1/2" Scale project still in progress (somehow)

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks very much! Hi Mario! Good to hear from you. Craig, you may well be right. In looking at a lot of rural stores and such I have seen amazing electrical work. The conduit through a hole seems hard to believe. Like Chester says some had covers, but many didn't (or maybe they fell off). I found meters in all different locations including many well above head height and even just below the roof eaves. Crazy stuff.

Here is the whole mast. It is .08 Plastruct styrene and the weatherhead (cap) and insulator were 3D printed. I'm planning a lot of wire and cable remnants and maybe some phone lines. Emmanuel Nouaillier's wonderful buildings are a good inspiration for all sorts of wires snaking around and got me to looking more at such things.

[eTraxx]

Chuck, who are you using for your 3D printing? FineLine? If so, their Invision HR material? Curious. I uploaded a model and the only one I could even think of affording was in that material.

[Carlo]

Chuck -
Could you provide a link to Emmanuel Nouaillier's fine work that you mentioned?
Thanks, Carlo

[Chuck Doan]

Hi Ed, I used Print a Part which is now Fineline. I haven't had any parts quoted from the new organization yet. Yes they are the Invision material, and I found PAP to be reasonably priced. I will have to get a new quote and see if there are any changes.

Carlo, I think Frederic or Nick or another European member may be of help. I have only seen pictures here and there, but I know he has been published in magazines. I don't know of a website that features his work, which is a shame. I came across this set on Flickr and I thought at first it was M. Nouaillier's work. He does a lot of old cement or stucco buildings with superb faded signs just like the ones in that Flickr album:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54472716@N04/sets/72157625764161017/with/5364443787/


UPDATE: http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b375/fvtavernier/Emmanuel%20Nouaillier/

and here: http://www.lrpresse.fr/trains/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25938&start=300
Google his name and search images.

[W.P. Rayner]

Chuck:

Fabulous work as usual... I can't imagine how it could be any better.

The Fineline pricing seems to be about 11-12% higher than it was on PAP for the same Invision material. There are more options presented during the quote process including part orientation on the printing platform which is very helpful. The service is just as good if not a little faster.

Paul

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks for the info Paul. I had great service from PAP. I look forward to doing a project with the new entity.

[LeOn3]

Carlo, I think Frederic or Nick or another European member may be of help. I have only seen pictures here and there, but I know he has been published in magazines. I don't know of a website that features his work, which is a shame. I came across this set on Flickr and I thought at first it was M. Nouaillier's work.

I have seen some of mister Nouaillier's work at Houten (NL) in 2009. He often writes articles for "modelspoormagazine" and "Art of Modelling" (both belgium magazines) and he is a member of the Proto 87 club. I have found a link to this club and there are some pictures where you can see some of the buildings he made.

http://www.club-proto-87.com/crbst_28.html

Leon

[shropshire lad]

Chuck ,

   I have been collecting Emmanuel articles for a number of years . The latest ones I have got are from earlier in the year and are in two different British publications . Military Modelling and Continental Modelling . I don't get either of them regularly but pick them up when I see an article by him . In the case of Continental Modeller an article by Emmanuel is the only reason I would buy one .
   I have sent copies of earlier articles to your part of the World , either to Russ or Marc , I don't remember who , and I figured you will have seen them by now .
  This reminds me that I need to sort out all his articles I haven't cut out yet ,

      Nick

[marc_reusser]

PERFECTION.


Marc

[Krusty]

I have been collecting Emmanuel articles for a number of years . The latest ones I have got are from earlier in the year and are in two different British publications . Military Modelling and Continental Modelling.

A couple of Emmanuel Nouaillier's older articles are on the milmod website http://www.militarymodelling.com/. Franck Tavernier posted a number of photos on one of the Yahoo groups (weathering?) a few years ago – unfortunately they got the usual clodhopper response from a couple of the self-styled modellers there.

[TRAINS1941]

Mr. Wizard could I borrow your hat for a day or two.

MAGIC AT IT'S FINEST!!!!!


Jerry

[fspg2]

Chuck,

I have no words ... I keep getting big eyes when I see your great miniaturization here. Thanks for showing!


Frithjof

[Frederic Testard]

I'm aware of no web site for Emmanuel Nouailler's work (but see on the previous posts that his models have indeed be displayed on the web). He has published in a number of French mags, and I think he is still a regular contributor to "Le train".

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks for the additional info on Emmanuel's work.

I finished the (mostly disconnected) wiring for my garage. I used .022 annealed brass wire for two of the incoming lines and some Vintage Reproductions stranded cable for the third (ground?) line. Two lines are clipped short while one is longer with a splice still attached. I wrapped the splice with strips of aluminum foil to represent old electrical tape. I painted the wires with Polly scale black painted on dryish to get an old insulation texture. Final weathering was with pigment powders.

I made the ubiquitous phone box from Evergreen styrene. In order to carve the corner radii I used the old trick of coloring the styrene with a black Sharpie pen and then using a sharp X-Acto to carve the edges, first as a chamfer and then smoothing to a curve. The exposed white styrene allows easy gauging by eye to keep the corners equal and even.  I used grey and white Gwosh over flat black primer to represent tarnished aluminum. I added the wiring with .012 and .008 annealed brass wire and staples formed from .006 brass wire.  

I made a conduit clamp from .002 steel shim stock and a Tichy rivet/round head screw. The service mast was attached to the wall with a U-bolt. The three (now unused ) insulators were 3D printed.

Most everything was based on various prototype pics found on Flickr.

[lab-dad]

this sure is fun to see come to fruition!
-marty