Hello everybody, please take a look at the awesome work done on this web site.
http://forum.larsenal.com/viewtopic.php?t=440
Enjoy
Frank
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It’s impressive.
My French class was over 40 years ago so I couldn’t read the description, but does it give the scale.?
Enjoy
Paul
The actual scale mentioned was 1/700th!!![:O]
Awww, thats nothin’…piece of ca…did you say 1/700th? [swg] HOLY COW! Amazing work!
WOW! The smallest I’ve worked with is Z Scale. This makes Z Scale look like G Scale by comparison. The type of metal used for the cranes and structures translates as maillechort 1 which is more elastic and easier to handle than brass. Brass that tiny crushes very easily and completely withouit warning. The parts are all photoetched computer graphics. Very impressive!
Awesome, next we will learn that the GE 44 tonner is DCC with sound!
Thanks for posting.
Chris
Quite honestly, as far as I can tell (I don’t read French) it’s just a very small scale, well done, diorama and example of the metal etching art, not something that can actually be equated with an operating model railroad in any scale. As long ago as 40 or 50 years in the past MR published examples of operating model trains and even layouts on a scale of something like 1/700th or greater! Taking nothing away from the accomplishments of this individual, I would point out that many such “aerial-view” dioramas like this one shown in the link, to be found in museums and at some histortic sites, are the work of talented hobbyist model makers, often with an ever larger scope than presented here.
CNJ831
When you reach a certain age and your eyes aren’t as good anymore working on 1:1 trains is hard enough. In spite of this indiviuals ability to replicate through photo etching Z scale is exteremly costly and extremely small. What’s next ZZ scale where engines are $1000.00 each and cars are $500.00. Somebody will buy it but not me.
Now that just ain’t right! When the ridges that make up your fingerprints are larger than a model’s details, that just ain’t right. Fascinating yes, but still not right.
I posted that a few days ago and posted a little bit of the translation.
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/153110.aspx
Surprised you missed it. I used an online translation site.
Rich
Someone said a destroyer but it is a battleship
What ever you do—DO NOT SNEEZE![:O]
We’ve got lost coupler springs and such----could you imagine dropping one of THOSE pieces?
And people look at me askince for painting N scale people!! LOL!!
And we end up worrying about walls being out of plumb in N scale!![(-D]
All I can say to the dude who’s doing this is----[bow][bow][bow]
I think this an unusual model in its scope and size, I mean a whole naval shipyard during wartime!!! The modeling is good and the photography just as good. An amazing and informative model. I’ve never seen submarines under construction being modeled let alone in reality and I was stationed at Bremerton ship yard in ‘65’. Great find my thanks to the OP. BILL
And I have trouble changing couplers on N-scale stuff.
That is “Flea-Circus” scale!
Ya want small? I’ll give ya small…
http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i238/steemtrayn/?action=view¤t=video-smalltrainlayout.flv
AAHHHH!!! Not small enough.[:-^]
When you get it to the point where you need a scanning electron microscope then we’ll talk small!![:P]
I can’t believe the subs under construction either, or the floating crane. There are two screws inside the crane tower, so maybe he can adjust the height of the boom. So when is he going to motorize it? [swg]
It reads a little easier when put through Google Translate.
Meh. Except for the brass etching, painting, gluing, custom casting, shaping, sawing, drilling, and theme-- I could do better.
(and the number of rivets wasn’t even close to correct!)
[:D]
That’s pretty impressive.
Yeah, it isn’t every day you could hear something like “I just cleaned everything in the display case, be careful not to get any locomotives on your fingerprints.”
This is very impressive model work - sorry, art work! The guy must be a surgeon or anything that require´s eagle´s eyes and hands as steady as if the are cast in iron!
But for a model railroad - too small, for my taste. I have seen Eishindo´s T scale (1/400) trains on last year´s Nuremberg Toy Fair - does not give me that railroad feeling I want to have…