Put in a little work the last two days, first off I received the replacement windows for the Black Diamond town hall. I painted them yesterday and then glued them to acetate this afternoon. After cutting them out, I glued them in place. I'll have the interior to finish at some point, but the next big step is getting the revolving door built and installed. I also need to give thought to the roof. Pretty sure they'd have some safety features up there and communication equipment. The second project was the painting of the traveling crane for our logging spur. Decided to tie it into our mill, so I started with Sac Bomber Green, which we used for all the structures at the Edwards and Bradford mill. I painted the boom grimy black and the platform engine black. Did some very minor weathering to tone down the platform color. I will put much heavier weathering on this next week; including rust on the metal roof and boom, with earth colors on the platform. I also want to paint yellow safety marks on the ladder and walkway. Not much progress, but progress none-the-less. Thanks.
Having worked in the lumber/logging industry as a truck driver. Most cranes i've seen have been some form of yellow, orange, or red, very few in green. It looks great don't get me wrong just unusual to see a green crane modeled since everyone goes for the old standard colors listed above. That's what makes it unique in it's own way and makes me think of the many mom & pop operations i've hauled out of. Where the paint of choice is whatever was laying around in the back shop.
This has me thinking of years gone by. What popped into kind quickly was such as the Skagit line of spars, etc. In their white with some blue trim.
BCE50 Do you remember Roeslers (pronounced Ray-Slurs) logging based out of Startup. They had those Kenworth crane mounted log loaders or their Kenworth mounted yarders. Those were some neat trucks. They actually abandoned one of the KW log loaders at the old startup yard before going out of business. Might still be there after all these years have to check might have to model. Dale really digging that log scene is that factory colors on the log truck or did you paint it like that. Looks good either way.
This is great info, thx. My family had ownership in the Edwards and Bradford mill in Elk, Wa. My grandfather grew up there. My mother did research on the mill and eventually had a color drawing made of it, which I have in my home. A passage in her research includes a statement about green being the prevailing color of the buildings. Unfortunately there are only black and white photos, so I went with that and just picked a color. Since this was the "Edwards and Bradford" color, I carried it over to the crane. Appreciate your comments Vince, very cool stuff. M
That cool looking. Understand about company colors on everything. Or as Sgt Schulz would say I know Nothink absolutely nothink. COLONEL Hogan.
Quick recap of last night. Scott, Wain and I were the only attendees. Wain used the evening to work on mounting options for our Franklin panel. We made a choice between the options and then he started installing some supports for the ribbon cable we will use. The supports will keep the cable elevated above hidden track. I did not get pics of this, primarily because after watching him contort his way into that confined space, I wasn't going to even attempt it to get a photo. Scott and I spent the majority of the evening working on our parts of the logging spur. Scott painted the tracks and next week will ballast the ties. I completed the painting of fine details on the crane and then weathered it with rust washes and a heavy dose of chalk. Here's how they look together. In looking at this shot, I clearly overdid the rust wash on the boom, so I'll go back and tone that down a bit. Otherwise I'm very pleased with the results. That's it for this week, thanks for checking in.
Hi Mike, I don’t think you overdid the boom. It looks how I would imagine it to look. If anything, I’d go back and rust up the struts. Dale
Just wanted to get in a weekend post before calling it a night. Spent some time reweathering the Edwards and Bradford logging crane. I wanted to tone down some of the light rust on the boom, then mix in some darker rust. I also wanted to add more rust to the gantry. Here's how it looks now: I recently broke down and purchased a unit grain train from Trainlife.com. They had a sale on SCALETRAINS BNSF Gunderson 5188CF Covered Hoppers. There were two varieties of detail, the operator series and the rivet counter series. They are excellent looking cars. The big difference we can see is the roof walk. The rivet counter car (on the right) is a very nice etched metal single piece. The operator car is still a nice car, but the roof walk is clearly less detailed. All the cars need to have the couplers replaced, fortunately we just ordered a slew of Kadee Whisker couplers. Either way we have a cool looking unit train to add to operations. Thanks for checking in.
It looks good Michael. The only thing I would consider adding would be some dirt on the louvres on the side. That’s an excellent start on the grain train!
Mike: Just a curiosity thing. That scene with the log reload- Will there be more detailing done? Just thinking about such places I recall seeing and being around. There was usually a good amount of bark on the ground, plus also a few tree limbs and other splinterings.
If you look closely Scott is already headed that way, he has wood splinters under the truck. Much more to go on this scene. I started working on a driver safety shed yesterday. I watched a cool log loading video and it specifically pointed to the driver out of his cab and inside a steel shed for protection.
