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Tecko
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Yes, will have a few on the bridge. But not sure where else on the landscape. It has been suggested to show them spreading the mulch from a wheelbarrow.
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Thank you for sharing your appeal. It is always good to know what others are attracted to. Personally, I am a colourist. Intense colours have a strong appeal for me. In regards to the grass, I love lush. If I was a dog, you would find me belly laying on the dark green lush grass.
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DIY static grass applicator. It works very well for small dioramas (1 or so square feet max). Any bigger and the charge gets overly dissipated and becomes weak. Experimented with grass applicator on the diorama. Results were mixed, but generally poor. Ended up using a small vacuum cleaner to assist in raising any loose grass into a vertical position. Repeated this application on the same area while the glue was still wet. This helped. The shire council applied lots of wood-chip mulch over the north-side of the bridge. I did the same, and for both sides of the bridge to even up the display. Grass, plants and trees will cover much of the mulch. Added previous grass sample (patch) to diorama. It peels off the baking paper and then glued where you want it (great for clumps of grass).
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Thank you Pat, Patrick and Hans for for compliments. Hans, there is nothing wrong with a bit of fibre in the diet . Thank you @Omega1234, @mtaylor, @oneslim, @KeithAug, @druxey, and @BenF89 for your 'likes'. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Before getting carried away with laying down the mulch everywhere, I had to make many posts that the council lads inserted on both sides of the bridge.
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Thank you @oneslim, @BANYAN, @prutser, @Jack12477, and @mtaylor for your 'likes'. ___________________________________________________________________________
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Thank you @KeithAug for the tip. Will give it a try next time ... hopefully the diorama won't be too large, for plaster can get quite heavy. Thank you @mtaylor, @Omega1234, @BANYAN, @druxey, @paulsutcliffe, @oneslim for your 'likes'. _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Decided to use condensed insulation foam for landfill. Discovered that it cuts well with a thin stiff bladed knife. Used it for cutting out initial shapes and for whittling surface shapes. A rasp file works well for shaping the foam to fit snugly between the around structures. Started with the easiest landfill parts of the landscape. PVA Glue works really good between foam and raw wood. Decided to use water-based wood putty as a filler over the foam surface. Discovered that it was too fragile for my purpose. It was suggested that I use a 50-50 PVA-water mix as a sealer. Applied two coats. The first soaked right into the putty, the second coat became a hard skin (so to speak).
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Thank you for enlightening me. Will keep that in mind for future ad hoc boat/ship builds.
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Thanks Patrick. I think it is too small for a ship, but some sailors say that a ship can carry a boat (so if it carries a life boat, it is a ship). It's a quasi terminology, because there are too many variable definitions IMHO.
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Do you think it will be pass as a ship?
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@Omega1234, @mtaylor, @druxey, @BANYAN, Thank you for your responses. Much appreciated. ________________________________________ Back to the Buoy Tender. Installed the cabin. Added an angled railing along the gunwale. Added doors and portholes. Made a cement black anchor for new buoy, and an old signal direction finder (for tracking a stray buoy). Strated to paint the boat.
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Hello Patrick. I have noticed that you have already seen photos of the overall size (4 x 8 feet) of the diorama. So I am now assuming you mean that the buoy is huge in regards to scale. That was my first impression too. They are huge, especially the ocean going buoys. Some of the cranes they use on the buoy tenders are huge also.
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Thank you Mark. I take that as a great compliment.
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Thank you fellow model builders @BANYAN, @GrantGoodale, @paulsutcliffe, @druxey, @oneslim, @Omega1234, @KeithAug, and @mtaylor for your reactions. Thank you Pat and Mark for your comments. Much appreciated. _____________________________________________ All we need now is a brand new red buoy. As usual, an ad hoc assembly of found items.
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Thank you @Jack12477, @BANYAN, @oneslim, @druxey, @KeithAug, @GrantGoodale, @mtaylor, @Omega1234, and @*Hans* for your reactions. Glad that you are liking the crane (one of my first toys as a child. A pulley-cable system ). ______________________________________________________ Used black cable and aluminium foil for the hydraulics. Used pin heads for mounting bolts.
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Yep. A brand spanking new red buoy.
