This is soo cool! I’d love to see how this sort of thing comes together. Behind the scenes of movies, TV, etc has always been extremely interesting to me
Thank you. This was a fun one.
Its a fun job. Film is a great home for those of us with short attention spans and non-traditional pasts.
My department (property) is responsible for all physical visual elements in any given scene, from sets to props. I have to take stunningly asinine requests seriously. I mostly do commercial work, but I try to do at least 2 narrative features or tv series a year.
I’m two decades deep now. Golden handcuffs situation, but my shop is well equipped for model train work (hello 3D print farm) so thats what I do for fun. My other train buddy in the biz is a stunt coordinator (what stuntmen do when they get old), one day we’ll get to jump from roof to roof on a train.
Been at Universal Studios for work last week. Found a fun locomotive on the lot. If I recall this used to charge at the tour trams and stop just in time.
I am about to embark on a planes trains automobile and planes vacation , we are flying to Portland Oregon, where we wil board Amtrak’s Empire Builder for a fun 2 day trip to Chicago. We are passing by Devons home and work place, but he steadfast refuses to come to Spokane and visit while we are there for an hour, something to do with the time being from midnight to 1AM,something about work blah blah beauty sleep blah blah ! Anyway will post some pictures along the way, when I have service.
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Very jealous! Have a blast Pete!!
Pete
Are you getting off at the Isaac Walton Inn whistle stop?
That was our my favourite spot to watch shunting all night long, then cross-country ski during the day.
Like you said it’s a whistle stop , and we bought sleeper car tickets , so straight thru to Chicago , except the 3 longer stops Havre, Montana, Minot N. Dakota and Minneapolis St Paul. Maybe on a future trip.
Thanks Cliff, wife and I and our 18 &20 yr old grandkids are riding along with us, so 18 yr old grandson and I are sharing a room and granddaughter and wife are sharing the cross the hall roomettes.
I wanted to go from Portland due to Columbia River Gorge. The couple of times I drove there there it’s awesome. Really looking forward to this trip!
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We’re back with another episode of “very large scale modeling”
This time we made a “bigature” hot air balloon for Dancing With The Stars. Took some major figuring out but it played on Tuesday and looked incredible.
Pics attached!
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That thing looks amazing, Patrick @PisoMojadoRR ! Geez, sometimes I wish I got to do stuff like that for work.
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Thank you. Was a fun build and it’s a fun show to be a part of. Very “showbiz”.
It’s fast turnarounds though so a lot of figuring it out on the fly.
If I could figure out how to post videos I have a clip of the initial flight on the shoot day.
I made a HO layout recently for an upcoming movie. Once it’s out, I’ll post pics but I sure don’t get how people model in HO. I like to see my trains.
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Haha I understand this feeling. I am planning an HO project (Ive had a bunch of stock sitting in the closet for a while) and I am definitely worried about getting all the electrical bits into the engines.
I think the only method on this site is to post elsewhere (i.e. YouTube) and link to it here. That’s what I do.
Photo files couldn’t be easier, just drag and drop your photo file into the reply box. It couldn’t be easier! But videos can only be linked as mentioned above.
On Saturday I had a few COPE high elements open. The climbing wall with an open rappel. Transverse over a 2 wire, then onto the Burma bridge.
Actually, you can drag-and-drop a small video.
I think the size limit is 4MB.
Wow Wayne, that’s amazing.
And I must me on the wrong mailing list, that looks nothing like my COPD gatherings…
Just for the record, C O P E in scouting = Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience. “Cope” can mean to manage or deal with a difficult situation
And COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. For those having trouble shouting out when we go off-piste.
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