60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Printable Version

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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - ngauger - 02-19-2016

I'm really loving all this detail! The floor and roof are great!!! The B&W Pictures look real, if they were taken outdoors, i but they would pass for real!

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-22-2016

Thanks!
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I have made the smoke stacks and the above roof beams with the stay rods.
I have also started the construction of the roundhouse doors.
They are very intricate in their design, as they are made up entirely of scale dimensional lumber....
1" x 3" for the diagonal planking, and 1" x 8" for the framing.
I make full height doors like the original had when built, as I want to be able to have taller locos inside the roundhouse.
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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-23-2016

I've trimmed the doors to fit the openings.
The plastic hinges are being drilled for the hinge rod.
A bit tricky to install the hinges to the doors and still get a perfect fit....
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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-24-2016

I have mounted the hinges on half of the doors.

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It's great fun to get them to work properly.

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Sumpter250 - 02-24-2016

Graffen Wrote:I have mounted the hinges on half of the doors.
It's great fun to get them to work properly.
Cheers Cheers I know the feeling! Cheers
Beautifully done !!! Cheers Cheers Cheers Cheers

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-24-2016

I've painted the doors on the roundhouse:
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Something is hiding within:
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Ahh, it's the old C19...
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Black and white version:
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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Prairie Trains - 02-24-2016

Graffen are you going to put in the posts between the doors that stopped them from swinging foul of the next track and was used to hook them to stop them swinging closed in the wind?

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-28-2016

I might just install those when I have installed the door opening linkages.

Finished!
(Almost...)
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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - faraway - 02-28-2016

Great models and a great scenery. I love the sparse scenery emphasizing the details.

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Sumpter250 - 02-28-2016

The "stuff" lying around, has just the right amount of rust ! Applause
The whole scene looks great ! Thumbsup Thumbsup
A couple of years down the way, the grounds keeper will get tired of pulling the weeds, ??... and they will start to overgrow the unused spaces. . . . like under that rusty old boiler?.... Wink :o Wink

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - ngauger - 02-28-2016

Fantastic details!

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - Graffen - 02-29-2016

Thanks!
I will add some dry grass as well.
I got it in the mail today.
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Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - BR60103 - 02-29-2016

Reminded me of a picture I took:

   

Re: 60´Gallows turntable for HOn3 - ngauger - 03-08-2016

You should enter this in a modeling contest somewhere! I guess you can't go for Model Railroader, since they like unpublished material, but I would look around and find somewhere to publish it.