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Pouring Concrete on Shōgatsu

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:05:16 +0000

Plastic screen retaining wall and abutment.

Not literally, of course. In addition to planting hundreds of trees (and yet, the mountains are still rather bare!) I’ve been constructing retaining walls and abutments. The process is really simple. I find an area of the layout that needs a retaining wall; I’ve left these areas [...]

Girder Progress!

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:00:42 +0000

Here’s another update on the increasingly mis-named “September Project Party” project. I drew up some plans based on the Google Streets views I despaired about recently. Although meticulously prototypical, these new plans would never have worked. Why? Because Tomix FineTrack is not meticulously prototypical. For example, the tracks are much closer together than one [...]

Change in (Girder Bridge) Plans

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:03:21 +0000

Recall that once I had struck out on what for me was a bold project: Scratch building a girder bridge with no prior experience and very little reference material. Well, one of those constraints has changed: I now have a delicious wealth of reference material to work from.

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One Bridge Girder Complete

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:19:36 +0000

Well, in what time I have, I’ve managed to finish the first of four girders. Progress! I’ve also, in the course of doing this, found errors in my original plans. I’ve updated the plans for the 0º girders to correct these errors.

Bridge Girders

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:21:53 +0000

So, I’m going to scratch-build a bridge, oh boy!

Here is a ground-level shot of the girder bridge north of Akihabara Station. As you can see, there’s lots of fiddly details around the edges of it. I’ll come back to those fiddly details later. The shot also shows the girders extending below the bridge [...]

September Project Party Project

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:23:34 +0000

The fine folks at Japanese Modelling & Japan Rail Enthusiasts Forum (or whatever it is called this week) are having a “Project Party” for the month of September. We were all invited to pick some subject to model and that we thought we could reasonably complete in a month, and to share the entire [...]