Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2014 22:42:22 GMT -7
Guys,
Well as my screen name suggests, I'm a car modeler, and I am. To a point (I must limit myself) As you will see, I am a serious railroad modeler, even more so. I got A LOT of locomotives, in HO scale, Steam and Diesel. The steam is the basis to my layout, BUT, I model late Steam era, early diesel, on the Baltimore & Ohio, along side of the B&O, I also have the Western Maryland, and a little of the Chesapeake & Ohio as well....
But in the train world of modeling, my biggest "love" of all is Articulated steam locomotives, they're HUGE, and look awesome in operation!
Among those, I have. My favorite, the B&O's EM-1, "Yellowstone" I have 2 models of this enormous locomotive, and wanted as display case to put it in, BUT not like a normal shelf type set up (I make my own cabinets as well....) SO, because, I have 2 of these locomotives, I needed at least a 2 shelf unit. I made up a "case" with one shelf, which is the part of the "box". So, with this, thats a base, but I wanted something more, and to have this, I built this box into what is a Diorama? Its got a steel girder bridge going though the center of it, to hold a second locomotive, (A Brass B&O EM-1, "Yellowstone") and then the lower "ground" level to hold the other one, thats a Spectrum Model.
Then a better close up of the left hand side of the display diorama:
Then a center picture:
then a right hand side shot:
This case is "traverse" I guess you could say, the left hand side of the bridge, goes from the back corner, to the right hand side to the front edge! The "pillar" had to be placed to allow the lower track to go under the bridge, BUT had to be justified to the length of the bridge and the placement of the road.....Plus the "pillar" also has a signal on it, which is why the signal box on the ground is there, and to the left of the "pillar" is a ditch for drainage, that has real dirt in it thats has been covered with a type of material I thinkl does water effects VERY well!
And over-all picture of the case, without the locomotives:
Would this count as a diorama? It will have 4 spot lights in the top corners of the case, to shine down over the locomotives as this case will have a hinged plexiglass cover as it hangs on the wall in my living room!
I got a bit yet to do to it, but....I thought it was good enough for posting at this point in time!
The 2 locomotives seen here, I built! The top one is made from brass pipe! ALL brass construction. The lower one, is a plastic version I assisted in designing with a much larger company, almost 2 years before my open heart surgery! Both locomotives each run, will pull 100 cars with the lower one and pushing 175 cars with the top "brass" one (its much heavier and has a much larger can motor in it) Altho the lower one.....Well here:
This is the lower locomotive seen in the display case "in-use".....I built the train its running on on a local clubs layout. The engine actually has sound controlled by a remote control!
Well as my screen name suggests, I'm a car modeler, and I am. To a point (I must limit myself) As you will see, I am a serious railroad modeler, even more so. I got A LOT of locomotives, in HO scale, Steam and Diesel. The steam is the basis to my layout, BUT, I model late Steam era, early diesel, on the Baltimore & Ohio, along side of the B&O, I also have the Western Maryland, and a little of the Chesapeake & Ohio as well....
But in the train world of modeling, my biggest "love" of all is Articulated steam locomotives, they're HUGE, and look awesome in operation!
Among those, I have. My favorite, the B&O's EM-1, "Yellowstone" I have 2 models of this enormous locomotive, and wanted as display case to put it in, BUT not like a normal shelf type set up (I make my own cabinets as well....) SO, because, I have 2 of these locomotives, I needed at least a 2 shelf unit. I made up a "case" with one shelf, which is the part of the "box". So, with this, thats a base, but I wanted something more, and to have this, I built this box into what is a Diorama? Its got a steel girder bridge going though the center of it, to hold a second locomotive, (A Brass B&O EM-1, "Yellowstone") and then the lower "ground" level to hold the other one, thats a Spectrum Model.
Then a better close up of the left hand side of the display diorama:
Then a center picture:
then a right hand side shot:
This case is "traverse" I guess you could say, the left hand side of the bridge, goes from the back corner, to the right hand side to the front edge! The "pillar" had to be placed to allow the lower track to go under the bridge, BUT had to be justified to the length of the bridge and the placement of the road.....Plus the "pillar" also has a signal on it, which is why the signal box on the ground is there, and to the left of the "pillar" is a ditch for drainage, that has real dirt in it thats has been covered with a type of material I thinkl does water effects VERY well!
And over-all picture of the case, without the locomotives:
Would this count as a diorama? It will have 4 spot lights in the top corners of the case, to shine down over the locomotives as this case will have a hinged plexiglass cover as it hangs on the wall in my living room!
I got a bit yet to do to it, but....I thought it was good enough for posting at this point in time!
The 2 locomotives seen here, I built! The top one is made from brass pipe! ALL brass construction. The lower one, is a plastic version I assisted in designing with a much larger company, almost 2 years before my open heart surgery! Both locomotives each run, will pull 100 cars with the lower one and pushing 175 cars with the top "brass" one (its much heavier and has a much larger can motor in it) Altho the lower one.....Well here:
This is the lower locomotive seen in the display case "in-use".....I built the train its running on on a local clubs layout. The engine actually has sound controlled by a remote control!
