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In-ko-pah RR: Another brick building

Modeling
#61

Tool rack since work bench is soooooooooo clean?
I can’t waite to see the screw drivers and pliers you make !

#62

Sean McGillicuddy said:

Tool rack since work bench is soooooooooo clean?
I can’t waite to see the screw drivers and pliers you make !

And maybe added soldering iron, Probes/wires off of test equip.
That is some Fantastic detail work.

Sure kind of bring back memorys.
This is some of the stuff I did, part time work after High school learning Electronic form a local Radio & TV shop.
An Old guy that owned Bell Electronic in a small town we lived in.
He helped me get my Ham lic at 16. ( K6WGZ/7)

#63

(http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/IRR_Mineral_Ridge_3_files/Media/IMG_9216/IMG_9216.jpg)

Hard to tell that’s a model!

#64

That is insanely good. Hope you make the tube tester fully functional. :wink:

#65

Gee, with an LED in the tester, and fiber optic going up into a tube, he could make a tube tester that looks like its operating. A tube with a nice amber glow in its bottom.

#66

Dave, he gets enough ideas of his own, quit helping…:slight_smile:

#67

Oh. Sorry. I will go back to sleep now.

#68

Hmmmm…. :slight_smile:

#69

I’ve been busy making lots of little interior details. Here’s a quick look at a few of them…

I made a simple workbench stool out of styrene rod and a piece of 1mm Sintra. I don’t have a shot of it painted yet:

I found some photos of various old radio repair manuals online. Then I fussed with them in Photoshop to create cover art. I printed out a bunch of them on self-adhesive vinyl, cut them out, and applied them to cores made of either Sintra or styrene, depending on the thickness required:

I also made a row of books, to be tucked away in the back. I used a shot of books on a shelf, applied it to 6mm Sintra, and cut it to shape. Then I painted the exposed Sintra to match the books:

And I just finished a radio chassis! The vacuum tubes were turned from acrylic rod, using a drill as a crude lathe:

Still have lots more to do.

#70

Wow!!! Will you have an open book on the bench???

#71

Very nice Ray, Did you also make the wheat penny?:wink:

#72

I am truly amazed at your talent and eye for detail, I cannot find enough words to describe how cool your stuff is, Sean was right so hard to tell if its live or memorex…

Great job Ray, I am always at loss of words when I just stare at your modeling.

Tom H

#73

Thanks guys! This level of detail is really over the top, since the only way it will ever be seen inside the model is in photos. But I’m having fun with it, and the windows are big enough that I need some kind of detail inside anyway.

#74

Neat detail with the High Voltage B+ wires for the tubes and caps. Still need wires on the test equip. and a old soldering iron though. lol.

With all that work and that unbelievable detail, you could install some bug cams. Then dial them up… one building cam at a time to show up on a outside TV screen to guests.
Course Ray D…guess you could just give them the LSC link here and tell them to see the detail better on a computer. lol.

#75

Ray, you are a sick man! :slight_smile:

#76

Definitely getting an inferiority complex. Think I’ll skip looking at his builds in the future…:wink:

#77

Wow amazing details and so realistic. At first the photo Sean posted looked so real. I had to read on to realize it wasn’t wow.

#78

More more interior details, more modeling madness… :slight_smile:

Here are a pair of aerosol cans. To make them, I rounded the end of a 1/8" styrene tube, then glued in a piece of styrene rod. The can on the right has a cap, the one on the left does not. I sanded down the end of the rod to represent the spray nozzle. I didn’t bother labeling them for specific products, but just used some leftover labels from when I was detailing my drugstore:

Still more details – needle nose pliers and a pair of screwdrivers, all made from brass tubes and rod:

I wanted to have some of the radios plugged into outlets, so I came up with these simplified plugs made of brass tubes. They’ll be inserted into holes drilled into the outlets:

Here are some shots of how the interior looks so far. There are more details needed but it’s getting there. Note the stand for the soldering iron – I made it from a tiny spring that I pulled out of an old camera:

The stool was painted to look like it had been repainted several times, with layers of old paint showing through where the paint was worn and chipped:

Here you can see two of the power cords from the console radios, plugged into the simulated outlets:

Enjoy!

#79

Wow, Ray that is just amazing work!

-Kevin.

#80

Now that is Wonderful…