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….............................--- Sawmill Design/Build – Part 25 ---

….................--- Sawmill Assembly Pt. 3 ---

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Moving along with painting the building. I have an air brush and use it some but have lots to paint and detail so mainly will use spray can paint and a brush.

I had to do some file work on the bottom of the gables to get them to sit flat on the tops of the walls. If you download the print files keep in mind that this isn’t a commercial kit and you didn’t pay for it so expect some filing and fitting of pieces. I need to move onto other projects and have already spent way too much time on this so some of the print files maybe could be worked on and modified but not by me ;-).

To speed things up I used a spray can to get the basic wall cover finished in a couple minutes. The used the brush to add some weathering to it and to paint some of the detail. We are in the middle of nowhere but our ACE hardware is the largest I’ve seen anywhere I’ve been from Florida to California. I guess since the nearest ‘big-box’ store competitor is 140 miles away.

I never get to parts of the store much and asked if they had craft paint the other day. John, who is know for his distinctive laughter, sent me back into the fabric section and wow do they have craft paint. Probably over 100 shades of the paint (shown above left) and it is less than $3.00 a bottle. I picked up a couple and will go back for more. The detail painting below was done with it and other small bottled paints with the finest brush I have.

The sawmill is loosely modeled on the Hull-Oakes mill in Monroe OR. It still used steam for part of it operations up to about 10 years ago. They are know for the ability to cut really long timbers, up to 85 feet. Some have been used in restoration of tall ships that needed new masts. Here is a link to a pretty good video of the mills operations….

https://youtu.be/idDUEYIyijQ

…. I’ve watch all that I could find and have used what I’ve learned to design interior mill parts along with the debarker building; lift at the mill pond; chains from the pond to the debarker building and into the mill and the green chain. Most I’ve had to condense to some degree.

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The trim saw above is one of many interior detail that has been designed and printed for the mill. A lot to go before it is all painted.

I’ve used the non-commercial version of Fusion for all of my design work. It is a great CAD program and really lucky to be able to use it free. I have a Ender 3 Pro that I use a lot but all the sawmill pieces you will see here and on other pages was printed with a $200 AnyCubic Photon M3, now replaced by newer printers. Unbelievable to me what a $200 printer can now print.

Using my smallest brush it is still hard to print the detail but I’m happy with the results.

I’ll get the print files up for the main building walls but if you go back in the build or to my thingiverse account you can find print files to most of the sawmill build to this point along with some of the interior parts (more to come).

Keep in mind that everything is N scale so smaller than most of the images I’ve posted if you are viewing on a computer screen.

I will put the links to the wall and floor print files up soon ( HERE ).

…. to be continued.

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A link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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