Dunalastair Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 Today's 'diorama a day' represents 'Pioneer', the single sea-going electric car on the quirky Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway. Magnus Volk built the railway to extend the Volks Electric Railway (which features in another diorama for a future posting). The VER is still with us - 'Daddylonglegs' fared less well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Rottingdean_Seashore_Electric_Railway The French had a 'pont roulant' which looked similar, but that was smaller and cable-hauled. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_roulant_de_Saint-Malo_à_Saint-Servan#/media/Fichier:Pont_Saint-Malo_1.jpg The car was 3D printed at 4mm scale and assembled from parts. Not many trains apart from those designed by Emmett had lifeboats ... The rather basic diorama experimented with using toilet tissue / PVA to produce the 'waves' which were then painted and varnished. This is as far as I got - budgets did not permit adding a crowd of happy Edwardian holidaymakers to the decks. 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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