Hello!

Another beauty being built! That gate is already a sight to see, and I'm sure the fork lift will also look very good when done. Good luck with your build and thanks for sharing, have a nice day

Paweł

Yeah wow, I'd swear the loading dock was the real thing if you used a close up photo where I couldn't see your bench!

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the forklift. I noticed the other week on the HLJ website that Fujimi and Aoshima now make 1/32nd forklift models.

 http://hlj.com/product/FUJ01168

http://hlj.com/product/AOS04928

Gamera

Yeah wow, I'd swear the loading dock was the real thing if you used a close up photo where I couldn't see your bench!

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the forklift. I noticed the other week on the HLJ website that Fujimi and Aoshima now make 1/32nd forklift models.

 http://hlj.com/product/FUJ01168

http://hlj.com/product/AOS04928

 

 

That's great. But this is 1/24, unfortunately.

Ah yes you did say it was 1/24th, my mistake.

No worries.

Posting where I left off. I finally got the components together that will give me a reasonable spotlight design. I was planning of purchasing but decided that I could not wait and went ahead and scratch built my own. I think they will look 'ok', when painted. ------------------------------ I decided to scratch built my own security camera. Here are the parts and what I used to put my own together: The components all laid out- I made the glass out of plastic. I had to mount the see-through plastic piece separately. Then cut a second piece to provide a protective cover for the lens. Then a third inner body piece as the internal housing: The components mounted together: I think the effort was worth it: ----------------------------------------- I used resin nuts and bolts. Glad I had bought many of these sometime ago. I knew they would have come in handy: I made a drainage in the ground in front of the second docking platform: I built the U-beam from an old piece of plastic I found. I painted it blue and added a piece of poster-board painted a concrete color. This is what I used to paint the building. It was custom mixed by my local paint store. It is a concrete color. The dock platform:

Hello Charles!

Sure is interesting to see it in progress! Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Thank you.

Really exceptional realism there. Great work.

I love it.

As someone whoe has designed one too many loading docks and warehouses, I hve a tiny quibble; the paving joints ought to parallel/perpendicular the building, as the paving joints get laid out in reference to the building's foundation walls  Even when the parking areas are placed first (as is sometimes down with tilt-up construction), that paving winds up in some alignment to the building.

Other than that minor issue, this is so tight to prototype, it's scary. 

Waiting to see if you sneal a wallpack light in (might not, those are on 30' centers, typically)

CapnMac82

I love it.

As someone whoe has designed one too many loading docks and warehouses, I hve a tiny quibble; the paving joints ought to parallel/perpendicular the building, as the paving joints get laid out in reference to the building's foundation walls  Even when the parking areas are placed first (as is sometimes down with tilt-up construction), that paving winds up in some alignment to the building....

 

Thank you for that. About the road pavement points I can only presume were mistakes. I thought about that after I made the incisions. Oh well. I had already glued down tbe base and wasn't about to rip it up again.

As for the down and tilt-up construction, not all are done like that. I have seen many variations that do not have the down and tilt-up construction. I guess it depends where you are. Regardless, I appreciate the constructive criticism.

More progress of the second truck docking bay.Added a black wash over the entire concrete platform. Then added a second brown wash accentiante the concrete. The results looked pretty good to me. Then I added the details to the bay itself:

Details added:

Thanks

The lights painted and mounted together with the camera. I am pretty please how they both turned out:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She's coming along great! 

Thank you.

Added some interior greebies inside the second docks. 

 

 

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Painted a yellow guide line in front of the second dock:

 

 

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Added the Caution pillar:

 

 

Love the greebies and the back-up pillar is weathered perfectly.

Thank you kindly. Back-up pillar. That was the word I was looking for. 

Lol, I have no idea what the correct term for the post is, caution pillar might be right. 

I've refered to the ones here at work as the 'oh  pole...... 

Hahaha! That seems to work as well. :)

More details added. Will be adding a bay gate( not sure what they are called) and some minor other details. I also took some outside photos to see how it looked in real light.

 

I Made the docking bay door out some pieces of styrene. The final bay door in place: I then painted some thin white styrene stripes blue, for the trimming at the top edge of the building. The bay door 'open & close' mechanism. I used a small piece I found in my 'box of tricks' and sliced up thin round styrene rod for the buttons. The finished mechanism.

I apologies for the bad pics. But when the diorama is completed, I will take better ones. These are just WIP as you can see: The bay door 'open & close' mechanism painted and ready to mount on the inside wall: I scratch built a drainage pipe that will be mount between both, the brick and concrete bay walls: I have added side roof strips to all sides of the front facing building and painted them blue: I scratch built a canopy for the second docking bay. I thought it was necessary and adds interest to the rest of the scene. I used cardboard corrugated roofing which made the job easy and simple. This was later glued onto the styrene piece that was the canopy. I used my trusty nuts and bolts for the areas that were going to be mounted to the wall. As you can also see, I made some bracing as well.: The canopy mounted in place. I think it looks ok. I decided to redo the concrete tarmac. I knew the ground did not look right, and this I was told should be perpendicular to the building and not at an angle as it is now. So I am trying to see if I can rectify my mistake by hiding those grooves. We'll see if it works.

Outstanding! I spent ten minn. Just looking at the work you did on the dock door alone. I am in awe of how relistic it is . And in my opinion modeling perfection is to make something that is almost , or identical to the real thing. I showed the pic ( eleventh one down) to members of my household and everyone was amazed that it was a model and not the real mc coy. Thank you for sharing your work

Looks better and better.

The back-up pillar is also known as a "bollard."  The latest versions have a bright yellow PVC cover whcih silps over the concrete-filled steel pipe.  Older versions are concrete with and without sleeves.  Yours is entirely prototypical, and excellent in appearance.

may call them greeblies, but, looks prototypical to me.  Excellent work.

Ps., in my previous comments "down" should read "done."  With concrete tlit-up, the walls are concrete panels either 7.5' or 9.5" thick.  So, they need a stout crane to erect them.  Which can necessitate pouring the parking & driving areas first, to leave the floor area clear to lay yhe panels out upon (and also to spot the interior structure fro the roof).

My regards to your family. Thank you for the great support. I do appreciate it.

The Bay door mechanism device is now mounted.