Decided to take my Pentax with 50mm lens and loaded with HP5 to the layout and try to take some photographs. Need to work on the harsh lighting and depth of field, but it's a good start. The Diebels "Bude" was a few doors down from my grandparents in Duisburg and the place we picked up Opa's case of König Pilsner and sweets as kids. The Bude in the background (behind the S-Bahn) is the Bergbau-Grill in Bochum. The tank engine is on loan from the Gelsenkirchener Bergbau A.G. (GBAG), a nod to the city I lived in for my apprenticeship.
Fresh roll of film in camera and going to go back to capture more scenes soon.
Framed out the interior, walls up, floors sanded and sealed but wanted to retain the essence of the original bindery.
Interior walls up. Used Scalescenes' clapboard for floors and walls, but in n-scale to make it finer, less like the exterior of a structure.
Doors are from Gleimo, a Germany card modeling vendor/site. Sadly no longer around and I lost all my original downloads when my drive crashed...
Looking in from the street. This is one of the very few structures I have with interiors. As the sun never sets, and it's always summery, no real point fiddling with interiors.
Looking in to get a sense of the space.
Overhead view of the space. There is a toilet and wet room on the other side of that diagonal wall, Also stairs to the 2nd level where the binder Gertrud Jannowitz will live.
Now comes the hard work of detailing the interior with shelves, benches, storage, a desk, stools, a board shear, presses... We'll see how I make it work.
A week or so ago, I shared my initial ideation for adding a bookbindery to my Papphausen layout. Well, today my "journeyman" Fritz Otto began taking measurements onsite and figuring out how best to fit the structure on the oddly shaped site.
The site. The pigeon shack will move, as will some of a tenant's BMW 2002 collection.
Measuring with a printout of the facade scaled to 1:87. The woman in the yellow dress will be working in the bindery when completed.
An overhead view with the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn passing above.
The bindery where I apprenticed in Gelsenkirchen will serve as a model for the interior if I can pull off scaling them down to some form of viable 1:87. Otherwise, flat printouts cut to the contours will be glued in place at various depths to give the illusion like a "peep show" or "tunnel book".
Facade elements isolated in Photoshop.
Elements pasted onto a scaled pattern sheet from Scalescenes. Once the primary image is mounted, windows, doors, and other details get cut out, new images get mounted, and all is layered to build depth.
Mounting the door, so it can be set behind the facade.
Rubbing down the threshold after putting the door in place.
Rubbing down the window sills.
Gluing the clear lower window in place. The upper will be opaque.
Just taking a look to see how it's coming. Ok?
VERY loosely positioned on the building site. The binder is standing in front and having her picture taken... For the local paper?
The same from a different angle.
Made a lot of progress on a lazy day. Still need to figure out the roof and interior. The latter can be added later if the roof is made removable.
In the first, my Reichsbahn Reko BR58.3 pulls a tank car train around Papphausen. Loko by Gützold running via analog AC (Märklin) like everything else in Papphausen. I like Analog, and while tempted am not that into the digital that controls the rest of my life...
Here, a "day of watching a variety of trains running around Papphausen." Consists include S-Bahn, D-Zug, my 1950s DB bi-level pulled by a BR 23, Fliegender Hamburger, a mixed freight, and finally my coal train.
Time to start working on refreshing some of the scenery...
at the Boothbay Railway Village Steam Course. See the main website by clicking on the image above.
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This is where I share my projects such as (card)modeling, weathering, railfanning activities, show reports, and other thoughts. Having a German focus to my model railroading interests and living in the US, I'll also translate occasional threads I think could be of interest here or in Germany.
