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So some of you have asked me about this. Here is the process. Read from left to right, top to bottom. Everything is done by me during down time at work.
I started with sketches and concepts. I would like to visualize the design as much as possible on paper first. This is the most crucial step which helps a lot with modeling later. Here I only show the final sketches but these are just a small portion of what actually went on paper.
Second step is to start modeling! When I have a basic idea of what the design looks like, I use a program called Alias Auto Studio to visualize the 2D drawings into 3D. I modeled everything, no premade 3D parts. I also did some computer rendering of the design to test out some color choices.
When all the parts are done on 3D. I use my 3D printer to print them out. Final step is to paint! The grey you see on the last photo is the primer. I usually do 3-4 coats of primer, and sanding in between from 150 grid to 400 grid, before moving on color paints.
The whole process takes about 1 month for sketching, 3-6 months for modeling ( depends on how many hours I have free), Printing all the pieces takes about 350 hours on the printer. The result: the model is 5th scale, about 100 pieces, and eats up about 600 hours so far.
National Motor Museum
Established in 1964 it is Australia’s largest motor museum.
The Museum was started by Jack Kaines and Len Vigar and was purchased by the South Australian Government in 1976.
Until 1998 the National Motor Museum’s collection was housed in the old Birdwood Mill.
As an international centre for the collection, research, preservation, education and display of Australian road transport history.
Nestled in the scenic Adelaide Hills wine region, the museum’s grounds are perfect for picnics or a barbecue.
The museum annually hosts the Bay to Birdwood vehicle run.
OPENING OF THE BLUMBERG FLOUR MILLS
Blumberg was quite en fete on Sept 7, when the new "Peerless" Roller Flourmills, belonging to Messrs F Pflaum & Co, were opened by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Hon J Coles). The members for the district (Messrs Homburg and J L Stirling), besides a large number of gentlemen interested in the neighbourhood were present, and the usual quiet of the township was changed to bustle and excitement.
The following particulars of the firm may be interesting:— Mr F Pflaum, the senior partner of the firm, settled at Blumberg in 1868, and was joined in the following year by his brother, Mr T Pflaum. Their attention was directed to the wattle-bark trade, and in 1872 they took the Blumberg mill, and with its steam power they prepared the bark for the home market, where their brand has become so favourably known that it commands a ready sale, besides being deported to the Continent and New Zealand. The success of the firm excited so much competition on account of its remunerative character that the farmers were encouraged to cultivate the wattle, instead of destroying it as had previously been the case.
The firm also worked the flour-mill on the stone system, but it was found necessary owing to the marked revolution in late years in the machinery used in milling to adopt the principle of roller crushing. Messrs F Pflaum & Co have now gone in for a complete change in the process of preparing the wheat by adopting the gradual reduction or high grinding roller system with all the newest and most complete machinery.
A new building has been erected, 50 feet long by 30 feet wide, with a basement and three floors.
The tender of Mr O E Schumacher, of America, was accepted for the machinery. He has previously erected Messrs J Dunn and Co's roller-mills at Port Adelaide and Port Augusta. A number of the machines in the new "Peerless" rollermill at Blumberg have been manufactured by him in Kilkenny, and they contain various improvements on the imported, such as scalpers, cylindrical flour dressers clothed over spiral wire, wheat graders, gravel separators, middlings grading shakers, shaking roller feeders, aspirators, dust collectors, &c, which are all admirably carried out. The roller machines, centrifugals, and other machinery have been imported from America, being all of the latest construction and excellent finish.
Some of the cleaning machines have been imported from England. The ironworks, such as shaftings, pulleys, plummer blocks, hangers, sprocket wheels, etc, have been made by Messrs A Jones and Sons, Adelaide, according to patterns supplied by Mr Schumacher. The whole of the machinery is driven by a Sulzer Brothers' patent tappet valve engine, which has been imported from Switzerland, and is of nominal ind., 60-horsepower, special patent make, and beautifully constructed, having many high points for effectiveness, regularity of speed, completeness, and simplicity. It is the first of its kind at work in the colony.
