Lift Span Bridge

[PRR Modeler]

Very intricate and professionally done.

[tct855]

Peter,
         Crap crap crap!  Copycatting other modelers, taking out of focus off-center photos, literary misspelled commentation, with ridiculous out of scale modeling with unbelievable horrendous modeling skills and technique.  I'm sorry sir, but none of the aforementioned comments can apply to you and this absolutely stunning & incredibly professional build pictorial thread.

I felt I should add to this totally original build you are sharing with a commensurate original reply.  I'm all eyes!  keep on truckin' Thanx Thom...


 

[Janbouli]

[Sparky]

Well, what a response. Thank you fellow modellers, Mark, Jerry, Curt, Thom... (ha ha ha), and Janbouli.

[Sparky]

Doweling the framework.


Over 11 metres of timber went into building the towers.

[Sparky]

The pulley wheels I wanted were too expensive (to buy ten of them). So I came up with an alternative by solder-sweating different sized washers together.
My first attempt had too much solder, but got it right after that.

[Sparky]

Designed and constructed pulley wheel brackets.

[Sparky]

The towers are not actually in place in these photographs. They are just positioned to see how it will look, and how close the span bumpers would get to the towers. The towers have to be installed at the same time as the road surface.

[vinceg]

That sure is a beautiful piece of engineering, Peter.

Vince

[Sparky]

Thank you Vince for compliment.

Decided to add the gangway atop of the towers. Then gave them a paint.







Altered a figurine to make it wave. Will have him, and others, in work clothes positioned here.

[PRR Modeler]

Awesome modeling.

[S&S RR]

This is some awesome modeling work - I'm really enjoying your thread.

[Sparky]

Thank you Curt and John.

Created traffic lights with large 5 mm LEDs (easier to see from a behind point of view).
They turned out over scale, but I am sure the Ballina Museum can live with it.

[ACL1504]

Peter,

This is just wonderful. I'm amazed at all the work going into the build. What a fantastic display for the museum.

Tom

[Sparky]

Thank you Tom.

to continue:
I discovered before installing the towers that once they are in, the span cannot be removed for repairs. There won't be enough room to pass above the pulley wheels. So I cut off the lateral bumper rollers (the hidden side) and replaced them with removable ones.