New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

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Re: New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

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I am enjoying your buildings and how you make them. Thr roofs are interesting. The way you get them to look right which is not easy.
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Mountain wrote:I am enjoying your buildings and how you make them. Thr roofs are interesting. The way you get them to look right which is not easy.
Thank you, Mountain.
Good to know you enjoy it.

Those 'roofs' are all just mock-ups made from card from salt boxes and their purpose is to learn how must be the shape and exact dimensions of the real roofs to come. I prefer to, eventually, spoil a couple of old boxes for learning than a couple of wooden roofs.
But now I've used them to give (and get) a more clear idea of how the whole is evolving.

Meanwhile I have been looking to some long ago spared photos from old French postcards. I have made a separate collection with images of more or less small details that doesn't change anything radically but may add plenty of character.

For example, the still to be modelled shop still just a basic green plate for trhe front, may get something as this that I have been wanting to model for years: the guy painting the shop boards:

ImageP2130826 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Another 'must' is one of these (or may be both):

ImageP2090803 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageP2140641 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

or even better:

ImageP2120787 by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr


Next one is an absolute must:

ImageP2230469 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr


and several other as these stones where in the old-old days people -mostly women- washed their clothes:

ImageP2140515 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

...but I have plenty of such details that will help a lot, among other, to hide the many errors or to create a special atmosphere here and there...

ImageP2110674 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageP2110675 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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ImageP2170652 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageP2170804 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageP2180149 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... and, of course, the bike shop:

ImageP2150475 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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Re: New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

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A few more inspiring details

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Re: New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

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ImageIMG_0057 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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In case you notice the plasterwork on the halftimber house is now done, yes, for doing it I had the just glued wood platform of next building! :oops:
... and also the roof above it! :oops: :o
But later was solved without issues:

ImageIMG_0072 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageIMG_0074 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageIMG_0076 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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More later.

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Re: New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

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Some really nice old photos there.
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Buggleskelly wrote:Some really nice old photos there.

Yes.

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Sorry for the unannounced 'intermezzo', I am giving a start a small project I promised to a friend but will resume work on the diorama today and probably post here some niews about.

Meanwhile a couple of images of the small 0 scale shed for that friend:

ImageIMG_0015 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

ImageIMG_0014 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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ImageIMG_0006 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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It will be a small diorama of a derelict shed in the middle of a tall grass field and will be flying to Nevada in a couple of weeks.

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I like that.
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Thank you, Mountain.
I like to build it but should have made some thinking before I started. There are plenty of rough faults.
Among other I decided to use Cedar wood which looks beautiful, smells beautiful and is a pleasure to work with but it would have been a lot easier using Balsa wood: I have just completed the texture weathering of the three hundred or so small boards for covering the walls. That means doing soft, rough, very rough and incredibly rough scratches with four types of the roughest sandpaper at each side of each 0,8mm board and now my fingers don't want to hear about weathering Cedar wood for a long time.
There are also several errors with the structure. Something I know very well but... whatever.
Now I hope the Muses will assist me at disguising every error with the posibilities the setting offers: the interior floor of the shed will be mostly covered of tall grass as the surroundings and a couple of brutal creepers are always ready to save a modeler's ashamed ego. :roll: :) :D :lol:

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It is one thing that puzzles me when it comes to building wooden rolling stock, and that is to make them out of balsa, but then weight them afterwards. If one built them out of pine they need not have any weight added as they sèm to come out just right as they are. They are also a lot cheaper to make as well.
Wood is something that I can now say I am ready for as I can take a larger offcut of wood that someone has used in 12" to 1' scale and I can cut it down into suitable sized strips on my Unimat set up as a bench saw (Powerline motor). It means that I don't have to go out to buy specific sizes of wood as I can make my own if needed so it saves me trips back and fore to find suitable wood, and it allows me to do it free (Though the equipment cost would likely take years to pay for itself but I bought it just to enjoy using it).
It is nice to be able to do it onesself and though one can cut with a suitable handsaw, having a mini circular saw set up is easier to get the cuts a little more precise.
I do also use my bench sander (Minicraft) a lot for finishing off wood which may not be to the exact shape or size. This littlw gadget cost me the price of a more expensive 00 gauge loco when bought about 30 years ago, but it really has paid for itself with the use it has had.
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I had learnt from several decades of "Model Railrroader" that the very best wood for modeling was Basswood.
Indeed, it is great for most jobs but, even if not as much as balsa, too light for certain works.
Two years ago I discovered Tuliptree wood and found it is as smooth as Basswood but about twice as heavy and many times stronger. Abnove that, is is a lot cheaper than Basswood.

Yes, a circle saw is also for me an essential.

I also started with an Unimat attachment... :shock: ... :o ... That was 41 years ago...!!!

90% of the Cedar wood I am using for the Nevada's Barn was cut during the last week form fronts and sides of very old drawers I found by the street years ago. Only the other 10% was bought before I got the idea of cutting the drawer.
Those drawers must have been around at least four or five decades: the wood is so trustworthy as solid brass.
The front of the drawer was 20mm thick and the sides 12mm thick. Now I have a serious range of Cedar strips ranging from 0,8mm X 0,8mm up to a reserve (for who knows what) of 10mm X 20mm strips that I can cut to any desired size as need shows up.

Once the virus has left, one of the first things I will do is to go to the charity and buy a good provision of old surviving drawers, legs and other Cedar parts of incomplete furniture.
The delicious smell of Cedar during the cutting and sanding is only comparable with itself.

I used Balsa wood for modeling the French 'disconnects' (see photos below) and they are, of course, much too light. So next time I will give Bankirai wood a try. It is really hard HARD wood and as heavy as solid brass. What I don't know yetr is if I will be able to machine it to small strips without ordering a new saw blade every morning. We'll see (says Magoo!)

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I would never have guessed those axle-boxes were made from wood - how long does each one take to make?

Is the "turntable" base across the wagon frames made from metal (7 individual pieces?) - or is it also wood?
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A truly enjoyable read. Glad I found it.

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Ex-Pat wrote:I would never have guessed those axle-boxes were made from wood - how long does each one take to make?

Is the "turntable" base across the wagon frames made from metal (7 individual pieces?) - or is it also wood?

:oops: ...Sorry Ex-Pat, this is a misunderstanding: the only wooden parts are the four pieces forming the main frame.
The rest (except the wheels, axles and a piece of brass rod for the axle of the brake wheel) is all 3D printed (Shapeways) from drawings I've made using Sketchup drawing program.
If I would be ever able to make from wood or even brass such a set of identical components I would be famous and probably not as poor as I am!


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Lysander wrote:A truly enjoyable read. Glad I found it.

Tony
Thank you Tony.
Nice to know you enjoy it.

Daniel
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