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Go team weird soil colors! (Upstate Carolinas are red clay)! That station looks fantastic and the foundation area is extremely well done, especially with the floor beds cut in. You’re really capturing the look and few of the region well!
Dave - If you’ll pardon this ignorant warm/hot country question, are the chimney’s really as high above the roof peaks on the prototype as they are on your model? Beautiful model, but those chimneys just look out of proportion to me, but I’m probably wrong. It almost looks like they built them to the level of the flare, then added more to adjust the draw.
If anything, they might be a little big.
Maybe. I’m not building a scale model. Thanks,DFF
Oh, I know that. I was only offering a possibility for why they might appear too tall.I’m a fan of the build and everything you’re doing.
According to my reference below -- 3 courses of standard brick are about 8" tall .. so if my math is correct (19/3)*8"=50" or about 4.2' tall from the base.. . the original chimney is another 5 or 6 courses high with some kind of box thing on top of that .. so add another 16" for bricks, and probably 12" for the boxy thing
Using @John's math, the chimney should be approximately 78" tall. When I put a scale ruler on the model last night, I found the chimneys were loosely fit at a height of 93". So, when I go to permanently install the chimneys, they will be set 15" lower than they now appear in photos.DFF