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What Was I Thinking?

What Was I Thinking?. A First Scratch Built Diorama. Objectives. To build a diorama of at least two buildings that are scratch built from plans. To use various techniques learned at conventions, shows, and from magazines. To have something to talk about today!. The Original Plan.

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What Was I Thinking?

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  1. What Was I Thinking? A First Scratch Built Diorama

  2. Objectives • To build a diorama of at least two buildings that are scratch built from plans. • To use various techniques learned at conventions, shows, and from magazines. • To have something to talk about today!

  3. The Original Plan • I started with a plan from a 1969 Model Railroad Craftsman: the classic E.L. Moore design, “Pud’s Putty Factory”

  4. The Finished Product • After revising the plans, updating the materials, and adding a board by board shed, the finished product looked like this:

  5. What Makes a Craftsman Kit? • Laser cut walls • Window and door treatments • Roofing materials • Templates • Plans • Wood, lots of wood • Castings

  6. And This is What you Get:

  7. Step One Find plans for what you want to model

  8. Books

  9. Photographs • This building was in Jamestown, Rhode Island. Probably no one will ever make a kit of it.

  10. Diagrams and Illustrations

  11. Postcards

  12. Step Two Adapt or Draw Plans

  13. Using Graph Paper

  14. Making Mock Ups

  15. Step Three Materials

  16. Wood Kapler Mt. Albert Northeastern Scale Lumber Midwest

  17. Windows and Doors Tichy Grant Line Northeastern Scale Lumber

  18. Details Tichy BEST Sierra West Many others

  19. Templates Recycle from old kits Draw on graph paper

  20. Step Three Construction

  21. Work Environment Wood Details

  22. Work Environment 2 Paint Ott Lamp

  23. Tools

  24. Framing the Foundation Styrene strips Assembled

  25. Foundation 2 Foundations View from below

  26. Walls 1 Locating openings Test fit

  27. Walls 3 Half of exterior Fitting upper section

  28. Roofs 1 Rafter tails Aligning shingles

  29. Boiler House Placing openings Walls cut out

  30. Metal Roofing Prime with gray auto primer Light wash of diluted red craft paint Streak with heavier colors of craft paint Alcohol and ink wash Oil paint streaks Wash of various colors of chalk powder and alcohol Dry coat of chalk powder

  31. Boiler Roof Start Finish

  32. Building the Shed 1 Initial design on graph Framework

  33. Building the Shed 2

  34. Building the Shed 3 Adding signs The Duck Press

  35. Lights and Rails Styrene parts Assembly Line

  36. Loading Docks Finished Top Underneath

  37. Signs

  38. Where to Get Them Commercial sources Internet Graphics Programs Photographs

  39. Internet search

  40. Photographs

  41. Thanks for Staying Awake! Visit my site at: SPERITRAINS.NET

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