Korber Roundhouse Build

Railroad Guy,

Looks like you are doing a real nice job with the building. I have built a number of them over the years, They are impressive when complete. Good luck.

 

Alan Graziano

Thanks Alan. If I can finish this half as good as your work, I'll be happy

Really nice progress, and a great modification Dan!

 

Looking forward to seeing your project postings.

About as far as I can to till I get more lumber for the floor and make the new skylights.

 

Great progress it's looking really good.

Nice pits in the roundhouse.  How deep and how did you make them work?

The pits are just cut into the Homasote through to the plywood base so they are only 1/2 inch deep. I thought about also going through the 3/4" ply and gluing a floor on the bottom of the ply to make it deeper and then weathering the floor and sides. That would give me a 5 scale foot pit.

The roundhouse looks awesome.  Matt

Fantastic job

 

That is going to be a focal point of your layout.

Looks good Dan!  I know your pain  on the old kit.

 Last week I started changing out my windows with Richs new clear roundhouse windows. What a difference. Now all the time  spent on the inside can be seen.The old ones can be used for a scratch build.

 

 

Very nice work! I'm in the roofing stage with 1/8" masonite and  have had to tweek it a couple times to get it to fit. It looks cool with a couple arc welders inside and green light shades with LEDs installed in them.

OK, this is a test fit of the new skylights. The one in the center is a sample of how I will finish these. A few "shims" may be used but you will not see these once the roof is on.

 

Look at one on pix above. I am building on the base that will fit in the layout. The base comes off the layout and building off the base for working. You almost have to do that or build in place. Dan

This is look very nice.

 

You did a great job on the skylights!

Other then some weathering the floor is finished.

 

 

Test fit roundhouse to floor and new windows.

 

 

Wow!  That's custom dude!  Love your work.

Dan...you are doing a fantastic job on this build.  The custom windows and flooring really make this a beautiful structure!  Thanks for posting this great build.

 

Alan

Thanks guys

Roundhouse now has all skylights installed and ready for the roof.  And there is the problem. Since I cut the walls to fit my space the roof templates were no good plus  I  wanted a one piece roof for each section. Measuring was going to be hard because of the angles and the fact that they were not all the same. What to do....

Smoking my pipe and staring at the moon gave me an idea. (I get some of my best ideas that way)

I could use painters tape to line the edges and then fill in. Remove the tape and transfer to heavy board and cut. That would give me a very close template to use for a wood roof. In fact the Bristle board I used is not that bad by itself.

 

 

 

 

The floor is individual pieces of scale 4x10 wood cut to 16 foot scale length stained in ink and alcohol. Then start gluing and fitting and trimming and ....

 

I'll come back with chalks for the final weathering.

Dan, you do very nice work always. I too prefer to use individual boards where ever it would occur in real construction. The batch stained boards look just right verses trying to get the same look with sheet stock, plus warpage is no longer a concern.

 

Your roundhouse is a fine piece of work indeed.

 

Bob

Nope, no floor. Some may want wood, others brick whiles others dirt.

Let there be light...

 

 

Dan,

 

Outstanding work on this kit!

 

Yours is looking great.

 

I did notice however you seem to be missing the third rail.... 

I lost it back in 1975 :-) Dan

Still working on the wiring but I think I have just enough to fill it. This is not a heavy repair round house. Just minor repair and maintenance for the helper district. Mix of commercial castings I have collected over the years and some scratch built items to add interest.

 

 

 

 

Beautiful and I love the interior stuff. You have to put it somewhere that people can look inside and see all that good stuff.

Wow Dan, super details!

Thanks guys. It's all in the details

Dan...beautiful!!

 

I tried to go to your website but the link does not work.  I Googled it and it came up with a listing of the pages but clicking on each page resulted in nothing...  Any suggestions??

 

Thanks,

Alan

Everything seems to be working on this end. http://rdsrr.com/

 

What browser are you using?

Dan looks like good progress.

Sweet jeepers!...That looks great, can't believe I didn't see this thread sooner.  That first photo really shows off that nice warm glow from inside, great choice with the LED's.  That floor just sells it for me.  Just awesome work.

 

Chris

Thanks guys