yeah. last year I was in blue pants, white shirt, so obviously I was an office worker.
but this year I’ll go in khaki pants and bring a calculator, so I’ll be from accounting.
if anyone complains, I just steal some random accessory. a seringe ? I’m either a sims doctor or a sims drug addict. totally different.
We have a torn down overhead line. Replacement buses have been ordered but not confirmed. Mohahahaha
Of course I’m not just a train. Trains are not scary. Trains are friends
Finally got the track laying of the balloon loops finished. Had some issues with getting the alignment right (these two halves can be separated and the bridge should go in between). I also accidentally glued the track a little too eccentric and had to bend them off and peal away the glue 
The “rail zeppelin” with its two fixed axels (no bogies) and huuuuuuge wheelbase is notoriously prone to derailing. Which also makes it the perfect vehicle for testing the track laying!
Had to file down a little on an uneven track joint but got it working reliably which is a I’ve expectations!
Just have to ask. Why is it called a “Baboon” loop ?
Spelling error 
. Should be balloon loop
Aha now it makes sense 
I prefer Baboon!
Long time no post. Finally got the tracks laid 
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Can’t wait for the railing to be up to convey the human scale.
Added the railing over the weekend. It’s making a huge difference to the level of detail. It also brings in that human scale and stddenly you feel how big the bridge is
You may need to build a small model crane soon to move the bridge around your home.
I don’t comment much but I love this thread. 
Keep posting your process and documenting all this.
The signs were the last things to be added to the model before the exhibition.
Then the focus has been packaging. This is both for transportation to the exhibition and for long time storage when I have other model railroads up
The idea has crossed my mind to have a radio controlled model of the crave that built the actual bridge, but that’d be a bigger project than the bridge utensils several times over
Bridge packages yesterday and waiting to go to the museum
And later in the day assembled and ready. Today the exhibition opens to the public!
If you’re I. The south Scandinavia area, you can see it live at Kulturen (The Culture) in Lund today and tomorrow
That is a nice looking bridge.
It made me think of a bridge design that I created in Sketchup, you might enjoy this design.
It is a pedestrian bridge, 300ft long, over the Wear River in Durham, England
The city of Durham wanted to expand their downtown area, but there really wasn’t any room in the downtown proper land area. So I thought a pedestrian bridge over the river to let people continue their strolling from the downtown area over this bridge. I wanted its walkway to be a brick/cobblestone type of appearance.
Another reason I tightened up the support cables and used a suspension cable design was that this style would allow me to keep the pedestrian walkway as level. I don’t think people really like these pedestrian bridges where the walkway is a curve, the people need to walk uphill until they get to the middle of the bridge and then walk downhill to continue over the bridge. I wanted the pedestrian walkway to exist and give the feel and appearance that the pedestrians were just walking along on another road in the downtown Durham, England shopping/tourist area.
I wanted to explore the concept of a suspension bridge but I dramatically thickened the support cables so that they could be given more tension than is needed just to support the bridge walkway if it were full of people.
I wanted to add tension to the support cables to flatten out their curve (not to be a typical catenary curve) so that the effect of this flattening is that the cables moved closer to the bridge walkway. This means the cables were low enough that they did not interfere with the sightlines of the people on the bridge, they could just look out over the cables to take in the view. The cables come also close to being useable as the safety railings.
I put some curved tubing under the bridge to be sure it would not sway, people do not like the walkway under their feet when they are high up in the air to become a swaying walkway.
I was also exploring the concept of megalithic structure. I do not feel that people inherently dislike megalithic construction as long as it is not overbearing, gloomy, dark, and threatening in its appearance. I think kind, protective, support, solidity radiating megalithic structures are sort of comforting to people, actually.
So I made the supports above ground, 1 million pounds of concrete each, and then covered these support anchors for the suspension cables with granite blocks to make them pretty.
I have a web page about it, I called it “Beautiful Bridge”
Enjoy! Dr. Gray
Here’s the webpage, I think I may have made some YouTubes about this bridge also.
the custom made boxes with unicorns on a pink wrap are great.
— oh cute, what is that, a doll?
— nah. 4 concrete pylons.
Long time no post
I ordered a projector and then used it as an iPad stand for some week without even opening the box.
But then I did and now I have pylon lights, similar to the real bridge
Long time no post. In parallel with the pylon lights I’ve worked on the board to have under the bridge.
Gonna look even better when painted!
Just realized I haven’t posted about these baddies!
Over the Christmas break I experimented with SketchUp AI Assistant to get the cars I haven’t found in Z scale. The result varies but several of the models were surprisingly good and perfectly usable for 3d print after some cleanup. At the time a limiting factor for my use case is that you can only enter one image to make a 3d model, so a car that has a distinct look in both the front and the back is difficult to generate. But to be fair this isn’t really the typically intended use case. Also it’s a rapidly evolving field so I’m excited for what the future brings.
The back row is hand-modeled, partly by myself in my teens and partly from 3D Warehouse.
For printing I’ve used Shapeways material jetting. Adding models together on a sprue lowers the price quite significantly as the individual Z scale cars don’t get anywhere near the minimum price per part.
Recognize any of the cars?
