Thursday, December 27, 2018

Making a shed for Omega Siding

The shed I wanted to build is the one actually at Tuttletown.
Per the 1916 valuation for the railway, the shed is 12x12 feet on a 12x24 platform.
I had a sheet of Dollar Tree foam board to use. I cut the pieces and then stripped the paper off so it would be water proof. With out the paper its about 5mm thick. Then I hot glued it together.
Cut the battens from the edge of the foam board. Glued them on with outdoor Gorilla Glue.

Bare foam.

Painted with acrylics. Hot glued redwood posts and angle supports.

Bare roof.

I saw some videos online how to make corrugated metal with different paper crimper manufactures. They all work the same.
I ran down to the crafty stores and found none in stock anymore. So I Googled it and found the Friskars one through Walmart and added it to my Christmas list.
Thank you Santa!

The package.

The tool.

Stick a business card in and turn the side orange handle while squeezing the back handle.
I usually twist the side handle a little forward then back, then forward/back repeatedly to get better corrugations.
Especially on the end before spitting it out.
You could use aluminum from soda cans as well.

This is what you get. Paint the business cards before or after.

You could use longer card stock to get more scale lengths.
I may redo the roof later with thinner card stock and full lengths.


The Captain thinks its ok.


What do you think?



Thursday, December 20, 2018

Report No.11



A little update on progress.
I have been running two Mixed trains every weekend per program when I find a spare 30-45 min for each.
A special order for the Omega Mine mill was shipped as an Extra also.
I wanted to start small with buildings, so I built the Tuttletown freight shed to put at Omega Siding till I get to Tuttletown. Per the 1916 valuations its a 12x12 ft. shed on a 12x 24 ft. platform. I'll do a post on making it later.
This week I put in the Peppermint Creek bridge because I was worried that fill might work as a dam. Map shows 3 spans, but I only wanted one now.
After that I finished the Marble spur and put the track in for the Storehouse and Oil Spur. I tested it per program with engines No.1, 8 and 10. No problems pushing two cars up the hill.

First car to new shed at Omega Siding.


Special order of replacement parts for the Omega Mine mill.
First ten Terok Nor model ST-DS9 self sealing extruder buckets arrive Omega Siding December 12.


New Peppermint Creek bridge.

Marble Spur track installed in final configuration.

Storehouse and Oil Spur track layed and tested today.