Continuation.
The landscape has become visible. I'm nearly done with this phase.
Above an overview and below the upper end of the creek.
Sunday 7 March 2010
On october 13 I was at it again, with my less than trusty hot glue gun. Somehow a lot of glue sticks went in but not a lot of very hot glue drops came out at the other end... Did I mention that it hurts (for a short period of time) when hot glue lands on your finger instead of on a cardboard strip?
Slowly the landscape becomes clear. In the picture below you can see that the strips were to long and interfering with each other.
Slowly the landscape becomes clear. In the picture below you can see that the strips were to long and interfering with each other.
This was the progress on the eleventh day of october 2009. At first I struggled a bit with visualizing how this module would look. The inspiration came from a two-dimensional picture, was tossed around in my head for a few months and then I had to somehow get it out of my head to build it.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Welcome & inspiration
Welcome to my second blog about building Fremo America-N modules.
This second module, 50 cm in length, was actually the first to be operational. It passed the ultimate test, being used in a Fremo-meeting (this one in Lauffen, Germany in 2009:http://www.fremo-net.eu/index.php?id=168&L=6 ). Find the little purple square that is the end of a short branch. My module is the one that is adjacent to it. You can also see it in the picture as a white blot. I completely forgot to take a picture...
Here I will document its building and use in modular meets.
The inspiration came from a Kalmbach book about bridges written by Jeff Wilson: The Model Railroader's guide to bridges, trestles and tunnels (ISBN 0-98024-586-7, see the website http://www.kalmbachstore.com/ for availability ).
You can find a picture by Jim Shaughnessy on page 27 of that book. It is of a ballasted deck girder bridge of the New York Central railroad somewhere in Ohio, USA.
What is a ballasted deck girder bridge? Well, it is a bridge with longitudinal vertical plates as the main support. On top there is a concrete through to hold the ballast which carries the track.
The prototype is not unlike this bridge but has a pier to the right of the road:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=315710
Oh, and the name? It is named after my father, Stein, who helped me with the woodwork.
This second module, 50 cm in length, was actually the first to be operational. It passed the ultimate test, being used in a Fremo-meeting (this one in Lauffen, Germany in 2009:http://www.fremo-net.eu/index.php?id=168&L=6 ). Find the little purple square that is the end of a short branch. My module is the one that is adjacent to it. You can also see it in the picture as a white blot. I completely forgot to take a picture...
Here I will document its building and use in modular meets.
The inspiration came from a Kalmbach book about bridges written by Jeff Wilson: The Model Railroader's guide to bridges, trestles and tunnels (ISBN 0-98024-586-7, see the website http://www.kalmbachstore.com/ for availability ).
You can find a picture by Jim Shaughnessy on page 27 of that book. It is of a ballasted deck girder bridge of the New York Central railroad somewhere in Ohio, USA.
What is a ballasted deck girder bridge? Well, it is a bridge with longitudinal vertical plates as the main support. On top there is a concrete through to hold the ballast which carries the track.
The prototype is not unlike this bridge but has a pier to the right of the road:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=315710
Oh, and the name? It is named after my father, Stein, who helped me with the woodwork.
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