Not sure if there is much interest in this but I recently started a kit from Some Dude of an O scale sawmill. It is a rather large project in terms of geography as well as parts. The manual is 130 pages and an additional 30 pages for the machinery inside the mill. My plan is to build it as a diorama that can be plugged into a module of an operating On30 layout...someday. Following pics are of progress so far. If anyone is interested in box opening pics, I can provide those since the majority of it is still in the box. Edited to comply with forum rules as to not promote a non advertiser
I grew up in a small sawmilling town. Later worked at a couple, including that one. Always interested in how people create their scenes of these operations, any scale.
A couple of my friends worked at a sawmill back in high school. One of them got the toes cut off his tennis shoes (narrowly missing his feet), thought nothing of it, went home, changed his shoes and went back to work. No, thanks! Your mill is coming along nicely. As noted, it's going to be an involved project and need a fair amount of real estate. Should be a very interesting build.
Well, work started getting in the way and just didn't have the energy to keep going. I managed to get the rail risers and rail for the carriage installed onto the frame. The next step is the rope drum assembly for the carriage but I need to build the double blade husk to properly align the drum gear. Then I realized that I had not ordered the strip wood or brass wire for any of the machinery kits yet. Got all of ordered and most has showed up this week. Just missing .020 brass wire and NBWs. NBWs were delivered, just not to my mail box. Alright, enough complaining. I did manage to get resin castings primed and some detailed over the long weekend.
Here is the rest of the resin parts. Black primer are metal and khaki are wood. Still have a big sack of white metal parts (not including machinery) to do. I'm trying to break up the build in a way that doesn't make it feel like working an assembly line. It may be less efficient but helps keep interest in the build until the snow is gone. Got started on the Saw, live rolls and dead rolls. Hope to get the more shots up by the end of the weekend.
Are some of these air brushed? Or are you hand painting all the details? If the latter, I can sure see where it would be a rather lengthy process.
Wow, this is gonna' be awesome! I'm a big fan of logging railroads here in the NW, so I'll be looking forward to your updates!
