Northbrook Machine Shop pics (finished? next project sneak peek 4-29)

Very Nice Norm!!  Looks Great

Neat building Norm.

Tom

Just a fabulous scene. 

Norm, if your on the lookout for more detail items. Have you checked out Crow River Products ?  Every year. At the Springfield MA. show I check out their detail castings of shop machinery. Really nice stuff.

Great work Norm. I like the interior as much as the exterior.

Glad you guys like it. Here’s a couple more shots of it on the layout with the lighting connected up:

Dave, I was going to some of his parts for the overhead belts and other hardware but ran out of ambition and then decided to use electric machine tools.

One of my pals showed me this site:

http://www.narrowgaugemodeling...h-forge-accessories/

I am going to order a few things soon.

Norm, 

 Very nice how it all turned out. The lighting and the shadows really add to the realism.

Tom

Thanks. Here’s the sign. I kept it simple and kind of generic, mostly because I liked the brick so much and didn’t want to cover it up too much. I used a sign maker off the internet and was able to save it as a .jpeg image. I usually insert the image into a blank Word doc because I like the ability to easily resize the sign in actual length units, not pixels:

Norm, 

Do you make all those pieces of furniture and tiny detail pieces?  They really add to the scene so well.

Thanks for sharing.

Ron

Amazingly realistic.  The interior and exterior really capture the look and feel of workshops I have seen.  Great details, inspiring work.  Thank you for sharing.

Very impressive.

OUTSTANDING craftsmanship

thx for sharing this

Thx guys. Ron, the castings are a combination of items out of my detail parts collection. I constantly seek out detail parts  from Keil, Scale City, Berkshire Valley, Grandt, Tichy, etc. A bunch of the white metal machine tool castings are unidentified at this point but I suspect some might be from Selley maybe. 

Here’s some Scale City parts (liked them so much I have more on order now):

A bunch of machine tools of unknown origin (motors are actually Plastruct pieces):

Steam powered dynamo is all Wiseman parts, I think I got the electrical panel from him at the Chicago show years ago:

Lovely! What I'm looking for are some 1:48 machinists to populate my more modern shop. I really like the ambience you've created.

Norm, great interior. Really love your painting of the machines and office furniture. They look so real . Thanks for the sign info.

Tom

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thanks. Here’s the sign. I kept it simple and kind of generic, mostly because I liked the brick so much and didn’t want to cover it up too much. I used a sign maker off the internet and was able to save it as a .jpeg image. I usually insert the image into a blank Word doc because I like the ability to easily resize the sign in actual length units, not pixels:

OUTSTANDING!  Is there a fee associated with this site?

Dave

Norm, that is really nice, I love machine shops and was teaching myself to be a machinist.  You've done a terrific job of creating a good machine shop.  Well done and thanks for sharing with us.

Wonderful detail, Norm--Thanks.

Suggestion:  When you post photos, please edit the thread's title to say  "Updated 4/28" or something equivalent to alert us to your new content for this thread.

Dave, that site popped up with a quick search. It generates a .jpeg (or .png) image you can download for free.

J., I would love to learn machining someday. I am utterly fascinated by it and like watching anything about it on YouTube. 

Pingman, good idea. I mostly phone-post now and tend to forget updates and keeping a thread alive. In any case, this project is now on the layout and will be detailed more over time. I am now making steady progress on my next project, an Altoona Model Works extended car shop (with machine shop addition) to replace my current one: