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Smelting Plant for Model Train Layouts

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Summary: Learn about creating the Clemenceau smelter for train model diorama in HO scale in this free train hobby video.

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By Bob Lanning
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Bob Lanning, chairman of the railroad committee of the Clemenceau museum, has been actively building and maintaining the railroad diorama since 1992. It started as a flat sheet of...read more

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"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Bob Lanning. I'm here to tell you about making a train diorama in HO scale. This large structure right here is the Clements house smelter, which is one of the two large mines in the are. And this is important because this was the second largest ore find in the Jerome area. And this was a very well known man, Rawhide Jimmy Douglas built this, so really it fits in well because this is where the museum is now. It actually was the town of Clemenceau at the time which has now been incorporated into Cottonwood. The construction of this was done with various cardboard and basswood and balsa wood and then painted to represent the various textures and the rustic colored roofs and just the way things we're looked at, kind of nasty, with the smelter a lot of dirt in the air. This is an example of scratch built, building things from photos, without using any commercial kits. This was done by measuring and going by references we have of what the buildings were made of, which was still available up in Jerome. What was corrugated metal, what was plaster, what was stucco, and thats how this all looks fairly realistic, just nasty, dirty, like a smelter would be."

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