Has anyone here built the Boyd Logging Camp by JV Models? I need buildings for a logging camp, but all the pictures I have found of this model are pretty poor. I can’t really see much detail to know how they are made, or the sizes [footprints] of the individual buildings. They have to be pretty small to fit in the area I have available. Any other suggestions for bunkhouses, a small office, and a kitchen/dining building?
Hi, unfortunately I can’t comment on JV Models Boyd Camp, but if your interested in building your own, there are some plans in “Modeling logging railroads vol.2” an Information Station pdf download through Trains.com. I think the plans were originally printed in MR. July 1966.
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Union Bay
Oh yes. I loved this kit. I built it in my motor home while vacationing in AZ. It was discribed to me as a pile a stick and some poor sketches, but it went together wonderfully. It is pure stick by stick construction. I prestained everything and used wood workers glue. A couple of pics. One is the way I showed them at the Az Division meet and got a ribbon. The two blue bunk houses are from a different kit as is the water tank.By the way, this is not a kit for the impatient, but if you enjoy the process, you will love the results.
Thanks. Those are better photos than the JV catalog shows. I’ll get off an order for the kit.
I have the kit ordered, but can you tell me if the doors/windows are plastic/metal castings or built-up from wood? Did you use an oil or a water stain? They look great. I had ordered some laser kits that I thought might work, but they are too large. These look just about right.
I used water based tube acrylics. I put the four basic earth colors in different parts of a water color pallet with water in the big compartment. I then laid all the sticks out on news paper and started to paint with a single brush. I mixed color and water amount with each stick. I was NOT careful. Soon the water became colored and added more diversity. I did not try to keep the color consistant on each stick. Sometimes there would be more color on one end than the other and sometimes the colors would vary from one end to the other. When dry, I cut the sticks to lenth and applied them at random.
Some of the windows were plastic and I painted them while they were still on the spues. I painted mine a bright blue because the owner of the logging business likes blue. You will find the same bright blue all over the railroad. He got a good price in a tank car full from Valspar and still has some for the round house.
On size - it is easy to make a building smaller (or larger, or both), by adjusting the plans. I have used the plans for some scratch building and just made them bigger or smaller as I wanted. They are quite small however, which is why I used them.