Very detailed work, good job. I find it funny, things we use every day such as a door can be a lot of work to reproduce in a smaller scale.

Ingenious! Great video.

Very nice work. Looking forward to seeing the engine house on the layout. Thanks for sharing!

Nice sharing friend!

It is fascinating to see your challenges and creative solutions. Great video.

M impressed. There is a lot more art to modeling than I thought. Great video.

Ingenious how you used the saw. I will have to remember that. Great video.

Very interesting.

Once again it was interesting to see you reason your way through the build.

Well done. The side building looks good and the new center post is looking good as well. Thanks for sharing.

You can get Tichy Train Group hinges for HO scale. Although they are non functional my next order from Tichy will include some hinges as I continue to scratch build buildings for the layout. Cheers from eastern TN

Enjoying your e gine gouse project. Just got a Campbell kit from ebay that I'll try to kit bash. You haven't pisted for a couple of weeks. You OK?

Very nice progress. The extension looks great. I'm glad that you decided to make a smaller workbench. It was becoming the tail that was wagging the dog for sure.

It's coming along nicely! I think I have that same exact table. I used mine in a an outside work location. Stringers I think are specific to the support for stairs, I think Rafter would be the correct term for the angled support for a roof. Don't worry to much about it though I always get terminology wrong, even if I know the term!! Sometimes words evaporate when the camera is on 🙂

Looks good. Build to aatisfy your interest, not what others may see.

Can you turn the bench 90 degrees?

Thank you for mentioning my name. I really like how the extension turned out. It does look good. Nice work. Looking forward to seeing how the engine doors turn out. Great update!!

I love the way you laminated various different materials together to solve the floor/foundation problem.

Nicely executed!

Thank you for sharing the video. You said that you're a noobie, well, we all started at that point in our modeling career. As long as one learns from mistakes made he becomes a better modeler. It's not often that a new modeler starts off by scratch building or even kit bashing before assembling one kit. I love building kits as they provide a challenge to me most of the time. I am in the process of finishing a scratch built barn in O scale for my Lionel 027 train layout soon to be built. Cheers from eastern TN

Progress once again. This engine house was based on one made by an influential HO modeler named John Allen. His original had those stones on the bottom. I was not a fan either, and did not use them on my version. Not too long ago there was a small kit manufacturer called Rusty Stumps. He, at the urging of a few of us issued replacement plastic windows for this kit. Having the kit on the shelf, I bought a set and used them on my build. Rusty Stumps is now closed, but some other kit manufacturer has bought his line and probably still has the windows in his offerings.

It is always satisfying when the sub-roof goes on. It also makes the model look much closer to completion. You are discovering the challenges of removable roofs!

It was interesting to see how you reasoned out how to proceed with the roof supports. It is often more challenging to retrofit an existing structure than it is to build one from scratch - especially if they have a good set of instructions like that Builders In Scale Kit that you showed in Part I. BTW, you are extremely lucky to have a local hobby shop that stocks things like basswood strip wood.

I'm glad that KZbin put your channel up on my "feed" today. I've watched this video and will check out the rest of your videos over the next few weeks. I recently finished building that 2-stall Fine Scale Miniatures Engine House. It too was a water damaged kit that I got very inexpensively. In my case the water damage came from a burst pipe in the basement storage area of a local hobby shop when I lived in north Jersey. I'm including a link to one of my videos that shows a simple (linear) service area that resides on the upper deck of the layout that I'm building here in Michigan. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHjVZIuPlqeZpdU Basically you have mentioned most of the key elements of a steam era engine servicing area: engine house, coaling station, sand facility, water tank, power house, etc. I'm not doing a turntable here because I'm modeling a logging railroad on this upper deck. (The Slate Run RR of PA). I will have a nearby wye to do my turning. You might model a simple 'Ash Pit' in the area. Enough blathering on my part. I will definitely be following along. Bruce

The car is a horse car The horses don't like to see the ground moving under them, so the ventilation holes are only up top. It's partially the same reason there were so many covered bridges.

Thanks for sharing. I like the plastic/wood laminate you made. Nice work with the coping saw. Also, perhaps the window plastic got discolored from uv. If its just surface discoloration and if you had a sacrificial window, i wonder what a little acetone rubbed on it would do.

