The roof 'fascias' have been completed now, on top of the corrugated plastic 'boards' added last time on the side that faces the turntable. This may barely be noticable in these pics, but was a bit of work front and back with about 30 segments being added. Made from square section stripwood prepainted/weathered. Here are the backside segments going on, this time onto the grey stripwood bits above the windows.:
All that work and you can barely see them. They will have a practical use though, providing a fairly wide surface for the roof deck to be glued onto. They are prominent as the grey lines at the top of the black 'side/end' in the pic below.
Some of the workshop back-walls have been added and the shed boiler lean-to has been made (left 'stall' in the above pic).
A nice little distraction today was the shed boiler, presumably used for heating/hot water, boiler washouts and as a steam supply for blowers etc. The backside of this is quite prominent in many pictures sitting in the lean-to, such as this (cropped from a from Ray Mathewson picture). There is a concrete coal bunker outside (to the left)
I made one up from some styrene tube whacked off to a guestimate length, angled at the back, and with a thick backhead glued on. I've already started shaping the top of this before the glue has set (You idiot!) The firebox sides are ready to go here (thin plastic):
Firebox sides installed, and a funnel perched on top, this is only half found as I had it spare and I'm running out of this tubing. It is tall because on the real thing it exits out a pipe through the roof. A steam dome was made from a round bit of this tube (but has no top!)
Getting a bit fancy now with some filler putty deployed above the firebox sides, some steam turret bits, a safety valve maybe, some sight glasses, dials/knobs on the backhead, and a steam take off pipe. Yes, I am just making all this up.
And painted/weathered. This whole creation probably took about ten minutes working time between other jobs and I reckon it looks pretty decent and fairly well proportioned for a complete hack job.
Sitting unglued in place temporarily to see how it all looks:
Might have to put a light in there after all that effort! Maybe its a bit small (or my lean to is a bit big). The lean-to has a roof popped on as a test below:
Also visible there are some of the parts for the clerestory-with-no-windows pop-top that runs along the roofline. I painted more of that wonderful corrugated plastic sheet grey, weathered it and cut it up. Then the little white IKEA style tabs were added to the back at one end to facilitate glueing the next one. This is another thing I thought would take ages, but it didn't take long thanks to my patented Pick Up Sticks roof reinforcing.
You can see the side of this raised section that faces the turntable is complete all the way around. I'll make a matching backside (obviously with a slightly larger radius curve), and use spacers between the front and back with a pointy top that matches the black corrugated end profile to help me put the roof on top of this raised section.
That's the next job I'm dreading.
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