The last entry was in November 2014 and ended 'right, on with the boiler house'...
A little bit of history.... The boiler house is situated adjacent to the mill - as many mills found out, naked flames and flour-dust don't mix! However, neither do wooden roof-beams and stationary boiler chimneys... The result is that one cold night six months ago, the night-watchman (keeping himself warm in the boiler house) woke up to the crackling of flames above his head... He rapidly distanced himself
At last!
Still needs a bit of 'fettling in', and the front track needs cobbling. All jobs for the next session - in Jan next year!
Right - on with the boilerhouse
Finally - after 4.5 years, the mill is nearly done! I doubt the original took this long!
First job for this session was to complete the last 12 window units in the rear wall. However, before the wall itself could be added, the gable end window had to be built and placed -
This really was the LAST window of over 50...
Next job - the mill owners house required a front door. Being (probably) the richest person in the village after the squire the door had to reflect the family's
Over a year since the last entry... Time to make some progress. The rear wall still requires 12 windows - but to be honest I needed something a little less taxing today, so I decided to tile the roof instead!
This will be done using laser-printed tile strips representing a standard clay tile. I usually produce roof & wall finishes on adhesive paper - but tiles need their thickness represented so they were printed on 200 micron (160 gsm) card - about postcard thickness. This was
'Emsford' is the REC's 'EM' layout currently under construction. Based on a rural single-track secondary route, the largest building in the village is the mill. - and I was silly enough to volunteer to build it! The early work was subject of this forum entry -
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/11149-a-mill-for-emsford/
and this blog will continue the process. As you can see, this and the station buildings for 'Netherley' - subject of another blog) do take up a fair pro