Nice update. My window opinion is use just one of the small double hung windows. Centered between the wall and door or just a little off center toward the wall. Everything is looking great. Your mistake with the wall material and the wrong orientation is a common mistake for me. Thanks for sharing your work. Stay safe - Larry.

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!

I think the railcar is a Maintenance of Way work car

Very nice work!! The foundation looks great. Looking forward to seeing work on the side addition. Thanks for sharing!!

Great update! What did you decide to use for foundation, appears to be hardboard? What thickness and source? I'm looking to standardize all the foundations on mine so matches up with curbs/sidewalks/etc but easily removable as needed for maintenance, moving, etc. Thanks!

Cool design. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

I'd certainly never guess that you lopped off the bottom of the structure with a cut off wheel if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes! Looking good!

This is coming together nicely!! I agree about the stone foundation. I've seen several models similar to this with the "aquarium rock" as you aptly named it! I haven't seen one that I thought looked the part of what a real stonework foundation might look like.

Nice job that base! Funny thing, my dog barked about the same time as yours while watching.

Another step successfully completed. Well done. I use Boomer's tips and techniques in my building as well. Good luck with the foundation and embedding the track. I did that in my transfer station and it was a bit of a pain. Thanks for sharing this update. Stay safe - Larry.

I'm in the process of building another Tichy Train Group single sheathed, outside braced boxcar. Waiting for the paint to dry on the underside as I finished it first according to the directions. This one was a difficult build. I've already built 2 ore cars, a 40' 50 ton flatcar and a 40' 50 ton wooden side gondola (which is a flatcar with ten stake pockets for the fence stakes. On both the flatcar and wooden side gondola, I painted each board a different shade of brown mixing the colors in a little plastic communion cup as I went. Just finished building the Atlas lumber company and I scratch built a lumber drying shed I found on KZbin. So far so good. I also scratch built an old wooden barn in O scale as I found on KZbin. Cheers from eastern TN

Very nice work. The roof and how it sets in place looks good. It was a good idea to remove the little rock at the base. It did look bad. The gap betwen the main doors could be a simple metal or wooden post. The doors would have the hinges at the outside walls and the latches would be at the center post. Good luck with the cutting of the bottom of the building. Looks like that will be a slow process. Thanks for sharing!! Great job!

Cool video. The roof looks good to me. Looking forward to your next video. Ty

Another great video. Like the idea of the cupola.

Great video. You made a comment at beginning of video potentially doing the attached workshop later. May want to consider that in your foundation up front to accommodate it when you are ready to build it. Granted, if the size/shape of the workshop changes, will affect the foundation you originally made, but would seem more logical to include it up front as less piece/parts to marry up down the road and give it a more consistent look as well as placeholder so you know how much real estate you need to ensure you don't scenic/have to remove later etc. You can get the board and batten siding sheets from hobby shops/online. Mt Albert sells it in wood, Evergreen sells it on styrene. You can also buy the individual boards if you want to drive yourself crazy LOL. Subbed.

Looking forward to upcoming progress on this as I'm in the pencil to paper phase of creating my yard service area as well. Going with turntable or wye will be my biggest headache as both eat up a LOT of real estate, not including all the sundry bldgs to support the service area as well. Doable, just trying to determine best placement etc so not overly crowded. Service area can be considered another industry itself due to the need for shipments of parts, lubricants etc. Much to think about...

I like the new roof. The idea of adding the cupola and using it as a handle was a really good idea. Looking forward to see the finished work.

I dont know i think the Roof is to Slanted

Another fun video. Enjoyed the listen. It will be cool to watch this project progress.

Fun video. Nice to watch the process of resolving obstacles. Great video.

Well done. Your planning and building execution were spot on. Thanks for sharing.

I've been busy lately building rolling stock. Since I model turn of the century to 1963, it's hard to find rolling stock from the 1900's. I've been building Tichy Train Group kits which are a blast to put together but look as good as the high end models with great detail. So far I've built 2 ore cars with 2 trusses per side, a 40' flatcar and a old wood sided gondola (flatcar with stakes and wood planking). Now I can look at them and say, I built that. Next comes the Atlas lumber yard to go with my scratch built lumber shed. Not too many real modelers left out there. I enjoy kits and scratch building. Just finished an O scale wood barn I scratch built. Cool build modifying your structure to fit your needs. Cheers from eastern TN

Nice model build. Good work.

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