Big station

Votre gare est bien fait.

Amazing craftsmanship.

OMG!

C'est formidable!  I do hope you will be adding the clock to the front facade, it is not the same without it!

Beautiful train station.

Fantastic station you're building. Looking forward to more pictures! Terry

Really impressive. Thanks for posting.

Excellent structure and detail, I wish I had that kind of talent.

Moi aussi  

Wow!  If I translated the measurements right, a scale moded of LYP would be over

5 yards, (15 feet) long!  What you are building doesn't look much smaller, and just

might win the contest for the largest modeled station.

Thank you all for your kind replies; they make me happy! and as I see some of you speak french!

Let me show you below the plan of this station and its different parts

1: room fitted to hold receptions (sofas, bar,...)

2: car rental, book and newspapers store

3: main hall

4: information and reservation office, waiting room

5: restaurant!

I will show you this afternoon (in France!) photos and 3D views of the parts 4 and 5, parts 1 and 2 are still in work.

Oups, sorry, two times!

Great job on the station.

Alan Graziano

Thanks, Alan!

Before the pictures, some explanations; the walls are made of cardboard 3 mm thick; the windows frame cardboard 1 mm thick, all cut one by one with an x-acto....and a pair of compasses with a blade for the circular parts; Each window is made of 3 parts: inside frame, windowpane and outside frame, all is held together by a double side adhesive tape; the windowpane is made with a printed transparent sheet for overhead projector. All is fitted in the opening of the wall. The first photo shows you the entrance of the restaurant (in construction). The others, the restaurant itself and the ceiling.

Some others pictures after re-sizing

1: in part 4, the information office; in the background, access to the waiting room

2: in part 4, the corridor (city side); on the left, entrance of the waiting room

3: main hall at night from the outside; I have not yet installed street lights!

Perfection

Great piece of work!

C'est magnifique, Monsieur!

Thanks once more to you three. I will post some more pictures but before I have to re-size them.

---->TrainsRMe: votre français est parfait!

See you soon

Fantastic work!  

Peter

Many hanks, Peter!

I show you some plans, so you can have an idea of the main dimensions of the model; sorry, but these dimensions are in millimeters (when I made these plans two years ago I didn' know that I will subscribe to an US forum!!!)

Very nice work. 

Outstanding...Beautiful!

Alan

Love those two train sheds on the back side.

Thanks, Pat!

Another part of the station is the roof above the tracks and platforms (in french: "verrière"; I don't find the good translation in english so I call it roof!). So this roof is made of metal girders which support wood plank and above corrugated iron and on the top transparent parts made of polycarbonate (I believe!); this roof was renovated a few years ago.

On the model, the girders are made of 2 strips of styrène in "T" shape 3 mm high connected by strips 1,5 mm wide and 0,5 mm thick. Boring work, but I think the result is not too bad.

The first picture is a (little) part of the real roof

Very nice. Keep sharing your work.

I think the translation we might use for the part of the station over the tracks would be train shed.

Tom

OK for train shed, looks the best translation.

So, here are two views of the train sheds, the real one (it's not rush hour) and the 3D model. You can see that I have not yet finised this station...!!!

I do not speak French but I think WOW is understood. What a fantastic model. I'll say it until the end, there are some very talented people on this forum.

Mike

World Class detailing!!!!!

Thank yo Mike and Steve!

More photos in a few days

Jean-Patrick

Beautiful!

Many thanks, Ron!

This afternoon, little work!

The underpass to reach the other platforms; the seats are planned for the waiting room; they just came for the photo before painting!

The departure board is made with Excel software;

"RELAIS H": news dealer, magazines, books...etc

Fantastic detail work! Keep your progress pictures coming! Terry

Absolutely amazing.  Wrist Watches have been used for clock in model railroad stations.  I love the use of Excel for your departure boards!

Thank you for sharing.

Pocket-watches might work, also.

Thank you for your kind replies!

RichO----> I give you some details for boards with excel:

Title "ARRIVEE..." letters "Arial" size 9

Schedule, letters "Utsaah" size 8

and type "bold"

High of line: title size: 12, schedule line size: 10

Colours of your choice!!

See below two photos

For the clock, I have had this idea and I have near by a little watchmaker; He will certainly be surprised when I will go and see him with my drawings!!! not before september (august means holidays and almost all is closed here!)