The Very Last White River and Northern Railroad

[muktown128]

Your work continues to amaze me.  The skill of how you are able to animate such tiny objects.  The creativity of how you can take bits and pieces of things and turn them into something completely different.  Just WOW!

[DKS]

Thank you, @wm3798 @wazzou @muktown128 for the kind words. I'm just doing what I've always been doing since I was 5 or 6: take things apart to see how they work, and (usually) put them back together. I also hate quitting: when something vexes me, I just keep at it like a dog with a bone. It's not like I have anything to prove to anyone--except myself. I can still do this sh!t, if I want to badly enough.

[glakedylan]

DKS...your genius, creativity, and what you accomplish in such a small scale
is wonderfully amazing. i look forward each day to your posts and to see
what new things you are doing. you certainly are a skilled and gifted craftsman
with a volume of knowledge that is only exceeded by the ways and means
with which you employ it in your modeling and other projects.
thanks
Gary

[DKS]

Spent the better part of the day cleaning the modeling area, then set about doing some more typical modeling. I finished up my cabin:



I scratchbuilt a front porch from individual boards (not that there were many)...



...and replaced the kit's brick chimney (Seriously? A brick chimney for a log cabin??) with a stone one made from corners sliced from a Chooch tunnel portal. Admittedly the stones are rather large, but the cabin will be near the back of the layout, with the chimney facing away from the viewer, so all I needed was something that said "stone" to the viewer, as opposed to "brick."



Now I have a proper place to live on my layout.

[DKS]

Now I have a proper place to live on my layout.

Honestly, if I could trade everything I have for a chance to live out my life in a log cabin lost amidst the woods of a New Hampshire mountainside, I would do it in a heartbeat. Think of it: no Internet. No cell phones. No virus threat. Nothing but living.

But wishes are horses beggars could ride.

Instead, here's a reminder of what I started with for this little fantasy project:

[wm3798]

You're pretty damn close to that...  savor it.  Can't wait to visit again.
All the best.
Lee

[GimpLizard]

Honestly, if I could trade everything I have for a chance to live out my life in a log cabin lost amidst the woods of a New Hampshire mountainside, I would do it in a heartbeat. Think of it: no Internet. No cell phones. No virus threat. Nothing but living.

Nice work, David. Would you mind building a cabin like that for me... on the other side of said mountain? No 'net, no threat, no phones sounds awfully good to me. 

[Dave V]

I dunno...  I'm an introvert but I do eventually get lonely if so isolated. 

Funny, the cabin in New Hampshire cut off from all the world with no phone or internet is exactly--SPOILER ALEART--the beginning of the end of Breaking Bad.

[DKS]

So the day was swallowed whole by one project: window fan. Or... fans. Usually if I'm building an animation I've built before, I like to up the stakes, so this time I went for better scale accuracy and making two instead of one. At a scale 24 inches wide, these guys look pretty crude under the scrutiny of a macro lens, but to the eye they're fine. To set the scene, they're in the window display of the hardware store. Eventually I'll make a sign saying, "FAN SALE". Also, they'll be illuminated by a four-foot fluorescent light hanging directly overhead. Please enjoy:

[peteski]

Ok DKS, now you're just  showing off!  You miniature mechanical wizard you!   

I'm giving you a non-Facebook old-fashion thumbs-up (but I'm running out of thumbs, so next marvel you come up will get a toe-up)!   

[peteski]

The stripes run the wrong way.

Correct. And the stripes should appear to descend when rotating.

Reviving this older item, I just  observed something interesting on TV. I was watching an episode of Andy Griffith called Crime-free Mayberry" (Season 2 Episode 7) and one of the scenes, about 20 minutes in, had a barber pole in it.  It rotated counterclockwise, and the stripes were spiraling up.  Go figure . . .  Someone on the set must have goofed.

[peteski]

A progress shot of Phil's. I just finished the jazz trio...

Since I was looking over older posts in this thread, where did those chairs come from?  They look to be laser cut and are perfect for this type of a scene. I could use some.
And I also have a warning to all the ladies in high heels: Watch those board gaps! 

And before someone starts down-voting me, that is a tongue-in-cheek comment.  Just being a wise-a$$.  I love that jazz bar scene, all of it! 

[Lemosteam]

So the day was swallowed whole by one project: window fan. Or... fans. Usually if I'm building an animation I've built before, I like to up the stakes, so this time I went for better scale accuracy and making two instead of one. At a scale 24 inches wide, these guys look pretty crude under the scrutiny of a macro lens, but to the eye they're fine. To set the scene, they're in the window display of the hardware store. Eventually I'll make a sign saying, "FAN SALE". Also, they'll be illuminated by a four-foot fluorescent light hanging directly overhead. Please enjoy:

Need the proverbial red white and blue paper streamers on the fan grate being blown by the fan blades, especially for a fan sale.

I dare ya. Lol.

[wazzou]

@DKS - Cool as usual. 
I'm curious though, if you had thought of one nut over the end of the shaft and just ACCing paper or Styrene blades to that one surface.
Unless I missed something, it appears the fan motion is 3 of those nuts forming a triangle around the shaft?

[dem34]

Need the proverbial red white and blue paper streamers on the fan grate being blown by the fan blades, especially for a fan sale.

I dare ya. Lol.

 Maybe with some real short bits of pressed Cat5 Insulation.. hmm