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Started by fspg2, April 21, 2011, 12:42:16 AM

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Hauk

That door looks absolutely bulletproof!
With your skills you could build a working combination lock for the door, and then you would have the coolest safe imaginable!
Legendary work. 
Regards, Hauk
--
"Yet for better or for worse we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them"  -Junichiro Tanizaki

Remembrance Of Trains Past

Stuart

Outstanding as usual.

Stuart

Sami

It's again a great job !

finescalerr

I agree with everyone else. You are a master. -- Russ

Ray Dunakin

Fantastic! I like the spidery look of the bin, and the scale house is a beauty!
Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

Bernhard

Well done. But I'm a bit surprised why you made the door out of nickel silver instead of wood.

Bernhard

1-32

Hi Frithjof.
You always bring a smile, such a delightful quality.
cheers Kim

fspg2

@ everyone
Thank you very much for your kind comments!

@Bernhard
QuoteBut I'm a bit surprised why you made the door out of nickel silver instead of wood.

I was afraid that a 1.0 mm thick door made of plywood would warp easily. A sandwich of two veneer panels with a 0.3mm nickel silver plate glued inside would certainly have been possible... I feel more comfortable with the current completely soldered version!
I noticed a mistake on the lock case :!:

I had installed my small replica flush with the edge of the door. This meant that when the door was closed, the bolt would always hit the edge of the stone.

On the following picture of a room door you can see the offset to the inside:

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So the door was clamped in a small vice and the lock case was milled off by a good 1.1 mm.
The milling cutter also ran over the inside of the hinge screws. This left an increase of 0.1 mm.
Although they are still not square nuts (as was rightly pointed out in the German colored railroad forum), they will no longer be so conspicuous when painting.

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There was a large sign above the window, which I would also like to reproduce:

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The template of the picture above was prepared with Photoshop...

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...and printed on 300gr. paper. The wooden box (76mm x 13mm) with the slanted front edge was made from a beechwood stick.

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The door hinges were soldered together from 0.5mm nickel silver sheet and 1.0mm rivets and burnished before they were fixed in the slots of the stone wall - cut with a 0.5mm thin saw blade - with superglue.

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An inner door frame made of lime wood was pre-aged with green and brown paint from the paint box after being primed with a brush.

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The roof is still missing the ridge tiles, the door is still missing the handles...

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...the missing door faceplate was milled vertically from an 1.5 mm thick MS58 plate and soldered onto an 0.2 mm nickel silver sheet. The two long sides were  cut with a 0.2 mm thick spacer plate to the 1.0 mm thick faceplate on the sheet metal cutting machine. The stump is 1.0 mm + two times 0.2 mm gives the finished sheet metal a width of 1.4 mm.

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Suspended from a thin thread, it was then dipped for 5 seconds in the patina for nickel silver and solder.

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Frithjof

Bill Gill

Nicely done corrections on the door. I also like how you duplicated the sign so well.

finescalerr


fspg2

@Bill, @Russ

I agree too ;)


It continues with a few small parts that once again took more time than I thought :o

Of course, two hinges are needed to open the window. These were quickly found in the corresponding project box. When I milled the window parts for the old warehouse, a few more hinges were milled on spec: picture

In order to solder the hinges to the window sash and the window frame in exact alignment, I wanted to use a 0.5mm spring steel wire, which could not be soldered!

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After searching through all possible boxes without success, I came across a small bag of 0.5mm drill bits - exactly what I needed  :)

Small Pertinax inserts helped with the alignment.

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The protruding parts on the hinges were then sawn off with a fine fretsaw blade and the window was put in place for a test after burnishing. The final green paint job will be done later.

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As children, we used to try to set the original scales vibrating every now and then.

When I was able to photograph it in 2007, it was no longer in operation.
The platform was bricked up with stones.
You can see a 360° view here: klick


In my model replica, four small compression springs allow the stage to swing slightly.

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Yesterday the window panes were milled out of Vivak .....

and an attempt was made to recreate the window putty.

It won't be as nice as Chuck Doan once showed with his 1/16 model.

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The putty frame has a size of 12.75mm x 8.6mm.
First, the inner contour was milled 1.2mm deep into a 1.0mm thick MDF board with a 45° graver - then the outer contour was milled 1.5mm deep with a new, sharp 0.8mm cutter. After carefully removing the milling dust with a brush, I lifted the 0.65mm thick frame off the Guy 870 adhesive film with a cutter blade.
The frame is already very delicate.

Here on the top left with the Vivak pane inserted and the MDF frame:

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Frithjof

Ray Dunakin

Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

finescalerr

The little details ALWAYS seem to take more time than the big ones. Nice work! -- Russ

Barney

Never Let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything
Stuart McPherson

Bill Gill

#914
Very good looking window. I like the "putty" and your solution for the hinge pins.

I also like your scale. It reminds me of the scale at the coal dealer on my layout, except mine isn't spring loaded (There used to be a motto on small Toledo scales I 'd seen in some general stores "Honest weight, no springs" .