The steam power is supplied by two Cornish steel boilers, made with flanged ends and Galloway tubes, their size being 22 feet 6 inches and 19 feet 6 inches respectively, and tested to 140 lb hydraulic pressure. They were manufactured by Messrs A Jones & Sons, Adelaide. The mounting of engine and boilers was done by Mr P J Williams, of North Adelaide, who has also refitted the old engine for driving the bark mill. He has also affixed one of his improved make injectors to boilers for water-feed, which substitutes force pumps. The power is transmitted by four endless ropes from fly-wheel of the new engine to main shaft in new mill, which extends the full length of the basement. From this shaft 14 pairs of rollers on the first floor are driven with endless belt-gear and tightening pulleys, all working very smoothly. Two belts transmit the drive from main shaft to two line-shafts on the second floor, from which the different machines on the second and third floor are driven, as well as elevators (23 in number) which are all fixed in the centre of the building.
The wheat is emptied into a hopper under the verandah, and conveyed along the basement by a long worm into an encased reel, which takes out the heavy dust and any long stuff that may be in the wheat. From the reel it is sent up by an elevator to the dirty wheatbins, of which there are two on the second floor. From the dirty wheatbins it is let on to a zigzag machine (on the first floor) which gives it a further cleaning, taking away dust, chaff, and inferior stuff.
From the zigzag it falls on to a seed-cleaner which takes out all drake and small seeds. From this machine the wheat is taken up in an elevator to an oat and barley separator on the top floor, which takes every grain of oats and barley that may be in the wheat, thus producing a perfectly clean seed wheat, in which the germ has not been destroyed.
Thence the wheat drops into a Richmond scourer on the second floor, which scours the wheat thoroughly and separates the impurities and inferior stuff. From the scourer it falls into a gravel separator on the first floor, separating all stones and other stuff heavier than a grain of wheat. The wheat is then taken up to the brush machine on the top floor, which brushes off all remaining impurities, and then it is conveyed to the clean wheat bins, of which there are four on the second floor. From the clean wheatbins it is taken to a grader (on same floor), which divides the smaller grains from the larger, falling from this onto a separate pair of first break rolls, which break each grain in the crease. The broken grains are then carried to a double scalper for dressing out the crease flour, which is of a dark grey colour, and sent to the pollard. The broken grain is gradually reduced on the second, third, fourth, and fifth break rolls, each time being reduced on the scalpers, which are placed in connection with the aspirators, purifiers, and dust collectors. The middlings and flour taken out by the scalpers go to a cylindrical flour dresser, separating the break-flour, and sending the middlings on to a grading shaker, by which they are graded and sent to three middlings purifiers, which purify and assort the same for the various smooth rolls on which they are gradually reduced into flour.
The products of the smooth rolls are dressed and redressed on seven centrifugals until the results are a "peerless" flour flowing into a flourbin on the second floor, from which it is bagged on the roller-floor by a Eureka flourpacker. All dirty dust from the wheat-cleaning machines is drawn off by various pans into a large dustroom partitioned off in the old mill. The aspirators of the roller machines, purifiers, &c, are each connected with a separate dust collector.
There is also one pair of stones in the new mill for crushing fodder. The old mill has been cleared of its stone gear, &c, and turned into a store room. The cost of the new mill has amounted to about £7,000.
The Hungarian system of crushing wheat by means of rollers had been known for 60 or 70 years, but it had only been perfected by Messrs Ganz & Co of late years.
In 1884 the Scottish millers expended £800,000 in changing their machinery from the old stone process to the roller.
Messrs Pflaum had shown great enterprise in keeping up with the times.
A luncheon was held at the Napoleon Bonaparte Hotel, where Host Millard had prepared an excellent repast. Mr Pflaum occupied the chair, and there were about 50 gentlemen present. [Ref: Express and Telegraph (Adelaide) 12 September 1888]
*Blumberg was a locality named early in 1848. Johann Blumel was one of the earliest settlers there and is believed to have named the place for the town of Blumberg, in the province of Brandenburg, Germany, from where he and other settlers had emigrated. The name was changed to Birdwood in 1918 in honour of Sir William R Birdwood, an English General of World War One who commanded Australian Troops.
Sycamore maple tree in the hills near my hometown. DIgital picture, analoguely printed as a saltprint.
Process Sketch: Bending Out of Course
Plan of in-progress piece.
This sketch was in my stolen sketchbook:
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History mosaic mirror installed in the McLeod Residence's bathrooms. This is a Barbarian Group project.