8/31/2011

8/30/2011

On30 sawmill from scratch -- machinery (4)

Building the dead rolls:

Phase 1: framing:



Phase 2: rolls made out of copper tubes:



Phase 3: assembly:





On30 sawmill from scratch -- machinery (3)

First log cart is completed. Here is the sequence:

Phase 1: I have used some HO scale spiked wheels and put a wider axle for the cart wheelsets:



Phase 2: the frame of the cart:


Phase 3: I added some rails on top and attached the wheelsets to the underside:


Phase 4: the cart on rails:

Off-topic: Finland's Raiway Museum

Here are the photos I took last year in the Finnish Railway Museum in Hyvinkää:


Museum entrance:



Models from 1940 - 2004:



Old steam engines used in Finland before 1930:



Old coaches and wagons:





Turntable of old Hyvinkää railway station:





Large scale steam locomotive model:




Off-topic: Diorama

My first attepmt at modelling was a small diorama (80cm x 20cm):
















Coffee table progress -- images from the terminal in construction

Some trains on the terminal tracks:





Coffee table progress -- ballasting tracks

Tracks have been ballasted:







Coffee table progress -- laying tracks

I have completed laying the tracks in the terminal area:









Ties stained with brown and black shoe wax mix:


Ties glued under the rails: