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[Tony T]

Very nice dio!

[crazyrichard]

thnx !! for now its on hold but i hope to continue it soon

[outlaw035]

rich...very nice work...makes me want to do another one...but no room as i have several already...

[crazyrichard]

rich...very nice work...makes me want to do another one...but no room as i have several already...

thnx .. i def need to continue this one atm i'm building a towrod .....too bad you dont have room because they are a ton of fun to build ..
when this one is done i want to do more but i def. will make them way smaller in size ..

[gbdolfans]

Great looking dio Richard!!! What did you use to make the window frames? Scratchbuilt?? I love the floor and walls.
Again,what did you use for those also.I can't find anything to use for floors and walls.I am not very good at freehanding it.
Thanks,and I hope you post more progress pics.

[crazyrichard]

hey thnx , the windows are from the biggest train scale (scale g) and the floor is just wood and painted with paint .. the walls are foam board

[gasser59]

Now this is cool. Love your progress so far. I've built a few dios but I have no more room so I think that's it for me. I'll just watch your amazing progress instead, its almost as fun.

[dannyi]

WOW! very nice Richard! sorry I missed this earlier. Love everything about it, especially the detail and weathering work....beautiful job!

[crazyrichard]

thx !! just found some great stuff to make a steel support ceiling ... with ..
hope to continue the dio soon

[ScaleModelAddict]

Very cool. Love to see updates.

[Dr. Cranky]

Pure eye candy indeed.  Thank you and look forward to more.

[John Teresi]

WOW!!!!!....amazing.

[crazyrichard]

thnx

finally found something for the walls , the thing is due to the hotrod builds the garage got a bit on the sidetrack ..
also i just was not happy with the walls ..
i just did not have the time and will to make every single stone and build up the walls .. just dont have the time with the hotrod builds , wich are more important and fun for me then the garage ..

today i went to a larger store for glue , styrene , brass and more and found these printed walls (made for train sets) its not just a flat print its a bit 3-d so there are depths in between the bricks ... not a whole lot but enough so it does not look terrible..

they where cheap so i decided to buy some and try it out ..

on the pics i only placed a few loose pieces to see how it looked , not glued or trimmed perfect

with a bit of weathering i think they will look cool













so if i paint the pillars metal like and make some cross braces i can make the walls out of these sheets .. could be done even nicer by making the bricks yourself but timewise i'm going to use these

[vaughn]

It all looks great Richard !!  With or without the brick. You can see some of my scratch built rock and brick work on page 2 of Dioramas.  They are time consuming tho. Your work looks great !!

[crazyrichard]

well started fitting the 3-d brick sheets

some close ups of the depth in them , also they are not just plain flat some stick out more








as a whole , made sides from ribbed plastic , that actually came from old window blinds for your house ...



the floor will change also just painted that in the beginning will be more detailed , maybe partly tiles





with some small stuff in there

[crazyrichard]

It all looks great Richard !!  With or without the brick. You can see some of my scratch built rock and brick work on page 2 of Dioramas.  They are time consuming tho. Your work looks great !!

thnx and yes i know thats what i was planning to do but found it too timeconsuming in between car builds (lazy me hehehehe)
 
 

Very nice Diorama.. I want to make one some day soon.

thnx !

[crazyrichard]

now that the walls are done (base) its really progressing again , still need a ton of detail , also will add more pillars and some cross members pillar floor plates with bolts etc later on

first painted the pillars and wall plating roughly in silver





then weathered all of that and added a thick edge on the wall plates made from styrene





then painted that edge matt green and also repainted the window frames in that green so it matches and i can use that color on more details , needed to be a color that was not too bright













really getting that industrial feel i was after now , and with real detail work like piping , real lighting , sockets , bolts etc
it will really come to life more

[charlie8575]

Beautiful work, Rich.

 

Charlie Larkin

[crazyrichard]

thnx ..
just the base i want to weather the walls and maybe remove a few bricks and fill them with bondo and make it look like the space is filled with concrete
maybe paint some stones a third color with a small brush

also found some cool stuff to build heaters hanging on the wall

need to ad more pillars on the right wall , some wire cross braces

real lighting

got enough idea;s to keep me going for a while

[SpitShineTommy]

That lift is awesome. Great job so far. I want to start something like this.