Nice Animation,

Hi Luke,

Congrats on the sliding door animation. It's working very smoothly 

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Sliding Door

ha ha ha  I'm glad to have helped you figure out your clearance problem, it's amazing what ideas can be sparked from a model forum (I'm guessing the overhead door you're talking about is not 1:87th scale).

The mechanism for operating the door could be applied to a huge range other applications, I've got plans to make many different animated features for my small switching layout.

Lovely work. Love

Lovely work. Love animatronics. Fantastic detail. 

Thos only a suggestion, but you just need a fella mounted to the door itself just inside the opening, so someone is “pushing” it open  or “pulling”  it closed. 

You wouldn’t be able to see them from this camera angle, but more head on or on the left side of the building you would see into the opening... 

Otherwise I get the feeling there’s a ghost opening the door, if that makes sense? 

Sweet!

Luke,

Great video with some wonderful ideas.  I've automated an overhead roll up door but never thought about doing a sliding door.  Thanks for sharing!

Rick

Is there a post anywhere about your automated roll-up?  I've got three fixed doors in an enginehouse, and I'd love to see how you did yours - making those three doors open would really rock!

Blair

@smithbr

Try this post from rick on the automated overhead door

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/richlawn-rr-v2-palmer-kitbash-structure-overhead-door-animation-updated-10114-12197966

Dave

Thanks!  Let me guess, search...  Sigh.

Blair

Ouch!

Here's an idea.  Wouldn't it be neat if the baggage doors on my ACR Tour of the Line train opened when we get to a station, so the snowmobile operators could load or unload their sleds!  The baggage doors in question were rollups in the 200x period when I rode the train frequently; earlier, they slid sideways from inside the car.  Now I've got to scratch my head some more.  This could be done with a DCC receiver and a small motor, or perhaps more than one motor, if we somehow use the function outputs to select which door.  Hmm.  Thanks for the ideas!

But then, we'd need operating snow sleds to animate this properly.  Hmm.

Blair (Anyone built a working snowblower in HO?  Idea triggered by this thread, and the 6" of fresh snow in my driveway.  Winter's here, apparently.  BRRRR!)

Thanks Dave for posting the

Thanks Dave for posting the link for Blair to my overhead door thread.