea book. He`s notorius for doing these sort of things.
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Coaltrain
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 07:21:38 AM
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this reminds me when my friend and I used to have model car night. when ACC accelerator came out we came up with the idea to build a model car kit in one night, start to finish, the only thing we would do is paint the body earlier that week so it would be dry, all the other parts trees we painted with acrylic paint while we built the car. We did not worry to much about the quality of the unseed stuff. we built a lot of model cars, it was very fun.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 08:09:17 AM
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I'm hoping that the quality will be good enough to use on my layout. I have a couple of chores to do. I tried to photo the plans to show what I am going to do, but they are in blueprint-like form an do not copy well. For antone who has the books it is in The Chief Way Reference Series - System Standards : Volume 2
I'm not painting in advance, but some of the wood is already stained or painted.
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UKGuy
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 08:45:19 AM
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Originally posted by wesleybeks
Crazy ....??? 
I need to come up with another one of those.
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Should be interesting to see what you come up with John.
Karl.A
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 08:48:18 AM
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A Depot Closet, I hope.
I've got all four doors, and all the sheathing and most of the lumber. I'm going to have to ise different techniques for the some of the walls because I don't have enough dimansional lumber, but doing with what you hve is the whole point. I solved my very last problem by using some offcuts from a 1:24 project, which are in the same scrap pile. So far, I need only about 1/2" of new material unless I can find a little piece of carbon fiber somewhere.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 09:11:15 AM
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This morning's light is better. Here are the blueprints.
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elwoodblues
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 09:54:02 AM
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John,
This should be interesting, and an interesting structure to boot.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 10:06:18 AM
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It will be tiny, only 2 1/2" square (well, tiny for O scale) Back to the strawberries.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 11:04:37 AM
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To quote King Henry V (at least Shakespeare's version) or Sherlock Holmes
The game's afoot
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 11:20:35 AM
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Step 1. The foundation. I'm not going to model the vault because I don't know where the structure will go and I'm not sure I'll have enough underground space.
Made from left over beams from the pier deck and already stained.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 11:51:27 AM
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Step 2
Sub-floor framing. The framed gap is for 'access' to the vault.
This is made from spare framing for the warehouse office space.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 12:03:53 PM
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Step 3 : Flooring.
Flooring is made from spare warehouse roof sheathing.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 12:35:49 PM
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Step 4: Wall blocking.
It's level with the top of the flooring.
don't know what it used to be.
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Schoolmaster
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 1:06:52 PM
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Step 5: Waterproofing.
There's some kind of tar paper product under the wall plates and on top of the floor, presumably to prevent water getting into the walls.
This is made out of a failed tarpaper test for the warehouse roof.
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belg
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Posted - 03/08/2012 : 1:16:51 PM
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John, day's half over are you halfway done??LOL Really like the plans did you create them yourself? Pat
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