New 1/32 Diorama but this time in slow motion

[Daniel]

Have just a little more patience. I need to find where have I left my skills for basic electrics so of the four fluorecent lights, that have been working without issues since the late nineties until yesterday when I wanted to change somethimg, now none is working!

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Daniel

[Daniel]

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Meanwhile here a very unteresting film about a French producer of excellent kits and how they do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvPyYUlnk4

[Daniel]

Here something you may like to see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjyUy96Rehs

[Daniel]

The bad news is my computer has became horribly slow. I thought a virus but is not. I called the server but it is everything o.k. with that too. I called the specialist that knows my ;lone brain cell, my computer and me and he said:
"Daniel, there is nothing wrong except the age of the computer that it is almost as old as a Comodore 64...!"



The worse news is that I had big plans for my yearly holliday money by the end of May and now the plans has left and remains only some steam & smoke at the station...

Anyway I'll get that money on 20 of May 2022 so if the old beast (no, not me, the computer!) pass away before that I will get silent at least until May....


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But so far it is just dancing slow, slowest, slowest...

Meanwhile things are getting in movement again at the workbenches...


You buy a few rolls of 0,4mm iron wire for making wire tree armatures...

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You coil the wire on a toilette paper card core...

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Why?

Because you need spoked wheels...

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Because the plastic is less rigid that one would like, cutting exactly identical pieces goes not what one would call ideally...

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Yes, at the middle the plastic cyliners have a wall so for the time being those pieces will remain in a scraps box for some other project but I only need four nice wheels so I think I'll get that...

The rest is simple...

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[Nevadablue]

Brilliant idea for the wheels Daniel. Now where will you find a smaller roll of wire for the smaller wheels?

I hate computers. But, I guess they are why we can converse. Sigh...

[Daniel]

Hi Ken

Thank you.
I had made the experiment some time ago and saw it could work zo now what I've got are thes mall wheels.
Actually they are a little (not much) too big for small aones and a bit too small for the big ones. I have seen a couple of locomobiles wqith four small wheels anyway so we'll see. What I don't know is if there is any chance to get a bigger roll for cutting bigger rear wheels.
Anyway it is still an experiment so everything can happen yet.

Daniel