Sunday Scenic Showcase February 18, 2018

  Project 1 - Built up illusion using HO Background structures. Selective compression thanks to Dennis B. 

  Good areas to use my smaller non scale autos.

Thanks for starting this thread each week Alan. It really motivates me to get some things accomplished!

I've been making progress on my tractor repair shop. By far one of the more challenging builds I've had in awhile. Here are some pics in the general area of where it will sit.

The gentleman next to the tractor represents my late father-in-law who was a businessman whose real passion was farming and tractors. He was always working on some kind of repair and this repair shop is in his memory. To make the figure I filed off most of the clothing details and sculpted on a hat and bib overalls.

Joe Shipbaugh

Great work Allan and SIRT! WOW Joedaddy! You are better than Artista!

What kind of tractor is that? Perhaps a Massey Ferguson or an International Harvester?

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Great work Allan and SIRT! WOW Joedaddy! You are better than Artista!

What kind of tractor is that? Perhaps a Massey Ferguson or an International Harvester?

Thanks! The tractor is a Massey Ferguson 135. My father-in-law loved Oliver tractors, but none were available in this scale. And I have a long way to go before I'd ever consider myself better than Artista. But I appreciate the comment anyway!!

Joe Shipbaugh

joedaddy posted:

Thanks for starting this thread each week Alan. It really motivates me to get some things accomplished!

I've been making progress on my tractor repair shop. By far one of the more challenging builds I've had in awhile. Here are some pics in the general area of where it will sit.

The gentleman next to the tractor represents my late father-in-law who was a businessman whose real passion was farming and tractors. He was always working on some kind of repair and this repair shop is in his memory. To make the figure I filed off most of the clothing details and sculpted on a hat and bib overalls.

Joe Shipbaugh

 

Sweet!

One word comes to mind each week when I look at this thread; Awestruck!

Love the tractor building Joe! Cool exhibitionist scene BAR GP7!

I did a little more wok on the sheet rock stone work I've been experimenting with. I tried cutting thin pieces on the band saw and soaking them to ben, but there just isn't enough flex in the fiberglass reinforced material I have been using. I decided to go another route by cutting individual sections the full width of my practice bride. I then glued the sections with wood glue from the back side of the stones. I formed them around a paint can of the desired radius, and clamped in place with a rubber band. After the glue dried, I placed the arch on some stacked wall sections. Next step is to build the over arch. 

joedaddy posted:

Thanks! The tractor is a Massey Ferguson 135. My father-in-law loved Oliver tractors, but none were available in this scale. And I have a long way to go before I'd ever consider myself better than Artista. But I appreciate the comment anyway!!

Joe Shipbaugh

Here you go, Joe. Oliver 600 in 1/43.

https://www.3000toys.com/Unive...VERSAL%20HOBBIES6102

SouthernMike posted:

joedaddy posted:

Thanks! The tractor is a Massey Ferguson 135. My father-in-law loved Oliver tractors, but none were available in this scale. And I have a long way to go before I'd ever consider myself better than Artista. But I appreciate the comment anyway!!

Joe Shipbaugh

Here you go, Joe. Oliver 600 in 1/43.

https://www.3000toys.com/Unive...VERSAL%20HOBBIES6102

SouthernMike,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Got one ordered. 

Keep the Green Light Shining!

Joe Shipbaugh

I have the basics done on my new ALCOA Plant. Just installed 34 lights inside, 3 on the top of each stack and flashing red lights on each of the three roof vents. Still have one more building and a tower to go with the main plant and more detail to do.

The foot print is 50"x36"

Thanks for looking. Nick

Great stuff, guys!

Peter

I am finishing up on 7 custom building flats. As I wire them for lights I am taking pictures. The finished ones are shown below. These flats are unique for me in that the customer is not butting them up against a wall. He wants them to be standalone. I used a slotted wood approach, made the back wall from Masonite so the customer can slide it in and out to get to the lights. Unfortunately the buildings turned out to be  top heavy so being only 1/2 to 1 inch wide won't stand on their own. The customer will need to either glue blocks to his layout or use weights on the inside of the flats to keep them up.

I still need to place some decals. Also tried something new with the window treatments. Instead of placing clear plastic then trying to figure out how to make a transparent window treatment and glue it to the plastic I printed the window treatments on vellum paper and glued those onto the windows. I was thinking about printing directly on thicker clear plastic but chickened out - did not want to mess up the printer rollers if the experiment failed.

Once I finished up wiring the last of the flats I will post their pictures plus a picture of the back side.

Joe

Nice work Guys!  Lots of good stuff this week.  I hope to have more to post next time.

Ya know, I may have to get that Oliver tractor as my dad's first "farm tractor" was a White 244 for which that Oliver tractor is VERY close in looks. Although my dad's tractor hardly ran and became a shop queen. It also was heavily modified to pull house trailers and/ or a log mule.

Great stuff guys!! 

Work on scenery continues, just a little progress for the week, as the weekend was filled up with the Hamburg train show! 

Joe, I don't know if your customer wanted sidewalks with his flats, but adding a masonite base with the sidewalk in front would add stability to the flat

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Good thought - I need to talk to him about that.

I finished up on the remaining fronts. Below are some more photos.

Express Freight is a new design based off of an old Elfin model

This is a view of a typical backside

I added some Ferrule connects to the ends of the power wires to make it easier to solder or attach feeder wires to each building. The wires are 28 gauge so are hard to work with.  With the the ferrules one can crimp the metal body into a standard crimp connector and connect that to a larger diameter wire or simply solder the wire to the Ferrule.
The customer wanted to power the lights from a separate single source so I bought this 2.5 amp 12VDC supply from Radio Shack (on line - not sure if they are still active).