Machine Shop Build Update
It's been a while since I updated you on my progress with the machine shop project I have been working on for my friend, Doug Matheson.
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This was the point where we had left off. The main shop interior is in place.
Some O-scale figures dot the shop floor. These fellas will be moved to other locations in the shop and a couple more will be added.
While these are O-scale figures they are quite tall...so I will place them further back into the shop where their height won't be as noticeable. (He is actually not quite seven feet tall as his shoes angle slightly...he's probably 6'6" in reality.)
Three of the figures I painted.
The water tower is complete and rests beside the structure where it will eventually join via pipework to feed water to the boiler.
Then back in June I shared with you the general store I built.
This is a Blair Line model.
The kit box.
I also showed this team of horses pulling the wagon...two models in one. The wagon is one kit while the team of horses is a different one - both from Berkshire Models.
Some of the Sierra West detail items I have been working on.
I also built for Doug this lovely and intricate O-scale truck also from Berkshire Valley Models.
It's the REO High Wheel Express Box Truck.
Time to create additional details for the shop.
Some of these will be placed outside to create mini-scenes.
Lots of fun painting and weathering projects here.
Some more interior details are required for the shop.
How about a chair for here and there!
Yes, these are kits.
A number of chairs!
Of course, in O-scale for the build.
The company that offers them.
A seated figure...
...who looked like this a few minutes earlier!
As seen towards the back wall.
Close up shot.
From farther away.
In different lighting.
Now for some diorama planning, Doug and I wish to place the machine shop on a diorama. We wish to go further though. Yes, we'll create a mini-scene which will incorporate four dioramas. Along with the machine shop there will be a station, a general store and a team track with a freight house.
Doug visits with his four diorama bases.
Doug places paper to show where a road will cross the diorama on an angle.
She's shaping up nicely.
View from the other side.
Doug was able to purchase this lovely depot at an estate sale after one of Ottawa's local modelers passed away. His name was Peter Nesbitt and he will be greatly missed. Peter did a beautiful job on the station
Still some more views of the machine shop.
A look from behind the depot.
Lovely.
The sunshine reaches the depot roof.
With the depot now back on my workbench I have an interesting task to do.
Doug wants to build the fourth structure in the diorama series; a freight house he purchased from Bar Mills. So-o-o...we want to keep the "company theme" going with matching structures. We deemed these two paint colours (Country Twill and Dark Chocolate) to be a good match to the colour tones Peter had used when he built the station.
A quick gander at the station from different angles.
I've added a couple of washes of acrylic paint to deepen the appearance of the planking on the station platform.
I will eventually build a new baggage cart which will replace the black one you see here.
As seen under different lighting.
Thanks for checking in at my Craftsman Structures blog! Here I am at Chris Lyon's beautiful Lyon Valley Northern layout in Ottawa before it was dismantled for a move to Nova Scotia.
More to come later.
All the best, Mike Hamer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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