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The wash tub looks great, and the wash board is perfect! Hard to tell from the picture, but do the teeny tiny nubs show up on the metal surface? They were drawn zig-zag just like the real thing, but are extremely small.
These little parts have sure been fun working on. Thanks for bringing them to life. That includes everyone.
Terry
I did it as a hint to you and Brett that we needed one. I should have known you guys already had it covered. I'll look forward to replacing this one with one of Brett's when I get one.
Sorry Brett. I swear it was yours.
You might as well go ahead and order some gas bottles too...
The top two pictures were before I dulled down the valve handle.
The bottom two are after a little dulling, much better.
I worked with many oxygen and CO2 tanks in my career. Lots of times really banged up tanks would get brand new valves so both the before and after dulled down valves, look great in my opinion. Very impressive work.
I need a kick in the butt to get motivated to start modeling again. Maybe this is it.
The original blue handles on the valves, although as you correctly say is prototypical, it just looked too bright next to everything else, hence I did the slight dulling.
Thanks Rusty and Pappy,
it's incredible to have parts this defined and detailed to work on and a pleasure to try and show that detail.
Unfortunately, I'm not happy with these labels, they seem too thick and the edges can be seen, also, I know I can do better with the weathering, so, expect to 'hopefully' see a 'new, improved' version of my work on these one day in the future.
I'll be working on a wood and stone building for the next few modeling sessions, so, no more detail work for a while, it would be great to see others work on these amazing offerings from Brett.
Post 'em if you've got 'em...
I understand about the ink being more expensive than the printer. Every time I go to print something out, the ink has dried up and it's worthless. I now have 2 printers with no ink. Frustrating.
I'll be doing/starting a thread really soon on adding labels to these incredible SWSM detail items.
Brett had asked me to describe/share my process on the forum for others after I did my tiny Corona bottle labels seen previously in the thread.
Rather than go into more in-depth answers to your questions here and thereby detract from the showcasing of Brett's actual parts...
I'll open a new thread in a minute for questions and to describe my process on this subject.
Thanks Jim.
I was waiting for some shingles to dry for one of the structures I'm working on and couldn't resist grabbing a different style of acetylene tank that was close by to try on.
The holes on the cap are a great prototypical detail and show up nicely when dry brushed. Yet another small variation to keep things interesting. Also the detail around the collar and shoulder, (which can't really be seen here), but, I did highlight some of the base detail.
right after i got out of the navy i got a job with municipality in their water department. we had 6 or 7 well houses throughout the town. we went to one of them to change out a chlorine bottle, and when my partner opened the door to the room where the chlorine was (i was waiting in the van), he dropped to the ground like a stone. i jumped out of the van to see what happened, andas i neared the building i could smell the chlorine. lucky for him i wore a belt that day. i ripped the belt off, and slung it under his arms and dragged him away from the building.
when the paramedics got there with the ambulance they told me i probably saved his life. i knew chlorine could be dangerous but i didn't realize how dangerous.
Terry