Oh...NO...! Not another 1/32 diorama...!!!

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:53 am

... ... ...

(O.k., sorry for that, but what must be must be and a humble modeller as I wouldn't even try to stop the flow.)

1)

When I am too tired or, more often, too lazy for doing any modelling but not tired enough for going to bed, I lkike to dig in the marvelous DELCAMPE website. Not with a specific intention but curious too see what I'll find there.
Through the years I have gained so plenty of ideas, information and certainly inspiration for modelling.
Every now and then -not necesarily to each other related- images get playing in the mind and after a couple of days, weeks, months or years they come up proposing a scene.
These ones started to steal little bits of my attention and now discovered there is at home the last of three identical baseboards I prepared when started building the Valkenburg diorama and later my current one so it seems there is no way to stop or delay them any more...

P2180202 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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Daniel

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:10 am

2)

Playing a bit with Sketchup 3D drawing program (free version) I sketched this first idea:

P2180326 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

P2180327 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

P2180328 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Don't take anything of the drawings too seriously (specially the terrible colours) it is just a sketch for visualizing what could I do on the limited space of the 1,20m X 980cm baseboard available...

P2180329 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

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Again, this was a rough sketch to get a notion of where would I be moving considering the whole and eventual possible spots but not meaning specific buildings.

Daniel

Nevadablue · Post by **Nevadablue** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:20 am

You do more than ‘play’ with Sketchup. I was lucky to draw a flat yard with it.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:35 am

Thank you, Ken.

Oh, yes, it takes some work but rainy days know very well how to get you there.
Anyway that drawing dates from at least two or moew years ago and it is just a hint to myself.
I have learnt inmore than three decades ago that plans are to be discarded because they main task is to provocate the Muses: when they see my sketches they smile and start changing things until you see no traces of the original plan.

See this sequence:

For years I have been wanting to build a layout centered in the reversing triangle at one end of a line and had made sketches for a track plan on many white areas of every paper arround while having breakfast or even dinner.

Yesterday I decided to see if it would be possible so I took my old collection of discardeds track material (from who knows which forgotten layouts and got this:

IMG_0058 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

I was surprised to see it could be done even if my sketching used H0 switches of a much bigger radius than my average 200/300mmm ones and that pushed be ahead so I came to this:

IMG_0060 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Then I started cutting colour paper to see ventual buildings for the scene:

IMG_0064 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Then I notice I was too centered on the doubts about the viability of the triangle and didn't notice I was making what every beginner often do: letting the contour of the baseboard to lead.
So I came to this:

IMG_0068 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... and I liked it a lot better.

After dinner I suddenly realized it would be a high desnsity trackwork (where I am probably the worse in the world) and started to laugh at myself whyile deep inside this text appeared without sounds or letters but with absolute clarity:

" OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then, suddenly, I notice I have as much energy as I could want to invest in creative work but not for soldering track.

I realised there is not in the horizon any chance that the triangle plan will be, but it fullfilled it's duty: it reversed my efort sending it back to the creative work and letting the technical co,mplexity for those able to enjoy it.

That is one way or the other the main fucntion that plans have in my life nowadays. A rare way to re-rail me.

Now I must go, I want to answer a couple of very touching e-mails I've got from my friends from Nevada.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:35 am

Sorry, Daniel and I clicked both at once for sending same messgae.

Magoo

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:06 pm

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Look, Mountain, the parked cycles:

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See the character of that girl!!!

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Daniel

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:31 pm

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Daniel

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:41 pm

A job at the French customs... but these were tough times:

IMG_0035 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... specially during winter...

IMG_0034 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Those photos have already won a place in the diorama.
It will get a small sign nailed to a post at the side of the path: DOUANE

Daniel

Mountain · Post by **Mountain** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:08 pm

Daniel wrote:Thank you, Ken.

Oh, yes, it takes some work but rainy days know very well how to get you there.
Anyway that drawing dates from at least two or moew years ago and it is just a hint to myself.
I have learnt inmore than three decades ago that plans are to be discarded because they main task is to provocate the Muses: when they see my sketches they smile and start changing things until you see no traces of the original plan.

See this sequence:

For years I have been wanting to build a layout centered in the reversing triangle at one end of a line and had made sketches for a track plan on many white areas of every paper arround while having breakfast or even dinner.

Yesterday I decided to see if it would be possible so I took my old collection of discardeds track material (from who knows which forgotten layouts and got this:

IMG_0058 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

I was surprised to see it could be done even if my sketching used H0 switches of a much bigger radius than my average 200/300mmm ones and that pushed be ahead so I came to this:

IMG_0060 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Then I started cutting colour paper to see ventual buildings for the scene:

IMG_0064 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

Then I notice I was too centered on the doubts about the viability of the triangle and didn't notice I was making what every beginner often do: letting the contour of the baseboard to lead.
So I came to this:

IMG_0068 (2) by Daniel Osvaldo Caso, on Flickr

... and I liked it a lot better.

After dinner I suddenly realized it would be a high desnsity trackwork (where I am probably the worse in the world) and started to laugh at myself whyile deep inside this text appeared without sounds or letters but with absolute clarity:

" OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then, suddenly, I notice I have as much energy as I could want to invest in creative work but not for soldering track.

I realised there is not in the horizon any chance that the triangle plan will be, but it fullfilled it's duty: it reversed my efort sending it back to the creative work and letting the technical co,mplexity for those able to enjoy it.

That is one way or the other the main fucntion that plans have in my life nowadays. A rare way to re-rail me.

Now I must go, I want to answer a couple of very touching e-mails I've got from my friends from Nevada.

It is certainly do-able, but it is a lot of work. It is easier to get some commercially available diamond crossings and try to adapt those by cutting and soldering.

I have made a diamond crossing. I have not yet elwctrified my layout so I may need to work on it further if improvements are needed... I am not sure if I am happy with it yet... See how things go.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:33 am

Thank you, Mountain.

That's a nice piece of work.
In my case, due to my lack of patience, my poor (if any) soldering skills and Magoo's eyes would be apromise of a headache and I doubt anyone will find me doing something like that, at least as life doesn't comes up with a beter mix of character, skills and eyes for me.

There is another for me essential issue: the trackplan looks great but would be much too tight for an 1/32 scale scene as I would want to build, with at least twice as much distance between the parallel tracks and twice as long tracks for details...
I wish you were my neighbor -or at least not Brexited- so we could make a deal and I get the trackwork done!!!
But life is as it is and one must deal with that.

Anyway, since my three motorized vehicles ride under RC, there would be no need at all of track sections isolation and not even the need to split the metal top of the sleepers. Even more: I would prefer by far the track laid directly on the baseboard so no sleepers at all. (...Dream, dream, dream...)

... the track plan CNC milled on a big 3mm solid brass plate (only the 1,5mm deep groves for the flanges leaving the 'rail' tops at the surface and the whole terrain cut away or at least also milled 1,5mm deep). Then I would only need to make the moving parts for the points... (..."Please, don't wake me. No, don't shake me. Leave me where I am I 'm only sleeping...")

Daniel

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat May 08, 2021 6:54 am