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MamiyaRZ67, 110mm, Portra 400. It's a 6X7 frame even if doesn't look like it, but I think that I cocked my machine a bit too fast and the framing of the film has been affected...
old scale "Juliusz Sperlig" at Lublin Open Air Village Museum
openairmuseum.pl/skansen/lublin
Kodak Color Plus 200
Petri MF-2
Petri 50mm f/1,8
@ Grote Kerk Loenen
Genootschap: PKN Hervormde Gemeente Loenen aan de Vecht.
Provincie: Utrecht.
Gemeente: Stichtse Vecht
Land: Nederland
I have used a circular cutter to make 180 degree cuts in 0.040 inch styrene sheet for a couple of tunnel portals that I will install on my N scale model railroad. The cutter is made by Olfa, and I purchased it at a local art supply store rather than a hobby shop that sells train stuff. Art supply stores sell lots of tools, paints, craft items, and materials useful to a model railroader. The circular cutter has a strong, sharp compass point that is mounted on a sturdy head which has an adjustment screw. By loosening the screw, a horizontal beam can slide in or out a variable distance from the center point and then be locked down at the desired distance. The replaceable cutting blade (held into place by another screw) is mounted on the horizontal beam.
Nobody makes an N scale tunnel portal the size and shape that I want, so I had to cut my own. The tunnel opening has a radius of 8 ½ scale feet from the track center line, so that is what I set on my circular cutter. The straight vertical dimension for each side is 20 scale feet above the top on the rails plus another 3 feet for the height of the rails, crossties, and roadbed. Both of the vertical sides have to be exactly tangent to the semicircle above, so determining where to position my straight edge for the first side was the trickiest part of the whole project. From that line, I used a steel drafting triangle (also purchased from the art supply store) to place the cutting point and center compass point. I swung a 180 degree arc to locate the position of the other vertical side. My N scale ruler (shown here) is 10 scale feet wide, so my first vertical cut was 10 scale feet from the edge of the styrene sheet. After the circular cut and both vertical cuts were completely through the plastic, I could easily remove the excess from each side.
Figuring the geometry of where to position my circular cutter and the straight edge to guide my razor blade required a lot of thought before doing any of the actual cutting. Once I began cutting, I had to be careful to keep my blades in the right places, but the cutting itself was very repetitive and time consuming. Each tunnel portal required an hour or two of MANY short, little cuts before I broke through the plastic sheet. Then there was sanding to smooth it out and trimming the overall piece to fit the future mountain that I haven’t built yet. This photo shows the positioning of the circular cutter, but I took the photo after the job was done (and my nails repainted). For all this cutting, I used my Dupli-Cutter to hold my work in place. The Dupli-Cutter has clamps that can be positioned in several places, an adjustable slide sheet held down by the clamps, and a frame whose jaws can be opened up to hold various thicknesses of plastic for making precise, square cuts.
I photographed this scene on the Bayou City & Gulf RR to give me some ideas about building a small stockyard for my model railroad. This model railroad in located in the back room of Houston's best hobby shop, Papa Ben's. I have been a customer of Papa Ben's even since he opened in 2002. That layout is open to the public most Saturday afternoons.
The stockyard I am planning on building will be based on a Santa Fe Railway prototype and will measure 65' x 65' scale feet. That is assuming I can get enough of the right scale lumber (in styrene strips) to construct the very delicate fences. This stockyard isn't completely accurate but has a good feel about it. Another modeler in Houston had several very good stockyards in N scale, but he got bored with his huge layout and tore it up. Oh well. Pictures on that layout plus another Santa Fe layout in HO scale with excellent stockyards are located in this same album for other modelers' work.
01) 03 "Butterfly scales"
02) Camera: Em-1
03) Lens: Nikon MPlan 20 + Macrotubus
04) Magnification: 20:1
05) Lens Settings: Iso 100, 1/13 sec.
06) Processing: LR, Helicon Focus, PS CC
07) Lighting: 2 LED + 1 Reflector
08) Steps: Stackshot 125 pictures
09) 03.07.2017
So, these are my 3 most recent builds. Since my aim is building after the real world data to have them all "fitting" to each other, its always interesting to actually see the results and check if it works like that^^
Its really strange how small the Transporter looks next to the cars, but its even more crazy just how long and wide supercars are compared to standard vehicles. Also, the T3 is a vintage car and back in a day, european vehicles were more narrow and small. Today i saw a bmw i8 next to the bigger T4 multivan on a parking lot. Its crazy how much space the bmw used for 2 drivers only, while a van is really economic and space saving^^
Whats cooler though, is that my variety of cars is finally growing :P
Old Scale in Bahrain Museum..
Deticated to All Libra specialy Khaldaa.. =)
btw i'm not Libra..
Technical Details:-
Camera: Sony a200
Lens: Sony 18-70mm F/4-5.6
Location: Bahrain Museum
Model: None
F-Stop: f/6.3
Exposure: 5 sec.
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 70mm
Flash: None
Edit: Photoshop CS3
This little ditty is divided into 5 parts on one side and 11 on the other. Each unit is 15/16th of an inch (23.8mm) and half of that on the reverse. The region where I purchased this from is Württemberg, where the Reichsfuß was a common unit of measurement. If the Reichsfuß was divided into 12 parts then this scale is divided into Zoll (inch) and 12 Zoll will equal one Fuss 11.26 inches (286 mm) which it does. This assumes a couple of things:" 1) the scale has remained in the Stuttgart region, and 2) the Reichsfuß was divided by 12.
The only distinctive markings is the number 1 which looks very much like a lower case j.
I have no way of really dating this without a comparable scale.
a vintage scale just inside the old front door to the long closed Hazelhurst General Store in Hazelhurst,IL.
I've posted a number of pictures of Calanais but have always felt that they didn't capture the scale of these stones. In this shot my wife stepped out from behind a stone just as I shot. She's 5'7", or 1 3/4 meters tall. The stone she is next to is more than twice her height, more than 3 1/2 meters tall. One disappointment with this shot is that it doesn't show how dominant the central stone is. It is nearly twice the height of the one my wife is next to. I haven't posted other shots from this angle because I'm unhappy about how I lined up the stones with some unfortunate overlaps. You can, however, see the chambered tomb at the base of the central stone.
Possibly in the Superfamily Coccoidea - Aug 2, 2021
BWI Bike Trail - I still do not have a clue really!
If LEGO are to ever include another British city in their Skyline range then Manchester should definitely be the one.
Deciding which landmarks to build wasn't too difficult, but there are plenty more that could be included. I opted for, from left the right, Central Library, Beetham Tower, and Manchester Town Hall. I also added a statue in there since Manchester is littered with statues and monuments.
The build was trickier than I was expecting so the scales are probably off but I think if you know Manchester, then you'll definitely recognise the buildings.