zbuckster
Junkyard Dog
Racecar spelled backwards is racecaR
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Post by zbuckster on Jul 10, 2012 9:55:48 GMT -6
Cool beans. That 4 cylinder engine does look big, it will be right at home with some rust and mud on it.
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Post by geezerman on Jul 10, 2012 17:48:29 GMT -6
Cool beans. That 4 cylinder engine does look big, it will be right at home with some rust and mud on it. Yeh, I don't know what it was, The opposite side was angled like it might have been a V-12, or V-16. I figgered I could pass it off as an old 4 cyl. heavy equipment engine. It'll be crudded up and hopefully half hidded by foliage. |
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Post by dogfish7 on Jul 10, 2012 19:22:02 GMT -6
I'll be able to spend hours looking at all the cool stuff on this one  |
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Post by geezerman on Jul 12, 2012 8:16:04 GMT -6
 I have a problem accepting redundancy, and I don't like contributing to it. Almost every 'period' diorama will have a cutsey outhouse. I wanted to balk at this, but realized that an outhouse was a neccessity back in the day, so I bit the bullet and started in on one. I found a piece of thin corrugated cardboard (about 1/16"). Now, I have a son-in-law that blessed me with a package of fine carbon steel surgical #11 blades a while back. This cheap assed carboard is defying even these blades. I can hardly get a clean cut. I guess I need'nt be concerned with "cutesy", nasty is just fine with me !!!  
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Post by geezerman on Jul 12, 2012 15:46:16 GMT -6
Here's today's work. I have to do some more roofing. The door will be laying on the ground. I mounted it on this green painted base which will be blended onto the dio base.   For you city folks, those are corn cobs in there. A necessary accessory for country outhouses. How's that for cutesy? ;D |
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Post by harron68 on Jul 12, 2012 19:25:39 GMT -6
Your outhouses look better than my early models! Thanks for the straight poop on scale buildings!
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Post by harron68 on Jul 12, 2012 19:41:43 GMT -6
Watching all this take shape I am amazed at the skill and eye in creating a scale reality. Your strength is in weathering too and saves working with a lot of scale pieces. To weather distressed matteboard or cardboard is faster and cheaper than cutting real wood or buying scale RR stuff. I, too, never liked doing the dios near as much as the models. Good luck and may the finish bowl us over like ten pins!
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zbuckster
Junkyard Dog
Racecar spelled backwards is racecaR
Posts: 432
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Post by zbuckster on Jul 13, 2012 9:31:55 GMT -6
No Sears and Roebuck Catalog? Oh well at least the local youth have something to tip over on Halloween. Looks great Clay.
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Post by geezerman on Jul 13, 2012 14:55:07 GMT -6
A little more action back in the front yard. I scratched out a chain fall today to hang off a limb on the tree   |
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zbuckster
Junkyard Dog
Racecar spelled backwards is racecaR
Posts: 432
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Post by zbuckster on Jul 14, 2012 10:15:56 GMT -6
That is too cool. Just looks like it should be there.
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Post by geezerman on Jul 15, 2012 7:13:28 GMT -6
I've had some stuff stashed for quite some time from an analog watch I dismantled. Today, I found a use for some of the parts, I want to have the junk engine under the chainfall separate from the tranny. The watch parts gave me a flywheel for the engine and a gear (of sorts) for the tranny. ;D  |
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Post by geezerman on Jul 15, 2012 9:07:57 GMT -6
Together and ready for junkification  |
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zbuckster
Junkyard Dog
Racecar spelled backwards is racecaR
Posts: 432
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Post by zbuckster on Jul 15, 2012 10:33:59 GMT -6
Just plain cool.
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Post by bob29579 on Jul 17, 2012 18:56:22 GMT -6
Another amazing one. You are the master.
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Post by geezerman on Jul 18, 2012 9:34:46 GMT -6
Trying to get a little detail inside the shed that may be visible through the window openings. Not planning to go overboard, this'll probably be it  Plus, I'm framing a roof that will lift off (not sure why). Using the old fashioned model airplane method ;D This is all cut from matt board.  |
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I have a problem accepting redundancy, and I don't like contributing to it.
