Bergmann

Hi Kevin, I would just drill the tiller through.

I've used the weekend to build the model, of course it's not finished yet and especially in the photo is merciless to see where needs to be reworked. But try makes smart and it should go on. So a little bit of color and a little bit of gravel make up a lot. On the far right is my first attempt to model rocks.

Hi Kevin, I like the left horse without the a black wash better, for example here:

Hello everyone, in the meantime, the shell for my BRM Cakebox model has been completed. For the rehearsal I put the self-built of my BBA mining locomotive in scene. Everything is to be disguised later so that as a sight and insight only the front view remains.

Hello everyone, here's something from my workbench for my Cakebox project. Meanwhile, I have been able to finish the lining of the tunnel. The goal is a functional model of 8 X 8 X 6 inches. Frame size IIf, scale is 1: 22.5 and the track width is 26.7 mm.

Since I go to exhibitions more often with my “Klosterstollen” model, here are 2 pictures, how I simplified the transport. Transport my “Klosterstollen” model from the upper floor down and back. From the EC via a ramp to the car and back. Thus, the transport is possible without outside help.

With SB-Modellbau you could find something. https://www.sb-modellbau.com/index.php?page=gruppe&path=/00000220/00000290

Yes, I have been able to buy a used CNC engraving machine that used to be used to make signs. With CAD software I create HPGL files that control the machine. In this case, I have a photo of the tunnel behind it and the stones individually drawn over it. Also to get the irregular picture of the stones. Now I'm just thinking about whether I lay the track diagonally or parallel in the cake box. This type of mine cars are emptied in a rotary tipper.

In the meantime, I have made the wall parts and the stone strips for the tunnel and put them together for the test. Of course also the cobblestone with "Schlegel and Eisen" and the year 1871. I would like to use the diagonal to get as much track length as possible. In addition, by the slope of the insight in the actually much too short studs are not so accurate that are in the original finally 25m. What do you think?

Many Thanks, in the meantime, I have constructed further parts and milled them on the CNC machine. Of course, first of all, only the bricks with their joints and the outer contour of the components. Directly on the CNC machine I have painted all joints with acrylic paint gray. This is like a primer and first improves the MDF. With the roller shown in the picture then follows another primer in the stone color. For this I give a few drops of ocher and brick red on a glass plate. With the roller, the color is only roughly mixed by rolling and then rolled onto the MDF. As desired, the color only reaches the raised areas, giving the stones a very beautiful, irregular base tone in the brick color. The many stone strips are intended for the reproduction of the lining of the tunnel. Next up is the pedestal on which the track is coming, which, of course, will get a cavity by placing the OC32NG, which will then be responsible for the animation.

Hello everyone, after having worked a lot on the digitization of the Klosterstollen model lately, and this is running to my satisfaction, I would like to continue my Cakebox model. I have engraved the first wall parts required and also provided a primer. The joints all gray and the bricks in a yellow-red. At the weekend, the remaining required plates are also made of MDF.

That's the bad thing about the internet and the forums, because you get more wrong as correct answers.

Even with current firmware and the new Z21 App no ​​change.

I admit I don't actually have a real loft, it's actually a living room is only used for my hobby. A stone staircase leads up and the ceiling below it is made of reinforced concrete. The room is heated but has only one Velux window. So that I can carry heavy things up and down alone, there is an electric crane. I just felt the security was worth the extra expense. Our hobby model building costs so much and the place to be able to exercise is part of it. I also made the expansion under professional guidance, which saved costs.

OK, I can show you more. I'm just new here and still can not find my way around. I have 4 different models in the scale 1: 22.5. 1. an LGB modular system. 2. Modules combined in control track with narrow gauge. 3. The mine train "Klosterstollen". 4. I want to participate in the Cakebox Challenge.

Here as a supplement to my contribution still some pictures of my hobby room under the roof.

When we planned our house in 1974, we wanted to build an angular bungalow with a flat roof. The house had to be built with basement and there was a hobby room for me. After many considerations, we had submitted a draft to the building office which we liked. Only it was promoted that we would have to build a normal roof with bricks. So it came that we also constructed a hipped roof above everything, which even enabled the development of another apartment. It would also equal a normal stairs planned up there only there was only a hallway with 3 doors, which complete the empty rooms behind it. Since I had built a lot on our house myself, one room served as a workshop and another as a warehouse. Of course no room isolated and heated. So I tinkered on my N-Bahn in the basement in a room with heating and the very rough and dirty work such as welding and sawing wood for example in the attic. Unfortunately, the basement of our house on the slope, flooded 3 times by heavy rain and I lost it by my N-Bahn. Only one LGB train had survived the flood in the basement. So I first isolated the attic and moved with the workshop into the dry, isolated room under the roof, which also has no heating to this day. My eldest daughter grew up and she wanted a bigger room. So I isolated another room under the roof built a beautiful large skylight and heating. Also the further ground would be isolated, received a roof window, this time however also a heating. This space I finished as a plant room for my LGB modular system, with whose construction I had already begun in 1977. Children grow up and move out and I made an office out of my daughter's room where I worked 6 years until retirement. Today this is my hobby office in which my PC etc. is. That 's how I feel about the hobby room, but I still have not enough time in retirement. Because there are still children and grandchildren and after all 3 dogs but everything makes me happy.

Here the comparison picture of the original. And a tracking shot from the tunnel to the engine shed... https://youtu.be/aKRTBzxXGRg

Hello my name is Helmut Schmidt, I live in Germany in the village of Barsinghausen, that is located near Hanover. have been building since the earliest Youth model railroad and for several years also totally self. For many years my model building has been concentrating on the scale 1:22.5. A few years ago I started with the replica of the visitor mine monastery galleries "Klosterstollen" in the Barsinghausen. The plant is just 0.72 m x 1.96 m tall and represents the entrance into the tunnels. For this there is nothing to buy on the scale and thus the ideal model for absolute self-making. I build the track with 26.7 mm gauge from track 0 rail profile itself. Locomotives and wagons made of brass and silver. The plant is now controlled via ITrain with Dinamo. On this forum I became aware of Facebook when I was there about the Cakebox challenge. This is for me a possibility to show also small animated scenes of underground and I have already opened a thread for that. Impress me here many very realistic plants. http://design-hsb.de Pictures of my monastery model there are also on my homepage should be any questions I will be happy to answer, unfortunately I have to use the Google Translator, because my own English knowledge is not enough.

I have Z21 and the WLAN mouse so it is possible.

Why don't you use a wire rope? A servo with a double drum is enough. A drum wraps the rope and the second drum on, so you can open your door and pull. As a rope I use 0.5 mm rope from a radio.

Have you ever thought of using a cable or a steering wheel. Such a drive shown by you will not result from my experience. Look at my garage door there is even the handle to open. https://youtu.be/aKRTBzxXGRg The gate is opened via a drive disc on the servo and a push rod.

already asked the customer service of the manufacturer?

I like what you're doing, in my convent model I also have lots of animations. I always test something like this with a very simple Servotester with a middle position I can adjust the mechanics best. So I then have enough servo-way on both sides. Then the connection is made to the servo I use a OC32 from Dinamo a I can combine other things at 32 I/O. Soon hopefully more, in my cakebox post.

I just like I would divide the car body in any case asymmetrically.