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Started by RhB_HJ, August 26, 2013, 05:40:10 AM

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RhB_HJ



This is the mountainside to the West of the line.



A "Loner" stag checking the menu, the stag is 1:22.5 scale.



The scenery is .... "lots of real rock and dirt" scale.
;)  :D  ;)
Hans-Joerg Mueller
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BritsTukker

So, you're trying to recreate the Swiss Alps in western Canada at 1:22.5 scale.
When do you start installing chalets?


RhB_HJ

#2
I have the CAD drawings for at least five versions ready, along with all the drawings for the buildings in one town. All the drawings - together with the supporting info - are stored in separate folders on the computer.
BTW many of the vacation buildings in the Grisons have been converted from agri buildings - typically hay barns and small combo barns. They all have their unique features.



Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display

Jeff

I'm not sure you've done enough rock moving. I'm fairly familiar with the geological landscape of the Alps and I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any places with that many monolithic boulders (of that relative size) lying around. Maybe you could bring in (1:1 scale) gravel of various sizes to grade up slopes, while leaving some bare rock faces, and fill in around with the soil.
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BritsTukker

Quote from: RhB_HJ on August 26, 2013, 05:46:21 PM

BTW many of the vacation buildings in the Grisons have been converted from agri buildings - typically hay barns and small combo barns. They all have their unique features.


One feature of most agri-buildings in both NL and DE these days is that the roofs are all covered with solar panels.

RhB_HJ

BT,

That's why I model '69 - '75.  ;) It was more "old time" back then and I get to look at a lot of books and pictures from that era.

Jeff,

I purposely decided not to model rockwalls with concrete - even though I was mulling that over. The scree will go in when most of the rest is in place - let it flow naturally into place by gravity and water.
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display

Jeff

Pardon me. I thought the photos represented parts that were more or less 'done'.
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RhB_HJ

The layout gets built in stages e.g mountain material (rock, stone, dirt) placed, let it settle, plant the greenery, let it establish and spread, add the rest to taste.
Very similar with the RoW e.g install the TREX roadbed, fill up to the TREX with crusher chips, let it settle for two years, fill up to top of TREX, let it settle .... then place the ballast.
Not for impatient people who like "instant results". 
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display

Jeff

Thank goodness you weren't in on building any REAL railroads. But then you'd enjoy having all that steam power around :^D
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RhB_HJ

Yeah, yeah, the real railroads did, and still do, a lot of fixing/improving/correcting mistakes etc. etc. some of them super costly both in dollars and lifes. No need to emulate that, at least not in my book.
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display

Jeff

#10
Ah? So... you've given up on your view as expressed in your post in Track Plans? I seem to recall someone saying something about 'if you're not going to care about ALL the prototype stuff, then why bother at all?' (slight paraphrase). Sadly, this bbs software won't allow cross-forum quotes...   :-\
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RhB_HJ

Jeff,

You need to get up to speed how to do quotes across sections.

Quote from: RhB_HJ on August 27, 2013, 06:03:43 PM
Well frankly, the not caring bit I never get, even if I get to be a hundred.  ??? ???

Quote from: RhB_HJ on August 28, 2013, 05:00:34 PM
Quote from: Jeff on August 28, 2013, 04:33:12 PM
     ::)   


:-X

Simply put, I'm of the "Why bother, if you don't care?" school. But I hear that enrollment is dropping off at a frightful rate.  :P :P :o

On that score I have no desire to repeat mistakes, proto or model. Did I ever mention the difference between smart and stupid people? Smart people make mistakes, stupid people make the same mistakes again and again (including those that have been made by others and publicized).  ;D ;D :-X ;D ;D
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

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Mike from CT

HJ,

The version I leaned at my daddy's knee:

     A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
     A smart man learns from his own mistakes.
     A fool never learns.

And then there's always the professor I TA'ed for in an MBA program:

     You know, there's a difference between ten years' worth of experience and one year's worth of experience repeated ten times....

RhB_HJ

#13
;D ;D ;D ;D
We used twenty years, because so many of the older guys in the trade were talking about twenty years.
;D ;D ;D ;D

I remember the one guy who had "a lot of experience", but he used "it's a while since I've done this" at least once a day. After I was with him on the one job I told my buddy "Get rid of this dork". But he wasn't ready, he had more patience than I have. Nine weeks later he fired him on the spot. One too many screw-ups; we were fixing his screw-ups for three months after he left. Not a good thing. >:(  >:(

BTW I thought Jeff had most of this stuff with the forum software figured out, it's published by "Simple Machines" so there should be no problem.  ;D ;D
Hans-Joerg Mueller
Coldstream, BC   Canada

http://www.rhb-grischun.ca

My train videos

Win7Pro 64bit; 8 GB RAM; i5 2.67GHz; 1920x1080 22" display