Bob, I can't find the photos of the elevator. I'm interested because I'm thinking of cranking one out in S scale using Bristol board with basswood for reinforcement. I made a storage building using Bristol with old--very old--Northeastern lap siding on the outside. The Bristol structure sat for four years in my basement and never warped. Of course it was reinforced with wood.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Bob Werre Sent: Fri 8/15/2008 2:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} FW: Alton elevator kit-another question... Hi Tom, Catching up with email is a trip! If you look at my photos folder (Phototraxx) you might notice that I used two of the Walthers kits--one a wooden sided white elevator and the other a more recent one with metal siding. On the white elevator I added grandt windows where possible. I then modified the boxcar service door. I have lost the downspout so I need to make a better one. Mainline Modeler did an article a few years back, so I'll have to find it. None of these mods are earth shattering, just trying to make it look better. The covered dump house is a little small but I just placed a smallish truck in it. The metal clad version was changed more radically. I built a new dumphouse and added an office to the front. Again Grandt windows, doors and standing seam roof helped here. I also built the 'Red Wing Mill', but since it's in the far corner of the layout I kept it pretty much as designed, but raised it a half inch. Hope this helps--I just pretty much do I looks good at the time. Bob Thomas Baker wrote: > Bob, > > I am curious about how you made your modifications to a Walther's > elevator and to which elevator kit. A friend who models in HO > customized an elevator complex for a fellow HO modeler and had one of > the concrete elevator kits left over. He added three inches to the > height, made larger doors, and gave it to me. I added silos from old > mailing tubes, large diameter ones, and had an S-scale elevator, sort > of. It is still too narrow. Whatever you would be willing to share, I > would be happy to know. > > Tom > > ----- > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
