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Title: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Rail and Tie on May 02, 2013, 06:11:06 PM
I thought I would try to mass produce some office interior bits in HO.  While the work is no Ken Hamilton, I think it turned out OK. I should have spent more time on coloring the books a little less brightly.
Title: Re: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Ray Dunakin on May 02, 2013, 09:01:10 PM
Pretty good, especially for HO.
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Post by: 5thwheel on May 02, 2013, 09:49:49 PM
Very Nice.

Bill
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Post by: Hydrostat on May 03, 2013, 01:21:04 AM
Especially the loose papers and the bended journals are great!

Volker
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Post by: lab-dad on May 03, 2013, 05:03:38 AM
I would not have guessed it was HO!
Great job!
Mj
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Post by: Design-HSB on May 03, 2013, 12:06:59 PM
Hi Ken,

a good example of new techniques.
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Post by: marc_reusser on May 05, 2013, 04:36:53 PM
Neat little scene. I too would not have guessed it was HO.

Can you tell us a bit about the materials and process used?

Thanks for posting this.
Title: Re: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Rail and Tie on May 05, 2013, 09:27:16 PM
Hi Marc,

The cabinets and bookshelves are made from Laser Engrave resin impregnated board (laserboard) and basswood.  The file cabinets are a front veneer of 0.015 laserboard, engraved, and then 2 layers of 0.125 basswood. I used some putty to clean up the lamination seams and sanded finish and painted.

The bookshelves are a front frame of laserboad along with an engraved layer of laser board representing the books. Some are cut out for the angled books. Then I duplicated the cut outs on the basswood layers. The books are colored by dyeing the layer black and then drybrushing white and finished up by marking the books in color with felt pens of various colors.

The desk and chair a all cut from laserboard and assembled much like a full sized desk carcas.  Little prints of life magazines and some paper bits round out the scene. 

Darryl
Title: Re: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Rail and Tie on May 09, 2013, 10:21:32 AM
Here are a few more for the Tobacco Shoppe...
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Post by: chester on May 09, 2013, 06:15:52 PM
Wonderful 1/87 scale interior details, thanks for showing .
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Post by: Ray Dunakin on May 09, 2013, 09:28:08 PM
Very nice, especially the display case!
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Post by: Ken Hamilton on May 17, 2013, 07:04:44 AM
It's all in the details, and these details look GREAT.
Nice job!!!
Title: Re: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Rail and Tie on May 17, 2013, 09:49:22 AM
Thanks Ken/ All:

These little details are actuall fun to do.... once you break out the 10X lens on your optivisor!!

Here is the finished up Alpha kit.

Cheers!

Darryl
Title: Re: Interior Bits - It's NOT a Ken Hamilton!
Post by: Chuck Doan on May 17, 2013, 10:30:20 AM
Nice! A very good way to get those interior details.
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Post by: finescalerr on May 17, 2013, 11:33:29 AM
Nice diorama. Your scratchbuilt building interior surpasses the laser cut exterior despite good kit construction and finish. Next time scratchbuild the whole thing and blow us away completey! -- Russ