Hello everyone,
I recently finished this dio of a kit bash I did on an old Sheepscot HO scale kit. I enjoy water scenes and have built several others.
Comments welcome.
Hey thanks for posting picts of your Dio and welcome to the forum.
I love the outdoor setting of your pictures.
The one thing that jars my eye is the minimal amount of timbering under that steel tank
that I presume holds some form of liquid at about 8 lbs per gallon.
Very nice work, and again welcome, and thanks for the great picts of your work
Rick
Satisfactory. Charismatic. -- Russ
Congratulations on a great model that was photographed skillfully. just ask why show the weather vanes in different directions or deceive me something?
Thank you Rick, Russ and Helmut. Appreciate your comments.
Rick- The support framing under the fuel tank is supposed to be angled steel. It was supplied in the kit etched brass and soldered together. Agreed it is a bit thin.
Helmut- Thank you for noticing the weathervane issue. That was not intentional, I will repair.
Beautiful modeling and photography, especially for such a small scale.
Thank you very much Ray.
I also installed nearly 30 SMD Led lights. Taken indoors...
Those night shots look awesome!
Thanks again, Ray.
Now those night shots are great.
Lighting makes all the difference, when bringing a scene to life.
Thanks for sharing.
Rick
That's some very fine modeling - especially in H0 scale. And I agree: the night shots bring it to life, ever since. The only major giveaway are the ship's and derrick's ropes in the first both pictures, which to my eyes are a bit to thick and don't follow a natural pendulous habit. Which isn't easy to achieve, admittedly. What did you use for it? Maybe you could try lead wire which comes in diametres down to 0.2 mm or even less. Thanks for sharing!
Volker
Thanks again Rick.
Thank you Volker.
The ropes are indeed a tad big and were common sewing thread. However, they were tight until I brought them outdoors for these photos. I live on the gulf coast of Florida and the humidity caused the sagging. As soon as I returned indoors, they became tight once again. >:(
For the derrick, I actually used brass wire.
Appreciate your input!
Awesome photos. The lights are incredible.....Allan
Hi Carl
Love both the night and day shots. Hard to believe its HO scale.
Thanks very much Allan and Wes!
Carl: Excellent! What did you use for the lighting system, I'm dealing with that right now. I was using some 3v battery packs with small wheat bulbs but am now trying to go with a 5v phone DC wall outlet that attaches with a USB cord and the problem is adapting to 3 and 5 volt led lights.
Yes, I'd be interested in your lighting system as I'm thinking of installing some in the sternwheeler dredger under construction at the moment.
Les
Thanks Doane and Les...
My lighting plans are very simple & uses minimal components.
The electrical schematic shows what and how I'm using a 9 volt power supply, the LED's and voltage dropping resistors.
You can add more lights and resistors and the same wiring for more lights...
I use copper tape strips as busses for the 9 volt positive side, and 9 volt negative side. I solder a resistor in between the negative side voltage and the negative side of the LED. The strips wrap around the interior of structures for ease of installation. Kind of like a GIANT circuit board.
The LED's are 0603 SMD (surface mount devices)....and run at 3.2 volt and have a 20 milliamp draw.(which is close to full brightness).
A wall wart 9 volt supply is connected to the copper tape strips. I use black and white hook up wire to interconnect everything.
The entire build was documented on another forum.
Link here....https://railroad-line.com/node/33821
Schematic:
The Diorama is very nice and fine workmanship and in HO well it leaves me speechless
Barney
Carl: Thanks for the info and your work is amazing!
Appreciate the compliments Barney and Doane!