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[basementcalling]

Just geeking around with LEGO detail parts today.

Ventilator fun. This could become a hobby inside a hobby.

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[Philip H]

Some of that looks like it should be in the new Star Wars movie. Nicely done.

[basementcalling]

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Weathered up, fully lit,  but not yet dullcoated. Still some roof detail locations to iron out. Not sure the cyclone blower would be directly below a stair landing.  Top stacks await one more stair and LED attachment for a beacon. Also will have space behind them.

About all I can do today is sit and weather, as I an under it with a sinus infection.

[rodsup9000]

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Not sure the cyclone blower would be directly below a stair landing. 

 I don't see a problem with it. The weathering turn out great.

[basementcalling]

Thanks, Rodney.

This is the current track plan as being built for the Inland Empire paper mill. Still playing with the details of the pulp area at right. I need to leave room for a transition to scenery around the loop above it. I want an entrance gate here too, so trucks can come in to dump chips by the backdrop. I had to move the storage tracks from by the warehouse to this end as well. They should look ok there with extra FBOXes, tankers, a few chip gons and hoppers mixed in on the 2 tracks. Not sure if the spurs should run parallel to the main there or leave the space as drawn. I'll give it a few days to pass the eye test.

The track labeled pulpwood is one possible location for that raw material, or I could simply quit buying the new MT 65 foot log cars.



You might notice the large bridge scene above the mill on the reverse side of the peninsula. I'm hoping to get some basic scenery contours roughed in on that side this weekend. I need a break from Shapeways prints and detail parts. I finally found some Gypsolite plaster and restocked on plaster gauze at the Greenberg show last weekend so I can make some messes.

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[basementcalling]

You know that dreaded feeling when you resume a project after a break, only you cannot find a key piece. Ok, well, three key pieces? Yea. I admit 21 years or so is a long time between kitbashing sessions, but my Red Wing Milling effort was one I liked so I saved it from grad school days. Keeping an almost 30 inch long roofless building with no windows is a hard thing to do. Storing it.... Hah. So today was as much reconditioning as kitbashing. Things were going well. Found the window sprues, painted them and the doors, and cleaned the original paint and touched it up with paint from the same bottle that still worked.

All in all a good afternoon until I noticed 3 short walls were missing from top of the elevator shaft. I had to download the directions from Walthers (Thank you for that, guys.) to remember what they looked like. Then it hit me I had seen them a few weeks ago on an organizing afternoon (Snooping to see what was in unlabeled brown boxes). I was about resigned to retreating upstairs when I checked one last place, and no dice. But in pulling that box out of the workroom shelves, another fell down and bingo. Three 3 small window walls for the top of the elevator shaft were sitting right where I remembered seeing them 3 weeks ago, after seeing them in the same box again today.

So tomorrow I can finish bashing, if I can find one small and one large window that seem to be missing from the kit.

[basementcalling]

23 inches long,  old and new sections with different weathering and color roofs, and a few extra details up top for visual interest.

Not sure I like the way the cyclones and corrugated loading dock roof came out or not.

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[mu26aeh]

I think it looks great !

[Philip H]

@basementcalling,
I think the rust streaks under the cyclone vents in these pictures is your best weathering yet.

[Bendtracker1]

@basementcalling,
I think the rust streaks under the cyclone vents in these pictures is your best weathering yet.

+1 and love the roof details, the ductwork looks great!

[LIRR]

very, very impressive work.......you've certainly lapped me on the use of LEGOs

[TLOC]

Looks awesome to me

TomO

[rodsup9000]

  Peter,
 1+ on the duck work on the roof. Your weathering looks super.

[dnhouston]

The cyclones and the corrugated roofing look great, as does the piping on the main building.  Nice work!

[Erik aka Ngineer]

It looks excellent. The weathering is superb and the cyclones do not look out of place. I'm not sure if those cyclones would in reality be placed so far out of reach of maintenance people, for cleaning etc.

The roof also looks great, what did you use as roofing material?