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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/13/2012 : 3:19:19 PM
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Hi Rick and Larry
Just wanted to say thanks for your kind words about the Paper modelling how to, its appreciated. Next instalment follows soon.
Regards
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Neil F
Section Hand
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/13/2012 : 3:25:14 PM
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Hi John
I think I know what you can see, if you look at the roof, it has curved sides and you are judgeing the top as part of the side of the roofline, and not the top of the roof. I think its ok as it is, its just the sides and the roof being curved thats causing the problem, and being painted the same colour.
I like the new dock area the new wood dock breaks up the slab wall and gives a more interesting area.
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Rick
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/13/2012 : 3:29:48 PM
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Originally posted by moore
Hi Rick
You're right about the rails but look at the railcar, doesn't it look wider at the back than at the front to you? or is it my eyes going squint?
regards John
John, might just be an optical illusion because the vent hood obscures to roofs rear left side facing corner making it appear wider.
Neil makes a good point too about the curved roof edge. |
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2012 : 3:45:26 PM
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Thanks Neil, thanks Rick, this has been bugging me for ages. You are probably right about this and the photo I used is possibly not the best example, if I can come across a better one then we can continue...............
Something else that drives me nuts and there are two or three posts out at the moment on this, and that is scale in figures and vehicles. To my mind 1/48th is smaller than 1/43rd, right? OK then, why won't a 1/48th figure sit in a 1/43rd car? they are miles too big!!!(or the car is too small!!) Can't work that out at all!
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andykins
Fireman
United Kingdom
3890 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2012 : 04:59:06 AM
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Originally posted by moore
Hi Rick
You're right about the rails but look at the railcar, doesn't it look wider at the back than at the front to you? or is it my eyes going squint?
regards John
i cant help you, i see everything twice :P
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/14/2012 : 4:46:21 PM
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Hello everybody
OK, here we go with the next part of the paper and card modelling how to.
This time we are going to look at Board and Batten and Corrugated Iron.
The pictures below show a model I have just finished showing both the construction and finishing, have a look at these and then we will look at how its done.
At least I thought it was finished, just realised I have a wonky front leg and have not fitted the window!! must get that done.
So, lets look at board and batten. Look at the last photo and this is clearly shown and I think you will agree its pretty effective, luckily its also pretty easy.
Firstly select your texture sheet and, using the zoom function on your printer, increase the size of the board to about 12 or 15 scale inches. Now, if your model is nice and smooth simply glue this sheet straight on, no scribing or anything. My models are never nice and smooth so I glue my texture sheet to the thin black card first.
Next glue a bit of your texture sheet to two thicknesses of white card to give it a bit more depth and cut this into thinnish strips, these are your battens. Do not be rigid with this, do it by eye as variation will make the effect.
These strips will now have a white edge so take your felt tip pen and colour the edge, just get somewhere near the colour it doesn't really matter that much, I only have three colours, light brown, dk brown and grey. There is a trick to this. I use the felt tips with two ends, a long "brush" end and a blunt end. Using the long "brush" end hold the pen vertically and then hold the paper horizontally and just wipe the edge of the paper with the felt tip. Note, if you approach the paper from the back, when the pen wanders, which it surely will, you will only have a squigily line across the back of the paper not the front!!
Now comes the magic bit. The paper on the model looks very dull and boring but put the thin battens down the board joins and voila, the result is fantastic. Try and join a few battens at random intervals down some of the boards, this is where your random cutting comes into its own as the battens will be slightly different widths making the whole thing more interesting.
And now corrugated or felt. When you look at the texture sheet there is a long strip of this and you need to cut this into individual sheets of corrugated or felt, try not to use a ruler just cut it freehand to give variation and then colour the edges of these the same way as you did the battens. Now just glue these individual sheets on (no backing card) but don't glue the whole thing down, leave edges so you can raise these, this makes the whole thing more interesting. Very simple just time consuming.
Incidentally, going back to board construction, what is most effective is to cut each board and glue each one on individually. The blue station is done like this, it is time consuming but very effective indeed.
Well that's about it, I hope it has been interesting and clear, I am open to any queries anyone may have so please come back if you need to.
Although I say that's it, for those really interested in this we will next build a model and catalogue it from start to finish, there will also be a very roughly drawn plan for those who would like to build along with me. It is a small 2 story wharehouse type in the same vein as the building above, it has a small footprint so is suitable for any layout. This will follow shortly!! |
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2012 : 12:32:53 PM
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Hello everybody
Here are a few pictures of my one and only Water Tank, I must get around to building another one some day, I need at least one more.
I must admit that this was heavily influenced by the Rusty Stumps model but I wanted it to be a bit different and fit my space better.
This is constructed of Balsa with a deck of Coffee stir sticks suitably stained and the tank is a Rix HO tank with a few sections discarded.
Regards to all
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2012 : 5:24:05 PM
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Hello everyone
Apologies to all about the quality of all the pictures posted here. I've had a discussion about this on another site with Rick in particular who has pointed out what I am doing wrong, hopefully pictures will now improve in quality!
regards to all John |
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Rick
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2012 : 01:38:17 AM
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| John, I don't see anything wrong with your pictures and the modeling looks top notch as well. |
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BigLars
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2012 : 07:09:44 AM
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John,
Your pictures look good already and the railroad loads great. Thank you for taking the time to post your how to's.
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 3:10:00 PM
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Thanks for your kind words Rick and Larry, its nice to get a bit of encouragement.
Regards
John
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masonamerican
Crew Chief
Sweden
535 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 3:24:34 PM
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Great looking building! Many thanks for the tutorial. This method I'll must try.
I searched for Paper Creek models but can't find any site related to them that one can download texture sheets from. Could you please direct me?
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 3:52:00 PM
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Hi Hakan
I'm not sure where you will find Paper Creek to download but I am pretty sure that NGTRAINS in the UK still have a good selection to purchase. I guess it might be a good idea to look at this sooner than later as I guess these are shortly to get even more difficult to get. I haven't found anybody else who has these still. Alternatively I understand that CGTEXTURES have a large selection of textures which you can download, I haven't tried these myself but it seems a lot of people use these, also of course there is CLEVER BROS which you can also download. I haven't tried their textures but I have purchased a model and their freebies are great!
Hope this is of interest,
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masonamerican
Crew Chief
Sweden
535 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2012 : 2:08:09 PM
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Thanks!
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moore
Engine Wiper
United Kingdom
225 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2012 : 2:53:03 PM
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Hello everybody
Anyone fancy some Boats by way of a change?
This is my small Coastal Steamer and is completely scratch built, apart from the winch and rowing boat that is, out of styrene.
This is used to transport ore from the mine (not built yet) to the processing plant along the Coast. It doesn't normally live here but in the inner bay but it is difficult to photograph there.
Next is the Car Ferry, this used almost exclusively by the 4x4 Adventure Company to ferry a vehicle and customers to areas that are a bit out of the way to start their wilderness journey.
Again completely scratch built, apart from the winch and vehicle, out of styrene.
Regards to all
John |
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Fort Wilson and Cold Lake Railroad
