Shipyard

Mike Engler · October 2011

Joel- One terrific job of modeling !! I'm envious of all who were able to see it in person in Peabody. Jaime posted a lot of of great pictures on the other forums, but we need to post a link on them to bring fans of your diorama to this thread to see how you built it.
I recognize most of the structures as SWSM, but not the lighthouse. What is its origin?
Congratulations again! Later I'll ask you about how you do the individual shingles. Mike

Joel · October 2011

In "Brett's Cove" I used 4 SierraWest kits - Shelby's, Shipyard, Foss and Addison. The large boat with the rigging is from Blue Jacket models and used to be called the "Bessie Anne Marie" but it apparently has been renamed. The Saybrook lighthouse is an out of production Crow River kit.

I'll post more pictures soon as the sky clears....

Speaking of Blue Skies....Hmmmmm

Joel · October 2011

Ok finally a bit of sun. Unfortunately maybe a bit too much the photos are a bit washed out. I'm still trying to figure out this camera. The F stop is set at 29 and the shutter speed is slow, anyway here are a few overview shots. The splash was created with gloss gel painted on a piece of plastic and peeled off. Three layers were used and multiple coats of gel on each. The rocks and cement behind were darkened using washes of dark green paint and then coated with mod podge to appear wet. Then the three layers of splash were added with some gloss medium to hold them in place and a bit of cotton to soften some of the edges. Still not sure if it worked but I really wanted to try.

Karl.A · October 2011

Wonderful shots Joel, the sunshine/daylight really makes a huge difference in how the models are seen. The lighting shows everything off superbly.
The splash looks great in the photo's, capturing a moving object in a still is hard enough, but doing it when you can walk around and look at it in person is next to impossible. The rest of the water effects look good in either environment, some of the best I've seen.

While scrolling up and down through your pics (numerous times) this cropped version of one grabbed my attention as it scrolled off screen , so I photoshop cropped it down so that I could focus on the view... here it is and I hope you dont mind me posting it... it really conveys an 'atmosphere'.

Thanks for the additional picures for us to enjoy.

Karl.A

nemmrrc · November 2011

Joel- One terrific job of modeling !! I'm envious of all who were able to see it in person in Peabody. Jaime posted a lot of of great pictures on the other forums, but we need to post a link on them to bring fans of your diorama to this thread to see how you built it.
I recognize most of the structures as SWSM, but not the lighthouse. What is its origin?
Congratulations again! Later I'll ask you about how you do the individual shingles. Mike

I posted a link back to this construction thread over a kitforums.com where I posted photos of The Expo held in Peabody, MA.
http://kitforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6276

Jaime

brownbr · November 2011

Fantastic modeling. You are right about the cedar shingles...well worth the effort. How about a tutorial on the peeling paint?

JamestownTrains · August 2012

This is awesome. I thought I remember seeing the "final" pictures but can't find them now. Anyone know? (I thought it was on the RRLine forum but can't find the thread.)
Has anyone seen any other diorama or layout combining these kits?

admin · September 2012

This is the only dio I have seen combining my waterfront kits. I know of two completed scenes on layouts with them but have yet to pry pics out of the modelers hands... The only pics besides what Joel has posted here that I know of are referenced above by Jaime on Jimmy D's kitforum site.

glnrr · August 2014

Best of the best says it all; Where can I see more photos to really see this gem? We can only strive to this type of perfection. Thanks for sharing and raising the bar almost out of sight.

Dave

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