[Frank T]

Hi everyone,

today i bought new land with 2 x 1,2m. This area will be place for my new routed track

The theme is an industrial steel factory, build in 1880 - 1910, with only some details

Most place will be needed for the factory halls and worker housing.

The first wall for one of the halls is nearly sawn. i´ll build most of them in this style. Only the office building will be a little bit different.

Here´s the first photo.

updates follow soon, because it´s cold outside here in Germany

 

[Frank T]

YES I`m back

and hope you enjoy my new project. I try to use new technics and create new details. Windows frames will made of cupper and should be soldered and some others

The fassade is sawn.

This is the art i want to create all halls. Most build with bricks, so i have to drill a lot to make it look like.

And here is the fassade.

 

[Frank T]

only a little update,

first 2 walls made in a stone look, the chimney isn´t finished the last stones have to be drilled.

and here are the first details The door in this window was closed long time ago, so they used different stones. I´ll paint them in an other color.

the door frame is borken out and the wall cover ist broken of

sorry for the bad stones on the chimney, i drilled them freehand.

 

[Frank T]

Thx for your comments boys,

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@Jamieg

The walls are made of plywood (4mm) also some wooden strips with different Strength and width, balsa wood for the window roundings,- corraguated cardboard for the roof, cable - wire etc for some details.

And here is my work i did today.
The other two walls are milled and glued together.
The first stone paint is done

here is the result
the color looks like orange but it is red

some other colors follow. and the weathering and only some details

 

[Frank T]

First age is done ( 2 sides)

i´m not sure that it looks like walls in a steel factory. what do you think????

with and without aged.

and here the "finished" stones on the side wall

 

[Frank T]

Thx for the critics

if i understand both of you right, you mean some black, yellow, dark red etc bricks betwin the others would look more realistic?! Am i right???

 

[Frank T]

Hi Embs,

thanks for explaining. i´ll try it at the next halls. But my color isn´t only black. there is also some brown, white and green in it. maybe that it looks like black, because its not real dry. This one i have extrem aged because its the hall with the melting furnace in. And there is a lot of black soot. Therefor i made it very dark above the windows.

Maybe it looks better when the other colors are painted and all details are installed

@slotguy

uupps sorry, i mean copper

 

[Frank T]

Hi sirs,

today i only have a little update what i made at this weekend. This is the hall for the blast furnace. Most wood work is done only some more details inside. Some tubes for air and smoke and whatever a blast furnace needs. a stair on the left side some steelfencing on the first floor and a machine shed on the end of the iron ore elevator.
Here are some pics

The first 2 halls

@Embs

I ve asked a man how works in an industrial museum near by. He told me that most of the industrial buildings were painted in red, so my color isn´t so far away from the original

 

[Frank T]

A little update with my work this week.

a crane in the fifties stile. Need it to pull the iron ore in the truck for the blast furnance.

hope you enjoy my fanatical love to details

 

[Frank T]

@sig - 4.3ZOOK

don´t post links like these, they give me so much ideas that the track build never ends

. I thought that i´m finished end of Feb or March,

but now???

 

[Frank T]

1christmas work is done.

The first hall is nearly finished. Only some more details- steps, tubes ....... and some more ageing at the elevation. Lamps are all installed (13 LEDs). Lighted pics follow.

Here is my little work

a view inside

 

[Frank T]

thx sig,

also to you and all other members and their families.
May all your wishes come true.

And yes- grime rules

the ore shelter is nearly the last detail at this hall. Only some more little-little-little details

Some pieces are not what i real like,maybe that i change them.
But weathering, ageing and the used look is finished. Took nearly 15-20h.

and here is my next little update
ore shelter and crane shovel

And now i must hurry up to the next hall. Plan is finished in my head. That´s allways the way i create everything.

Hope you like it .
critics are welcome!

No not you embs

SORRY

 

[Frank T]

@ Zook

but it´s omly plywood with some drilling, took approx. 10min.

@Embs

the wires are for light in the crane, the second one for lights in the elevator.

But it ´s a good inspiration, i think i have to think about a motor for the crane

NOOOOOO, that would be too much detailed ?!

 

[Frank T]

Hi boys,

here´s a new update.

The next building is in work and will become a cooling tower.
Made of plywood and a lot of remainders of balsa.
3 sides remaining, a few tubes and some color and it´s finished.

 

[Frank T]

And here is the arrangement with the first other buildings.
the upper half is finished, down side is more detailing to make

space needed for these three buildings 1,00x0,60m,-
and i thought 2,2x 1,5 is enough.

Maybe this track will grow in xxxxl dimensions , but i like to built and create buildings and scenery

 

[Frank T]

Thx for your kind words

@Aston-man

this is only an inspiration giving to all of you, hope to see track buildings of you as well

@embs
your comments are very welcome

got a lot of tips from you and your work, love that

@Dave
thank you, Btw, what about MMM2011?

@joe_beal
yes i´ve arranged them on a stove. It´s a steel factory, so there must be some heat in there

I´ve placed them only for the photos on there.

@sig

the first paintjob is done, some steps. ledders, lights ............
so it nearly finished

Next hall idea is drawn on the plywood and waits to be sawn out.

Said that i want to create the windows of copper or brass, but i decided to make a prototype and built them of resine, hmm

not sure that it will work well. Someone worked with resine, what to consider and so on?

But first some more photos

of my work

the silver covered points at the edges are nuts and in the wires they shall look like turnbuckles

comments, ideas, inspirations changings... like ever are welcome, also your comments Embs

 

[Frank T]

Next update.

The "steel window frames". It works!!!!!

Wanted to use resine, but found something cheaper and is for static things hard enough. Called Wood moulding material.

first i made a positive prototype form of balsa wood. From this i made a negative with silikone. Not so perfekt

.
a new one is made and still drying.
The silicone form

And here is the first selfmade frame. looks better as i thought

Most time took the prototype, but the rest was soooo easy to built and spend me a lot of freetime for more important things, details for example

.
Took from the first cut up here 4hours.

Hope you like it.

@sig
Hmm smoke machine
Pssst, lies already in the shelf

max 43 m3/min are enough, what do think?

 

[Frank T]

Hi to all of you,

thx once more for your comments

@Jens

The wood moulding (Hobby time) a 2 component moulding is made by Glorex
Art No 6 2108 20
the separating liquid also
Art No 6 2407 445
and the silikone (Silicolan NV) also 2 component Createc trend-design-gmbh
Art No 60400
bought at creativ- discount, they also have an online shop
hope i could help you

@Zook
If i understand right?
It´s not a filler, it´s to copy scultures and when its dry, it´s strong like normal wood. It can be filed and sawn , so you can create finest details
If you mean the frame?
Height approx 55mm, width30mm and strength approx 3mm

@sig
not sure that my smoke machine is to big 43m3/min
do not need so much smoke, only for a few chimneys, the cooling tower, leaky places at pipes, some smoke in different halls, the blast furnace and

@embs
your welcome, can´t be that i only take inspiration of all the others

Hope i can get a tendency like this

It´s a photo of the area called Ruhrgebiet, and so it looks in 60 60-70ties all over

and now a little bit history
the biggest Montan area in Europe,
Thyssen, Krupp and others steel producers are placed in here, also a lot of cole mining companies both worked hand in hand

 

[Frank T]

Help for steel frame color needed!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what color i shall use

Please give me a vote for left ( black with a little patina oil)

or right (metalic silver)

I still have my favorit

 

[Frank T]

@ssd slotguy

burnt sienna?!

I have a tube with oil color, i ll try this also, but a great different to black?!