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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:23 am

webenda wrote:Thank you for the hint on NMRA regions and division publications. I found the Official publication of the Mid-Eastern region, THE LOCAL, available. I did not know that I could read publications outside of my division. :o


I think that the publications of every Division within the MER area also available on-line. You can probably also get on their email distribution lists, too. I get at least 5 of them regularly. I suspect that you can also access the publications of yet other regions.
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby gregj410 » Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:23 pm

Chimney for a free lance building I’m working on. I didn’t like the pre fab options available in O scale so I went for the stone by stone options. Not the easiest thing to do but more of the look I’m after.

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby healey36 » Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:02 pm

Yowza, that's nice! I've got a pack of 1/35-scale bricks here...might be time to bust those out.

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:31 am

so I went for the stone by stone options.


Nice looking cut stone appearance! Source of the stones?

healey36 wrote:Yowza, that's nice! I've got a pack of 1/35-scale bricks here...might be time to bust those out.


I did a chimney using 1/35-scale bricks....once. It was the epitome of tedious.
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby gregj410 » Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:12 am

It is rather tedious! I got them on eBay. Guy sells all sorts of scale bricks and stones. They are a plaster of some sort, they grind down easily swiping them across a sanding block.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115503620942?m ... media=COPY

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:55 am

Thanks. Maybe some sort of dental casting stone - been playing around with some in my RTV molds for rough stone foundations.
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Postby healey36 » Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:24 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:It was the epitome of tedious.


It's mixing the mortar and pointing the joints that makes it tedious!

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby gregj410 » Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:10 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Thanks. Maybe some sort of dental casting stone - been playing around with no some in my RTV molds for rough stone foundations.


Yep. Nice person too. He sent a few free samples. A flower pot with some flowers and some laser cut shovels and rakes.

Great tag line btw :lol: I sent it to my daughter who is the chicken tender here at home. I got the ‘Oh Dad!’ :lol: Which means that’s a horrible dad joke.

My wife had a note pad on the refrigerator with a chicken on it and it said Chicken it twice. I said to Ella my youngest daughter, look they spelled checking wrong :lol: I just got the death stare which made it even funnier :lol:

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:39 pm

healey36 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:It was the epitome of tedious.


It's mixing the mortar and pointing the joints that makes it tedious!


Hmmm.....I actually did mortar the joints on the chimney I built. Over the edge........

Great tag line btw


Not my usual sense of humor, but for reasons unknown it amused me enough to make use of it here.
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby robert. » Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:49 pm

There was a guy on Ogaugehobbist his wife made a farmhouse from stones. she used Scupley clay. She made a bunch of sizes and color stones. The house looked graet.
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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby RBH29 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:08 am

Greg, your plaster blocks look like they could have been cast from HirstArts Castle Molds. Bruce Hirst offers a ton of molds for building pieces. They're very nice.

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby healey36 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 7:19 am

Years ago, I recall seeing a couple of guys on a TM video using bits of Z-Brick to build “stone” retaining walls and rail overpasses. They cut the stuff into random sizes roughly one inch by two inches, then glued it in place. It looked remarkably similar to some of the PRR right-of-way in and around Philadelphia where they used big blocks of reddish stone to hold the embankment in place.

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby gregj410 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:08 pm

RBH29 wrote:Greg, your plaster blocks look like they could have been cast from HirstArts Castle Molds. Bruce Hirst offers a ton of molds for building pieces. They're very nice.


Thank you for the info. Great website with what looks like excellent support and tutorials on his products. The water one look’s especially interesting. Here’s a link for anyone interested

https://www.hirstarts.com/index.html

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby healey36 » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:41 pm

Thanks for the link.

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Re: The Modelers Thread

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:51 am

Next up:

with the wrong cupola...



but the right trucks!
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