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Started by Ken Huck, July 13, 2020, 03:17:55 PM

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Ken Huck

Nice to hear from you Sheldon, thought you might be working too hard or or something.

Just here with a little memo for anybody out there who might need a 'burn barrel' for their
layout.  Save all your #2 wood pencils.  The eraser holder work well when painted.



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Ken

Grumpy468

Thats a great little idea. I will have to try that. Thanks for posting.
We Are What Your Mother Warned you about.

trainman203

I grew up in a small town where everybody had one of those in their backyard, everyone had a pretty big backyard in those days.  Not today. Everyone is all neurotic.

Grumpy468

Yes we grew up in a small town, in the local train station. My dad was a station agent. We had rain barrels, burning barrels, and a double wide outhouse, 2 stalls no waiting.
We Are What Your Mother Warned you about.

Ken Huck

Word around the mining complex is that Gene Roddenbarry passed through during part of his time travel.







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Ken

Ken Huck

Seems that there's a lot of Star Trekies out there !  They sure gave my entry a lot of views.

Got my Bachmann Transfer Caboose weathered and put in to work.  A friend of mine used to work in
these cabooses back in the day.  He was definetely impressed with the detail.  He told me they
were all constructed at the "Car Shop" in Desloge, Mo.





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Ken

Ken Huck

Well, I finished another building for the 'farm'.  A barn.



Of course I used my usual materials, match sticks and split bamboo skewers.




I used 'blue' painters tape painted black for the roof tar paper.







I used Jute for the straw/hay in the loft.





The ladder to the loft is a Tichy Train product.

...and of course, that's a Bachmann 50-ton Climax in the background to give a
little perspective.

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Ken





Grumpy468

Right on Ken that looks fantastic.
We Are What Your Mother Warned you about.

Ken Huck

One can never have too many figures...



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Ken

Terry Toenges

Kind of reminds me of Grandpa's hay loft minus the wasp nests.
Feel like a Mogul.

Grumpy468

Awesome, Bigfoot walking through town, nobody sees him.
We Are What Your Mother Warned you about.

Ken Huck

Terry:  Did you also have a bunch of 'barn swallow' nests that you didn't
        like to walk under ?

Sheldon:  This photo was captured by a security camera and was in the local newspaper
          the following day, but everyone dismissed it as a hoax.



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Ken

Ken Huck

Well, if you've been following along, from a post earlier of the 'garage' and the 'barn'
buildings, you'll know what I did here:



I made this little diorama to 'insert' in part of my railroad.  If you go all the way back
to page "1", where I left the ''white glue' bottle in the first picture, you will see the
big 'hole' that is yet to be filled.  This will be a part of that 'hillside' view.

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Ken

Grumpy468

I am on vacation this week, I need to get down to the bench and start something. Thank you for sharing Ken.
We Are What Your Mother Warned you about.

CraigB

What a great layout!  I'm new to the hobby.  Been working on my small 4 X 8 layout for 6 months........and not close to being finished.  Curious as to just how long you've been working on this?  I can see from this thread it's over 4 years.  But it looks like you were at it for some time when you posted that first pic.