Showing posts with label diorama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diorama. Show all posts

Sunday, February 23, 2025

a 10 year scale model diorama of a machine shop, just WOW. I admire everything going on here.. The GB Machine Works Co. (Click on each image for a full screen version)


1500 hrs of machining, scratch making, and building the machine shop in 1/12th scale. 

 All machines are copies of a real machine (see the last image in this gallery for the list…) for instance, the mill is in the Ford Museum. 

All power take offs work, tables with ”T” slots, and there is an office with a ceiling fan in the office run by the overhead belting system, and a roll top desk with a bottle of Scotch in the bottom drawer for bad days.

All drawings are the blueprints used for machining, just reduced in size. There is one part on each machine station, being machined. 

The time clock has time cards with names of friends who also machine things.

The machine shop cat has not seen the rat yet under the work bench.









Thursday, October 13, 2022

a WW1 Lego diorama of a Zeppelin attacked by a bi-plane chromostereoscopy

 

Not just WW1 aircraft cool, but also chromostereoscopic 

" as the curtains parted, the intro music started and the real show began! " 


As the curtains part you can see biplanes circling both above and below the zeppelin which maneuvers up and down.

The soundtrack transitions to biplane maneuver and machine gun noises, and a red biplane swoops to the center stage from behind a cloud, gently rocking back and forth. 

Soon enough the red plane sidles back behind cloud cover and the finale begins to unfold – a LITTLE biplane corkscrews down from far back above the zeppelin, in an uncontrolled dive until it hits the zeppelin.

Red lights flash, explosions rock the air, and the zeppelin slowly breaks apart revealing smoke and fire rising from within. The curtains begin to close and the finale fanfare plays 

https://www.brothers-brick.com/2022/10/06/the-hells-angels-set-the-stage-in-this-massive-moving-wwi-diorama/

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

One man in Britain was worried that his new girlfriend might dump him if she found out he was in the process of building the biggest model railway in the country.





So, instead of telling her, he kept the massive structure hidden in the basement of a building he told his girlfriend he had rented to store wine in. 

 She came down to the cellar one day and said: 'Where's all the wine?' I told her the truth and she was like 'OK.' But she has an art degree so she appreciated the level of detail and work that went into it. We're now engaged." 

 According to George, he spent eight years building the 200-foot-long model, which recreates a 1.5-mile-long stretch of real train tracks located in West Yorkshire. The model recreates the look of the area as it existed in the '80s. 

 George spent over $330,000 to bring the model to life.


and when a guy has a warehouse full of wine, and a third of a million dollars to spend on a hobby, his girlfriend simply gets married to him. After all, she's got the run of the house, wine stock, and he's busy staying out of trouble with trains. 

Friday, September 14, 2018

Goodwood Revival photos from Conner Golden, Wouter Melissen at Automobilemag.com


seeing what the grid marker sign holders will be wearing, and what era of costume, is always a remarkable thing. I think it's a hoot to see the 60s go go boots and odd dresses. So 60s chic


and a whole farm? Wow!


this is a 1945 Bugatti type 73, prototype that never made it to production line


and the Uovo 1950 Ferrari which I've thoroughly posted about before

https://www.automobilemag.com/news/scenes-2018-goodwood-revival/
https://www.automobilemag.com/news/nine-favorite-cars-2018-goodwood-revival/
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/goodwood?family=editorial&page=5&phrase=goodwood&sort=best#license