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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.
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
Elephant, meet Oliphaunt. He is a couple bricks higher, longer, and armored... A creation inspired by LOTR, and one of many in our war elephant army.
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
Matchbox VW T2 Camper Bus. Right: pack marked ©2008 no. 65. Model marked ©2007, left: no. 02 in the Germany series, shown in the illustration in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Pack marked ©2023. Scale 1:59, made in Thailand. There are only minor changes to the details on the bases.
These refers back to no. 23 in the early Superfast range made in England: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/10212621025
Lonzo is looking good after 30yrs. I gotta say the Pursuit Snake Eye's design is my fave of the MODERN ERA to date. So liking the 30th's Stalker was easy. though I did swap out their knee pads
Possibly in the Superfamily Coccoidea - Aug 2, 2021
BWI Bike Trail - I still do not have a clue really!
Minifig scale 7 studs wide coach, I took inspiration from Mercedes Coaches and colour scheme from a bus company of my hometown.
Sorry about the look of concentration; I was struggling to balance on one leg, making sure my head, foot and hand were all in frame and using the remote all at the same time!
Thought I'd better keep the shirt on this time! :-)
The only bus I still have from this era. During this period all doors were operable and I even had side mirrors. I stopped doing both of those things, Doors were too difficult and mirrors were too delicate.
These are 'N' scale people-they're only about 3/8 inch tall.
Take a look at slinkachu.com/little-people
He does amazing shots with teeny little figures. EXPLORE #418
ODC1: MACRO