Depot Val-Rikard

[Rik Martens]

Dear,

Those are my first steps on this forum, I bult a mini lay-out on 0.90m3 (147cm x67cm). The thing is, I bult something who never exist, but i trayed to do it in a realistic way. A dubbeldeck turntabel on the end of a steamdepot. Allemost everything is selfmade. I was thinking by my self, a ship elevator exist so why not a dubbeldeck turntabel.




The location is somewhere in the Belgium ardens. The minilayout is named "Depot Val-Rikard" anno 1950.

Regards, Rik Martens



 

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hi martens
you small display looks wonderful.i am assuming that it is french ho.
when i first saw it it thought that the upper level was a viaduct over the turntable-those three concrete columns.
kind regards kim

[Rik Martens]

hi martens
you small display looks wonderful.i am assuming that it is french ho.
when i first saw it it thought that the upper level was a viaduct over the turntable-those three concrete columns.
kind regards kim

Hi Kim,

Thanks for the feed back, If you want to see more of the layout you can watsh a smal film

http://youtu.be/GLhf51_qstg



I hope you enyoj it.

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now i know that those t shaped columns are they are buffer stops.
do you use any filter on your lens i love the effect lovely.
kim

[Ray Dunakin]

Very nice! Never heard of a double-deck turntable before but yours certainly looks believable and well-engineered. (And no doubt a real one existed somewhere, at some time. There always seems to be a prototype for anything imaginable.)

[Malachi Constant]

That's a neat-o freelance scene!  The two story shop somehow brought to mind the photo below.  Cheers, Dallas

[Rik Martens]

now i know that those t shaped columns are they are buffer stops.
do you use any filter on your lens i love the effect lovely.
kim

Hi,

I didn't use a filter, I filmed it with a Pannasonic SD camera. There is also a second film, this time in HD. I fimed it with my wife's poced camera.
The nice thing is that you can put that smal camera in the middel of the layout.

http://youtu.be/Vka7J9vzXtI

Below you see a picture of the depot bulding under construction.

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The wal is made with faombaord, the bricks are presed brick by brick wit a old brush where I took al the hair out.
Windows are made wit regular green tape on a sheet of transparent plastic.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y509/Val-Rikard/5_zps63fba5ea.jpg[/IMG]

The liht above the dore is man made with a screw I plased in a dril. I shaped it by running the engine of the dril.

Greets Rik Martens

[finescalerr]

Nice work. Thank you for the links to the close ups. -- Russ

[Ian Kay]

Saw your layout at Warley, think it's brilliant, well done.