EXHIBIT D: The cage.
Had some scrap pieces of plexiglas. Now I have an electric jungle gym. This is the pre-paint image. Hard to see what little detail there is when everything is clear, but I think you’ll get the idea. I don’t think the paint’s gonna dry before leaving for ECLSTS. So, it probably won’t make the trip. It definitely needs more gizmos. Stay tuned…
-Kevin.
That cage might need extended for what I have for you.
Uh oh!
-Kevin.
I like how you have taken 1:1 gizmos and turned them into scale gizmos and they look like they are the real thing. At least to my untrained eye.
Devon Sinsley said:
I like how you have taken 1:1 gizmos and turned them into scale gizmos and they look like they are the real thing. At least to my untrained eye.
Devon,
That is the essence of modeling, to give the illusion of realism.
EXHIBIT D in color:
For your entertainment I risked another beating from the Queen and stole some of her craft beads to make the insulators that run along the top of the electric jungle gym.
Todays mystery question is worth 5 points*: Guess what I used to make the insulators that are on the front of the cage?
-Kevin.
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They look like either rollers of some kind or doorknobs…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Thats a easy one, those are painted push pins. Its amazing how many things we use daily that can be incorporated in to out model building. Nice job so far. Waiting to see the completely project.
Dan S.
dieseldude . said:
For your entertainment I risked another beating from the Queen and stole some of her craft beads to make the insulators that run along the top of the electric jungle gym.
You “risked” ?? More like you were probably hoping for!
Exhibit E in color
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Push pins! You guys are sharp (get it… sharp… push pins? Never mind).
-Kevin.
Saw the power plant first hand at the gathering of idiots Drag-n-Brag. Very nice work. Although not as cool as the Sasquatch car, the power plant is 100% less annoying 
Again fantastic work with the pieces and parts!
Terry
Terry Burr said:
Saw the power plant first hand at the gathering of idiots Drag-n-Brag. Very nice work. Although not as cool as the Sasquatch car, the power plant is 100% less annoying
Terry
Thanks Terry. You know, if I had any kind of brain in my head, I’d take some video of my Sasquatch car and put it on youtube. That way I could still annoy everyone with it for years and years…
-Kevin.
Think what would happen if that video got into the “Wrong Hands” !!
I have never seen the Sasquatch car myself.
David Russell said:
Think what would happen if that video got into the “Wrong Hands” !!
I have never seen the Sasquatch car myself.
Maybe someone at the Drag and Brag took some video of it? You gotta see it to believe it and I don’t have the youtube resources for any show and tell.
-Kevin.
Exhibit F: WARNING HIGH VOLTAGE
-Kevin.
It is all coming together quite nicely Kevin. Looks superb.
As a person who worked for Edison for 30 years in Substations I can say your very close on design and its one of the better stations I have seen. When you add wire keep the phases together and don’t cross phase, this is the biggest mistake I see on layout. On your 4 breakers give them a 1/4 turn and the bushings will be correct. Your doing a great job.
Hehehe…your gonna make me break my 8,888 post #
You did not gut that DI cassette! If you did and the are the round coils in the middle how hard was it to remove the epoxy?
Bob Russell said:
As a person who worked for Edison for 30 years in Substations I can say your very close on design and its one of the better stations I have seen. When you add wire keep the phases together and don’t cross phase, this is the biggest mistake I see on layout. On your 4 breakers give them a 1/4 turn and the bushings will be correct. Your doing a great job.
Distant cousin Bob
Look close …if he adds 12volts and a trigger source he can make some arching as well !!