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Thank you @*Hans* for your compliment; and others who liked it too. Thank you @RichardG, @mtaylor, @BANYAN, @John Allen, @*Hans*, @Omega1234, and @oneslim for your 'likes'. Much appreciated. ________________________________________ Since the squid buoy is so big, it needs a big crane. Used scrap wood and nails.
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Thank you @Omega1234 for your response. Yes, a big part of the satisfaction of building a model is overcoming the difficulties. Many modellers are happy for their models to come together easily. Yet many of the same modellers would not part with the ones that were most challenging. Thank you @mtaylor, @KeithAug, @John Allen, @oneslim, and @BANYAN for your 'likes'. ____________________________________________________________________________ Decided to take a break from making the boat. My mind was getting too preoccupied about the buoys and crane part of this model. I needed an old unserviceable buoy which was found aground near the Wardell bridge. This storey will give reason for the CLEM-PETER to be in the vicinity. It's task is the pick up the old buoy and replace it with a new buoy somewhere downstream. Had fun making this buoy. It looks like a giant squid. I have an image in mind that will use that appearance to its advantage in the diorama. Used an old broken broom handle, red Biro casing, and thick copper wire.
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Thank you @mtaylor, @BANYAN, @Mike Y, @druxey, @Omega1234, @John Allen, and @oneslim for your reactions. Much appreciated. ___________________________________________ Yeah, sometimes it's fun, especially when it works out okay. Had a bit of a headache working out how to attach the overhanging roof. So I placed a block of wood inside and secured it with a screw at either end. Then made window frames to fit in the gap, gluing only ceiling end of the frames. Then took out the block to complete the construction.
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Wow. Thank you @Omega1234, @jablackwell, @oneslim, @John Allen, @BANYAN, @KeithAug, @mtaylor, and @prutser for your 'likes'. ________________________________________________________________________ Decided to add a bow section to the wider end. The bulkheads already in place did not allow me to deepen the bow section. However I still carried on the best I knew how at the time. Needed to bend planking wood at a sharper curvature. Decided to made a variable curvature plank bending mould. As I was planking the bow I realized I will eventually need to use wood putty. So I changed tactic and only placed planks to hold the putty. Decided on the cabin type and started to build this from 3 mm Masonite.
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Thank you @BANYAN, @oneslim, @John Allen, and @mtaylor for your 'likes'. _________________________________________________________________ Decided to build another boat using the leftover stern sections from the kit. This boat will be a Buoy Tender, called CLEM-PETER, named after the two museum members who had built a diorama showing the different types of buoys and navigational signages around the Port of Ballina. Their display will be replaced by this Bridge and Boat(s) diorama.
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Thank you @BANYAN, @Farbror Fartyg, @Tigersteve, @*Hans*, @druxey, @mtaylor, @oneslim for your 'likes' and comments. ___________________________________________ Started doing something about the empty space on the left side of the diorama. It needs some sort of side-line attraction. I have a few ideas, and one of them is to have a bit of drama on the bridge. The police farce force has a broken down highway patrol car approaching the headlights. Another policeman, from behind the car, will be halting other approaching cars, The blue flashing light will be only ON the same time the orange traffic lights flash _ for fifteen odd seconds (at start of bridge operatations). Somewhere on the south bank there will be a angler, appearing to have caught a fish.
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@*Hans*, I have not seen Catweazle before, until now on YouTube. Very funny. Would like to have seen it in Australia. Also, thank you for compliment. Thank you @KeithAug, @druxey, @BANYAN, @oneslim, and @prutser for your 'likes'. _________________________________________________ Completed the boat. The rigging string, as someone previously suggested, got pre-stretched since November (I think). I added weights to either end of a lenghth of string, and hung it over a door. Since rigging the boat, we had over a short period of time, both high and low humidity. Neither effected the tension of the rigging, so I am very pleased about that. I really enjoyed building my first vessel. Though it is only a small boat, I have learnt a great deal from putting her together. This introductory exercise has increased my respect for model ship builders. It may turn out to become a new hobby for me.
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Batavia by *Hans* - FINISHED
Tecko replied to *Hans*'s topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Fantastic build.
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