Here's a couple more black diamond related videos. Enjoy. This explains about the Avondale mine fire. Mine entrances.
The scratchbuilt coal breaker on my previous N Scale layout used this scribed plastic sheet for the roof surface, but I can't find anything like it some 35+ years later. It's been painted a weathered brown. Does anyone recognize the product? The strips are about 1/16" wide. Evergreen makes a Standing Seam Roof, but it doesn't look like this. Plastruct's website is terrible, can't find a thing there. Thanks.
I used something like this on a station build a while back. After dinner I'll look through my styrene supplies and see if still I have the packaging.
I built this back in the 80's. Unfortunately I can't find the packaging or scraps in my styrene drawer. I have a small box of roofing materials I'll look for in the next day or so. Looks to be about 36" on center seams.
Material was Evergreen standing seam roofing. Standing seams or ribs are separate strips that modeler installs. I sanded the standing seam ribs shorter after I glued them in. The material in the your picture, post 704, looks like Evergreen standing seam roofing before the standing seam ribs are installed.
Hardcoaler, Still looking for corrugated sheet? Have you looked at Archistories for corrugated siding? I built a lime kiln out of it. I did some white washes over the base gray color. I think the corrugation is a bit large for Z, but I think it is actually N scale. Here is a site that carries it: https://zscalehobo.com/archistories/807181.html Scott
I found the package. My two weeks of organizing my train room paid off. Spacing is 3/16" Strips for raised seams are 0.010"×0.034" before instalation. I think I still lived at my parents when I bought this. I paid $3.50 less NMRA discount. Now lists for $10.89.
Oh, thank you! Your photos are great -- they help to make sense of the product description. That's Evergreen's "Standing Seam Roofing" today. To reliably glue those tiny thin ribs into the tiny thin slots in the roofing material was beyond my abilities 35+ years ago and most certainly remains that way today. Thankfully, the roofing sheets look great without the ribs. Again, thanks.
You welcome. I'm glad I could finally help someone out. I think your modeling skills exceed mine. If I remember correctly I used Tenax-7R touched to the groove in the panel. Capillary action causes Tenax-7R to flow along groove. Then quickly and carefully insterted strip in groove. I had to be very careful no to get solvent on my fingers and leave finger prints.
Okay, just ordered one sheet each of Evergreen 4080 and 4525 just to see what they look like. My LHS had neither. My order went to a semi-LHS that's a two hour drive each way on a congested route and the cost of my order was equivalent to what I'd pay for gas and a meal to make the trip. I may have wasted the money; we'll see. I ordered some Tamiya paints too.
I bought my sheets of Evergreen styrene for my anthracite coal breaker and am beginning to cut sections for the walls. The walls will be different shapes and sizes and I must be sure the textured metal siding surface is facing out and vertically oriented as I trace out the pieces. Also, some of the walls are longer than Evergreen's 6" sheet width, so I must join sheets together, then cut them. As I complete sections, I pick them up and place them safely away from where I am working. Why? It's easy to mindlessly pick up a random rectangle of sheet to cut a part, not recognizing that it's one you've already cut to size! I've done this when woodworking, but only once! It's one of those lessons you learn and never forget.
I was thinking too that when painting, I'm careful to place the pieces somewhere above the tabletop. I know I've smacked over a bottle of paint or thinner and the wave of liquid that follows seems magnetically drawn to my project pieces.
Coal breaker is a'building. Got the walls cut for the basic structure with windows installed and glued it up. Doors and small windows not yet in. I left the long side open so that hopper cars will be visible within the structure. Track will enter at the ends. Lots more to do, with main roofing, the conveyor structure and an additional small roof detail on top all waiting. The whole thing will be painted black when done. I pre-painted the interior in case I light it someday. I'll probably weather it with chalks. At the rate I'm going, I'll finish it in another year.
Wow! That is really starting to come together Hardcoaler. Excellent work. That is going to be such a cool and unique building when done. Enjoying following the progress.
