My tiny sawmill

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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The woodcutter’s shed and outdoor workshop were made from a board-by-board kit by Sierra West. The corrugated-roofed sawmill is scratchbuilt. The additional details (if not provided with the SW kit) are largely from commercial parts from various sources.

Mark

Mark

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Looks good. Any larger pictures so we can see the details?

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Yes, more pictures please. Looks very interesting.

Mike B.

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What I can see of it looks good. Hopefully, you picked it up off the floor before anyone came stomping through [(-D]

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Mark, I agree, it looks very good indeed. [tup] Nice work.

-Crandell

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OK, OK. Here are new views. The woodcutter’s cabin has a new roof.

Mark

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Really nice work. Good detailing. This is the kind of thing I enjoy seeing even if it’s Model RR related or not. Being able to reproduce something in miniature with such detail is a worhty task, keep up the good work.

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Thanks. My modeling abilities are mediocre. I suppose this shows that if you do one-half square foot at a time with patience, these are the results.

Mark

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I wouldn’t consider yours mediocre… me, on the other hand… You are right about having patience, I suspect it’s something many of us lack. Yes, I include myself in that! For fun you should add a miniature villain and damsel in distress. It is a sawmill after all…

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Great sawmill, is this part of a logging layout? the detail is great and those trees are perfect, as good as any on the net. nice work.

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Wow!

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What sawmill?

All I saw were the birch trees! How’d you do those?

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The trees were ready-made and purchased from my LHS.

Mark

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Thanks. It is not intended to be an industry served by railroad. It is intended to be scenery. I like logging scenes and equipment, but I don’t find logging railroad operations very interesting in the long term.

Mark

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Nice Modeling! Let’s see more of your work…Cox 47

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Mark

Great modeling, it looks great. [tup]

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Very well done Mark. That doing a small section at a time really sounds like something I should try.

By the way the locomotive in the upper left. Is it the K-1 Garrett?

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Really nice and detailed

Tjsingle

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Sort of. It is of the 0-4-0+0-4-0 configuration. I consider it a Garrett derivative. While it is articulated between the forward water tank and boiler, it is not articulated between the boiler and the rear fuel section. The rear truck swivels, but it is only articulated once and not twice like a true Garrett. This particular locomotive was built in 2006 in South Africa for a tourist line in southern Argentina. That railroad has another locomotive which is a true 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garrett with two articulations.

Mark

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if that’s what you consider mediocre , i can’t wait till you get some more practive and actually get good at this stuff !

nice work

ernie