Girder Progress!

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 [...]

December 22nd, 2008 | Leave a comment
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Change in (Girder Bridge) Plans

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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December 5th, 2008 | Leave a comment
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September Project Party

Well, it was a good first try. I think only Kashirigi actually managed to complete the claimed project. I certainly didn’t, but then, I’m also a new father. So there.

Although other projects will occupy my time, my new daughter Acadia not least of which, I will finish this damnable girder bridge. Really. I [...]

October 17th, 2008 | Leave a comment
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One Bridge Girder Complete

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.

 

September 14th, 2008 | Leave a comment
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Bridge Girders

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 3rd, 2008 | One comment
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September Project Party Project

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 [...]

August 31st, 2008 | Leave a comment
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