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Re: Franksville Wisconsin MiNi Mod-U-Trak modules buildout
« Reply #150 on: December 21, 2010, 03:29:51 PM »
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These are a couple of modern day photos. The building has gotten a few holes knocked into it to add some glass block and a few other things since the 1940-50s. I also had to selectively compress it a bit to make it fit the module space. It is attached to what used to be another grain/feed building similar to the Klema building, but with a concrete loading dock, larger grain elevator and other details. Today that feed building has been updated with regular siding, new windows and looks more like a house/office.



In this second photo you can see the concrete pad on the ground between the buildings and the current mainline. This is where the grain elevator and silo used to be located. The old siding that ran parallel has also since been removed. Also note that the original telephone/telegraph poles are still in place that rose up and over the old grain elevator:



This is a period aerial photo of the same group of buildings taken in the 1950's. You can see the grain elevator and a few other details:



I'm building the warehouse building (my name for it) out of Fine N-scale Products resin cast concrete block wall pieces and Micronart brass doors. I decided to use the Fine N-scale pieces because they are the only thing I've found that is the correct size for concrete block. Mike Skibbe and I experimented with a plotter cutter to scribe styrene sheets, but ran into an overlap problem. We are still going to try something along those lines for the future. I'll use other odds and ends for roof details, parapet wall caps, etc., etc. 

Got another small storage building built and added the siding and roof material on the rest. I need to paint them up. More updates tomorrow with photos.

-j

P.S. Sheesh! Just realized I started this thread on Dec 15th 2008!!!! Where the hell does the time go?
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #151 on: December 21, 2010, 04:05:19 PM »
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Great to see this thread coming back  8)
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #152 on: December 21, 2010, 07:40:41 PM »
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Jamie,

Did you consider using N Scale Architect's sheet cinder block? http://www.thenarch.com/products/concrete-block-n I haven't seen it in person and it's a bit pricey but I have heard it's worth looking at.

Bryan B.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #153 on: December 21, 2010, 07:54:23 PM »
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It is such a pleasure to see the scene progress.  Really enjoy it.  Thanks.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #154 on: December 21, 2010, 10:26:18 PM »
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Quote from: sirenwerks on December 21, 2010, 07:40:41 PM
Jamie,

Did you consider using N Scale Architect's sheet cinder block? http://www.thenarch.com/products/concrete-block-n I haven't seen it in person and it's a bit pricey but I have heard it's worth looking at.

Bryan B.

At the time the only thing I could find that was prototypically scale correct were the Fine N-scale pieces. I'm not sure if the N-scale Architect product is new since then or an older product? I'll have to order some for the future and see. Thanks for pointing it out.

- j
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #155 on: December 22, 2010, 01:36:17 PM »
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Quote from: lashedup on December 21, 2010, 10:26:18 PM
At the time the only thing I could find that was prototypically scale correct were the Fine N-scale pieces. I'm not sure if the N-scale Architect product is new since then or an older product? I'll have to order some for the future and see. Thanks for pointing it out.

- j

Russ came out with it I believe about 3-4 years ago.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #156 on: December 22, 2010, 10:24:20 PM »
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Quote from: Ian MacMillan on December 22, 2010, 01:36:17 PM
Russ came out with it I believe about 3-4 years ago.

He was pretty slow to market it though and still hasn't really done so aggressively for people to know about it, or the new finer bricksheet, etc.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #157 on: December 23, 2010, 02:51:02 PM »
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #158 on: January 14, 2011, 11:52:13 AM »
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Ok, I picked up a Silhouette SD digital cutter. This is basically a craft cutter that looks like a regular inkjet printer except that it has a knife that cuts instead of ink cartridges. It prints based on drawings I create in Adobe Illustrator (which I was using already to create the building drawings). It also comes with its own software that you can use to cut paper, card stock, vinyl stickers (great for masking) and more. It won't cut through styrene (at least not so far, I've only tried to cut down to .020 thickness), but it will score styrene perfectly and from there I can bend and snap the pieces i need. Window opening take a little more care, but it does work.

There is a sticky carrier sheet of harder plastic with lines and registration marks printed on it. You stick the piece of material you want to cut on the carrier sheet and let the printer do the rest. So in this case I had it cut some styrene scrap I had laying around that was oddly shaped from past building parts I took off of it:



I had to mess with the exposure levels to get this to show up, but here are the cuts in the .020 styrene sheet:



So I used it to create the pieces for the Franksville CoOp building:



I've also been working on a wood laser cut kit I picked up from AYA Enterprises at Trainfest:



They have a website here: http://www.blastedmirror.com/news.php  but they don't have any of the laser kits up on the site. This is a pretty nice kit with decent detailing. I need to finish details and paint on it. This will go at the far northern end of Franksville. It is called the Wildwood House and has a garage that goes with it. This is a photo I took at Trainfest in 2009 of the two houses they had on display at the time:



Next I need to complete drawings on one more structure and a storage shed as well and I'll have enough buildings complete to start planting them on the module and building them in.

-jamie
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #159 on: January 14, 2011, 12:11:22 PM »
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Tell us more about that cutter.

Much, much more. Where'd you get it? How much?
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #160 on: January 14, 2011, 12:13:16 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on January 14, 2011, 12:11:22 PM
Tell us more about that cutter.

Much, much more. Where'd you get it? How much?

yeah what he said . . . and a video if you please . . .
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #161 on: January 14, 2011, 12:19:56 PM »
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Quote from: Philip H on January 14, 2011, 12:13:16 PM
yeah what he said . . . and a video if you please . . .

Yeah, what they said.....and some popcorn too, if you please ...

What is the max material size? How hard is it to do windows? What file format is used? Will the Packers beat the Falcons this week?

Looks great. Thanks for reviving the thread!

Best wishes, Dave
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #162 on: January 14, 2011, 12:36:04 PM »
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+3 on the above. I'm ready to buy.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #163 on: January 14, 2011, 12:40:38 PM »
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Ouch, seems $299.99 is the going price for the cutter; it's an SD, not an HD...at least googling it I came up with Silhoutte SD cutters.
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Re: Franksville Wisconsin N-scale modutrak module buildout
« Reply #164 on: January 14, 2011, 12:44:21 PM »
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