6-Stall Roundhouse W/ Back shop

Very nice !

Nick,

Nice work. Is the flex seal you mention the kind that comes in a tube?

Sean

Hello Sean,

I used a the Flex seal that is in the spray can. I will post a picture of the roof panel later today.

Thanks

Nick 

Great job on the roundhouse and back shop, keep up the good work. Please keep us posted on your progress!........................

What is going to be the footprint

I am trying to figure out the length and width including a turntable

Are you running them straight in or TRINH to nest ( a few pictures from the other side would help )

'Looks great

That is 'trying' to nest

need to figure out how to turn off this spell check

If you really want to model an overhead crane, which is a neat idea btw, I think you should consider making the shop portion higher.  The roof of what you have looks like it will barely clear locomotives.  An overhead crane indoors would need considerably extra height.

jpc posted:

What is going to be the footprint

I am trying to figure out the length and width including a turntable

 

I am also looking at a roundhouse and was wondering the same thing.  Also, what is the degree spacing of the roundhouse's doors for the tracks to go straight in.  I think I read somewhere it is 10 degrees.

Thanks.

Hello All,

The overhead crane inside would just be for static display, not functional and not necessarily to scale. I was also thinking of building a crane behind the back shop. I have attached a picture of something I had in mind.

I can't remember the degree of the tracks but I have about 8.5" from the edge of the turntable to the RH Doors. That gave me a straight shot for the RH stalls. The RH was a 7-stall originally but once it was on the table I realized that wasn't going to work. I have attached a few pictures from when the 1 stall was removed and the round house placed by the turn table.

Thanks

Nick

Gotta have a backshop with operating overhead crane to pull those faulty can motors, lol, Great work!

Nick,

Nice job on the roundhouse.

Alan Graziano

NickPDX4449 posted:

Hello All,

The overhead crane inside would just be for static display, not functional and not necessarily to scale. I was also thinking of building a crane behind the back shop. I have attached a picture of something I had in mind.

I can't remember the degree of the tracks but I have about 8.5" from the edge of the turntable to the RH Doors. That gave me a straight shot for the RH stalls. The RH was a 7-stall originally but once it was on the table I realized that wasn't going to work. I have attached a few pictures from when the 1 stall was removed and the round house placed by the turn table.

Thanks

Nick

That crane looks like the one Joe at Model Structures designed and built for me back in March of 2014.

korber has the footprint templates on their site.  Print them out and you'll be able to see how exactly how much space it takes.

Thanks Alan,

You can see the water tower you made me in a couple of the pictures.

Stubai,

I just found that picture on the web. If that is your crane, can you send me a picture of it finished?

thanks

Nick

NickPDX4449 posted:

Thanks Alan,

You can see the water tower you made me in a couple of the pictures.

Stubai,

I just found that picture on the web. If that is your crane, can you send me a picture of it finished?

thanks

Nick

I sure can. I tried to post a picture of it this morning but it stayed in the que for over an hour. What is your email address.

Here you go.

That is really nice. Thanks for sharing. 

Just food for thought...If you needed some extra height in the roundhouse you might be able to create foundation pieces (could resemble fieldstone or concrete) that would give you an extra 1/2"-1" (whatever you need)...Only problem that I see, is that you would have to either create new roundhouse entry doors or somehow alter the ones that came with the kit. I know it would be a little tedious...but you could always use a pair of the existing doors that came with the kit as somewhat of a template (trace on paper), and create a set of new doors out of scale wood, weather the wood...and if you have the skills...make a silicone mold of the finished set and cast the rest out of resin. The foundation could be made out of styrene stock or wood and clad with the field stone self sticking sheets cut to fit (I think Tichy sells them). I actually make my own from a silicone mold I made from the self adhered sheets, I cast them in resin, and cut to fit. Here's an example of some station walls (see attached) I created with resin cast field stone.

Sincerely,

Nick B. - Boston