Now for the big model. Couldn't resist the New River Mining Company! This is a classic model that appears in many, many layouts. This is a plastic model that takes a fair amount of time to assemble. All the walls are separate pieces, and there's a fair amount of work involved in the supports as well. The painted version of this will appear as an old, possibly abandoned, coal mine. I think I've gotten the walls to look pretty rusty and dirty with coal dust, although there is still a bit of painting to go (this pic is pre-weathering, so it looks much older now). Also still some assembly to do, particularly involving the conveyors. This will be done when the model is installed on a layout. But, I think, looking good so far!
Nice work! I wasn't ever much good with the buildings so the few I had were prefinished.. one end of the layout was a small neighborhood then a switching yard in the center section and wooded farmland with a pond on the other end I'll get the Lionel out around the tree tommorrow when it goes up
There's going to be a small town in the layout, likely on the front of the table. We've decided to use DPM buildings, as the details on the models are pretty nice. The DPMs are molded plastic models for the walls. The roofs are thin sheets of a pressed card-stock type material. I've enjoyed doing the DPMs. Two are done, and I've just started a third (after taking a couple months off to do some wood hoarding!). Anyways, the first model is call Pam's Pets, and here it is. Not going to do a whole lot of weathering on these, as I'd like the town to look somewhat prosperous as opposed to run-down. That said, this was a mid-build pic, and I did some work to bring out the cement lines between the wall bricks and to add some detail to the flat
Final post. The second of the DPM buildings. This one is called Robert's Dry Goods. Little bigger than Pam's, and this pic shows more of the finished product. I think I got the mortar lines on the building looking pretty good.
Was thinking about it... I have one identified if we choose to go that way. Not sure how much room there will be on the table.
On the topic of model rail I put the little guys Lionel under the tree today and did a little searching online for smoke fluid for it and boy did I find some good stuff!!! There's an outfit that makes everything from diesel, coal, wood burning loco and even Christmas scents! Best of all Cedar, hickory, pine, sawmill, and a bunch of others!!
