honest model?

a very honest model. Congratulations - appropriate dimensions and proportions, subtle surface and color variations, and just the right details  Thanks for sharing..

Art

Thank you Art for the

Neat looking coal tower

Even if it is freelanced of something bigger, you did a fine job creating a unique model.  It's always impressive when you can create a unique model out of simple items with a few detail parts.  If you hadn't mentioned it was freelanced I would have thought it was based on a structure that existed.     

Greg

Thanks skiwiggy. Some of my

Thanks skiwiggy.

Some of my most cherished and unique structures were built with cardboard and scrap pieces of basswood and plastic. 

Very nice!

I really like multimedia scratch building, and you did a beautiful job of it!

My favorite kind of scratchbuild project....

Is one that is based on prototype practice but not necessarily a board by board rendition of an actual structure. As already stated, it gives the model a certain uniqueness and especially makes them go well on freelanced layouts which are what I enjoy the most.

Michael

Thanks TTX10, Here a a few

Thanks TTX10,

Here a a few detailed shots of it.

I concur noah_count. This

I concur noah_count.

This is the second one I built for a friend, primed and ready to be painted and weathered. He also required this look, but with a double silo, for the era and locale he was modeling. 

Excellent, and what a great

Excellent, and what a great finished product.

Crandell

Coaling Tower

That is one fine piece of work. Please share more of your work.

Richard - Superintendent CNW Peninsula Div.

Thank you Selector. The model

I regret not taking photos of

Any tips?

Have you got any tips for getting dimensions off of photographs (that were not taken straight on?).

I am trying (mostly in vain) to figure out how big a Tipple was at a town by the name of Bankhead (which is kinda funny because a "bankhead" is synonymous with tipple - So it's the Bankhead bankhead...)

All the photos are at weird angles, so with my trusty ruler, the "front" wall is approx 5.5 inches and the back wall is about 3.5...  see "image078" in this link for the actual photo http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=914452

The text identifies the tipple to actually be approx 30 meters tall (not known from ground, top of rail, or other)...in the photo what would the ratio be and how does the "foreshortening" affect my measurement of length?  I know it's somewhere between 100 - 150 feet but that's a big tolerance!

Any tips for working with photos in which the photographers was clearly not thinking about my modeling needs?

Thom

Luckily the photos I used to

Luckily the photos I used to guess the dimensions had many things around the subject such as vehicles, trains, people, etc.

I also draw perspective lines off the structures on photocopies of the photos and create the vanishing point off the photo onto a piece of paper. Use the vanishing point to draw lines to the known height of other subjects in the photo. I used this method to figure out the height of a freight shed using the lines I drew and compared them with other subjects in the photo.

There are many examples on the net how to use a vanishing point in perspective drawing.

Cheers

Thank You

Thanks for the hint!  I will google that.

Thom

Michael: That's great work.

Michael:

That's great work. Nice sized coaling tower and neat details.

Barry

Thanks Barry. Here is the

Thanks Barry.

Here is the ole 2-8-2 that used to serviced by this tower. Someday it will run again. I miss those scenes and regret not taking any pics of it under the coal tower.