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I built it about 1 year ago for a teamtrack on my N scale microlayout.
It was made using barbecue sticks and .030 " styrene sheet
It was weathered with a very diluted wash of India ink.
That's my 1st scratchbuilding project and I had a good time doing it.
The wood planks were made by lightly scribing the 2 styrene sheets with an Xacto blade
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Woah! that looks great! Have you made anything else since?
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Thats a great looking loading dock you built there, i would say job well done on it
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Really nice job! The supports look just like old telephone poles. So you simply scribed the decking instead of cutting the individual pieces of planking? That turned out great!
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The ramp came out great, it just seems to be missing oil spots from that leaky forklift.
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Thank you Kevin, Josh, Herc Driver and Lynn for taking some of your valuable time to reply and for the kind criticism.
A loading ramp looked to me like the perfect 1st scratchbuilding project.
It is relatively easy to build, paint and weather. And a loading ramp is a versatile "industry" on a micro switching layout.
The initial project was to cut and glue individual wood planks but I realised that in N scale it was not worth the trouble.
To Kevin: Right now, I'm scratchbuilding malt silos using cardboard tubes coated with some spackling compound.
It is about 75% completed, tonight I started building the conveyor structure located at the top.
To Herc Driver: I intended to reinforce the support poles with some diagonal bracing between adjacent poles. I realised that it would complicated the project.
After talking with my brother in law ( he is a mechanical engineer ) we concluded that if the poles are deep enough in the ground there is no need for bracing.
So the way it is, my loading ramp is still mechanically plausible.
Jacques
