The Modelers Thread

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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.

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.

[gregj410]

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.

[healey36]

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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

so I went for the stone by stone options.

Nice looking cut stone appearance! Source of the stones?

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.

[gregj410]

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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks. Maybe some sort of dental casting stone - been playing around with some in my RTV molds for rough stone foundations.

[healey36]

It was the epitome of tedious.

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

[gregj410]

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 I sent it to my daughter who is the chicken tender here at home. I got the ‘Oh Dad!’ 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 I just got the death stare which made it even funnier

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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.

[robert.]

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.

[RBH29]

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.

[healey36]

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.

[gregj410]

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

[healey36]

Thanks for the link.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Next up:

with the wrong cupola...



but the right trucks!