Winter Challenge 25-26 - Fiordland Lobster Company - Tellynott Depot

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys, and happy new year!

I've been waiting for this challenge to start.  I have been thinking about what I might do this year - with the hope of actually finishing!  I have been gathering materials, locating kits and forming a plan.  I have also been getting ready for a 2fatpossums (our modelling group) two day modelling session coming up this Thursday and Friday.  I'm hoping to make some good progress on this project then.

My project this year is another large seafood processing plant for Tellynott.  The signage is named after that which I found on the small company at Jacksons Bay, South Westland, New Zealand, just before Christmas.  I have switched the name Tellynott with Jackson's Bay.  I like having Fiordland in the name, as it helps set the locale when viewing the layout.  As the plan shows, the site for this winter challenge is an unusual shape.  This is because I have to fit it around existing scenery and structures.  Indeed, I have to join the large bash to both my previously built Walthers Sugar Refinery bash and the end wall to the Creamoata diorama which I built from a DPM M. T. Arms Hotel kit.

Photo 1 - So here is my quick sketch of a plan - the measurements are accurate.  I'll start off with the three kitbashes, and hopefully have time to do the scratchbuild as well.  Living in New Zealand, I did the measurements using centimetres.  It is an odd shape, as I have to fit it around my layout, but it all fits within the parameters with a total of 1775.56 square centimetres (275.21").  I have allowed extra space around the scratchbuilt structure for scenery and also an area in front of the Atlas Middlesex kitbash.  All my dimensions and workings are on the plan.


Photo 2 - Here is the site on my layout viewed from the right.  You can see it fits against the Creamoata diorama at right and will be joined to the Walther's Sugar refinery kitbash at left centre.  The walls of the Atlas Middlesex Manufacturing and Walther's Front Street Warehouse are sitting in position to help me visualise the finished bash and help me form a kitbashing plan.


Photo 3 - Here is the site from the front.  This shows the main part of the scratchbuild shown as a cardboard mockup.  There is a further tower to left.


Photo 4 - Shows the Walther's kit box.


Photo 5 - Shows the Atlas kit box.


Photo 6 - Shows the Design Preservation Models M. T. Arms Hotel kit.  I will be using the back wall from two of these kits.  I also have two of the Atlas kits, but will likely only use one.


More soon, cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

This will be fun to watch!

dave

[ACL1504]

Mark, Cheers,

I'm in the front row with my Diet Pepsi. 

Tom

[Jerry]

This should be really interesting.

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Thanks, Dave, Tom and Jerry. 

I agree, it should be a lot of fun!

Photo 1 - Shows the view from the left end.  A couple of things to note here.  The building to the left will be raised up to allow for loading docks.  The paper photocopy of the building at back left has a road in front of it.  This road will disappear into the kitbash and I will need to make a cutout and add a beam to allow for this.  As a result, a large part of this side wall will not be visible - which is a good thing because I only have one of this kit and I'm figuring with the added height and 6-story section at back, I will need it all!


Photo 2 - The plan of attack.  My quick sketch plans are often drawn on whatever is handy.  In this case it was the kit instruction sheet.  You can see my cutting plan at top, the front wall splices to the right and the left and right wall splices at middle and bottom left.  I will use 1.5mm styrene for the unseen section of the left wall.


More soon, cheers, Mark.

[deemery]

I've scanned wall sides and printed the results to get some planning templates.  Most recently (last year's build) I did that with a South River kit to figure out how to rearrange the wall pieces to get a longer building where the back wall would not be visible. 

Mounting those templates onto foamcore and taping them together was a pretty good way to get 3d mock-ups.

dave

[Mark Dalrymple]

I've scanned wall sides and printed the results to get some planning templates.  Most recently (last year's build) I did that with a South River kit to figure out how to rearrange the wall pieces to get a longer building where the back wall would not be visible. 

Mounting those templates onto foamcore and taping them together was a pretty good way to get 3d mock-ups.

dave

Hi Dave.

Yes - I often do this.  You can see the photocopied kit walls in the last photo.  We don't have a scanner at present and it is summer school holidays here, so My wife isn't going into school where there is a room full of scanners and photocopy machines.  I've got a pretty good idea of what I am doing, so don't foresee too many problems in the general shape and design.  I decided designing with kit walls would suffice in this situation.

Cheers, Mark.

[Larry C]

Mark nice project and looking forward watching you add your twist on things.

[deemery]

I decided designing with kit walls would suffice in this situation.

There's less risk when using styrene walls during design/mock-up than with the old plaster walls from SRMW and other plaster kits.  Every time I touched one of those walls, I lived in fear that I'd drop it!      (If you remember the big Colorado Midland roundhouse project I did about 15 years ago, I did have some damage to some of the plaster walls.  Fortunately, they cracked, rather than shattered.)

dave

[Jim Donovan]

Thanks for joining the Winter Challenge Mark;

You've outlined an ambitious project! It will be educational watching it come together, great start. FYI the wife and I love New Zealand, one of the best trips we have ever taken. 

Jim

[KentuckySouthern]

Mark; This is an ambitious project, will enjoy seeing it progress.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Thanks for joining the Winter Challenge Mark;

You've outlined an ambitious project! It will be educational watching it come together, great start. FYI the wife and I love New Zealand, one of the best trips we have ever taken.

Jim

Thanks, Jim.

Just before Christmas my wife and I did a wonderful drive down to Haast via the Haast Pass where we spent four days exploring the area before driving up the West Coast and across Arthurs Pass.  The scenery was spectacular, and is also the locale of my Shadowlands and Tellynott layout.  We did lots of forest walks, I took hundreds of photos and also collected some scenery materials for modelling.

Cheers, Mark.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Mark; This is an ambitious project, will enjoy seeing it progress.

Thanks, Karl.

I'm about to leave for our two day modelling meet.  Hoping to make some good progress on the project, and have a great time with friends!

Cheers, Mark.

[Philip]

 

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi guys.

Nice to have you looking in, Philip.

I got some good progress done yesterday.  I only have a few minutes before I have to leave for day two of our modelling meet, so a quick update.

Photo 1 - I started with the Walthers kitbash.  Here are the two front walls cut, sanded and spliced together.


Photo 2 - Here is the right side.


Photo 3 - Here is the left side.  I have cut out the hole for the road to go through.  I used 1.5mm styrene for the unseen section.   I buy this in large sheets (approximately 4.5'x2.5') from a local plastic manufacturer.  One sheet costs around $15US.


Photo 4 - Like I said, things were tight.  Here are my leftovers.  I may still use the basement sections for below my Atlas kitbash.  All gluing was done on a piece of glass with some lunch paper between the glass and the wall, using medium viscosity CA.


More soon, cheers, Mark.