Sandy Hollow

[finescalerr]

My most used lens for model photos has been a 100mm macro. Put the camera on a tripod, lock it down, and shoot five or six shots. Start by focusing on the front. Then, without moving the camera, focus on a point about every five or six inches farther away. Use Affinity Photo to stack and combine the photos into a single image and it should be in focus from front to back.

If you need me to be more specific, have questions, or want me to clarify anything, send an e-mail. Or we could start another thread on photography. And remember, how you light the scene and use reflectors is crucially important.

Russ

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Hello and good morning to you all.
Moving along,
For the last little bit, I have been setting up my display items,
This included my most frustrating jobs in track and electrical . At one stage, I had to pull apart a lot of my previous work, but in the end I managed to get a lot of it to work and the rest I will worry about later.
As my reward, I built this little shed that will fit nicely into my world,
All the very best .
KIM

[finescalerr]

Ain't nothin' wrong with that shed. -- Russ

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Evening all.
Yes, I'm sure you are all in the best of health.
So a start is made on the Anchor hotel, downtown, with all the glitz of a small-town hotel in Australia.
There will be a collection of 4 buildings leading down the road to the port.
I my last post, I showed the shed on the whalf.
Hand-laid wooden siding over a base of display card, with a very narrow staircase leading upstairs,

[Bernhard]

Like all your works, the little shed has a lot of atmosphere. And the hotel: a good start.

Bernhard

[finescalerr]

A lot of little pieces, a lot of fussy glue joints, and a charismatic result ... so far. -- Russ

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Evening all.
The Anchor Hotel .
Home of fine food, lots of laughs and great company.
Such fun, and it is only 60 per cent finished.
The Hotel will keep the shop and church company .
Cheers

[Bill Gill]

Kim, Nice Hotel. You take selective compression, something that most modelers consider a necssary evil, and turn it into an artform.

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Hi Gill .
This scene is tiny, even by smaller-scale standards.,
As a background, I had a lot of connections to old Sydney before they wrecked the place,
Such Hotels as the one I am building were common, tiny corner pubs with a small patronage of colourful characters. Perhaps I am trying to go back to that time.
Most of my builds of these bays are on a scale of 1/35, just that little bit finer on a large scale.
Cheers

[finescalerr]

Another little gem under construction. -- Russ

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Hi all .
My Anchor Hotel.
Recently, I have come to realise that my writing ability and general non-verbal communication skills have been terrible a persistent issue for most of my life.
But model making Rock on

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And the general layout of the home module,
The hotel coffee house and another building.
A two-foot railway and dirt track lead to the harbour module.
Looking at it I think the anchou is too large,
cheers

[finescalerr]

A lot of artists, craftsmen, and musicians have trouble writing or speaking. That's because the artistic side of their brains, the part with all the talent, is dominant. Who builds better models, public speakers or artists and craftsmen? -- Russ

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Hi Russ, I am sure you know what I mean, cheers
Anyway, I think the Anchor sign needs a bit more work

[Bill Gill]

Kim,
It seems like if the anchor was less thick and the spacing between the letters H O E L were a little wider it would look good?