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Hello Everyone,
I'm slightly ashamed that I havn't even picked up a model train since I was about 14. However I have a big plan for a setup at the top of the garage when my son gets older (he's 12 weeks so it's going to be a while).
I got a call yesterday from a client who wants to do some filming in a model railway .. he saw the "TV licencing" job I did and wanted to do something similar (I'm sure you have seen the commercial it's a city made out of circuit boards with "We know where you are and we're coming to get you").
It's kinda easy to do that sort of thing with a crane and a periscope and a prism. But it has drawbacks .. You can't go through a tunnel for instance.
As the production only want Standard Definition video I think it might be possible to mount the camera on a train and shoot the train journey "for real".
So I have 100 questions and about 50 problems to overcome ..
My big problems come from the fact that I have never seen the trainset and I can't get out of the client what the guage will be. Apparently the setup is 90cm by 90cm and it is a "proper" model railway (By which I'm guessing they mean not a battery operated toy).
However !
I have an idea that I would like to run past anyone here who would like to comment ..
The shot the production want is travelling along the track from the front of the train .. For various reasons powering the train via a motor with the current coming up from the track is a non starter. I need to be able to repeat the move perfectly ....
SO ..
If I make a bogie with the camera built onto it and then modify the model so that instead of being a siding the track extends out 2 metres to the side of the setup. The idea would be to make a 2 meter long train and then push this along the track with a motion controlled dolly.
Question ..
How long can I make a train without being concerned that it will derail? Is 2m possible ?
Justin Pentecost
www.portablemotioncontrol.com
South Oxon
I'm slightly ashamed that I havn't even picked up a model train since I was about 14. However I have a big plan for a setup at the top of the garage when my son gets older (he's 12 weeks so it's going to be a while).
I got a call yesterday from a client who wants to do some filming in a model railway .. he saw the "TV licencing" job I did and wanted to do something similar (I'm sure you have seen the commercial it's a city made out of circuit boards with "We know where you are and we're coming to get you").
It's kinda easy to do that sort of thing with a crane and a periscope and a prism. But it has drawbacks .. You can't go through a tunnel for instance.
As the production only want Standard Definition video I think it might be possible to mount the camera on a train and shoot the train journey "for real".
So I have 100 questions and about 50 problems to overcome ..
My big problems come from the fact that I have never seen the trainset and I can't get out of the client what the guage will be. Apparently the setup is 90cm by 90cm and it is a "proper" model railway (By which I'm guessing they mean not a battery operated toy).
However !
I have an idea that I would like to run past anyone here who would like to comment ..
The shot the production want is travelling along the track from the front of the train .. For various reasons powering the train via a motor with the current coming up from the track is a non starter. I need to be able to repeat the move perfectly ....
SO ..
If I make a bogie with the camera built onto it and then modify the model so that instead of being a siding the track extends out 2 metres to the side of the setup. The idea would be to make a 2 meter long train and then push this along the track with a motion controlled dolly.
Question ..
How long can I make a train without being concerned that it will derail? Is 2m possible ?
Justin Pentecost
www.portablemotioncontrol.com
South Oxon