The rules are... there are no rules. Middlesex Manufacturing Kitbash Contest

[Pomperaugrr]

If anyone doesn't need their window blanks that come with the kits I am in need of em. Thanks!

Yeah, Atlas should have included more of those.

Eric

[Ian MacMillan]

Yeah, Atlas should have included more of those.

Eric

I know! I have an entire wall that I want to blank out, and on another building that is a cold storage warehouse I want to black out the entire structure other than the first floor.

[Blazeman]

Being as Ian and Eric are present day, wouldn't cinder blocks have been the product of choice for blocking windows post 1975? Gives a nice color contrast as well. In that case, HO brick might be suitable.

[Ian MacMillan]

Being as Ian and Eric are present day, wouldn't cinder blocks have been the product of choice for blocking windows post 1975? Gives a nice color contrast as well. In that case, HO brick might be suitable.

For me, no. New England mills typicaly built in the 1800s would be brick blanked out in current modern day. Block would actually be a rare 3rd, coming after painted plywood blanks, (in common colors of green, red, or tan)

What also would maybe be nice for someone to do maybe in brass (Bob?) Would be modern windows for those mills that have been turned into condos or office buildings, much like in Lawrence and Lowell, MA, where you have 2-4 IGU panes in alum frames.

[Guilford Guy]

I picked up a kit at the Springfield show. Hopefully I'll have some time to hack into it when I return to school in February.

[Ian MacMillan]

Any one have anything yet?

[wcfn100]

Any one have anything yet?

 

Like everything else I do, I'm over thinking it and trying to see if I'll have space for something on the modules I'm drawing or if I should just build whatever.  The biggest difference being if I do something for the layout it'll have to be fairly small and only two stories.  I'll probably start cutting plastic by the end of the week.


Jason

[Ian MacMillan]

haha

[Chris333]

I used tape to hold my walls together. Do I win?

[wcfn100]

I used tape to hold my walls together. Do I win?

It would not surprise.

Thanks to Ian and a little horse trading, cutting has started.  Mine will be a three story affair.

Jason

[Ian MacMillan]

Glad I could help....see I'm not an a-hole all the time! 

[Dave V]

I finally picked one up to replace the geographically-incorrect Berwind-White coal mine on my layout:



Depending on how it all fits, I'm guessing it'll be just a one-track siding (code 55, of course), with a concrete road area and the factory converted to the "J. C. Blair & Co. Keystone Stationery" facility at Huntingdon, PA.  The real J. C. Blair factory looks considerably different, as seen behind HUNT tower in this picture:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=30381&nseq=44

However. the Middlesex building is nice and narrow for the space, conveys the same sense of size, and is still at a height that doesn't exceed the height of the mountain behind it.

[wm3798]

I finally picked one up to replace the geographically-incorrect Berwind-White coal mine on my layout:



Depending on how it all fits, I'm guessing it'll be just a one-track siding (code 55, of course), with a concrete road area and the factory converted to the "J. C. Blair & Co. Keystone Stationery" facility at Huntingdon, PA.  The real J. C. Blair factory looks considerably different, as seen behind HUNT tower in this picture:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=30381&nseq=44

However. the Middlesex building is nice and narrow for the space, conveys the same sense of size, and is still at a height that doesn't exceed the height of the mountain behind it.

When you rip out the mine, if it doesn't have any immediate plans, I could make a home for it at Thomas...  I've got the dreadful old Model Power kit that's in desperate need of replacement.  Instead of "Davis Coal" it would be appropriately tagged as "David's Coal"...

Looking forward to seeing how you work that big Atlas building into the space.
Lee

[Dave V]

Lee,

I'm sure we can work something out.  Chances are if I ever do a coal mine again, it would need to be much bigger.  As it is I have a full version of the kit built up as well from the last layout.

This would make a good branchline mine, more appropriate for one of the Clearfield branches.

[wm3798]

I'll let you know when the scenery reaches that point...  Might be after your son's graduation...

Thanks!
Lee