I enjoy working with a variety of materials, mostly wood but also plastics, metals and paper.
Part of the fun of creation is using unrelated items found in a multi-scale junk drawer, putting them
all together and coming up with a believable, if not prototypical building or piece of machinery.
<<<<< To see more of these two buildings,
including close-ups and construction tips,
click on either picture. >>>>>
Baldwin Mercantile.
Old Barn
South Western Style
Buildings.
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Click on the station to see more of this style buildings.
OZ, a South Western Diorama built in both O
and Z scales.
Article published in the Model Railroading
On30 Annual 2007, "Adventures in OZ.
To view more or purchase
the magazine go to:
A Logging Diorama.
How I built the skid shacks was
explained in an article
published in the March/April
2006 issue of Ztrack Magazine.
How I built this diorama was the
basis for another article published
in the September/October 2006
issue of Ztrack Magazine.
To view or purchase these
magazines go to:
This Circus Train has scratch built wagons. Red utility, cage with lions, ticket sales, Conestoga for the Wild West Show, blue utility.
The long low-side gondola is built of styrene on a Marklin oil tanker chassis. The two yellow crawlers are modified military miniatures.
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<<<<< A couple of close-ups. >>>>>
This is an addition to the Circus train.
It is a Freak Side Show. It has fifteen
figures, an elephant and a
two-headed cow. I hereby claim the
first such in Z Scale. >>>>>>>>>>>>
<<<<<<<<<< The tent is made of fine brass
screen, painted white with red stripes. The inside,
although not detailed, is lit by a yellow LED.
<<<<< The
two-headed cow is
made of two Preiser
animals, I now have
one that is headless...
Perhaps a prop for a
horror scene?
The elephant is sculpted
of Fimo. The snake is
epoxy over wire, painted to
look like a python.
Alexander (The Great) has
a turban and a crystal ball.
The spot light is a modified Micro Armor
thingy with a light from a defunct model
ship, drilled out. A small brass grommet
keeps the plastic from melting. The yellow
generator is a CalScale HO casting of sorts
I placed on wheels. >>>>>>>>>>>>
This project took a long time to do because it
required a lot of thought and planning, and as we all
know thinking can hurt, especially when you have
CRS. Each little scene became a project of its own.
The three people on stage were modified, the elephant sculpted, the cow(s)
disassembled and re-built, the spot light was a challenge and required careful drilling.
I must have gone through a dozen different ways to position it all to arrive at a
pleasing layout that told many stories without any "dead' spots.
The City and the Country Created June 15, 2005.
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The Circus is in Town.
OLD STUFF
