testIt is beyond my capacity to imagine your process. Planning, construction, all the minutia included to make such a project. Then the dedication to keep going to completion. Holly Molly! Model story telling at it's extraordinary finest!
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Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated Feb. 13, 2020
- Thread starter bob letterman
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mike walsh
Master at Arms
Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated March 5, 2020
Thanks Dave for Bumping it.
The words have already been said before me.
So intricately detailed with so many subjects to keep the human eye scanning more into the diorama.
Perfect.
Michael :drinks
Thanks Dave for Bumping it.
The words have already been said before me.
So intricately detailed with so many subjects to keep the human eye scanning more into the diorama.
Perfect.
Michael :drinks
Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated March 5, 2020
Thanks Michael,
I sure wish it was perfect, but thanks for the compliment anyway!
Bob
Thanks Dave for Bumping it.
The words have already been said before me.
So intricately detailed with so many subjects to keep the human eye scanning more into the diorama.
Perfect.
Michael :drinks
Thanks Michael,
I sure wish it was perfect, but thanks for the compliment anyway!
Bob
Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated March 5, 2020
After that train station, I had to stop and do my spring cleaning on my workshop. I make such a mess that, finally, I have nowhere left to work. I took a few days and did some cleaning. I carried out two large garbage bags. What a mess it was! Here is a shot of my workshop as of last Sunday!
It's always nice to start again with everything so tidy. Unfortunately, it usually takes me a day or two before it is all cluttered again.
I decided before I go on to other things in this large diorama, I will finish the train shed comp[letely although I can't permanently mount it until the very last part of the diorama. Otherwise I couldn't get to many parts of the rest of the diorama.
Here is a duplicate of one of the photos I posted last time. The Train shed, as I call it ,is the canopy over the tracks where passengers board. The K5E rail gun has been backed in in an attempt to shelter it from Allied bombing. In this instance, it didn't work out all that well.
A lot of damage to it and the Train station and even the more fragile parts of the rail gun.
The shed will run the full length from the train station to the right end of the diorama. It shows the full length of the diorama . On the far left, you can see the portion of the shed I built several years ago.
I had built a large section of the shed several years ago but, I waited to finish the destroyed portion until after the RR gun was finished so I could design the shed rubble around the gun itself. I made a master of the primary supports, (Seen here in yellow and a lighter shade of yellow in resin), way back when and then cast them in two part polyurethane resin. The remaining structural parts are from Evergreen and plastruct, plus all those window frames. I used a trick to make some of them twisted and broken. I removed them from the silicon molds before they were completely cured and then bent and twisted until I had the shape I wanted, then dipped them in cold water to expedite their curing process. I used some 20 of those supports, 16 intact and 4 twisted in the entire shed.
Another angle.There is another three sections attacked to the train station. Where the two come together, there will be a wide gap over the barrel of the RR gun from Allied bombing. When finished, there will be a dozen or so G.I.s standing on the barrel and a British War correspondent taking a photo of them.
In addition, I made a structural steel component that ran the length of the shed to handle electric engines as well as Locomotives, and the small diesel engines the Germans used for lighter purposes.
Another angle. The white strip will be metalized and represent the contact for the overhead apparatus that transfers the electricity from the strip to the internal motors. Note the simulated ceramic insulators. I made a master of them and cast enough to run the length of the shed. They are the yellow resin parts between the strip and the power cable box.Those will be painted a glossy off white.
Here is the shed, the power structure and at the top of the photo is another power strip which the lighting for the passenger walkway will be installed.
Thanks for looking in!
Bob
After that train station, I had to stop and do my spring cleaning on my workshop. I make such a mess that, finally, I have nowhere left to work. I took a few days and did some cleaning. I carried out two large garbage bags. What a mess it was! Here is a shot of my workshop as of last Sunday!
It's always nice to start again with everything so tidy. Unfortunately, it usually takes me a day or two before it is all cluttered again.
I decided before I go on to other things in this large diorama, I will finish the train shed comp[letely although I can't permanently mount it until the very last part of the diorama. Otherwise I couldn't get to many parts of the rest of the diorama.
Here is a duplicate of one of the photos I posted last time. The Train shed, as I call it ,is the canopy over the tracks where passengers board. The K5E rail gun has been backed in in an attempt to shelter it from Allied bombing. In this instance, it didn't work out all that well.
A lot of damage to it and the Train station and even the more fragile parts of the rail gun.
The shed will run the full length from the train station to the right end of the diorama. It shows the full length of the diorama . On the far left, you can see the portion of the shed I built several years ago.
I had built a large section of the shed several years ago but, I waited to finish the destroyed portion until after the RR gun was finished so I could design the shed rubble around the gun itself. I made a master of the primary supports, (Seen here in yellow and a lighter shade of yellow in resin), way back when and then cast them in two part polyurethane resin. The remaining structural parts are from Evergreen and plastruct, plus all those window frames. I used a trick to make some of them twisted and broken. I removed them from the silicon molds before they were completely cured and then bent and twisted until I had the shape I wanted, then dipped them in cold water to expedite their curing process. I used some 20 of those supports, 16 intact and 4 twisted in the entire shed.
Another angle.There is another three sections attacked to the train station. Where the two come together, there will be a wide gap over the barrel of the RR gun from Allied bombing. When finished, there will be a dozen or so G.I.s standing on the barrel and a British War correspondent taking a photo of them.
In addition, I made a structural steel component that ran the length of the shed to handle electric engines as well as Locomotives, and the small diesel engines the Germans used for lighter purposes.
Another angle. The white strip will be metalized and represent the contact for the overhead apparatus that transfers the electricity from the strip to the internal motors. Note the simulated ceramic insulators. I made a master of them and cast enough to run the length of the shed. They are the yellow resin parts between the strip and the power cable box.Those will be painted a glossy off white.
Here is the shed, the power structure and at the top of the photo is another power strip which the lighting for the passenger walkway will be installed.
Thanks for looking in!
Bob
Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated March 5, 2020
Wicket!!
Wicket!!
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
I can just imagine Bob! You are making great strides on this now. I have seen the other dios in your museum and I believe this is one of the most involved and the busiest of the bunch.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Wow, that is fantastic! It felt good looking at that clean workbench and thinking, 'man I was there as saw all this in person!' That and the diorama! Man, I am overwhelmed!
Logistics, Base & Buildings, Updated March 5, 2020
Thanks Mike,
BYW, I cheated! I bought all that Plastruck and more when VLS was going. I got distributor discounts on everything back then, usually 60% off the retail prices!
Bob
Wow! I knew I should have bought stock in Plastruct!
Awesome work!
Thanks Mike,
BYW, I cheated! I bought all that Plastruck and more when VLS was going. I got distributor discounts on everything back then, usually 60% off the retail prices!
Bob
Wicket!!
Thanks MP,
Dad
Thanks Paul!
The big difference in now and two years ago is I am no longer fighting cancers. It's amazing the difference that makes even at my age!
When I began this one, my goal was to not only to make it much busier, but far more detailed and much more quality in the building and painting than the previous ones. I believe I have accomplished that. I sure never spent this amount of time on any other of my dioramas! I started it in 2003. That was nearly 17 years ago! I built the first version of Legaxies in one year! Try working on one build for 17 years! It's been different!
Bob
Thanks Mark!
If I remember, it wasn't so nice and organized when you were here!
BTW, it already looks more like it did when you were here! My workshop doesn't stay nice very long after I clean it!
Bob
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Yeah, I know that feeling!
Clint Carter
New member
Yes brilliant work too
Thanks Mark, Clint and Duke!
Bob
Bob