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Doofer I'm not going to say a word except that my wife now carries the spare car keys. Don't ask me why because I'm not going to tell you.
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Cardboard Modelling On Barchester
Some of you will already have seen some of these models but because I am so keen on using card as a modelling medium and think that it a much under rated material I like to spread the word among as many people as possible. Especially the young who may not have so much cash to spend and who would like to see what can be done with very little effort and cost. If any interest is shown then I will continue with various models but if not then that is perfectly understandable and the subject will just fade away.
Enough of the blurb and here is the start of a diesel locomotive washing facility. I am not a scale modeller of prototype material as I like designing my own models once I get a general idea of what's needed.
This first photograph shows that model is going to have two tracks, a layby outside the facility, for interior cleaning, and the main track inside. Here you can see that the card platforms are installed and work has started on the support girders. The short length of track is just there for measurement purposes.
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Enough of the blurb and here is the start of a diesel locomotive washing facility. I am not a scale modeller of prototype material as I like designing my own models once I get a general idea of what's needed.
This first photograph shows that model is going to have two tracks, a layby outside the facility, for interior cleaning, and the main track inside. Here you can see that the card platforms are installed and work has started on the support girders. The short length of track is just there for measurement purposes.
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Here's the completed model, roof still waiting 'repair', notice the man at the back of the shed spraying preservative on the raw planks.
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Hi Bob
Managed to upload some pictures. Made slight blunder with roof tile sheet slightly out of alignment and small gap between them. Hoping weathering will disguise it!
Work in progress:
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Roof on, and painted detailing to follow
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Be gentle with the comments please, its my first attempt at scratchbuilding in card!
Managed to upload some pictures. Made slight blunder with roof tile sheet slightly out of alignment and small gap between them. Hoping weathering will disguise it!
Work in progress:
Roof on, and painted detailing to follow
and
Be gentle with the comments please, its my first attempt at scratchbuilding in card!
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Bob, I think I've mentioned before that until you started this thread I'd never worked in card.
Thanks to you I have been encouraged to have a go. I started with some Metcalfe kits, to "get the feel" of things without having to worry about design. So far I've completed four of these. My standard must have been OK because a friend asked me to try and improve on a made up kit he had been given, which had been put together badly.
To say badly might be an understatement, because I'm now in the process of taking badly built bits off a Metcalfe station, adjusting the fit, cleaning off glue that looks like it was put on with a 2" paintbrush and reassembling.
Now it might well be easier to set fire to this abomination and buy a new kit for him, but the point is I'm learning a tremendous amount by having a go. This kit may never be of any use on a layout, but it will do wonders for my confidence in working with card. The motto to all this ?? Well I think it enforces the point you have been making for some time --- You'll never be any good at something new until you get off your a
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se and try.
So thanks for your encouragement and keep the tutorial going -- it's proving invaluable.
PS Any tips for removing excess glue as thick as icing sugar, without doing too much damage to the card ?
Many thanks and good modeling. Jeff
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Thanks to you I have been encouraged to have a go. I started with some Metcalfe kits, to "get the feel" of things without having to worry about design. So far I've completed four of these. My standard must have been OK because a friend asked me to try and improve on a made up kit he had been given, which had been put together badly.
To say badly might be an understatement, because I'm now in the process of taking badly built bits off a Metcalfe station, adjusting the fit, cleaning off glue that looks like it was put on with a 2" paintbrush and reassembling.
Now it might well be easier to set fire to this abomination and buy a new kit for him, but the point is I'm learning a tremendous amount by having a go. This kit may never be of any use on a layout, but it will do wonders for my confidence in working with card. The motto to all this ?? Well I think it enforces the point you have been making for some time --- You'll never be any good at something new until you get off your a
So thanks for your encouragement and keep the tutorial going -- it's proving invaluable.
PS Any tips for removing excess glue as thick as icing sugar, without doing too much damage to the card ?
Many thanks and good modeling. Jeff
Hi CeeDee!
Seen one of these? Picked it up at an art suppliers in Perigeuex, for €6-95. Works very well, better if you do thick card from both sides. The packet says 'Beware, Blade very sharp!' What it should say is 'Silly old g^ts should not try it out resting on their desk using only two thin layers of card...'
Didn't know they existed, can't wait to try it out for real.
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Seen one of these? Picked it up at an art suppliers in Perigeuex, for €6-95. Works very well, better if you do thick card from both sides. The packet says 'Beware, Blade very sharp!' What it should say is 'Silly old g^ts should not try it out resting on their desk using only two thin layers of card...'
Didn't know they existed, can't wait to try it out for real.
Hi Again, Cee Dee, and all who try to model with free/cheap materials, piccy below of piece of plastic cut from an old VHS video cassette, it's an acceptable sustitute for engineering brick or industrial surfaces if painted silver perhaps? I intend to cut a narrow strip to try and edge a bit of goods shed platform on which to mount a crane. It's about 7.5 inches long.
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