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

[Daniel]

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[Daniel]

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As you see, the rocks at the upper lip are new and the water level of the bottom water has rized about 8mm.
Now I 'must' (... !!!) play again with those delightful materials and see to build up again, in a bit more moderated volume, the splashing waters.

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[Mountain]

I want to go and look under the arch that the track goes into.

[Daniel]

I want to go and look under the arch that the track goes into.

It's o.k. Mountain, go ahead, but take care with the very low and irregular rough roof and also with the many spiders!

Daniel

[Nevadablue]

I like the updates Daniel. Good to see you back.

What is that critter in the canal? Sure is a beautiful thing.

[Daniel]

Here you go, Mountain. But, as said, beware of the low rough 'ceiling'.
There are also plenty of spidersbut they won't hurt you at all.

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Walking inside you will find a barely visible grafitti on the wall:


"At home, I'd rather wear six t-shirts under my shirt, four pullovers on top, a thick jacket, gloves and a knit hat than keep the heat at 18C degrees burning innocent Ukrainian blood gas."

If you don't find it in the cave because the poor light, you will certainly find it anyway in your heart.


Daniel

[Mountain]

I can't see the graffiti but it looks nice in there.

[Daniel]

Well, after a couple of days working on it (about 20 minutes a day ) the water is almost done:


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You see dow left at the foreground the last stroke of gloss lack is still wet so looking a bit milky but that will be transparant in an hour.

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I will now give a closer look at those brown rocks. They doesn't look convincing to me but need to study it on images of real ones in similar situation.

[Daniel]

No real changes, just playing a bit around with pieces of greenery to find out what could be done...

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[Mountain]

This is the bestest model scenery that I have ever seen! I have seen some very excellent scenery out there, but to make this water come to life like that as well is really something!

But where did the paper boat go?

[captrees]

But where did the paper boat go?

Or you could play Pooh sticks from the bridge.

Simply brilliant modelling.

[Daniel]

This is the bestest model scenery that I have ever seen! I have seen some very excellent scenery out there, but to make this water come to life like that as well is really something!

But where did the paper boat go?

Thank you, Mountain.
I will keep my share of your kind words and give the muses the other 98%.

The paper boat is safe and waiting for the whole diorama to be complete to get back to the water where it will remain the rest of the diorama's life.


Daniel

[Daniel]

Hmm...
What means 'Pooh sticks'?

Daniel

[Daniel]

But where did the paper boat go?

Or you could play Pooh sticks from the bridge.

Simply brilliant modelling.

Thank you, Captrees.
Great to know you are still following my nonsense!

Daniel

[Daniel]

Back to work.

May be you remember I had a 3Dprinted steel mold for forming the barrel tiles and was going to install it in a pliers...

Well, for many weeks I had totally lost trace of the mold but two days ago it came to say 'hello' smiling...

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Using the steel rod registers for aligning the two mold parts while glueing worked perfectly...

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Removing trhe regiusters once the epoxy was ready was also very easy...

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Alignement went perfect...

So far the story is a success...

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But what this photo let see is a lie:

It will work but not with a pliers construction. It will really need a lot more power because I am not able to get the work done by hand, as expected.
The formed tile in the photo was made with the previous method but to do it in just one step will requiere one of these which I bought a couple of years ago butr never used yet:

www.hbm-machines.com/nl/p/hbm-05-ton-tandheugelpers

And there is another thing: My plan was to file carefully a 0,5mm deep on both sides of the top surface of the female half so to keep the aluminium plate properly aligned until the pressing work do the forming... but my lone brain cell forgot. Anyway i must order now a new mold print because can't expect to recycle the one now epoxied to the pliers. (Mrs. Learning Curve is around here, again!)