Just fabulous :) Roy Inman
From: Peter Vanvliet <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:00:09 -0500 To: <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} O'Brien Structure Completed Good Evening All, I am happy to report that my "O'Brien Steel Construction Co." structure is finished. This is my model using the Showcase Miniatures "Sunkist Shed" structure kit. I just uploaded the last page that shows some of the exterior details I added over the weekend. The structure itself is finished, however, the area around the structure will need more work over time. Tonight I started working on a scale 6-foot chain link fence made out of wedding veil. I also plan to have an industrial gate over the track leading to the structure. I have a small crane kit that I want to build and install near the structure. It is my understanding that the prototype company made steel bridge parts, so I may scratchbuild some parts and place them outside the structure to its left, where I purposely left an open area. As is my habit, I have fully documented the construction of this structure. The starting page for the structure is as follows: http://pmrr.org/Structures/OBrienSteelConst/index.htm >From there you can click on any of the topics of interest, or just start with the first one. The bottom of each page has a link to the next page, so you don't have to keep going back to the intro page. Several weeks ago I asked the group about platform distances from the track. It was this structure that I was working on. I finally decided to use the 1948 PRR standard of 7 feet from track center. Tonight I had a mini operating session and all the equipment easily cleared the platform. This was a nice kit to work on. The structure itself was fairly easy to construct. I spent more time doing the painting, lighting, and detailing than the actual building of the structure itself. The other (personal) significance of completing this project is, that this completes my "kit building" phase of the layout. From now on my focus is going to be scratchbuilding. As I mentioned before, I will soon acquire the materials to start scratchbuilding my first PRR H21a hopper car. I am looking forward to that one. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected] <mailto:pavanvliet%40att.net> , or [email protected] <mailto:peter%40fourthray.com> ) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
