Sunday Scenic Showcase September 3, 2023

Amazing work as always!!!!!

@Alan Graziano have you ever posted a video documenting all of the steps you take in these projects?  It would be really interesting to see how you approach these phenomenal projects.

WRT the shell logo, do you have a tool that cuts that styrene out so perfect with the rounded corners or are you cutting that freehand?

Amazing work.

Ron

Small projects this week.....

Assembly of a Korber kit....Aluminum doors for my TW TrainWorx Engine House......the kit does not come with doors and the space is wide open......

Since they are going to stay open, I figured that adding these structurs will at least give the illusion of doors that can be closed.....

Spray painted metallic silver.....

Weathered with acrylic rust and red oxide......

Next little project was TW TrainWorx engine service racks.....easy build, straight forward instructions.....well-made laser cut kit.

Though it was sunny, the wind from the outer rim of the hurricane was significant so I combined pizza and toasted oat cereal to make a "painting booth".

Weathered with acrylic rust paint.....

These are the kits next up, but with all the train activities from now through January, I have no goals on how long they will take.

Have a great Sunday and Labor Day weekend, folks.....

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

Small projects this week.....

Have a great Sunday and Labor Day weekend, folks.....

Peter

Peter,

Love your paint booth.  With those materials I could make a new one every week.  You have given me a new reason to save pizza boxes.

Ron

@Ron045 posted:

Peter,

Love your paint booth.  With those materials I could make a new one every week.  You have given me a new reason to save pizza boxes.

Ron

Ron.....that's the beauty of it......no clean up......when you are done, you throw it away!

Peter

Great work Peter.

Ron,

I never have done a video. Maybe someday I can.

The logo was cut by hand. I used a picture that I was provided and scaled the logo to the proper size based on the proportions of the one from the picture. I will post a picture from my phone in a minute.

Here is the picture of the logo in progress.

@Alan Graziano posted:

Here is the picture of the logo in progress.

Oh my gosh.  Are those layers of styrene? How in the world did you cut the thin red points of the shell logo?

Ron,

.010” styrene is almost like cutting paper. I used a protractor for the degree increments. Each one is about3 degrees wide at the top. They all point to that small little half circle at the bottom. It’s trained my eyes a little. I should have put an additional lamp behind me for better light. It all worked out pretty good.

@Alan Graziano posted:

Ron,

.010” styrene is almost like cutting paper. I used a protractor for the degree increments. Each one is about3 degrees wide at the top. They all point to that small little half circle at the bottom. It’s trained my eyes a little. I should have put an additional lamp behind me for better light. It all worked out pretty good.

Alan…

Despite all the modeling being done with computer aided cutting and 3D printing, it’s rewarding to see some of us from the “analog world” still scratch build, work with last century technology and do things by hand…like cutting that Shell sign…not there is anything wrong with this century technologies…because there’s not…

Howard…