ZoomCo Barn

[wm3798]

I agree the orange roof is a tad "over the top! " but it shouldn't be hard to tone down.  The wood looks perfect to me, it reminds me of the numerous bleached out tumble down barns here on the Shore.  If I had a mind to model the MDDE branch to Cambridge, I'd need at least one of these.

As for the roofing bent over the ridge, that's exactly how my garage is built, only the folded bit is only about 4"

More typically, there'd be a sheet of corrugated on each side, then some sort of the bent ridge cap to cover the tippy top.

Lee

[C855B]

Does it bother anybody else that the corrugated roofing is bent over the three peaks of the gambrel roof, with the corrugations running perpendicular to the bends?  I don't think that roofing was intended to be bent like that in the real world.  There's probably a prototype for it somewhere, but...

I see this around here. It's done so rain isn't driven by the wind through what would otherwise be an open joint at the gambrel bend.

[Smike]

This is another awesome example of the direction N scale manufacturing is heading. (NZT is another example) Can’t wait to see what else is coming.

[GaryHinshaw]

This looks really nice.  So who is Zoomco?  Are they a new company?  Anyone know what their plans are for the future, even in a vague sense?

[wazzou]

This looks really nice.  So who is Zoomco?  Are they a new company?  Anyone know what their plans are for the future, even in a vague sense?

Zoomco is the brother of Rob Reiten, Owner @Online Trains in Lakewood, WA.

http://www.onlinetrains.com/

Zoomco on Facebook...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/zoomco/203051631376

[C855B]

Zoomco is the brother of Rob Reiten, Owner @Online Trains in Lakewood, WA.

Ah! That explains the "fully rusted" roof. The west side of the Cascades has to be the wettest area in the country. Even plastic rusts... or so it seems sometimes. Clearly there's a prototype out there they were capturing.

Don't know if you've seen the T-shirt: "Seattle Rain Festival - January 1 to December 31". 

[Zox]

I can see where you'd arrive at that conclusion, though at least one opening is not done that way...here's a shot of the fine window detail that doesn't have the alternating checkerboard... and it also shows how the castings allow light between the boards!

I stand corrected--and it is a very nice model.

[sirenwerks]

Curious as I was what else ZoomCo might have available, I went to Online Trains' web site... and will be surprised if anyone orders it that hasn't seen the Model:160 write up. What a crappy, tiny picture and no product description. Do retailers really expect to make sales like that?

[DKS]

Just received my kit. The windows are separate castings that are done using a cute trick: the frames and glazing are all one casting, cast using a tinted translucent material, so that where it's thicker (on the window frame parts) it looks opaque, and where it's thinner, it looks like window glass.

The roads are cast in a molded rubber material, painted and stained. Really clever.

[up1950s]

Tom would maybe un-weather it and put in weathered cows  . Thats fodder for a country auto repair / junkyard , or " pickers " location . All those odds and ends we have that just don't fit a scene can flood in and around that barn .

[Wardie]

My kit came in the mail on Saturday and I am delighted with it. The roof on my barn is not nearly as bright as several of the on line photos show. The Weathered road is a marvelous piece in it's own right, and certainly reminds my of the frost heaved and worn out secondary and tertiary roads around here in Maine. I plan on placing mine in a scene with a New England style farmhouse, a newer barn and some of Alkem scale models corn.

I cannot wait to see the next kit.

[Pomperaugrr]

David and Brian, can you post photos of your kits?  I am seriously contemplating getting one of these.

Eric 

[DKS]

The kit is quite comprehensive, with really clean, pre-finished castings. My only quibble (aside from the fluorescent orange barn roof) is the telephone poles: they seem a bit tall. I also don't ever recall seeing poles with crossarms on both sides. Not saying they don't exist, I've simply never seen any like that.

[up1950s]

Here are double cross arms http://www.flickr.com/photos/56985359@N08/5307891689/

[DKS]

Here are double cross arms http://www.flickr.com/photos/56985359@N08/5307891689/

Thanks! I figured they had to exist. And in New Joisey, no less!