mmthrax

...I would have probably painted the guys shirt on, then tried to paint the vest etc, and it would have been a disaster....

Thanks for kind words.

In regards to the quote above, I do not see it that way. I use enamel paint and they are quite opaque. I have painted light colours over dark, like the orange vest over blue shirt, or white strip over orange vest, without problems.

My hands are not as steady as the used to be, and I often have to do a touch up here and there. For example, where the vest goes over the shoulder. I may get too much blue there, and after a few hours of drying, I go back with the orange and cover the excess blue.

I do not know how acrylic paints, for modelling, show up.

Some of the crew need to go ashore to attach a cable between old buoy and the crane.

To do this they need a dinghy, a rubber dinghy with a small outboard motor.

I love it!  Really cool stuff !

mmthrax

I love it!  Really cool stuff !

Putting a mini-diorama together.

Looks like nobody saw the funny side to the above post.

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Added the remaining fender piers.

Cool nice bridge!

OOPS !

Looks like someone fell on their Bum and are going to do the " foot wettin slide !" Lol.Lol.Lol. Very nice Peter !

Tanker - Builder

OOPS !

Looks like someone fell on their Bum and are going to do the " foot wettin slide !" Lol.Lol.Lol. Very nice Peter !

 

Yeah, lol I like it!!! 

Fighting a giant squid

Panzer Joe

Cool nice bridge!

Thank you for complement.

Tanker - Builder

OOPS !

Looks like someone fell on their Bum and are going to do the " foot wettin slide !" Lol.Lol.Lol. Very nice Peter !

Gamera

...Yeah, lol I like it!!! 

Thank you Gamera.

modelcrazy

Fighting a giant squid.

Yep, and now the buoy has a more plausible story of how a crane mishap turned a damaged buoy into a giant squid. That shocked crewman must have been tripping. 

Preparing to add cork rocks along the riverbank.

Spent a few extra hours cutting the cork snading block pieces with a knife. This was needed to bring the pieces to a better scale, and to add sheer-fractures to the rock.

Experimented with assembling and painting the pieces. Discovered that it is best to lay each rock at a time.

The last photo shows how I will paint the rocks, with a silt-wash to show previous flooding and tidal line.

By using a long haired artist brush I was able to paint all the cracks. Felt that it is best to glue the cork to cork. However, I will paint the base with a very dark colour before glueing the cork pieces.

C to E did not work out to good.

Those are riverbank / bay rocks for sure. Great job. Very realistic. Scratch some to scale crabs and then it's off charts! That is some great work bud. 

Lol, the buoy does look a lot like a giant squid!!!

And nice work on the cork rocks. Around here we call them riprap, I'm not sure if your term would be the same. Just another wierd bit of trivia I picked up from a job years ago.

Griffin25

Those are riverbank / bay rocks for sure. Great job. Very realistic. Scratch some to scale crabs and then it's off charts! That is some great work bud. 

Thank you Griffin25 for kind words.

Great idea about the crabs.

Gamera

Lol, the buoy does look a lot like a giant squid!!!

And nice work on the cork rocks. Around here we call them riprap, I'm not sure if your term would be the same. Just another wierd bit of trivia I picked up from a job years ago

Thanks for that information. I did not know that before.

Looked it up on Internet and discovered that in Australia we even have a magazine called RipRap and features riprap stories of restorations.

Hi Peter ! 

 Yeah , we called it Rip-Rap when I was rebuilding levees too .The waterline tidal coloring in awesome . Did that poor fellow get wet ? Giant squid ? I  guess you could call that a steam-punk squid ? 

 How much longer have you been given to complete this masterpiece ? The guys laughing could at least buy him a pint , eh ?

Tanker - Builder

Hi Peter ! 

 Yeah , we called it Rip-Rap when I was rebuilding levees too .The waterline tidal coloring in awesome . Did that poor fellow get wet ? Giant squid ? I  guess you could call that a steam-punk squid ? 

 How much longer have you been given to complete this masterpiece ? The guys laughing could at least buy him a pint , eh ?

Steampunk Squid, that's funny.

It gets finished when it gets finished. No time limit, or I'll walk away. The museum president does not care how long it will take as long as it works and looks good.

After the display table is finished, I will cover it up and work a little more underneath it...to have the traversing boat running on rails, plus adding some electronics. I may then send the display to the museum to keep the curator off my back. He can then get busy installing a Perspex enclosure for it.

The control box, motor-cable systems, and connectivity between console needs to be established. Then the bridge can be operated.

While everybody is playing with the new toy, I'll be busy at home painting the 4 x 8 foot backdrop for it, in oil paints.

So, as you can see, I still have far to go.

Dipped the cork into a dish with PVA glue, and placed each rock seperately.

Ok, I am for sure stealing the use of coark for small-scale rocks (I even think I know were to get some of better than notice-board thickness, too).

Here in the States, "rip rap" is both a common term, but also a engineer-specified product.  As a grading standard for natrually-occuring aggregate, it's material that is larger than "cobbles" (4-8") and smaller than "boulders" (>24").  It's also a waste product from the quarrying industry, and represents an excellent vehicle for handling their scrap bits.

This crops up in maritime/coastal projects.  Rip rap is used for jetties and breakwaters, and for some forms of erosion control and seawall protection.

Also will crop up in beach preservation projects, especially on high-energy coast lines like the US NW.  Corps of Engineers put out requests for "beach sand" for a project on the Oregon coast which called for well-graded sand of 10-12" size.  (The NW US coast is tectonic, so there's not a uniform shallow slope up to the beach area, and it's exposed to high winds and storms.  So, ordinary "sand" is less common (very much only found in protected inlets and bays and the like).

This is rather a stark contrast to the Texas coast, which is shallow-pitched, distinctly low-energy, and a windward shore.  Excepting the occasional tropical storm and hurricane.

CapnMac82

Ok, I am for sure stealing the use of coark for small-scale rocks (I even think I know were to get some of better than notice-board thickness, too).

Here in the States, "rip rap" is both a common term, but also a engineer-specified product.  As a grading standard for natrually-occuring aggregate, it's material that is larger than "cobbles" (4-8") and smaller than "boulders" (>24").  It's also a waste product from the quarrying industry, and represents an excellent vehicle for handling their scrap bits.

This crops up in maritime/coastal projects.  Rip rap is used for jetties and breakwaters, and for some forms of erosion control and seawall protection.

Also will crop up in beach preservation projects, especially on high-energy coast lines like the US NW.  Corps of Engineers put out requests for "beach sand" for a project on the Oregon coast which called for well-graded sand of 10-12" size.  (The NW US coast is tectonic, so there's not a uniform shallow slope up to the beach area, and it's exposed to high winds and storms.  So, ordinary "sand" is less common (very much only found in protected inlets and bays and the like).

This is rather a stark contrast to the Texas coast, which is shallow-pitched, distinctly low-energy, and a windward shore.  Excepting the occasional tropical storm and hurricane.

Thank you CapnMac82 for complement and information.

Three stages, colours, and brushes to do the job.

Painted the masonary work for the ramp walls. Painted a silt brown wash to stain rocks to show previous flooding and tidal line.

Rambo

Wow that cork really looks the part now great job on everything so far.

Thank you Clint for complement.

Painted carpark bitumen.

waikong

Amazing, simply amazing work.

Thank you waikong.