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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

Gamera

...Yeah, lol I like it!!! 

Thank you Gamera.

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 !

Panzer Joe

Cool nice bridge!

Thank you for complement.

Fighting a giant squid

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!!! 

OOPS !

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

Cool nice bridge!

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

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Added the remaining fender piers.

Putting a mini-diorama together.

mmthrax

I love it!  Really cool stuff !

I love it!  Really cool stuff !

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.

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.

Here's another thing I appreciate about this build.  The "in process" shots.

The "in process" shots of the figurines in particular are interesting to me because of the order in which the clothing was painted.  Peter, you either have an innate "correct order" skill, or perhaps you read it in a book somewhere.  My brain doesn't automatically work that way.  I am trying to train it.  I would have probably painted the guys shirt on, then tried to paint the vest etc, and it would have been a disaster.

Quality work sir.  Carry on.

Went back to the Buoy Boat. It needs to be completed and fixed in place in the river. Besides adding the crane and new buoy to the boat, other tidbits are also needed.

Gave the boat a few coats of paint.

Preparing a few figurines.

Gamera

Looking just flat out amazing!!! 

Thank you Gamera.

Tanker - Builder

Holy Chit !

 Did you build it on your workshop Bench ? Now what are you gonna do fer a bench ? Peter , that is certainly an ambitious project and I laud your efforts . Now ,can you tell me where to get a " Turbo Toro " Lawnmower . Nicely done .

 Anytime you want a break come to New Braunfels  you can work in our Museum .

Thank you for great compliment.

The display is on two wooden horses in the centre of the lounge-dining room. For over a year I have been eating from my workbench.

Looking just flat out amazing!!! 

Holy Chit !

 Did you build it on your workshop Bench ? Now what are you gonna do fer a bench ? Peter , that is certainly an ambitious project and I laud your efforts . Now ,can you tell me where to get a " Turbo Toro " Lawnmower . Nicely done .

 Anytime you want a break come to New Braunfels  you can work in our Museum .

It has come to my attention that there has not been any photographs lately of the whole diorama. To do so is difficult, for I have other stuff in the way. I have to cram myself into a corner with the camera above my head to take the shot.

Have taken other view shots which looks across the diorama.

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I just discovered this and it is amazing.

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Thank you Greg.

mmthrax

I love that.  That is greatness!  Looks like a "Turbo Toro".  Love it in situ.

Great work sir!

And thanks for your comment.  

 

Thank you Mark.

I just discovered this and it is amazing.

I love that.  That is greatness!  Looks like a "Turbo Toro".  Love it in situ.

Great work sir!

And thanks for your comment.  

Well, the lawn was too large for an ordinary lawn mower, so George went a bought a Whopper. Now he can cut twice as much in one sweep.