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This is a diorama I've been working on. Supposed to be a stamp mill in roughly 1900-1910 period -- well used, but still operational. Everything but the windows, buckboard, and lpb are scratchbuilt in HO scale.

Your roof detail work looks really excellent. Great industrial/lived in look.

Grandt Line and Tichy both sell castings of bolts and washers in various sizes for HO and Tichy also sells rivets. I think they come mounted on a short shank, so you have to drill holes. You can order from both direct -- just do a google on Grandt Line or Train Group. I've also wondered off...

Steamhead- As I undertand it (and I am no expert), stamp mills were used at the turn of the century to extract gold or silver from lower quality ores, usually quartz. Low grade coarse ore was brought into the stamp mill and would be pulverized by a series of heavy vertical hammers (stamps)...

Thanks everyone. Some basics on the structure... This is an HO model, built board-by-board over a basswood framework. The windows and doors are Grandt Line (I think), and the pressed metal roofing material is made from cardstock. I may at some point go back and replace the roof with another...

And some photoshop magic...

These are some picks of a stamp/amalgamation mill scene that I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. I built the structure last year, but only recently got around to adding the roof and putting it into a base. Eventually, this base will find a place on my layout (turn of the century...

Robin, It's been said by others before, but I'm consistently amazed at the high quality and detail that you achieve with cereal boxes. An excellent structure again!

You could do worse than Preiser's unpainted Railroad Freight House Workers. The set comes with typical freight workers and a lot of details (crates, barrells, pallets, and I think a baggage cart):. http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-16348 Walthers also shows a couple of baggage...

Thanks from me too! I agree with Bryant that the gauge is just a fun place to share modelling and pics...99% of the fun in the contests is looking at everyone else's work.

As long as I'm on a math roll, here are the percentages that you'd use if you wanted to convert a scale drawing on a photocopier. To convert an N scale drawing into: --HO scale: 184% --S Scale: 250% --O Scale: 333% To convert an HO scale drawing into: --N Scale: 54% --S Scale: 136% --O...

Using standard 10 squares to the inch graph paper, here are the percentages that you'd have to either reduce or enlarge a drawing on a copier or scanner in order to get a variety of different scales. A structure could be drawn to dimensions on the graph paper, with each square on the grid equal...

If you scan or photocopy 10 square per inch graph paper at 138%, you will produce a grid with lines every 12 scale inches in HO. The blue ink that graph paper is printed with sometimes doesn't photocopy well, so you may need to play with contrast settings on the copier or lightly trace over the...

That's a really excellent looking scene! I especially like the rigging and chain on both structures -- looking forward to more updates on your foray into alien scale...

This is a great topic, Val. I am still learning (but I am now on my third -- and much more satisfying -- try at a layout). This is what I think: 1. Design a point-to-point layout that can be broken up into manageable modules from the very beginning. My first two tries (one in n scale, one...

HOn30 Class A Climax chugs past a backwoods gold mine, sometime in the summer of 1900.

Just some pics of something I've been working on for the last couple of days. This is inspired by the Galloping Goose, but freelanced in HOn30. The running mechanism is a n-scale Bachmann Brill trolley with one of the power trucks removed. The cab is from a Jordan Products 1934 Ford bus and...

Cool pictures guys. Looks like the trip was a lot of fun. Do any of you recall the location represented in the HO British layout? I spent a couple of weeks in Chester last summer, and the shots you took look a lot like it. Thanks again for the inspiring pictures!

Ok, I love this picture...however... ...Those who like their old west myths pure probably shouldn't follow the links below. I sorta wish I hadn't looked it up... http://www.huntershotsprings.org/hhs10.html http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/foto1201.htm

At the blacksmith's shed (HO scale)