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Re: Mountain/Quarry
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:02:17 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> I have been dropping hints in various places about the "big project" that
> had been consuming a lot of time. It was revealed at the MichLTC show
yesterday.
That deserves to be named as big. I would even tend to huge if there
weren't so much nice details and ideas in it. I especially like the portal
which leads under 45° into the mountain.
> These are deep links, thanks to Peter for taking pics. More pics surely will
> be available later but in case you're interested and can't wait...
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> Mountain overall shots
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240001.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240002.jpg
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240003.jpg
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> This mountain takes up 2x3 15" grey baseplates. It splits into 3 sections of
> 1x2 for transport.
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> "new" tunnel portal (the other one, shown in the 002 pic, is a bit older
> styled and has an older date)
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240004.jpg
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> I kinda liked the cell tower on top... my criticism of my own work overall
> is that it has too many colors, if I had been able to get dark grey 2x4s in
> the quantities I wanted it would be mostly dark grey.
In fact it is a little bit 'fuzzy'. As far as I can speak from experience,
one needs one basic colour as a kind of matrix and then dots in that colour.
if all dots are surrounded by different coloured further dots it hits on the
eyes.
I loved the ITLUGs train layout in Zwolle but I think their castle could have
suffered under the same effect. Maybe it would have been nicer if there were
less fine dots.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=262880
> My favorite part, though is probably the waterfall, which is shown pretty
> clearly in 002. It's an old waterfall as it has etched/eroded its way back
> into the rock. Most people with waterfalls don't etch back quite that far.
> Thank you Harry Potter for the frogs. The gate on the flood control dam is
> due to Nik.
I like that a lot too. Especially the water at the ground level in other
colour than blue.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240007.jpg
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> Note the good supplies of rock pieces on pallets ready for shipment, and the
> heavy duty forklift (modeled after a 1949 Yale I remember from a summer job
> that could lift 15,000 pounds) loading onto a truck.
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> Note also the use of Rock Raiders workers in the quarry, it somehow seemed
> fitting. Two of them are using big saws to slice a block into rock sheets,
> and one is on the rock face (standing way too close to the rock drill even
> with eye protection!). They also are the drivers and workers on other • machines.
>
> Those are "BrikWorx gravel gondolas" (somewhat improved, of course, I don't
> like train baseplates) on the siding. I meant to build a rock crusher tower
> to justify the gravel loads... next show, hopefully.
>
> Finally, where some of the rock is destined for, Peter's "Mariner's Church"
> still under construction... note the quarry truck delivering a load. That
> truck is a Nik special, he took a Tyne dairy truck and modified it with some
> feedback from me, (dual rear, wider longer flat bed instead of refrigerator
> back) and then cranked out 3 copies for me (one being loaded, one waiting
> for dispatch, one at the church).
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/pguenthe/0211-livonia/pb240008.jpg
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> Note that all this fits onto 30" wide table sections, which was quite
> constraining after the rather expansive layouts we usually do (30" is only
> enough for one loop without some tricks...)
Yes, I can imagine that a 30'' limitation is quite hard while building a
mountain sceenery. But You managed ist really well!
Thanks for sharing the pictures!
Ben
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