Andy's Modelmaking Misadventures

[MontyVeda]

nice work, but the lines between the fingers are too heavy. I think the hands look more natural in the first photo (#104)

 

[classic33]

Getting there. It's hard to get a decent picture and I'm still not delighted with the results in reality either, but I'm working on it...

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Needs something alongside for a sense of scale. €2 coin?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Needs something alongside for a sense of scale. €2 coin?

Not really. I'll look for something that is small and familiar in the UK...

 

[classic33]

Not really. I'll look for something that is small and familiar in the UK...

€2 & £2 coin almost identical size.
The same with the €1 & £1 coins.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Does that help?

 

[Andy in Germany]

nice work, but the lines between the fingers are too heavy. I think the hands look more natural in the first photo (#104)

On the picture they are heavy, in reality the lines become fairly faint at normal viewing distances. The heavy shading on the jacket is the same.

 

[Andy in Germany]

After much swearing, a tiny step forward today:

I suspect anyone who actually knows about engineering in any real capacity will find this highly annoying/amusing, but still...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Trying some new methods for painting:

 

[Andy in Germany]

Moving onto the body of the wagons, and as usual I keep trying new stuff in the optimistic hope I'll improve. The Foremost wagon has had some carefully added wash painting to give it a bit of rust around the container anchor points and around a few of the details; the middle wagon started the same colour with a more liberally applied dark wash.

The third one is... green.

I'll keep weathering the foremost two but just add a fairly subtle finish to the green one, so it hopefully gives the impression that this one is fresh out of the works, while the other two are really due for overhaul...

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm a bit further on the wagons, and now looking occasionally at the next project: The Körschtalbahn is getting passenger coaches...

Just as soon as I've figured how to fit those frames on the paper sides...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Some time ago I set myself the Entirely Random Arbitrary Goal (E.R.A.G.) of having eight wagons, a “railcar”; a large “main line” locomotive, and a shunter, before attempting to build anything as exciting as a railway for them to play on.

Since then the entirely fictional Körschtalbahn has gained three vans, three wood wagons and and three container low loaders, meaning that for once I’ve actually had enough self discipline to keep working on a long term project. When I realised this I got all excited and started working on the carriages, forgetting that really they’re planned for the next stage of the project (E.R.A.G 2.0, watch this space if you think you can handle the excitement).

My excuse for this sudden burst of frivolity is that I do have a shunter, built over a decade ago when I thought the Körschtalbahn would be built to British “O” gauge or 1:43.5 scale. As this was was my first model making project, it has a number of issues, not least that I really didn’t know how big I should build the model and aimed high. It’s massively over scale for 1:43, let alone my current scale of 1:55, as demonstrated by the loco on a low leader:

So, change of plan: make new shunter, then carriages...

 

[classic33]

Taking your thread off on a slight tangent with Cato Pass

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGTKeh4tlw


https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/105061-cato-pass-sci-fi-model-railway/

 

[Andy in Germany]

Due to current levels of busyness, I'm making a few "simple" tabletop game models on the basis that I have to make stuff or implode...

As usual I’ve rather randomly decided on the current project. this time it's a “control tower” because… um… I’ll think of something.

This will join the slowly growing collection of buildings and other odds and ends which are developing into a sort of low budget “secret base”. If you think of NASA or the sort of things that usually comes at the end of the more expensive science fiction movies, and then think of the opposite, and about a hundred years ago, you’ve got it about right.

 

[Reynard]

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Due to current levels of busyness, I'm making a few "simple" tabletop game models on the basis that I have to make stuff or implode...

As usual I’ve rather randomly decided on the current project. this time it's a “control tower” because… um… I’ll think of something.

This will join the slowly growing collection of buildings and other odds and ends which are developing into a sort of low budget “secret base”. If you think of NASA or the sort of things that usually comes at the end of the more expensive science fiction movies, and then think of the opposite, and about a hundred years ago, you’ve got it about right.

Hah, that looks like part of the tower complex on Brunel University's Uxbridge campus... A prime example of 1960s concrete! When sat in the computer lab at the top of Tower C, you had a really good view of Heathrow Airport.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

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Due to current levels of busyness, I'm making a few "simple" tabletop game models on the basis that I have to make stuff or implode...

As usual I’ve rather randomly decided on the current project. this time it's a “control tower” because… um… I’ll think of something.

This will join the slowly growing collection of buildings and other odds and ends which are developing into a sort of low budget “secret base”. If you think of NASA or the sort of things that usually comes at the end of the more expensive science fiction movies, and then think of the opposite, and about a hundred years ago, you’ve got it about right.

Several years ago, I worked in an office that looked just like that on the third floor.