Sunshine, Palm Trees and a Food Industry...

Discussion in 'Planks, Switching and Shelf Layouts' started by Gary, Jan 6, 2021.

  1. gormo

    gormo Staff Member Administrator

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    Nice work on the pallets Gary,
    and the new rolling stock and fittings look great.
    :tophat:Gormo
     
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    I hope he proceeds with the pallets and pallet loads. I could use heaps.

    Cheers

    and happy modelling

    Richard
     
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  3. Gary

    Gary Wants more time for modelling.... Staff Member Administrator

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    I agree with you Richard, as I too could do with a lot more !

    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    Gary Wants more time for modelling.... Staff Member Administrator

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    A few more items arrived in the post this week. :D

    The HVAC system is for the roofs of one of the industries. The highway divder will be cut down to 10' or 12' sections and used throughout the layout. That little bag with the blue top is a pack of metal coupler covers. Some of my cars have very loose or missing coupler covers and this shall fix them all up and have them back in service !


    a close up of the refrigerated/insulated box car (reefer)... It is rather bright in colour and will need toning down some. Maybe even some patching out ! ;)


    One item, not in the photo is the fork lift I ordered with this lot...



    A white metal and brass kit of a Caterpiller V80-E. This will go nicely on the dock of the produce centre ! :thumbup: All the parts separated and cleaned up and/or straightened ready for painting. Here you see the parts in primer.


    ...and now yellow !


    Just realized I'm out of tire black... :faint: In the end, this is how I would like the fork lift to look...


    So, still more to do with this great little kit.

    Cheers, Gary.
     
  5. DustyHilux

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    i was just looking for a forklift and saw that one too,
    kit looks awesome! might have to pick one up
     
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    Nice! Might have to grab a few things from model train stuff!
     
  8. Gary

    Gary Wants more time for modelling.... Staff Member Administrator

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    Another great shop is Midwest Model Railroad : https://midwestmodelrr.com/ I have used them a few times now and they are excellent !

    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    Even though I am half way through my fork lift build, today I wanted to take a break from the work bench and get out onto the layout.

    All the buildings, locomotives and rolling stock were cleared off the extension and I set about air brushing the sleepers (ties) and then the track.
    I used a few different colours from Mr Hobby & Tamiya, all acrylics. These included Gray FS 36270 (Mr Hobby) for the first colour on the sleepers and then picked out random sleepers in Buff XF-57, Red Brown XF-64 and Flat Earth XF-52, all Tamiya.
    For the rails, I mixed some Tamiya Red Brown and Mr Hobby Cocoa Brown (H17) together for a sdark but reddish brown, creating a nice deep rust.

    Here is a few pics of the half completed paint job...




    When I mean half completed, that refers to only one facing side of the rails have been painted, which can be seen in this photo...


    I'll finish off the opposite rail tomorrow and then go around touching up some of the sleepers where the 'rust' on the rails has crept over.

    Cheers, Gary.
     
  10. Chris Doroszenko

    Chris Doroszenko Lost in the spare room Full Member

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    The cocoa brown hit the spot for rust...makes a hug difference already taking that shiny plastic sheen off the track.
    I just cut my turnouts out...I have to fix them once and for all...they are not coping with weathering and glue...time to hotwire them and put them on a switch.
    Cheers for the update

    Kind regards
    Chris
     
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    The fork lift has now been completed. I gave it a weathering as well, maybe a little too much rust...



    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    Latest video update... with a focus (plug) on Platform 1 MRC ! ;)



    Cheers, Gary
     
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    Today I had a day off so I got stuck into the layout and finished off a few outstanding projects.

    The first thing completed was to finish painting track. Lucky the layout is built up in modules where I can separate them. This makes it really handy to paint both sides of the rail.


    So all the track has been painted. I will go over the sleepers (ties) again in the near future.


    Recently I received a packet of fans and vents from the US. This is from the Blair Line range of laser cut kits.


    The fans come in three parts : back, fan & the grill. All three are sticky back so once they are painted, they can go straight onto the walls of a building.


    These have been done very nicely and once painted and assembled, they look great. I ended up using these on the back wall of the produce building, which is another project that was completed today.

    After marking out where I wanted the fans, I scribed this out, I then cut and removed a few layers of cardboard. I used three fans along the wall. Wanting a different texture of wall, I printed out five sheets of Scalescenes painted white brick and secured this to the card. Where the fanes are located, I simply cut an X from corner to corner and pressed the print in. Once this had all cured, I glued the painted fans in place. The wall still looked a little plain so I decided to add a larg-ish pipe to the wall. I'm thinking of adding more conduits etc...



