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randgust

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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2012, 11:18:14 AM »
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I'm sitting here looking at the wall I want to rip down.... Wait for it....wait for it...
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2012, 01:11:59 AM »
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Here is some progress over the weekend adding the detail overlays on the interior of a side truss. Roughly 25% of the detail overlays are done on this truss. Don't even THINK of asking how many rivets!




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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2012, 01:27:40 AM »
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mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives...
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2012, 01:38:47 AM »
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Quote from: TiVoPrince on December 17, 2012, 01:27:40 AM
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mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives...

Great quote, hahaha.

"It's Hedley!"
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2012, 09:53:08 AM »
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Quote from: TiVoPrince on December 17, 2012, 01:27:40 AM
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Gosh, you use your tongue perttier than a $20 hooker.
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2012, 10:01:45 AM »
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 :facepalm:
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2012, 10:38:13 AM »
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Quote from: eric220 on December 17, 2012, 09:53:08 AM
Gosh, you use your tongue perttier than a $20 hooker.


Hmm... there are ladies
present (blush)...

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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2012, 11:13:36 AM »
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If this isn't the ultimate N scale bridge kit of all time, I don't know what is.

Unless you want to model the Golden Gate Bridge during the Key System years... and have a gymnasium to put it in!

This, gentlemen, is why we do N scale, in order to gasp at something like this and actually get out the tape measures.

You know, it was somehow easier when I'd decided I had neither the skills nor the space and I could reject the idea out of hand.   

Hmmm.  Also gonna need several cubic yards of Celotex for rock materials....dynamite....maybe an N-scale snakebite kit.
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2012, 11:23:17 AM »
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TrainCat models.  When museum-quality just isn't good enough anymore.   :) ;)

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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2012, 11:23:43 AM »
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Bob,
 UM

WOW

 :facepalm:

Seriously, if you do decide to go back to manufacturing at some point, a ready to use variation of the rivet plates in grab bags would be a great addition to the scratch builders arsenal.  with those plates and either styrene or brass shapes, you'd have a ton of opportunities.  and best part is you could do whole sheets of a single component from your existing artwork.

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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2012, 11:45:46 AM »
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It's about 40 inches long, yes?
That's about perfect for a 4' Free-moN module!!!
Muhahahahaha!!

Randy: the SF Bay Bridge (not Golden Gate) carried the Key Line, and, at 4.5 miles long, would only need about 150 feet to model in full  :scared:
(Or only fifteen 10' Free-moN modules  :facepalm:)
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2012, 11:54:09 AM »
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Quote from: M.C. Fujiwara on December 17, 2012, 11:45:46 AM
Randy: the SF Bay Bridge (not Golden Gate) carried the Key Line, and, at 4.5 miles long, would only need about 150 feet to model in full...

Or, only 53 feet in T.
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2012, 12:00:35 PM »
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Bob...
YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!

That's all I can think of to say.
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2012, 12:10:09 PM »
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Re: Canyon Diablo Bridge
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2012, 12:36:54 PM »
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Haha... classic! Nice photoshop skils to boot.

Awesome project Bob! Glad to see you are getting back to normal (whatever that maybe)
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