"Memories of Flight School"
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Here are a few of the boxes that I am making for the engine shop.For solid boxes(not meant to open) build up your box around a solid block of wood.The ones meant to open are a little more involved but just try to keep everything nice and square and you should have no problem.
By the way,I got some nice news from the museum where these pieces are going.Their funding has been approved and my dioramas are to become an integral part of their new teaching classrooms where they will be on display for the students.
I am very happy as my only reason for doing them since the beginning was to help educate the young ones on how real airplanes were built in the early years.Wood and wire,they gotta love it! Cheers! John.
By the way,I got some nice news from the museum where these pieces are going.Their funding has been approved and my dioramas are to become an integral part of their new teaching classrooms where they will be on display for the students.
I am very happy as my only reason for doing them since the beginning was to help educate the young ones on how real airplanes were built in the early years.Wood and wire,they gotta love it! Cheers! John.
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John, I'm blown away at the amount of furniture , boxes and other "eye candy" you're assemling for this.~Gary
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The second to last pic shows how by leaving a wider space between the boards you can get more of an orange crate look.
The last pic is of the various leftover pieces that I have decided to use to make a washing tub that they would fill with a liquid to remove oil and crude from aircraft parts.The wooden barrel comes from a craft store and the feet are leftover parts from an old woodstove kit.Should be fun!
The last pic is of the various leftover pieces that I have decided to use to make a washing tub that they would fill with a liquid to remove oil and crude from aircraft parts.The wooden barrel comes from a craft store and the feet are leftover parts from an old woodstove kit.Should be fun!
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I added individual boards around the tub and now I will fit some metal hoops to the exterior.I have been thinking though ,that maybe a cleaning liquid may not have been kept in wooden containers.Oh well I can always change my mind and use it for water or line it with metal I guess.
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Just the faucet,metal bands and weathering yet to do .The distorted pics are due to the scanner.
The pics are pretty much self-explanetory .The colors are Reid & Sons french blue and the metal top is silver with black gesso added.The handles,feet and faucet all come from my modeling junk drawer.
Never,ever throw anything out!
I think that I will place this washtub outside of the engine shop exterior doors for obvious reasons.
Next ,while I am in a tanks & tubs kind of mood ,I think I will make a nice oil type tank out of an old lighter fluid can ,that seems about the right size!
Cheers! John.
The pics are pretty much self-explanetory .The colors are Reid & Sons french blue and the metal top is silver with black gesso added.The handles,feet and faucet all come from my modeling junk drawer.
Never,ever throw anything out!
I think that I will place this washtub outside of the engine shop exterior doors for obvious reasons.
Next ,while I am in a tanks & tubs kind of mood ,I think I will make a nice oil type tank out of an old lighter fluid can ,that seems about the right size!
Cheers! John.
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Old tin can tank.....Thank god not everything today is made with plastic.These tin cans usually hold oil or lighter fluid.I simply broke off the spout and replaced the whole end piece with a fitted piece of thin plywood.I then lightly sanded it to give the brown gesso a good grip and painted it lightly with my usual silver /black gesso mix.I will make a metal stand something like I did for the woodstove.
As I was making this, I thought that it would make a great rooftop water supply for the WC.Then I remembered that I live in the GWN so I will have to bring it in out of the cold and put it on the top of the rafters in the woodshop.I will devise some kind of hand water pump to supply the tank and then run some plumbing to the sink and toilet in the WC which is heated by the woodstove in the woodshop.I have a slightly larger lighter fluid can which I will use for oil or some other liquid outside the wall of the engine shop.And that should be it for the tanks and tubs for now as I got to get back to finishing the engine shop furniture.
As I was making this, I thought that it would make a great rooftop water supply for the WC.Then I remembered that I live in the GWN so I will have to bring it in out of the cold and put it on the top of the rafters in the woodshop.I will devise some kind of hand water pump to supply the tank and then run some plumbing to the sink and toilet in the WC which is heated by the woodstove in the woodshop.I have a slightly larger lighter fluid can which I will use for oil or some other liquid outside the wall of the engine shop.And that should be it for the tanks and tubs for now as I got to get back to finishing the engine shop furniture.
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Now here is something really simple that is easy to do in any scale.Get a scale size dowel,cut it to length and drill or grind out the center.I used a craft store piece that I had in the junk drawer.
Now we will sheath it much like we did with the washtub.
The shovel is a dollhouse part that I broke in two.The handle part will stick into the coal bin and the shovel part will be left on top of the coal pail thus getting two parts for the price of one....
Now we will sheath it much like we did with the washtub.
The shovel is a dollhouse part that I broke in two.The handle part will stick into the coal bin and the shovel part will be left on top of the coal pail thus getting two parts for the price of one....
