John Olson had an article in the Gazette, Sept 1977, on building a small stone station in HO.  His article was the basis of a couple of kits.  This building is the Downtown Deco version.  I renamed the station for my small waterfront community, Sweet Haven.

I have added my video on Rock Casting and Coloring to my Youtube channel.  Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJIn17s4ts

Patten Mines #1

Back in 1986, I build a large HO scale layout.  This mine was one part of that layout.

The mine itself is based on two mills in Arizona.  Board by board construction.

This mill survived a move from California to Alaska and then onto Idaho where we live now.

Here is a photo of the same mill here in Idaho, 33 years later.  A little worse for the wear but still looks good to me.

Hot Dog Stand

I have been building some of FOS Scale Models HO kits lately.  This one is a free kit they offered with minimum purchase.  It was designed as a Roast Beef stand but I preferred to make it a Hot Dog stand.

Western Scale Models produced some great kits for modeling industrial equipment. 

Here is an O scale 10 stamp mill for processing ore.

The 10 stamp battery, the rock crusher and the Challenge ore feeders are kits but the remainder of the mill and it's design is my own making.

The model is not finished but it gives you the idea of what the interworkings of a 10 stamoremill looked like.

Outside of shop during the day light.

I have always enjoyed the blacksmith shop at Knotts Berry Farm so I decided to build my version in O scale.

Outside the blacksmith shop at night looking in.