Way behind on my Blog.

More buildings.
     Boy time flies when you are having fun. Cold a winter as we have had for a while so inside building is the best place if you want to stay warm.
     Looking through some Facebook sites I noticed a rather good looking mine. After searching around I was able to discover the name and who made a kit. It turns out it was made by Timberline back in the 1970's however as luck would have it I found an old kit on line and promptly had it added to their shopping cart. Boy was this an old kit, it still had 1970's air inside but it was exactly what I wanted.
    Here are some in-progress images.

Just testing out the fit.

     This mine is now complete however as the site where it is to be placed is under development it will be a while yet before its sitting in the layout.
     The next build that was started and is still under construction is another very old kit of the Burnt River Mine. This is of course in HO however I did build this same mine for my ON30 Lost Creek Layout a few years back. The instructions in this kit are not too good so a bit of license has been used in this build.

My ON30 version on the Lost Creek RR.

 A few in-progress shots below.

     Each piece of timber is pre-coloured using three colours of artists pens that is giving me close to the colour of timber used in Colorado. It is quite distinctive and quite different to what we see here in Australia.
     There has been more stuff completed however this will have to do for this update.
Thanks always for dropping by.
Rod.


 

More progress

Slowly getting there.

    Its still be cold down here so most of the work these past few weeks is taking place in the study / workroom. Having said that though there has been a few warmer days that let me get out into the train room to spray the roof of the roundhouse and install the roundhouse along with a few additional tracks. Inside I have completed the build of the Grand Central Gold Mining Co building so all is not lost.

Here is some progress images.

Tar paper roofing being applied.

Roof painted. To help simulate the tar paper I sprayed flat black along all of the joins then gave the whole roof a spray of Nato Black followed by a light spray of Vallejo earth colour.

 

    Quite happy with my progress these past few weeks and no I am assembling a group of 5 small buildings from the Banta Model Works RICO kit.

More next time. 

Although Its cold in the Garage

Moving along slowly.

     Its been cold in Melbourne this past week however the week before was nice and warm in fact warm enough to do some more work.
     Scenery foam cut and set in place then plaster cloth covered most of that.
     Inside I kept working on my Sargents Roundhouse kit that is to be located in Gunnison.

Here are some images of that progress.

Moving along however a ways to go.
Thanks for taking the trouble to visit my Blog.
Rod.

 

Another Update

More progress but slow

    Finally got to finish the Durango Press Water tank and my Cimarron Depot. Also got to work on mocking in the scenery down the left hand side of the RR. Started work on the Cimarron freight house however the kit has the incorrect windows supplied.
   The station and tank.

  I picked up the following two second hand kits at the convention so set about getting these ready for the RR.

 

Foam scenery base starting to take shape. I will cover this with plaster gauze then rock moulds.

    That's about it for this post, not too much done as I have had the flu for five weeks after coming home from the convention.
Thanks for stopping by.

Been a while

Holidays, trip to a Convention and the Flu

     Its hard to post new stuff when time gets away from you every now and then. Drove to Gosford NSW to the National Narrow Gauge Convention the Tuesday before Easter and had a great drive until we got caught in a traffic jam in Sydney's outskirts that took us 45 minutes to drive about 6 Km.
    Anyway we had a great time caught up with some N Scale folk from past years, met some really nice folk at and during the convention and took part in an ops session on Friday morning on Gerry Hopkins fantastic RR.
    Negotiated a deal with my Fun & Finance manager to purchase a new D&RGW HOn3 K27 and a caboose which made the trip just a tad more expensive than planned.
    Together with ,I drove Bill and Peter to the layout tours on Friday afternoon and to and from the convention venue and we all had a ball, lots of laughter and good times. Dinner with mates old and new friends.
    The convention was well attended with nice display layouts and some really good vendors.

Here is one of the home layouts we visited on the Friday afternoon. A beautiful HO layout.

Some from the convention hall.

And since coming home with the flu I have managed in between sneezing and coughing to complete the Cimarron Depot and a two stall Boiler Kit for the Monarch Branch.

So that's it for this post.
Rod.