No its not a coffee table

[chiloquinruss]

Hi gang, here is another of my off the wall projects. Mostly done on the Bot and toolpathed with Aspire. Its a model for a live steam park. Its rather large 90 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 20 inches high. Like I said its not a coffee talbe but it sure is fun to make on da' bot. Russ

http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=11&pictureid=71

http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=11&pictureid=70

http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=11&pictureid=69

http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=11&pictureid=72

[jdervin]

Long live trains!
If you made one a little larger, it would make a heck of a playhouse for the kids.

Great work.

[myxpykalix]

Russ the whole time you were making this were you saying to yourself....."I think i can, I think i can, i think i can...WOOO...WOOO!

I'm anxious to see this completed. Are you the guy who has made scale model train stations i've seen here before? Good Job Russ..

[carlhopkins]

Coffee table sounds like a good idea. A friend of mine was retired from the rail road. He has past now but I bet he would have really liked that! A caboose would be fitting I think.

looks like fun

[chiloquinruss]

Thanks gang. Jack, yep I'm the guy. You know now that we have all talked about a coffee table it would be kind of neat especialy if it had a complete interior and the roof was glass. Hmmmmmm. I'll get some pix when the car is completed and I'll also post some pix of my next project which is a model of the local grain elevator here in Chiloquin. Russ

[John David]

Looks Great,

How did you get the dimensions for this? I am looking to build an electric train for my yard and if I could find some drawings with Dims. it would be easier to build to scale.

cant wait to see the finished piece

JD

[carlcnc]

Hey guys ,
why can't I see any pic of Russ's "not a coffee table"
????

Carl

[carlcnc]

This is strange
once I posted a reply to this thread and went back to the page
voila, all images showed up!

AND \how did Admin know my age so as to label me a "Senior" member[lol]

[gc3]

Very nice Russ...showed this to my son, Fort 6.....

NOW he want's me to build him one......aaahhhhhh :(

btw...Fort said better photo without the "kilz can" :eek:

Gene

[gene]

where is it going when its completed?

[wayne_walker]

I can't see the images as well so...

I will try to post and see what happens.

Wayne

The magic has worked again, great project.

Wayne

[chiloquinruss]

Thanks gang. The models are really fun to build in this scale and of course using the Bot and Aspire it's almost like cheating! :)

To scale up any drawing you might find in one of the model magazines, fiirst decide what the final scale will be. In my case for this model it's a 2 inch scale model. Therefore 2 inches equals one foot. So if you find a nice set of drawings of your favorite caboose and its drawing measurement says it's 36 feet long then the finished scale model will be 72 inches long. What I do is make a spreadsheet with all of the posted measurements shown on the original drawing and the next column shows what that measurement will be on the finished model. I sometimes then copy those figures over to a copy of the drawing but most times I just print out the 'cheat' sheet for reference. Around here we have a very wonderful attitude towards scale models. That attitude says that we are looking at these models while traveling at 7 miles per hour and from a distance a several feet soooooooo, just about anything seems to be OK! :)

The car and my buildings are all destined for Train Mountain.

http://www.trainmountain.org/

Russ

[mikeacg]

Thanks for sharing Russ! As always - Great work!

[butch]

Trying to see the pictures.
Butch

[carlcnc]

Butch
I thionk [with my superior intellect] I figured how to see the pics every time first time
gotta log in !
now if I could learn how to ues spillcheck I'd be rockin.
Carl

[coach]

hmmmm, I also do not see anything. So like Carl I hope to see after I post.

[coach]

now I see it. Nice job Russ.