Sunday Scenic Showcase May 17,2020

Making progress on lumber shed, framing is complete and finished production process for pressing corrugated sheets for roof (and for future projects)

Framing and dies all 3D printed

I built this model of “Jenkins Valves” in 2015 from an “American Flag Company” kit by BTS. The kit included interior floors and walls that are installed on my model. To expedite layout construction, I add full interior details only on models whose windows are large enough for such details to be visible.

The Jenkins Valves factory, between the riverbank and track on my 10’-by-5’ layout, is named for a company that was located beside the New Haven Railroad’s New York to Boston mainline – at Jenkins Curve in Bridgeport, Connecticut - possibly as early as 1864. The curve was the site of the wreck of the New Haven Railroad’s Boston-bound “Federal Express,” train 172, which left the rails at 3:42 AM on July 14, 1955. The official ICC accident report estimated the train’s speed was between 60 and 75 mph as it entered the 30 mph Jenkins Curve.

MELGAR

Working on the village of Toano, VA:

Pete,

The town scene looks so great. Just the right amount of buildings, the train cutting through and the hill behind. 

Melgar,

I have purchased many Jenkins valves over the years. The back stairway is a really nice detail.

Ray,

The lumber shed looks good. The corrugated roofing you are making looks a lot better than the Evergreen material I use.

Pete,

Always a treat. I really like how you treated that post office in the last pic. I think I like your version better.

Dave

@Alan Graziano posted:

 

Ray,

The lumber shed looks good. The corrugated roofing you are making looks a lot better than the Evergreen material I use.

Alan, I found the store bought to be too fragile for my hands and no way to fix once damaged. I can qualify mine and take out any problems, wrinkles and dents etc.  by running through the dies again.

Great stuff guys

I am working on a kit for our 6x11 modular layout.....these are pics of Tom (Gilly@N&W) working on a wiring issue a few weeks ago.....

This is the kit:

Phase 1: remove from sprues and sand down rough edges.

Phase 2: Rustoleum rust spray to give the brick a more muted color.

I have built this kit before......before Lionel took it over it was offered by another ( I think European) manufacturer.

These are pictures from my 1992-2003 layout, taken 1999 (see lower left) and 2002 (see the center).....

....and now has a home on one of my modules....

Peter

Peter, the big factory that goes over the tracks in the last picture... is that a modular system or is that scratch built? If it’s a kitbash or modular walls, what is it?

Alan and all, wonderful, inspiring showcase this week. Thank you.

Pete, your village looks fantastic.  I like how you blended the village into the hills. It looks like it belongs there.

Tom

                        Adding LED's...

@Boilermaker1 posted:

Peter, the big factory that goes over the tracks in the last picture... is that a modular system or is that scratch built? If it’s a kitbash or modular walls, what is it?

It is a kit bash of 2 old Korber kits.....

Here are a few more pics:

Peter

Here are the kit boxes.....and a few more pics.....

I built it in the summer of 17....Everyone, please tell Mr Muffin  that he should redo these kits.....I for one have lots of new ideas on how I'd make it better.

Peter

Nice work this week!

I'm gonna have to have that Fender Factory. Just finished reading a book on Leo Fender. Did you know that he didn't know how to play a guitar, but was a whiz at making amps. That hits me right in the sweet spot. I've been working on two buildings concurrently. One is a kit that was offered by Rusty Stumps (Now Real Scale Models), the Tie Hacker's Cabin with a shed workshop. I want to make it Johnny B. Goode's house (by the railroad track).

The other project is another of my custom designed mega projects which will be my rendition of Edward Hopper's "House by the Railroad". The Hacker's Cabin is a stick built project. The latter has almost 100 3D printed parts of my design from my printer along with structural parts laser cut by Real Scale Models. I've been working to perfect printing a complicated 3 story formal stair case. It was a hodge-podge of downloaded from the SketchUp's 3D Warehouse that was then highly modified by me to make it printable. A majority of the 3D drawings that reside there ARE NOT immediately printable for many reasons. It takes a lot of hours on the computer to get them workable.

As usual I'm documenting these projects on my continuously running (since 2012) thread in this forum. 

https://ogrforum.com/...ga-of-the-pandampprr

But, here's a taste: I'm making the roofs completely removable unlike the instructions. I'm also going to move the lighting from where I now have it installed to the roofs so when removed the interior will be clear for viewing.

I was unable to get the stair case to print as a single piece. If I got the steps to print successfully, I wouldn't get the railings or spindles. So I split the part into printable sections. I needed to include some of the steps with the spindles so there was something onto which anchor them. It was that detail that made the drawings so tedious. I'm still working the nits and gnats of getting the stair aligned with the floors before I can get the laser cutting done. I've changed the stair position, shape and installation details. Furthermore, this drawing is not the one I use for stair details. As you can see the top railing is listing to the left. None of the interior will probably ever be seen...

I got the mid section done without problems. I can't say the same for the railings. This left side was the 3rd trial.

Last night I printed the right side railing. I set up three different orientations on the Machine to see which was most successful. The middle one, the one that I thought was the most risky, proved to be the successful one. I went through two other spindle designs before settling on simple square section. The turned spindles simply didn't have enough mass to withstand the pulling pressures involved in LCD Matrix Resin printing. Shapeways must use a laser sintering system for their small objects because I don't see any supports on them. For LCD the supports are an essential part of the process and the most difficult to master.

Like I said above, all this and much, much more is available on my other thread.