Sunday Scenic Showcase November 26, 2017

Alan,

That is so great looking yet looks fairly simple to make.  You are an inspiration.  

Kinda in the Christmas spirit...

                                                Lionel's "O" R-40-23 REEFER......................

CF1976, beautiful, realistic scene! Love the "wet" glow in the cobblestone streets. 

SIRT posted:

                                                Lionel's "O" R-40-23 REEFER......................

You’re going to live how easy it is to put Kadees on these cars!

https://youtu.be/zrxnlPJ9LIU

Thanks!

-Mario

I tried my hand at tree making

Then I tried something else  

Robert,

your trees look good.

Steve,

i love the fuel tank details on the car

Awesome scene Central Fan

alan graziano

Greta stuff this week,

Robert the trees look good especially in a cluster. Where do you get the leaf material?

STeve

Robert Macfie posted:

I tried my hand at tree making

 

Then I tried something else  

 

We’re did you get that version of Bigfoot 

Very good showcase from all!

While that tank is "simple", I can see all kinds of horrors trying to glue all those flimsy sheets in place. It looks simple because Al is such a master. Al, you should be training a young protege so you talent lives on beyond your years. It's probably the best gift any of us can give to others.

Myles,

I am waiting for that young person to come into my model room and see and feel what I expierienced when I saw scale models , or when I saw all the industrial structures below the Pulaski skyway on the ride to New York City as a young boy.I am waiting, but in the mean time, I am happy to pass on my knowledge to anyone on the forum. Thank you Myles.

alan Graziano

A little progress from last week.. The scenery in the foreground will be next on the list to get redone

The station is on the list to get revamped as well.  The bank and police will also get painted.   Not enough hours in a day.

Nice stuff Dave! Very nice stuff!

Al, maybe you need to be more proactive. Perhaps finding a local school that is getting into the "Maker Movement". I ran a scale model clinic for Middle Schoolers a few years back prompted to do so by my oldest grandson. I did two 8 week sessions and had good results. A majority of the kids had difficulty making decent models, but a few had talent and I helped them hone their skills. The Makers Movement is taking over where industrial arts left off. Most school districts have been killing IA over the past 30 years. After all, kids don't need to know how to do anything with their hands if they can program a computer. The makers movement combines modern tech with making stuff. My grandsons' school has just finished a massive addition and included a new fully-equipped makers space with 3d printer, laser cutter, but also includes things like power saws, drill press, grinders. In other words, things that make other things. You could bring some of your great creations and offer to teach kids with talent how to build scale replicas of complicated things they see in real life.

That's just my take on the problem.

Myles,

i am going to check out our towns school system to see if they have some kind of program like this. Thank you

alan graziano

Started some Elevated Storage Tanks. I am building two for a customer that will be connected by a platform plus one for myself since this is a new design.

The first picture shows the leg assemblies and the tanks. The tanks are TB-400 with VHE-400VG bottoms (they are sitting upside down).
The legs are H-12 columns with A-6 angle supports. Normally one would not see the angle supports but these aid in avoiding shipping damage plus they are good for alignment when I glue to the tanks as shown below,

This is a close up of the leg assemblies and the jigs I use to make them. I missed a photo of the assembly in the jig marked elevated tank. The H-12's are placed on the edge of the jig and the first A-6 is glued onto the H-12's.  The second A-6 is glued using the spacers.

The flat tops of the tanks are cut on the band saw using a circle cutting jig I described on another post.

You can see how the A-6 angles aid in position and gluing to the tank body. The manways and the leg assemblies are not glued in as yet. The tanks will be sanded first.

Joe

The tanks were sanded up to 400 grit. Then the leg assemblies were glued in place.

The Masonite spacer keeps the H-12 columns at the correct height.

Next comes the platforms. They are 80 mil styrene with diamond plate tread plate.

HR-8 railing was applied. I made sure the width of the platform was one HR-8 section wide and the length calculated at whole sections of HR-8.

Joe

Really good work, Joe! 

jpv

The tanks are done and ready for paint. I will need to build a pump house to connect to the double tank structure. There will also be a horizontal tank stand sitting over the customers track that needs to be built.

Joe

Nice project Joe.

alan

Alan - thanks

The pump house is done. I forgot to take assembly pictures, however it is straight forward. I used 80 mil styrene for the walls and roof. Plastruct corrugated siding and roofing panels were laminated onto the styrene. .125 sq rods were glued inside to strengthen the wall joints.  There are four inlets and one outlet that need to be added.

Once a horizontal twin tank stand is built to place over track I will figure out the pipe routing.

Baby, it’s Cold Outside!

Thanks!

-Mario

The tank farm is complete and ready for paint. I change the roof line on the pump shed, thought it was too big looking.

 and !!

jpv in France