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I then tried a couple of shots from track level.
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After shooting these plus a few more around the loco depot, I retired to the Schloss to look at them on the big screen. I was picking several out without being overly inspired by any of them when I had a 'WTF!' moment. I was taking detail scene shots like you would with the larger scales, and they were only demonstrating to me that my modeling skills were not quite up to it. back out to the mansion and back to what the scale does best.
These were the pictures that I have sent off which I think show an NZ120 view rather than a view imposed by modelers in larger scales.
Oh, and Amateur fetler hits the big 43 today. Happy birthday.
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Picture #3 shows off NZ120 well. Picture #4 needs to be looking down the track to show off the fantastic trackwork (e,g, scissor crossover on curves)- and to reduce some glare that makes the point push-pull control tubes hard to see. (The pictures are nonetheless better than I can take even as they are.)
I like the first shot as well as the rest. Its always good to see shots of these modules. To demonstrate the hand laid track ,maybe a recently made point could be placed near the track work to show before and after. At a glance its easy to forget the work involved in hand laying and also it would highlight whats possible in the scale.
The problem I have is that its not just stuff to stick up on the blog, its things that get seen by hundreds of people. Thus we need excelence.
The two you have sent off are great. They show off expanse that is possible in the scale, as well as the amount of detail possible - just look at the detail in those Js. -SteveF
well!you've just taken the fun part out of NZ120, for me,with the word excellence.My layout is never going to be up in the excellence category.For starters, i use modellers license and a fair amount of bugger it! close enough!Whenever i start to look at getting perfection in my modelling(a frequent occurrence) it actually drives me away from the hobby and frustrates the crap out of me, as well as stagnating any progress in the shed.The main reason i got involved in this scale was after seeing photos from your early endeavours and of all things the close up shots of Darryls diesels on the journal actually made me think it was possible for me to achieve something. By having a go at scratch and kit building,etc, i surprised myself and confidence grew. The perfectionist in me is a P.I.T.A. and it would be nice to be able to flick a switch sometimes so i could just get on with it and do some modelling to the best of MY ability!excuse the ramblings!
Didn't that kind of signal box have stairs going to the upper part?
Yes it did. I'm just not sure how to 'approach' it at the moment.
For the Summit signal box I used two pieces of Plastruct stairs that had the right height difference between treads but were too narrow. I cut the side off one piece, the other side and some tread off the other piece, and brought them together, welding them with solvent. Flat tweezers squidged each tread into a straight line so that the join was invisible (using the Motorised Dandruff 2 foot rule).
Thanks for that, I will make a trip to the local model shop tomorrow morning to see if they have such an item.
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