Sounds like A Plan
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Thanks Gino @HeavyArty Just like armor, if something, even if it’s small, is out of square unintentionally, shoot - you can see it a mile away. I want this building to look old when it’s done, but not sagging and decrepit. I laid the framing out over drawings I did for each wall which helps, and you can see the machinists square and that aluminum metal brake - they are heavy and square so used with a small steel square and triangle, I can keep things reasonably square.
@Uncle-Heavy, yes Robin, I cut up a sheet of corrugated sheet plastic today - making up several panels. About half of them will be heavily weathered, and the other looking to be new. I got my bike back from the shop today, so naturally needed a test ride and rode past this building , which is being renovated:
Ahh! beautiful decrepitude 
very timely to notice.
The 30+ year old bike is now running like new - as it has a tune up, new chain, and cassette - to my surprise, the amount of riding I’ve been doing stretched the old chain and ate up the rear gears - there you go. It was shifting and performing poorly.
Now, back to serious business - as I’m waiting for the paint on the siding to be used for the new building to dry, I got after some smaller, but necessary projects - hardware:
Nothing too fancy, but required - the little doorknob will be visible but not easy to see, whereas the sliding door hardware will be clearly evident.
OK, thanks for having a look -
Cheers
Nick
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I have this evil plan, someday I will make picture frames that are one or two degrees out of square in the corners …
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Nicve work so far! That renovated building above looks almost exactly like a Suydam offering, (not their no. 11 sawmill kit, but some of the others) I like to bogart the corrugated panels from their kits.
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The sliding door looks awesome. 
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@Uncle-Heavy, Ha! That’s just evil!! I can imagine hearing the keyboards being pounded on already!
@18bravo Hi Rob, thanks very much. While not informed by a Suydam kit, this is clearly informed by none other than HO scale craftsman kits. They are a great training ground for dio building.
@Tank_1812, hi Ryan, thanks very much! you’ll see it below with some weathering and installed!
OK, I went for a marathon session yesterday. I went for a ride in the morning, had some coffee, and installed siding and built up the little shed:
Yes! that awful exposed end cut has been fixed! You can see the idea, which is a parts shed and covered parking for the cradle carrier. I decided to really go for it with the weathering, which is fun and tedious at the same time
Oh what a treat…that end cut! But, it is working out as hoped
And, @Tank_1812, Ryan, the sliding door is installed. I will add some weathering around the wall mounted brackets.
So you can see where this is going. I ran out of materials, so will focus on other things for a few days -
Cheers, and thanks for having a look
Nick
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This is just an epic build…real craftsmanship… And have to agree with Ryan, that sliding door is sweet.
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Dang impressive as always! 
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Really enjoying this!
—mike
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Looks awesome Nick.
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@Johnnych01, @justsendit and @Tank_1812, thanks gents - appreciate it!
While we’re on the subject of details and odds and ends, well, thinking about the roof on the woodshed and how to handle it. I wound up showing portions of the roof with old, and new roofing, and other areas with no roofing. This begged the question though of how it was getting done (in the dio that is). A ladder alone would not suffice. And, I am not in the mood to build a telehandler - though it would be interesting, so, instead, I’m working with this:
Yes - a small jib crane on a mast and a scaffold. This project has sort of tumbled along, as rather than planning it out, I just started building. First the scaffold, which also has a stabilizer on the base. The scaffold is from MiniArt, and like all of their models, pretty nice, but a bit fussy and fragile. I decided that for a tall, out of date scaffold, it needed a wood stabilizing frame to the base - you can see the shiny bolt heads - it is supposed to look temporary, and assembled specially for this job.
I thought about lots of options for the crane, and wound up tearing apart some rafters I built for a project some time ago and repurposed them to serve as a mast. I also cut one up and made a jib crane for the top. The winch and various bits of hardware come from the junk box. Funnily enough, the steel rod truss, well, at first, I thought it would look about right, but as I was working this realized the I-beam mast was pretty wobbly, and can report the truss assembly did a great job of stabilizing it - pretty cool.
The scaffold will be painted and weathered as a stand alone paint job. I’ll add paint to the parts on the crane - I don’t see a reason to change the off blue color and weathering which I like anyway.
