Scatchbuilding machinery

[eTraxx]

Wanted to see how they will look in my Pump House so just stuck them in .. still on the toothpicks. Well .. the toothpicks are about the same size as the pipe that will go in .. (waiting on shipment from Plastruct)

[finescalerr]

Toothpicks notwithstanding the whole thing looks quite good. -- Russ

[Philip Smith]

splendid !  nice job Ed!

[pwranta193]

Ed, the wood grain in those pipes is a little heavy... I think that's why the Romans went to lead instead of wood.  And we all know how well that worked out...    Nice rigs.

Been off the site for a few - made a corduroy road (after some intensive Spring pruning) dio base and have been working on this little number, inspired by Mssr. Christoph.

I'm hoping to make some casts of it so be ruthless.  Please excuse the blue tack, but a number of bits are not going to be fixed so that they could be cast.  Also the support shaft and its mount motor and fittings are still a work in progress (and need some serious loving yet - so any ideas you may have are welcome).  Overall, it needs a number of additional detail fittings and casting texture, but hopefully it you get the idea... the chrome toaster looking thing is going to be an adjustable pedestal with capped with another row of machine rails.

[pwranta193]

And more... I don't have a Mr. Mudgeon on site, so I'm working with yet to be armed Industrial Hans...

[Malachi Constant]

Ed -- Real nice!

Paul -- Looks impressive so far.  Buzzing thru here at the moment ... is that 1:16 machinery with a 1:35 scale dude or am I missing something?

Cheers,
Dallas

[pwranta193]

Thanks Dallas... no that is a 1:35th machine and a 1:35th dude...

This is supposed to be a pretty large milling machine, as seen in the examples posted on Cristophe's site.  I intentionally went for something at the large end of the spectrum, as there are a couple of man height drill presses out there in 1:35th already.  This is meant to be something for the Tractor Works, or for milling armaments. I'd really like to find out what the Soviets used to mill the turret races on T-34s, and make one of those... and do a assembly space with two or three turrets.  Are you familiar with the late war color shots of the Panther factories?  If no, I'll dig some out and post them...

While I feel like I'm getting the mechanicals sorted out... I'm struggling with achieving a "copied from a 1929 Capitalist design for our the New Workers's Paradise" look... I want the right look... and just dropping in some cyrillic casting numbers would be cheating  

[marc_reusser]

Nice work Ed.

M

[finescalerr]

I don't see anything to nitpick. -- Russ

[SandiaPaul]

Very nice, but it is really a Radial Drill Press.
What is the toaster like thing on the table/bed?

Lets see some more machines!

Paul

[lab-dad]

I don't have a Mr. Mudgeon on site, so I'm working with yet to be armed Industrial Hans

Wouldn't that be a "Mr. Hands Free"

Nice work! I have always liked machines shops

-Marty

[eTraxx]

Dang. That's some excellent work. I've ran a drill press almost that large. Which .. brings me to make a point about older machines. I worked in a machine shop in the mid 80's (oil field) and some of our machines were OLD. Our Monarch lathes were from WWII and we had a lathe with 130" swing that had originally been belt driven and converted to electric motor drive at some point. The thing is .. the basic design of a lathe, or mill hasn't changed that much. We have fancy gizmos nowdays .. but .. like with that big lathe .. when something wears out .. the machine isn't tossed .. it's repaired .. and that machine continues on. The machinists could care less that the lathe is a 100 years old. It's a lathe. Shrug.

On size of machines. We had a mill / or vertical lathe (think of a lathe with the chuck horizontal and the body above it. This sucker had a chuck that was a 100 in dia, took 1" (at least .. I forget) bits and weighed 96,000 lbs. Just imagine a 1:35th scale machine with N scale people working it!

[eTraxx]

Pretty much finished the plumbing for my pump house. Still need to work on the paint/washes/weathering on the pipes but this is mostly 'just for fun' since the building will get roofed over and the machinery will be visible only through the doors and window. Need to add a bench for my LP to rest on (Marc's bench gave me ideas of course), stuff on walls and lighting.

[chester]

Looks great for something barely seen Ed. But what I really like is the concrete work.

[pwranta193]

Sweet Ed - besides digging the machinery, I have to agree with Chester on the concrete kudos - I really like the cracked portion in the rear with the leak staining.

Okay - not milling machine - but jumbo "radial drill press" then... nomenclature, nomenclature, nomenclature 

Here is a bit of what I was looking to achieve.  Pardon moi Cristophe, for hot linking to your image, but it is way too large to copy/post here, and I don't have any editing software on this computer (I'll try and correct this eve).

http://img42.xooimage.com/views/6/1/7/maint-shop-2009_0...ll-press-1533deb.jpg/

As you can see the toaster is a base of sorts for setting up the drillee at odd angles to the driller.  Ed, what would one call the lower assembly?  Thanks all, for the look... more ahead.

Paul