Last summer I was at a friends cabin and while out fishing we saw a house with old outboard motors hanging on the deck rails and have wanted to build a motor repair shop.
I've ordered some motors from shape ways way to expensive but hey gotta get what you can find.
Need to build a pier and also a floating gas dock on barrels
Dick
Very nice Dick! That'll look great on a pier with the floating gas dock. :D
Great little structure.
Great looking structure.
Dick,
Well done, very nice.
Tom ;D
Great job Dick..... 8)
Nice job!
Jerry
Very nice.
I once visited this fishing lodge that had dozens of old boat motors hanging from the ceiling.
Looking forward to the end result.
Jaime
Dick,
Very nice modeling !
Tommy
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. Any ideas about pier building?
https://youtu.be/1NjXAdA_RBg (https://youtu.be/1NjXAdA_RBg)
Given this is already Jensen inspired, I recommend this video!
Very nice work - I'm looking forward to watching where you go from here.
Noice....,
Doug
Ditto, ditto, and re-ditto. Nice build. Great accuracy. I especially like the tar paper roof weathering. Can't see it very well from these angles but it looks great from what I can see.
Cool structure.
Jeff
Just found this thread. Looks good Dick. If you need to add more variety of outboards, you can look at Frenchman river. http://frenchmanriver.com/HO-187-Scale-64%E2%80%9D-long-Outboard-Motor_p_42.html
They have a good variety of nautical detail parts in HO scale.
Ok here is my first pier started lots of cross bracing to do and maybe a railing to hang the motors on ;D
That looks great.
Thanks for all the nice comments. I had some time to play today. I found some nut/bolt castings I've probably had for 25 years. Wow those things are tiny! I only lost three of them. I'll have to get some more they are a great detail. I played around with some figures i painted, nothing glued down.
I'm looking for some half oil drums. I thought I had some. I want to use them to float the gas and bait dock.
looking at the picture I see I lost some rafter tails :-\
That pier came out looking great!
Looks fantastic, Dick.
Cheers, Mark.
Hey Dick:
very nicely done. Love your colors and very light weathering.
Karl
Thanks guys
Ok so you guys that scratch build; How much planning do you do and do you make plans and mock ups? I got some wood today to make the gas dock. this is my plan
For me, I've never done a mock-up — useful as they are.
Outside of thinking about a project over and over in my head, I don't put down any plans. I just jump right in.
I'll come up with a rough preliminary concept on paper, then put it in a CAD program and print it at HO scale. Something like the agent's dwelling below.
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that would be great if I knew how to do that
Dick
CAD is a wonderful tool to know.
That said, if the learning curve isn't something you want to put yourself on, you can just pull out a sheet of paper and do a rough sketch (even if it really is rough!).
This hobby is an art first and a precision second!
For my cannery and wharf I drew up a set of plans showing all elevations - old school. I always at the least do a sketch, a site plan and build a mock-up. I feel I really need to do this to see how my new structure will look in relation to all the others in my busy steep town scene. I often build mock-ups and then don't go ahead with the build, or alter the mock-up considerably. I also have a couple of pre mock-up techniques to quickly test to see whether building a mock-up is necessary (ie - I can see it just wont work). These include putting various props in position and checking out the site lines, obstructions of the structures behind, scale etc. I also often print out walls from my kits when kit-bashing, cut and tape together and tape to a piece of cardboard or MDF. I did this recently with my 150T Sheepscot coal tower. I could see immediately that it dominated the scene way too much.
Hope this helps, cheers, Mark.
Dick,
Your added small details really change the entire/overall look of the building. Very well done.
Tom ;D
thanks tom
I wish I knew how to do the cad thing. This is my drawing :P. I stained a bunch of strip wood. Gonna have a bowl of cereal so I have a box to cut up for the walls.
Looking for suggestions. do I go with just unpainted planks, or heavily weathered?
Dick
Personally, I like to see a bit of colour in there, so I vote for heavily weathered. Maybe the blue from the Evinrude sign?
Cheers, Mark.
Thanks Mike I agree with peeling paint. This is Jason inspired after all :D It kind of depends on what brand of gas he sells.
Eick
Quote from: dick green on December 29, 2020, 10:08:28 AM
that would be great if I knew how to do that
Dick
Hey Dick.....do it with a mechanical pencil, a scale ruler and some triangles on grid paper. The CAD programs, especially AutoCAD are a pain to learn and are terribly expensive. You can achieve the same results doing it by hand, the old fashioned way.....good luck. ;D
Hi every one. Well as summer starts to wind down and it was raining I thought I'd do something. First thing was major desk cleanup, and then a little modeling fun.
My wife and I just got back from Massachusetts and before you aske we got there a day late for FSM open house.
I decided I would start the gas/bait dock with the store.
Hey Duck:
Looks great. Love the weathered blue paint.
Karl
Thanks Karl
This is a really nice piece of modeling, Dick.
Cheers, Mark.
thanks Mark and it's a little one too :-*
Very well done Dick.