Amazing and very creative take on this classic structure! Love all your details. They are placed and weathered to perfection. Hard to tell them from the real thing! I always look forward to your builds each one gets more creative and better.
Really appreciate your note here Tom, means a great deal. The interior work has chewed up both time and detail parts that's for sure! Always nice to get past a major portion of a build.
Ken, your attention to detail is truly professional grade. This is a diorama I would have to see in person to truly appreciate. I would need to bring my stool so I could sit and study each detail at length. Then, you add to an already great kit a lower level. Unbelievable!! Can't wait to see what you have in that room. Thanks for posting. Phil
Hi Phil, so nice hearing from you. Honored to get such a nice note my friend. As I have mentioned previously, I have one LP in every diorama. The LP is not obvious and has to be looked for...that lower level of the machine shop is a hint...lol. Thanks again Phil and talk soon.
Hey Joel, appreciate that sir! Things are gelling with this project nicely. Wasn't sure, at the onset, the direction I was going with it. Had some issues to work out in my mind but believe those have been settled. Working on the roof of the main structure and the boiler house. The jib crane is done and installed and turned out better than I had expected. Not all that far from beginning the scenic work...
Thanks again for the note and keep in touch. Always a pleasure to hear from you.
Update on my Eureka Springs build. I have the removable main roof completed save for weathering. Not sure what I'm going to do here, still mulling it over. Decided on a raised rib roofing material for the look I was after.
I decided to build a small shed to place out front under the service pole. This will add an interesting detail as well as balance out the diorama which is "heavy" towards the left rear! Lol...The little shed will have lots of rotten areas along the bottom, as sheds tend to do...I wanted the framing to show through the areas I'm planning on having the boards a bit rotten so spliced in strip wood framing where I wanted it (see photo below). More later...Ken
Thanks much Tom. The roof is removable by Brett’s design. You build the roof by lightly tacking the trusses to the end walls and then the support boards are glued to just the trusses and not gabled walls, glue down the roof material and then carefully pry up the trusses and done! Genius design...
Finished up the small, scratch built, shed for the Eureka Springs diorama. This will allow some interesting detailing once planted and the scenic works gets underway
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The screwdriver holder on the wall by the lathe caught my attention.
Appreciate the note Emery...really enjoyed detailing and placing the 3D printed detail parts...great stuff and can't wait for more.
You get me Al! lol...method to the madness and thanks.
Hey Stephen, appreciate the kind words and expression!
Thanks again Phil and talk soon.
Thanks again for the note and keep in touch. Always a pleasure to hear from you.
Ken
I decided to build a small shed to place out front under the service pole. This will add an interesting detail as well as balance out the diorama which is "heavy" towards the left rear! Lol...The little shed will have lots of rotten areas along the bottom, as sheds tend to do...I wanted the framing to show through the areas I'm planning on having the boards a bit rotten so spliced in strip wood framing where I wanted it (see photo below). More later...Ken
Right Stephen, a bit lower on the Grunge scale!
Slow but sure Bryan.
Thanks much Richard and really nice hearing from you.
Thanks for the support Stephen. Things evolved to a more refined structure than originally planned or designed.
Thanks Robert.