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Cigarguy
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USA
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 Posted - 03/11/2012 : 08:53:06 AM
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| Looks great! |
Mike
D&B Lumber Co.
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 03/18/2012 : 8:34:11 PM
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Thanks for the nice comments my friends. As one could expect, I've not been able to complete the building in the two months of the challenge...
Bruce, yes the frames were also built using a jig. It made everything rather easy and quite precise.
Doug, Mike was very helpful when I mentionned a while ago my interest for the building of this model on the Westlake forum, by providing the necessary measures that made guessing unnecessary.
I've been able to complete the base for the scenery. I first made and installed some supports for the stairs that will allow the workers to enter the dining house (they are foreground in the first shot).
Then I installed the scenery basis. A rather long job with lots of paper cutting to wrap the wooden posts. Not difficult but a bit long... The two last shots show two steps of the process, after completing the heavy cardboard web, then after completing the lighter fitting of small sheets of newspapers.
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Geezer
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USA
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Tyson Rayles
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2012 : 10:33:56 PM
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| [:-thumbu] Nice precise work Frederic! |
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 03/22/2012 : 6:38:25 PM
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Many thanks for the very nice comments, my friends. The first time I did this kind of scenery fitting around the bents of a trestle, I felt a bit intimidated, but I like this technique even if it takes some time.
The kitchen will be on a bigger diorama to be inserted on the layout just to the left of the Allison mine. I had first thought that just near the kitchen would be the bunkhouse for the miners but space is tight and it would have prevented me from adding the big vertical scenery that I like. So the miners will sleep a little away, and yet be able to watch the beautiful mountain landscape from the superelevated dining house.
With no other posts to fit into the landscape, I could create the relief for the remainder of the diorama. It is essentially the same technique, except that the cardboard is thicker.
The picture taken from the rear of the diorama shows the little space between the plywood piece that defines the top of the mountain and the back of the diorama, that helps glueing the pieces of cardboard, but also have scenery a little 'behind' the horizon.
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kirk
Fireman
Sweden
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Posted - 03/23/2012 : 01:25:02 AM
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| Good to see you in gear Frédéric!! Can't wait to see how the new diorama will look! |
Troels Kirk
Näsum, Sweden
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elwoodblues
Fireman
Canada
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Posted - 03/23/2012 : 08:54:57 AM
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The framing looks great Frederic, they look even more impressive with the sloping scenery base.
On a personal note, I had to smile when I say the french newspapers as the scenery base, reminded my of my time growing up in Montreal, Quebec where I delivered newspapers as a boy.
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mabloodhound
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2012 : 10:35:33 AM
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Perhaps those will be French mountains, ala the Pyrenees or the Alps. 
A very nice start Frederic and I still like this old way for doing plaster work.
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Dave Mason
D&G RR (Dunstead & Granford) in On30
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”~Benjamin Franklin
The 2nd Amendment, America’s 1st Homeland Security
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
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Posted - 03/24/2012 : 6:53:35 PM
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Perhaps those will be French mountains, ala the Pyrenees or the Alps.
You're damn' right Dave : how could they not be French, with rocks cast out of Plaster of Paris?
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milocomarty
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Netherlands
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andykins
Fireman
United Kingdom
3893 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2012 : 07:28:34 AM
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| looking good frederic. :) |
"Is it really "rivet counting" if it's regarding NBW castings?"
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Canada
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Frederic Testard
Engineer
France
16457 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2012 : 6:50:10 PM
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I managed to make progress in three directions today.
First, the snowshed had been waiting for a roof for several months. It now has one, but I suspect it requires still a little more planking on the outside posts.
Second, I cut the timbers to make the bents that will support the ends of the bridge over the waterfall near the Alexandria mine, and also started the jigs needed for their assembly.
Third, I cast the big rock that will dominate the kitchen. I should be able to start some painting and scenery soon.
Photos to be posted later.
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Geezer
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USA
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kirk
Fireman
Sweden
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The Sn3 Lake Itasca Railway and Navigation Company
