alderson.eric.j

Hmmmm... I'm one to love scratch-building, but even then I can easily say it's easier to work from an existing kit when you find one.

There is this goods platform crane made by Wills... I used it for a project on my club's layout (a goods platform for a narrow gauge railway station of the Belgian Vicinal Railways) and simply added the wire (with some fine cotton sewing thread) and chains (made with two pieces of monofilament copper wire stranded to represent chain link, or you can also buy chains from small producers in the US via Walthers like i did). I know the base is quite big and unrealistic, but it can easily be either detailed, or you can create a whole new one and then add it to the kit.

Here's a picture of the crane on the ALAF's layout :

Photo © Patrick Ponsin, ALAF Asbl.

Hope this'll help you.

Eric.

Ow My My !!! This is really looking better and better... Love the way you've done your roof beam structure with those wooden coffee stirrers ! I myself love to use big BBQ matches (they are about 5 inches long, and about 2 mm of square section...) I select the straightest ones of them, then remove the match part. They have a more realistic wooden structure than sanded & manufactured wooden object such as the coffee stirrers that looks more like the part when I make old oak beams for buildings I construct for my club's HO layout.

Also, had not time to work a lot on "Leddysh Gate" till now, as I finished a building yesterday night at the club , then had classical home chores to take care of today .I'm posting pictures of the building on my topic here (http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78792-rickys-leddysh-gate-workbench/?p=1254504)

Eric.

Yikes, he did it !!!!!    The result is really impressive. That makes me think that the motto of the RAF can easily be applied to railway modelling when I see your work : Per Ardua ad Astra !

I'll make my open-door-ed interior-clothed shelf-helmeted locker interior (pfew, that was a long name for it... ) this Week-end and will send pics asap.

Keep up the good work,

Eric.

Oh... This filing cabinet looks really impressive... Though... Can't wait to see it painted and with a file resting on the open drawer...

As for the locker, I really think I'll make one for my next OO building... and I'll be sure to let the office door open so it can be perfectly visible...

Oh, I was thinking, for the Teapot, should be easy to make one. Find a small plastic pearl (from a kid toy jewelry kit), sand the base a bit, then with "Sprue", create the handle and the "hose". Will try that later this WE, I think... If it works, I'll post some pictures !

And I definitely agree with you, Freebs, I may be quite a swine sometimes... But I love so much being challenging, even more with myself !

Being serious, though, your work is really impressive !

Eric.

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Well, I would've been quite even more challenging than you... I would have suggested an opened locker letting show hanged clothes, a security helmet on the top shelve, and such details...

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Yea, I know, I'm outta here before I'm blown out to oblivion by a rather "pissed-off" modeller... :help:  (even if I think I'm about to do it for a future modelling project...

That's exacly the same product. It's called "Pa'Light here in Belgium.

Thanks for the information, I'll mention it in my own posts as someone there asked me where I found the product...

Eric.

Wow... Really looks nice. I really love the weathering you've done to the walls and to the wooden floor inside the building ! But what basic material are you using for scribing ? I'm mainly using Cellular PVC Board, but I'm sure it's not the only material available.

Keep up the good work,

Eric.

See my work on my "Leddysh Gate" project : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78792-rickys-leddysh-gate-workbench/

Thanks for the trick, Allan. This is a thing I always found hard to do well, and I never thought about doing it that way !!!

All my thanks again,

Eric.

Indeed this is some high quality craftmanship. Really like the weathering on the whitewashed wall. And Catzilla does not bother that much on the pictures... Gives even some nice black background contrast

Can't wait to see more...

Eric.

Woaw, that's quite nice ! I really like the whitewash effect on the walls...

Can't wait to see more coming !

Eric.

Gosh ! This is Brilliant ! I really love the way you integrate your windows in the wall structure. Have to find a way to do so with my technique (using 2 & 3 mm thick cellular PVC board I either carve to the wanted look or cover with plastic embossed sheets). 

Can't wait to see more !

Eric.

Hi there,

Here are some pics of my "Scratchbuilt" works in Liège, Belgium. Those are HO (1/87th) scale buildings that can be found yet nowadays in Liège.

Here a view of a small street market scene. The buildings in the background were all scratchbuilt from PVC Board, Slaters and Evergreen styrene sheets and profiles. The stone street has been carved in some insulation foam board (Dépron) and the lot was painted with Vallejo's acrylics.

Here are now two pictures of my latest scratchbuilding project : St Vincent Church in Liège (borrough of "Les Vennes"). This one took me two years to do it, more than 500 hours of work, and some engeneering tricks (the domes were made from decorate-yourself PVC Xmas baubles covered with individual paper-cut copper plates... 60 hrs to cover the lot...)

The building was made from PVC board and Evergreen Styrene strips, painted & weathered with Vallejo's acrylics.

Hope you'll enjoy those two buildings from across the Channel.

Eric.

PS : For more about my own GWR buildings & dioramas / layout project (Leddysh Gate), see this topic : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/78792-rickys-leddysh-gate-workbench/