Weekend Project...

[EngineerKyle]

Morning,

I've a project for this weekend.

Consider the picture below.

I need to add a system of conveyors to carry potash from the pit below the ovens (lower right) up to the tower (left). Anyone interested in me doing a little tutorial on this? I can do it in about 5 pics and a few paragraphs.

I'll title it "Rapid Scratching - or - How to Create Stuctures Quickly and on a Budget"

Conveyor Project1​

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You can see larger versions at the RailImages site below.

 

[viperman]

Go fot it. May be some good reading

 

[EngineerKyle]

Rapid Scratching

"Rapid Scratching - or - How to Create Stuctures Quickly and on a Budget"​

Conveyor Project

First, I have decided to only tackle the top half of the conveyor. I marked the towers orientation to the layout and brought the gatorboard (black) right over to the workbench.​

The majority of styrene parts come from Cornestone watertowers. I will also use Cornerstone safety cages for ladders, Central Valley stairwell rails and an old Athrean frame from a 50' box.

The watertower walls were scored, split and rearranged.

I will use a car case base for the foundation, and pilfered some of my son's lego toys for some bogies and treads.

Time for paint. Everything seems to end up better if I start out spraying primer. If you keep the nozzles of the cans off and soaking in mineral spirits, you can get a LOT of mileage out of a cheap can of spray paint.

Well, that's all for now. Time to let the paint dry. Any Suggestions of critiques?


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[kirkendale]

Looking good, while your paint dries I think i'll sign off and go do some brick scoring in plaster... check back with ya later.

TTTFN

 

[EngineerKyle]

Here it is.

I really got going and forgot to take progress pics.... anyway, here it is 90% done. I tryed a new technique for roads and landscape. I had a roll of foam insulation laying around. It's about 2.5" wide and very pliable, almost like nylons. I rolled that out on the gatorboard wet with 50/50 white glue for the roads. I clumped some more of it around and covered that with strips of the same foam material soaked in stucco patch. I applied it over the board ala plaster strips and I like the result.

The trees are dryed false spirea flowers, spraypaint and WS ground foam. My tall grass was cut from a horse-hair shoe brush ($2.49) and pushed into "Seal-All" type household glue.

I also used a foam packing block as part of the base. Pretty much as is, I'm liking the texture of foam.

I lucked out on the "potash" The chemistry teacher at school was tossing out some stuff, and I ended up getting a little ziplock bag of sodium carbonate. I'm sure that chemical is a by-product of the solvay method, so the stuff you see in the tower is a real as it gets!

I think I'll put a "before and after" in SPF tommorrow.

Comments, suggestions welcome

 

[Herc Driver]

WOW that is great Kyle!!! You pictures made it look easy (but I know it was harder than that). Really nice job! I'm sure there's a contest around here somewhere you should think about entering that work in.

 

[EngineerKyle]

Thanks Herc....

Actually is was kinda easy. I lose trasck of time when creating, and must see it through to the end in one session. it's kinda hard for me to wait for the glue to dry, sometimes.

 

[viperman]

Kyle, that looks great! Really like the road you parked the car on there too