Part 18: The BlacksmithÂ´s

Entry posted by M Graff May 22, 2011

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I have been busy building a little Blacksmith shop of parts I had in the scrap box

I "needed" a blacksmith by the track, and also I had a place that was perfect for a small(ish) building.

I was sorting through the drawers and found an old Athearn-boxcar shell.

I searched a bit online and found some pictures showing that it was quite common to use the decommissioned cars for sheds etcc.

I also found an old playing Birthday card of the simplest model, I cut the speaker off and put a red LED instead. When it "plays" it makes flickering lights on the diode instead!

Cut a base out of pink foam and carved out some stones, put new end walls of "Clapboard Siding" on the wagon and made â€‹â€‹an overhang to have the fireplace in, I supported it with columns of wood.

I put in two windows from the scrap box as well.

I made â€‹â€‹the fireplace out of pink foam and covered it with alutape.

A little red cellophane and coal on it to look like glow.