garage diorama fully detailed and fully scratch build ...

[crazyrichard]

do you have a picture of the marlboro pack blair ?? i have printed it in highest quality and on the best paper .. cant get the letters to stay readable ... but i think its maybe impossible to print text that small with a resanable good printer at home ....

[bpletcher55]

yes the letters are so small you can,t read them but it looks good .i'll try and find some pics .

[bpletcher55]

HERES ONE RICHARD ,THE PICS NOT THE BEST ,

Edited October 8, 2014 by bpletcher55

[crazyrichard]

yes thnx yeah same here letters are not readable .. i think with your average printer ists justnot doable

i put glass in the small top windows above the counter , will rty to make slinding flass panels for the counter

then cut some away on the wood on the wall and flattened it all and made a doorframe

because i cant saw it open anymore (its to hard material) i made a exit sign on the window opening , you cant see but there is a piece of glass in front of the exit sign when light hits it it reflects , rally cool

now my idea for the door is to also make a glass center window .. but then try to print like a shoplogo but then mirrored and make it so it looks like frosted glass with a logo and we see the back of that .. if that isnt nice i will make a all wood door ...

[crazyrichard]

made the shop logo mirrored , made the surface a bit light grey with a tiny grain in it , to create the solution its frosted glass with the logo

with the glass on the logo it just reflects , pics are crappy , not much light in the evening , i think with daylight it will pop more

[bpletcher55]

very nice ,just keeps getting better ,

[crazyjim]

I think the EXIT sign should be red. All the ones I see are always red.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

At my office, they are acrylic with etching in them, and the light is green, so I do not think they have to be red. Maybe that is a local jurisdiction or fire code issue?

[crazyrichard]

thnx guys and whell i tried red and green ... but this just looked best , really ties in with the black of the checkers above ...

so i though lets go black ..

[crazyrichard]

first set back , when i made a power feed to the lift .. i created something that looked terrible , but when removing that i got a hole in the plastic wall , could not make anything out of the situation , so i removed the shop logo and made a whole new piece of wall (just the plastic) on the left wall..

then made like a powerdistribution rail along and above the wood trim along the wall and made a steel pipe from the bridge in a bend into there

some atmosphere shots

i just changed the brackets on the iron pipe from the bridge and added bolts using steel pins ..

hard stuff i have pretty big hands .. i lost like 8 pins in the progress cant find them

Edited October 11, 2014 by crazyrichard

[bpletcher55]

nice work RICHARD , is it me or dose that pipe work look just a tad big ? .nut busting you balls or any thing just thought i,d say something .

[crazyrichard]

nice work RICHARD , is it me or dose that pipe work look just a tad big ? .nut busting you balls or any thing just thought i,d say something .

naah , its ment like alu / iron hollow piping and the cables run through those , this is also like safety and for the bridge you would have a pretty nice cable(s) , also the one going from one pillar to the next also doubles a bot as a stability thing ..

all other powerlines and stuff will be real thin .. this is just a mantle where cables run through ..

i actually saw something like this on machinery in a real workshop , thats how i got the idea ... they often use like thicker pipes to run cables through ..

ps the pics above are pretty close up , irl it looks way thinner , i will post some pics tomorrow when the light is good from a more normal distance m8

Edited October 11, 2014 by crazyrichard

[bpletcher55]

i work with conduit all the time ,pulling wire,s and cable,s for some of the truck scale,s i install and repair ,

[bobthehobbyguy]

Looks great. Do you have more pictures of the copper rod?

[72 Charger]

I like the pic with the merc in the air looking under to the copper rod . Very cool and very realistic

[crazyrichard]

thnx dave

Looks great. Do you have more pictures of the copper rod?

i need to take some good pics , all the ones i have ware early ones , later on i made beter taillight lenses changed some small things

[crazyrichard]

just got the idea to make a simple hand wheel wrench ...just to see how making tools would go ...maybe after this i can make a torck wrench

bend some plastic rod , a small brass bisch over that , piece of sprue with a hole drilled in it

put a pin in the back just for looks with a round head

then sprayed some chrome , when dry the handle needs to be painted matt black to resemble rubber

[bobthehobbyguy]

Nice. So cool that you show your process for making things.

[crazyrichard]

thnx bob and well its also nice for some beginners maybe like they can get idea's on how to use dif. materials and in a simple way make stuff .. sometimes certain things are really just super simple and easy to make out of scrap stuff

i also got a lot of inspiration when i started on my first dio (the hotrod garage) just from seeing other peoples topics with build pics a

finished the hand wrench , just made the handle matt black and put a little drop of black inside the hole of the part that go's on the lugnut ...

Edited October 12, 2014 by crazyrichard

[peekay]

Great progress here. Just one of so many great details, but I don't think I've ever seen a more realistic looking garage floor

[crazyrichard]

thnx peter , the floor is actually soo simple > its wood , i painted it matt grey , then took car bondo and with a flat piece of plastic pulled bondo over the whole floor , it sticks to certain places and in some places it doesnt , just a tiny thin layer ..

then when almost dry i rubberd it with a cloth ... then left it to dry to end up with a greay and white floor (grey paint and white bondo).

then just sanded it a tiny bot woth superfine paper to make it so there are no bog high spots in it .. and then just washed over with different paints and washes .. i always just try something so i dont even know what it was i put over it lol

but the effect you see is because the washes thatw ent on last cover the grey more then the white of the bondo and so you end up with almost one tone of color but different strenghts so you get this effect basicly

[Turbotoll]

Wow.

Been away ftom this site for a few months and I find a whole new project almost finished!

Where do you get the energy!

[crazyrichard]

lol thnx gertjan hmm this is my zen time .. i just build a little bit every day ....

[crazyrichard]

today i washed the inside of the garage lift guide / runner with black oil paint .. the oil paint leaves room to tone it down after aplying , stuff takes forever to be dry enough to really toutch without wiping it off again ..

its ment like black old grease ... so the inside is pich black and more towards the edge it becomes lighter ....

also gave the pipe going from the lift to the wall and along the wall more depth , used a pin and black enamel and painted black lines along all edges in the trasitions and also the bolts , then with a wet cue-tip toned it down

for me its got more depth and looks less sterile .. i said i would do mild weathering , really being carefull i want to keep a tidy clean shop but some stuff just needs some weathering .. when i'm further along i might do a occasional smudge from a hand like on the lift post .. nothing real obvious but just noticeable

here you see the edge being lighter and not all is equaly covered , tried to make it look like marks from going up and down and not spreading evenly

[jerseyjunker1]

this is just to cool. i actually need more time to see it all as my compter is a snail but i intend to see it all. super great attention to detail.