Hey all, Well, set aside my airbrush this week (sort of) and started to focus on getting stuff for a end module for our display in November here in Medford. Dunsmuir will be represented, but in an unfinished form I suspect, so I pivoted today to work on a small piece to help out with Loren's time management. He says he needs three end modules so we can run trains, so Steve (from the other Phoenix) and I are chipping in. This is a proto for a portion of a military compond, the first building I've finished in many moons. Feels good even though it's just a prototype. I've attached a link to my site that shows some of the progress shots. As I get further into this, I'll post more info. Zmodels Enjoy. Joe MTL
Not so long ago!!! Joe, Was not so long ago, at least it seems to me, that I spent many a month in this structure while going thru Basic Training and AIT. Harmony Church, Ft. Benning, GA 1985. We were told the barricks dated back to WWII and the wood was so dry that if it caught fire, it would burn faster than a match stick!!! The only difference between the barricks I have stayed in and the one you have skillfully crafted is on one end the door is on the side of the building at the second window. Stairs to the upper floor are at the side door too as is the showers and the latrine! You did a grand job!!!! Hobo Tim
One of these? http://www.geocities.com/martinjmpr/harmonychurch.html Thanks for the encouragement. I think a structure like this is Universal for any Vet. While most Navy barracks were newer, the few times I attended Army and Marine schools, I got a good taste of them. Landscaping will be fun! This was a fun project and should prove to be an interesting module. Joe
I remember!!! I recall marching by this guys battalion area. We had to march to a certain part of Harmony Church for Pay Call. It was not close to my barracks. Hated that once a month hustle!!! But, it's all in the past now!!! I see lots of building configurations in his photos. Our barracks were a bit smaller and arranged differently. For the most part, all barracks of that era were similar!!! Thanks for posting the Harmony Church link!!!! Bravo 8 Two!!! Co. B, 8th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Brigade! Hobo Tim
January 1952. Fort Ord Basic Training. One door at end with a second door to one side. The side door led to stairs for the second floor and under the stairs and to the left was the latrine and showers. Our roofs overhang a little further and there was a second roof that extended between the first floor and the second floor. Never thought of it before but it must have been purely decorative because there were no rafter structure running through the second floor. I remember it vividly because one night the guys were goofing off and two guys climed out of the second floor onto that little roof without any clothes on. Everyone else slammed all of the windors shut and those two guys spent a half hour running around all nekkid on that short slanted roof. I was up there about 5 years ago and some of those old buildings still stand. Bill El Toro, CA
The Harmony Church photo brings back memories of my childhood. When I was 3, we lived in the graduate student housing at Princeton. It was all old army barracks.
