An Ify Bridge

[Ify]

Back to the Display Table.
Started to work on creating the landscape; one side of it anyway.
Here is the footpath and stairway from Bridge Street to the highway.



Making the model version of this section.




Putting in the Bridge Street.

[Old Wombat]

Yup, impressive!

[Ify]

Thanks Old Wombat.

To continue:
The Shire Council recently put in a new pathway.



I waited till they finished construction so I could make measurements to recreate it for the diorama.

[Old Wombat]

Honestly, I couldn't build this. Not in the physical sense, I have a decent skill set & what I don't have I could learn, but the mindset required to build this is beyond me. However, I do appreciate those that have it!

[Gondor]

Honestly, I couldn't build this. Not in the physical sense, I have a decent skill set & what I don't have I could learn, but the mindset required to build this is beyond me. However, I do appreciate those that have it!

I agree

Gondor

[Ify]

Thanks Old Wombat and Gondor.

I have never received such a grand compliment before. It has taken me a few hours to write this post, because I did not know how to respond. A 'thanks' would not have come close to how I feel. So I decided to just write what I just wrote.

Much appreciated.

[zenrat]

Honestly, I couldn't build this. Not in the physical sense, I have a decent skill set & what I don't have I could learn, but the mindset required to build this is beyond me. However, I do appreciate those that have it!

Me 3.  I certainly don't have the patience or the attention span.

[Ify]

To tell you the truth zenrat, I often have trouble keeping notes at where I am at in the project. Often a simple change of plans inadvertently alters other ideas and plans as well. Many times I discover an elaborate design, for a future part, only to discard it because it no longer applies. It gets frustrating, and I only got myself to blame 

[Ify]

There is a matter of a partial (60%) house within the display boundaries. The display would look unfinished without the house, especially by the local visitors to the museum.
So I took some photographs and worked out its measurements.



I used Masonite to build the house.





You may be asking why I included rooms? The reason will soon be revealed.







The electronics circuit sequences five white LED lights, one for each room. There is about a 15 second interval between one light turning off for another turning on.
Under a bright light, you may not see anything happening, unless you looked at the house for longer than 15 seconds. But under a dim light, the house lights become more obvious and alive.

[zenrat]

To tell you the truth zenrat, I often have trouble keeping notes at where I am at in the project. Often a simple change of plans inadvertently alters other ideas and plans as well. Many times I discover an elaborate design, for a future part, only to discard it because it no longer applies. It gets frustrating, and I only got myself to blame 

Yes, but you haven't lost interest or got distracted by other projects like i would.
The house looks very good.

[Gondor]

That's some of the WORSE connecting of parts I have seen on a breadboard for years! 

How on earth were you able to follow your wiring diagram or fault find with a rat's nest like that!!

Gondor

[Ify]

That's some of the WORSE connecting of parts I have seen on a breadboard for years!
How on earth were you able to follow your wiring diagram or fault find with a rat's nest like that!!
Gondor

Just to show you that even a rat's nest, of divergent thinking, can work just fine.

[Old Wombat]

Well, this place site locale non-physical centroid works just fine, & it's a (pack) rats nest of divergent thinking, so that makes sense.


Actually, if we set up a clubhouse on a certain island off the coast of Western Australia near Perth, & put all the servers there, & had virtual club meets ........ 

[Ify]

Well, this place site locale non-physical centroid works just fine, & it's a (pack) rats nest of divergent thinking, so that makes sense.

Actually, if we set up a clubhouse on a certain island off the coast of Western Australia near Perth, & put all the servers there, & had virtual club meets ........ 

That's a great idea. I know a family, the Quokkas, that will accommodate us on Rottnest  Is. 

[Ify]

About a month ago I received an email containing a photo of the Wardell bridge in the days when it had those swing gates. Today they have boom-gates. At last I had something better to go by.



Sourced some scrap metal, fencing wire, brass tubing, washers, and screwed collars from electrical terminal strip. From these I was able to make the swinging gates.