The base is made from scrap parts
A real challenge on this was figuring out how to connect the mast to the building so that it looks like a temporary assembly, so made up some little brackets that will look to be bolted to the eave blocks (and assuming that in real life this would likely include other interior framing attachment material - but, come on! I don’t want to be working on this forever! so you have to take my word for it - the connections will be strong enough)
There’s also a bracket on the mast, at 18’ scale feet in height, which happily matches the level of the eave block. I point this out because the idea is that this crane is temporary and will be used on other job sites too - 
and there you go. I used remnant tie rods and drag links to make adjustable arms for connecting the mast to the building.
And, the jib and winch, once again, all sorts of bits cobbled together to look about right.
So, on we go. I’ll paint these up, and get back on the small shed, which I’ve also worked on -
lots of tedious tasks that I know are done, but don’t show much progress otherwise
Thanks for having a look -
Cheers
Nick
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Couldn’t that “tower crane” have a permanent employment at the lumber yard
or do they already have a forklift to get stuff from the ground up on load beds?
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All looks sturdy enough & beautifully done – but if something goes wrong you could always pivot into a Massive Engineering Mistakes diorama 
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Ok, this is all next level now … first you amaze us with a wood yard and god knows how many buildings and vehicles … now its a wood yard with a construction phase 
… whats coming next ?? part of a housing development ?? 
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@Uncle-Heavy, funny you’d mention that - there is another vehicle on the way, a proper forklift. It is a plus model resin kit. After building the other vehicles, I was a bit burned out, and not too eager to jump into a resin kit, but, maybe the time has come!
@Dioramartin and engineering disaster!?? haha - lets not give up hope just yet! though, if I screw up the main building, this could rapidly become the abandoned lumber yard!
@Johnnych01, thanks! It’s funny, I think it’s pretty obvious when I enjoy a project! I think the build is a lot more fun than the completed project - so, I’m always looking for more stuff to build and squeeze in!
As for today, some updates:
I put a roof on the shed, added some concrete footings, and painted up a variety of other parts.
Among the painted items, the tower crane and scaffold:
The blue object in the foreground is what the crane will use to lift the roofing materials:
I don’t know what these are called, but this and the crane were a lot easier to build than scratch building a telehandler!
I’m pleased with the saw and rollers. Seeing these photos though, confirms something I was pondering which was should I build a shed roof over it? And, I think the answer is yes.
So, on we go - not sure what’s next? Assembling the forklift, or making the shed roof?
OK, thanks for having a look -
Cheers
Nick
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Maybe just a roof sticking out from another building, similar to the extended roof on the lumber shed/rack.
I do hope that radial arm saw is not available for customers to use on their own,
that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen (originally known as radial finger saw and then the users got complacent and thought their hands were safe so it became the radial hand saw, things got worse and now it is called the radial arm saw, let’s hope it doesn’t get even worse …)
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All looking great! The sliding door details, scaffolding, crane, and where did you get the Cesar Chavez figure as foreman for this build?
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Outstanding work as usual.
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I would agree that just a roof extension would be used just to keep the weather off of the saw, need room to maneuver big boards on to table. Also, maybe a loosely folded tarp under the bench for covering the saw when not in use. Sure you’ve probably already thought of this stuff. Excellent work, by the way. Wayne
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@namengr, Hi Wayne, thanks very much. Yes, I agree! so, as you’ll see below, I tried to fix this by adding an extended eave - and, I like the idea of the tarp! Something you’ll likely see when this is done!
@KoSprueone, Hi Bob, ha! Yes, Cesar himself. As I recall, he is a figure from Paracel Miniatures - their figures are so nice, that they allow a mediocre figure painter like me have some hope!
@Uncle-Heavy Oh, don’t be a baby! safety…lol - as long as you don’t make the huge mistake of reaching across when you’re cutting! and, always keep your fingers AWAY from the blade when cutting!
@18bravo, Hi Rob, well thanks, and following up on a point you and I have discussed several times, if it looks bad, fix it! What does that mean? Please see below:
Well, yeah, this is somehow fine and terrible at the same time! No more - out came the knife, and back to the workbench:
OK, now I feel better
I’m now stuck waiting for more lumber to arrive, so I have two options: 1) build the resin kit forklift, or; 2) start work on grading and earthwork. I’ll find out once this is posted.
Cheers and thanks for having a look -
Nick
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The awning looks amazing, version 2 a definite step-up!
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