    The pipes help to hide some of the joins between the prints. Then again, so does judicial weathering !


    This wall I added to the back was extended past the end of the building so when viewed from the front, the wall extended to the end of the hardstand. This extension was treated differently with the use of corrugated card. On this side I also included a larger roller door. The forklift needs to be parked up somewhere overnight !

    This is how the front corner/end of the building looks now...


    So today ended up be a productive day, something I miss when working all the time !

    Cheers, Gary.
     
  14. Gary

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    I recently received my tax return so..., as usual you end up purchasing more model railway ! :facepalm: One can never really have too much ! :scratchchin::avatar::avatar:

    I have been after a couple of 'Tropicana' refrigerated vans, which ran out of Miami and headed north out of Florida to bring fresh orange juice to the masses. I couldn't believe my eyes when I had seen some for sale and at a discounted 20% off !! So naturally, I bought three and all different running numbers. :D


    These three cars as well as a couple of other cars will feel right at home on my layout !!

    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    Good on ya Gary. No harm in treating yourself to some goodies now and then. Nice looking wagons. :thumbup:
     
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    Gary Wants more time for modelling.... Staff Member Administrator

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    Not wrong Phil, they will add to the other nine wagons I recently purchased ! This years tax return is the most pleasing one I have had for several years !

    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    Well this week has been kind to me on the modelling front. I have done more this week than the last four ! :D

    So, apart from what I have posted earlier this week, I have started again on the Ferrous Processing plant. Once I started, it just seemed to flow on... Okay, to be honest I had a little bit of time in between the gluing processes ! ;)

    So, this is what has been happening...

    I made up a simple jig so I could mount the uprights (roof supports) to the long exterior wall. This wall is only short at 26mm or 7'6" in HO scale. I had to have a way of making sure the uprights were absolutely square vertically to the wall and to the other uprights. This is the solution...


    On the MDF board I added a stop block at the base and two vertical (?) strips above, spaced at 3.4mm apart allowing the uprights to sit in between and facing the right direction. Each upright was glued, cured for 20 minutes then moving onto the next which has a gap of 92mm between them.

    Now some of you may remember that I was talking about using rod and tube to hold the whole wall and roof up, keeping it straight and not leaning inwards where there is no support. To do this I used 6mm diameter tube glued in behind the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th upright, totally out of view from any angle. The tube was braced in place with some Plastruct triangular strip that I had in my styrene box.


    You will notice a gap between the bottom of the supports and uprights and the bottom of the wall. This is so the wall sits in front of the balsa infill hat creates the hard stand area. You will see that further down the page.

    Having these 6mm tubes glued in place allowed me to mark, then drill 4mm diameter holes through the balsa hardstand, into the foam and right through to the baseboard. I actually drilled through the baseboard as well to allow the posts to fit tight and secure.

    Next I cut four x 4mm diameter rods to 63mm lengths and inserted into holes with a spot of Gorilla glue.


    Iallowed this to go off for approximately 20 minutes before test fitting the wall and uprights.


    Every thing seemed to be going well with a tight, but firm fitting made. Here is the semi complete structure in place and it shows the step in the balsa hardstand and how the wall sits below this.


    There doesn't seem to be any inward sway in the wall and hopefully wont sway/droop when the roofing sheet is applied.

    Cheers, Gary.

    ps, update video coming soon !
     
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    The video update...



    Cheers, Gary.
     
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    If you were to use brass rod and tubes of similar diameter instead of styrene for 2 of the upright supports, that would give you a 'plug-in' power supply to under canopy lighting for night time running, any wiring from the pins being run in styrene tubing as conduit Gary.
    Keith.
     
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    The next stage in the build of the processing plant is to create the steel cross bracing between the vertical roof supports, as seen in this photo of the prototype.


    Looking closely at the photo above, it looks like angle was used for the bracing, whereas I will use round 1mm diameter rod. I had to tink of a way to create the plate in the middle of the crossing bars and I remembered the way the NSWGR large water tanks are framed. What they have is a ring in the centre that the rods connect to. I choose this method by taking some 6.3mm diameter tube (Evergreen #428) and drilling it right through and also drilling holes 90* to the first.


    This was then cut and filed down into thinner rings and the 1mm diameter rod (Evergreen #211) passed through. I had pre-measured the rods to 130mm, as they need to span a 92mm square space from corner to corner diagonally.


    I have to make 8 of these, but I ran short on one length of 1mm styrene rod.


    Well, that's as far as I got with the build today until I purchase more styrene. Looks like a trip to the hobby shop tomorrow after work !

    Cheers, Gary.
     
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