The Sandstone & Termite

[garrymartin]

#20 looks superb out on the rails , lovely pictures to start the day with.

 

[gregh]

They were the original bulk wheat hoppers on New South Wales railways. Before them all wheat was bagged.
see these sites:
http://www.ardp.net/topic43.html [url]http://www.nswrollingstock.com/RU.htm

 

[JRinTawa]

Nice stuff Greg

 

[gregh]

You?ll have seen all these buildings in previous posts, but I thought I?d pull pictures of all my buildings together. These are the scratchbuilt buildings on the SaTR. Those of you who are really observant will have notice from all my previous pics that my buildings ?move around? I like to try them in different places, and since most are stored inside, when I get them out I often forget where they go!
(I?m not including any station buildings here ? they?ll be in another post.)

St Hebel?s church - carved from Hebel (Thermalite) lightweight concrete.

One of the stained glass windows. The pic is printed in reverse on plastic sheet and installed with the ink side inside.

Since this pic was taken, the Melaleuca Station Masters house has been moved to Lilyvale to make way for a new siding. It?s all styrene, with Hebel (Thermalite) chimney.

A truck unloads after using the weighbridge at Melaleuca. The small building is made from styrene.

This building is a cardboard wine cask! I downloaded a jpg of some timer siding and printed it grey and stuck the paper onto the cardboard. The front door and windows are just drawn using MS Word and coloured in with pencils.

Sandstone goods shed is carved from Hebel blocks. The roof is corrugated silver cardboard glued over the Hebel. I cover it when not in use to stop getting rain on the roof!

Ti-tree goods shed is made from a balsa shell and covered with corrugated cardboard from a craft shop. After gluing it on, I cut the separate sheets and pries some edges up.

The engine shed is made from individual balsa boards on a balsa frame. Only the front side is modeled ? the unseen side is just plywood.

Lilyvale Memorial Hall is another all balsa construction using individual boards.

tbc.......

 

[gregh]

and continuing...

This petrol station is made from Corroflute. The Emporium next door is not actually scratchbuilt, but a kit bash of a Piko western bar, with an Aussie verandah added.

The saw mill was made for Oleander but is usually at Melaleuca these days!.

The Men?s Convenience at Melaleuca is made from balsa frame covered with aluminium cans corrugated with a hand held ?cardboard corrugator?.

Oleander goods shed is similar to that at Ti-tree, made from balsa. In this one, the corrugated material is plastic sheeting corrugated with the hand held tool.

 

[CoggesRailway]

Wow.

 

[garrymartin]

Super stuff, the memorial hall and church are marvellous

 

[Lobethalbahn2]

Greg, would I be correct in guessing that Sandstone goods shed is based on a South Australian Railways shed. It reminds me of the one at Strathalbyn (as well as quite a few others on both the broad and narrow gauge lines).

 

[ge_rik]

Excellent stuff, Greg! Love the weatherboarded buildings, and the corrugated iron ones and the thermalite ones - oh yes - and the plasticard and cardboard ones - in fact like them all.

Your individual weatherboarding is extremely regular - I'm afraid mine is a little more 'irregular' - either you have a good eye or (knowing you) you've devised some sort of jig

Have you featured your corrugator on here before?

Rik

 

[Steve]

Mutts bits so many idea`s thanks for sharing Gregh

 

[mike]

fantastic set off building, enought to inspire anyone

 

[yb281]

Excellent buildings Greg. The weighbridge has definitely given me an idea.

 

[gregh]

Have you featured your corrugator on here before?
Rik

Yes Rik, I wrote this article a few years back...
http://www.gscalecentral.net/tm?m=81149&high=corrugated+iron

Yes Michael, the curved roof goods shed is modeled on South Australian practice. I wrote an article about its construction here?.
http://www.gscalecentral.net/tm?m=54309&high=hebel+goods+shed


Thanks for all your kind comments. It just goes to show how the number of buildings grows over 18 years! And I haven't put pics of my station buildings up yet.
And of course there's the pottery buildings my wife has made too....
http://www.gscalecentral.net/tm?m=189512&high=pottery+buildings < Link To http://www.gscalecentral....high=pottery+buildings

 

[gregh]

Yesterday was a beautiful winter's day, so we ran a few trains. Here's a couple of pics in the late afternoon sun, and there's a video at http://youtu.be/XAE4XFpKU6E

Tank #9 brings the mixed into Sandstone

Sandstone station building basks in the sun

Bryan's 4-6-0 shows off her gear in the setting sun

Geof's big diesel races through Sandstone

 

[Shawn]

Greg Railroad looks awsome. I love the work you did on the buildings, especially that sawmill. The rock ledges with the track on top is very cool. Wish I had something like that above my RR. Beautiful stuff.

 

[trammayo]

Nice pics Greg. Just wish our summers were half as good as your winters!

 

[tramcar trev]

Excellent work! You think when I get my CNC laser cutting machine I'd be on a winner making CPH kits?
The AEC types are very iconic too, like Red Fred....

 

[gregh]

Greg Railroad looks awsome. I love the work you did on the buildings, especially that sawmill. The rock ledges with the track on top is very cool. Wish I had something like that above my RR. Beautiful stuff.

Thanks Shawn, but I'd love to have some of your beautiful gardens and plants. And your logging village.

I'd love to get to visit Kittatinny. We'll be visiting Boston in Nov. How far are you from Boston? A day's driving?

 

[Shawn]

Greg i would love to have you over. Im about 4 hours from boston. If you stay a night out here we can hit steamtown. Keep me posted.

 

[gregh]

Greg i would love to have you over. Im about 4 hours from boston. If you stay a night out here we can hit steamtown. Keep me posted.

Thought it was further. Never heard of Steamtown till now. Will peruse the website and send you a PM to get details of where you are.