New Project: Oil Drilling Rig. COMPLETED MODEL PICTURES

Cant wait !!!  I have nice size harbor you can park it in, at least for the holiday's

Steve

Keep us posted, great project!

Alan, someone has a big water scene. Should be an impressive model.

Oh, now that is very cool.  

And look, you gotta add a helicopter on the landing platform, right?

Lee,

A helicopter landing pad is one of the highlights. When I constructed a supertanker  a few years back, I put a landing pad on the back deck. It really added a nice touch to the model.

Alan Graziano

Modern, and different....different is good!

Alan,

Doesn't look easy!  I can't wait to see this one.  I'm sure you will not disappoint. 

Dave

uh.. ok... but how will the train get there?

This is sure a novel idea. I bet it will be a first in O-Gauge. Please keep us posted with your progress.

Interesting project, beside the helicopter a smoke unit will make a difference.

Andre.

Alan:

Are these the guys in Sri Lanka?

Joe

Awesome, can't wait too see.

Is there even a drilling rig in that picture?  It looks like an offshore platform without a rig to me.

Google "offshore drilling rig" and every result in "images" shows a tall, vertical, skinny triangular structure that is the drilling rig mast.

Looks very interesting, please post lots of pictures of your progress. Really enjoyed following your walnut facility, very nice project.

I'd make it smaller than 1:48.  A big drilling platform would be far too big for my trainroom in that scale.  1:87, or even 1:160 would look good, and placed right, create some good forced perspective.  It is an interesting project.

Doesn't look easy!

 If you break down the structure there are no windows, walls or roofs. Maybe an interior house for sleeping quarters. There are platforms with large interior openings for the drilling rig and tower that are open-structure. So the steel structure usually hidden by the walls and roof are visible. This is kind of like a vertical layered bridge with multiple walkways and cranes. They are floating anchored to the seabed or supported on pylons that sit on the seabed.

Great project look forward to the completed model!

Alan

  Can't wait to see it finished

Alex

Joe,

This is not for the guy in Sri Lanka, but I am sure if they see the finished product they would probably want one. I obviously had to scale the oil rig way down. It will have some basic components as a real oil rig. Anyone that has been to Epcot has probably seen the oil rig model they had in one of the buildings. It was probably fourteen feet square.

I am glad I got everyone interested.

Alan Graziano

we are all salivating. Now the pressure is on the MASTER to pull off the BIG ONE!!

Cant wait to see the finished product

Well...if anyone can built it, Alan can!!  Alan...you are the master my friend!!  This is going to be a great build...

Alan

I started supporting the platform underneath with structural steel. I have not decided if I will glue the bottom level in place prior to painting the underside of the top level or not.

Alan Graziano

This is a very cool project.  thanks for the update and good luck with it. Keep the updates coming!

Here are a few more progress pictures. I completed the bottom deck and the floating dock. The bottom deck has an air compressor with tanks and an area to store the drill pipe.

Alan Graziano

How long do you estimate this will take to build?

Talk about detail.  That's quite a build Alan.

Outstanding progress!

That, like some other industrial interior models that have been shown on here, demands really knowing the subject or doing your homework in research.  I, in

thinking how you could tie it to model railroading, could picture it in a close-to-shore

bay, with barges with railcars pushed out to it, either for the construction process, or

for maintenance.  ((I have no clue how the product (oil) gets to shore))  Wonder if

tank cars would ever be used, from shore (probably not on a barge, but that is what

I would model).

Alan, it is coming along very well as all your projects. I love that crane on the corner.

Taking shape, Alan. Will it have a helicopter pad? I can see one of Jack Pearce's units on the platform.

Brian,

The helicopter pad will be on the top of the building that will be going in the corner. I can't wait to build that part. I just started the building today. I had to stop today to rake leaves, clean out the gutters and winterize the sprinkler system, and take my Challenger out for one more ride.

Steve,

I will try to complete this by the end of next weekend.

Thank you everyone for your nice comments.

Alan Graziano

Great model building!!! I love nice scratch building!

OH BOY Alan!!...this project is coming along very nicely.  I am enjoying this very much!

Thanks,

Alan

Can't to see this one done.

Hi Guys,

I saw this in person today, it is really amazing !!!!!!!!

Alex

Here are a few pictures form the work I completed during this week. I hope to be close to complete by the end of the weekend. 

Alan Graziano