Quiet earth (was: Exercise module for Plettenberg railroad in 1/22.5 scale)

[lab-dad]

Three versions, each older.
Very nice.
Marty

Hopefully my wood project comes out as well!
Marty

[Don]

Hello, my name is Don and I am a new member. A few months ago Russ suggested that I join the form to help improve my narrow gauge modeling but this is just scary! Even the broken bricks and pot holes, filled in with dirt look real. The rails and the switch section, wow. He could probably make a plastic pizza look eatable. I might have to turn my tools into the Goodwill an start watching sports on TV and get a twitter account.
Don

[Hydrostat]

Hopefully my wood project comes out as well!
Marty

Thanks, Marty. I'm sure it will come out better!

Hello, my name is Don and I am a new member. A few months ago Russ suggested that I join the form to help improve my narrow gauge modeling but this is just scary! Even the broken bricks and pot holes, filled in with dirt look real. The rails and the switch section, wow. He could probably make a plastic pizza look eatable. I might have to turn my tools into the Goodwill an start watching sports on TV and get a twitter account.
Don

Thank you very much Don! Please don't be discouraged by anybody's work. We all started as beginners (not knowing at all which status you have!). But I'm afraid you posted in the wrong thread: Here is the guy who makes plastic pizza eatable ... (Chuck, I'll take a quattro stagioni). This always makes me feel like a bloody fumbler  .

Meanwhile I made a drawing of an old Bakelite phone for the janitor's desk.





And I found a nice chair:



Um, don't know yet how to do that ...

Volker

[marc_reusser]

So...do you plan to have these item rapid prototyped...or do you plan to making us feel inadequate, by scratchbuilding them?

[Hydrostat]

The phone is going to be printed, but the chair should be somewhat selfmade, using knife, gable (and yes, um, the english word for 'Gabel' is 'fork' ) and spoon. Prototyping is too easy, isn't it?

Volker

[lab-dad]

So...do you plan to have these item rapid prototyped...or do you plan to making us feel inadequate, by scratchbuilding them?

but the chair should be somewhat selfmade, using knife, gable and spoon. Prototyping is too easy, isn't it?

That's funny!

-Mj

[finescalerr]

If he plans to build it from cheese then maybe he isn't joking .... -- Russ

[nk]

I like that old Bell telephone. I actually have one that I used until recently. Salvador Dali also used one for his Lobster telephone

[Design-HSB]

Hi Volker,

where have I caught you there?



What do you have to just because Photographed in Schenklengsfeld?

[Hydrostat]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'm afraid joking stops here.



For the poor eyesighted ones: The butterfly nut's thread is 0.6 mm (0.024').



If you ask how this was done: I don't know. The thing suddenly stood in the gatekeeper's house. And it's full functional. Including the here missing chair casters.



Okay, to be honest (I don't want to be fired - or even worse sent to Nick's corner [it's a corner thing, not because of Nick] ... no forgeries, you know): Helmut, please tell us how you did it. My very little part at that was the idea, some drawings and hints for manufactoring. Helmut said this was an exercise chair  .

And now to something completely different: I'm back from the Schenklengsfeld gauge II meeting and want to show you a quick snapshot of a train running in the street. Everything worked fine. Everything? Okay, you have to be aware of the street grabbers . I don't get that.



Cheers
Volker

[Ray Dunakin]

Holy carp! That chair is mind-boggling!

[finescalerr]

Not bad. -- Russ

[mad gerald]

... sorry, if it seems I'm nitpicking (again) ... but is the sub-construction of the swivel chair mounted in the center (of the bottom) of the seat - or more towards the front end of the seat http://www.buntbahn.de/fotos/data/8859/5715IMG_6086b.JPG? If so, it would reduce a part of the magic in my eyes. I'm just asking, 'cause I can't imagine (and never have seen) a swivel chair, where the sub-construction isn't mounted centered ...   ...

Cheers  

[Hydrostat]

Hi all,

to answer Gerald's question here too as I already did at buntbahn: He's probably right. At the pics I've got I'm not able to decide where the pivot is. But I feel it should be in the middle, too. So I asked the owner of the real chair to have a look and am waiting for his answer.







So this blessedly is Helmut's exercise chair and we may bury it for its faultiness.

Cheers,
Volker

[mad gerald]

... it may be an "exercise" chair for an "exercise" layout ...   ...

So this blessedly is Helmut's exercise chair and we may bury it for its faultiness.

... there's no need for - the chair eventually just needs a little adjustment regarding the mounting of it's sub-construction ... apart from that I'm quite sure Helmut will additionally find a way for further improvement in this case too ...  

Cheers