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Wood Species for Model Realism

Started by marklayton, July 31, 2008, 04:07:06 AM

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finescalerr

"Peachy keen"? Really, now! But how about a photo, John? -- Russ

John McGuyer

Here you go Unc! This is the car the wind was blowing away as I tried to photograph it.

John

John McGuyer

This is a Phil's Narrow Gauge kit with lots of extra detail. The couplers are Accucraft heads with shanks and boxes I machined from brass. The striker plates on the coupler are also machined from brass as is the spool on the brake staff. You will notice the glad hand is missing as the patterns were sent to Dave at Ozark and I'm awaiting the first test pulls from the spin caster. On the detail level, they are up to the Hartford ones except cleaned up and a bit stronger.

John

John McGuyer

Here you can start to see the knot holes. More so on the inside than outside. The paint is Chuck's technique of thinner and tape to chip it. Not quite as much chipping but it does work well. I did find that it worked best to weather the wood before I drilled and glued in the knot holes as the glue (CA) tends to restrict the penetration of the Silverwood thereby making discolored splotches around them.

John

John McGuyer

Here you can see more detail parts. The brake cylinder/tank is from a brass pattern I machined. Bob Uniack has then made test samples seen here from resin. The master has now gone to Ozark to upgrade the level of their 1/20.3 cars. The brake levers are all brass sheet and the clevises are from brass strip and tubing. The turn buckles were turned from brass rod.

John

John McGuyer

Last and certainly least is an attempt to show more of the wood detail. These things got really beat up. We have pictures that make this car look positively new.

John

marc_reusser

Wow.....well it certainly looks beautiful, and the machining and custom work you put into it sounds fascinating....I wish the images were larger than 300pix wide...say 600 or so, so one could better see the detail and work you did.

Marc
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In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

finescalerr

Nice work, John! I agree with Marc: Please try to attach larger photos. I'd love to see your work more clearly. -- Russ

Scratchman

Very nice work, John

Gordon Birrell

John McGuyer

I spent a lot of time getting the pictures down to the required size. That was as big as the web site would accept without using compression. When I used compression, all I got was complaints of lost detail. If you can tell me how to post 600 pictures without compression, I would be glad to do it.

John

TRAINS1941

John

That is some very nice work.  Great detail and weathering.

Jerry
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George Carlin

John McGuyer

Here we go. This is a test of another picture of the gondola. This time I made it 600 pixels wide and used medium compression. Let's see how it works.

John

michael mott

Hello I am new here, Hi Russ, I thought that I might make a comment about the scale wood. I spend a fair bit of time scrounging around the lumber yards looking at the cedar fence boards. One can often find some boards that have extremely tight grain that are often discarded because they don't match the rest of the open grain boards these can be resawn and are very good for modelwork this beam is made from some tight grained cedar.

regards Michael

finescalerr

Very effective. Thanks, Mike. -- Russ

lab-dad

I'd like to see and hear more about whats behind that pilot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-Marty