Standard Plan: Section House, Cold Climate, 1906

I ordered the Tichy windows and doors this week, and just started printing the walls.
The walls will take over 5 hours to print. I will try to post a progress picture mid-morning. Note the walls are being printed upside-down in order to eliminate the need for support material. The gable ends will be separate items, and all printed together.


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This is about half way done with the walls, another 2-1/2 hours to go.

 

Well Jim, the simple explanation is, "it is a computerized hot melt glue gun." You can see one in action like mine at Afinia.com. There are actually quite a few around. I am sure Cape has a geek community that has several, and they are common in library's and schools. I will post the finished print pics later today.


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Here is house with one gable end installed, and a Tichy window laying in place. The accuracy, at times is amazing. I made the window openings to the Tichy specs, and they dropped right in.

The next question is, what color should it be painted?


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I should be ready to start painting this weekend, what color would be appropriate for post war 1940's era?


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Re: Section House

Medium gray, white trim.

Tom G.

 

When you say shingles painted a light green, are you saying wood shingles that are painted? I was planning in wood shingles, but leaving them natural. Or, are you saying asphalt composite shingles?


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Gable ends glued in place, windows painted, ready to install the roof. I just need to figure out what to use for shingles?


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Shingles were not used. The bill of material for these structures noted that "Prepared Roofing" was used, i.e., two-foot wide rolls of asphaltic material; it was commonly green. Check the Sarcoxie depot picture from the Springfield -Greene Cnty Collection.

http://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/depots/images/photos/p01245.jpg

 

Jim, as in "Make it so." ???

 

So how would all of you recommend this be modeled? Ideas please.

If anyone is in the area tomorrow, I will be at the train show in Joplin till about noon, and will hopefully remember to have this with me.

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From my early post. The one in Dixon was black.

I'll query the Dixon Facebook site to see if any of them have a photo. I wrote a high school classmate years ago. He lived next to where the section house was located. He didn't have any photos of the two-floor section house. I thought some of his childhood photos might show it in the background.

Or maybe he just didn't bother to look through his old photos.

Doug

 

One thing that I stumbled on to in my poor days of modeling, was colored sand. Just paint the roof a dark grey or black, whatever you wish and you can sprinkle on colored sand. It works nice and looks great. Several different colors are available. You might try letting it dry also and then spray with a spray adhesive.

 

I tacked a couple of roof pieces in place. One more to make. The time will be installing the rafter tails..


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