2 part boat
Air Buddies on dvd
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The Steam Experiment psp
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This is the first “draft” of the two part car float I am working on. The idea is to make a single base, and mount it permanently in the modeled water, and have several removable tops. This way the float looks like it is in the water and not on top of it. Having a few tops means once the float is loaded with cars, the top can exchanged with another one, simulating different loads of off line traffic.
-Tim
Car ferry slip weight house.
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I guess these were called a counterweight building, since this is where the pulleys for the counterweights were supported. This is the HO model from the 3D renderings I have posted the last couple of days.
It is completely laser cut, even the large supports, which were cut from .140 thick basswood. The cross bracing is all cut from .040″ plywood as a single piece, and wood grain added with the edge of a saw. The nail holes were drawn in and done on the laser as it was cut out.
The walls are also .040″ plywood, with the scribing done on the laser. I have not completed the roof, as I still need access to the inside of the building to add the counterweights, and that can’t be done until it is installed in place on the layout. A railing along the front, with a ladder is to be added as well.
The windows and door are cut on the laser from .015″ plywood.
The wood structure at the bottom is all stained with a mix of leather dye and alcohol, to simulate a creosoted wood.
-Tim
I Can’t Think Straight movie
3D Rendering
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The Steam Experiment dvdrip
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Here are a couple different views of the car ferry equipment design. I have added walkways along the barge at the level of the boxcar doors. For a prototype barge I referred to some images I was able to find online, and some in a book I have, and kind of came up with a hybrid of all of them. Ah, the freedom of a freelance railroad….
-Tim
Ali divx
