This all started here: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...6&start=15

It has become another project....yeah, why not.
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The "iron rods" that make up the arches, and the "bowstring", are Evergreen #218 .020" rod. The "plates" that bind the rods together, and provide attachment points for the vertical struts, and diagonal bracing were fashioned from Evergreen #4526, "metal siding" .040" spaced, .040" thick ( the .020" rod sits perfectly in the precut grooves of the siding ). The deck support "I" beams are Evergreen # 271, I-beam, .060". the deck in the photo is a piece of Northeast scale scribed basswood sheet. I'll more than likely use scale 2" X 6" lumber for the finish decks.
I'm building three spans 50' each, as a walkway out to the bridgetender's shack. They will span an open water area already limited to 8' above mean high water clearance, so they will be set at the same height. these will be part of the "new modules" project, as is the boathouse build. in the "Summer Challenge".
I'm holding off on the other two........as I'm building this one, I'm learning the "better ways" of doing this project. I'll correct the mistakes, and do it right on the second and third spans.

P5se Camelback Wrote:I'm likin' it! That is one juicy bridge! Just ripe to be modeled!

I brought that over from the 1:1 bridge's thread because once I saw this thread, my comment applied. It's an awsome structure already! I can't wait to see it progress! Really nice model work ... and my Architect instructor in one of my sophomore year environmental design courses (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Transportation Systems Design - all rolled into one professional degree) would have given you an extra 5 points on your progress presentation for this week's class for giving it, as he used to say, an S.O.S. ...a Sense of Scale!

I like it a lot! More! More!!

Sense of Scale.......There are some things that really need to be shown with "known objects" to convey that sense. The figure on the bridge deck shows the comparative size of the bridge, the "inches" on the cutting mat, show the actual size. I don't remember "learning "that, it just made good sense.
I ran out of .020" styrene rod :oops: have to get to the Hobby Shop and pick up some more.
Progress photos later.

I got the .020" styrene rod, and finished the verticals. the diagonals, .025" rod, were then added, and the ends clipped to the proper length. In the first shot, the completed bridge frame. I set a 3 ounce steel bar, in the center of the span, and the vertical deflection was 3 scale inches, at the center. That's a strong little bridge, for a walkway !
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This second shot is at approximately eye level, and yes that is a VW Beetle parked on the timber deck. Driving on to the bridge was easy, backing off ?.........Let's just state for the record that the bridge and the VW survived the experience.
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This third shot is approximately where the finished bridges will go.
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This is the "Alpha" build. There are a lot of "mistakes", that the next two won't have.....I have too much material in the first one, not to use it. I intend to do more of a tutorial, here, as I build the next two........Hey! that's not an arch, it's a learning curve !!

Wow, Sumpter! That is some really nice modelwork! Both on the bridge and on the site for the bridge's final placement! And I see LOT'S of bridges in that photo!! :o

I still have a lot of back reading to do to get all caught up on what everyone has been doing, and I will be looking forward to reading more about your layout and the models that you build. Thanks for sharing the fruits of your labor!

Pete that is looking Mighty fine , looks like a great build nice location too, you got me inspired to build that one now and forget the other one.
jim

jim currie Wrote:Pete that is looking Mighty fine , looks like a great build nice location too, you got me inspired to build that one now and forget the other one.
jim

Jim, as I build the next two, I'll do a tutorial on what materials and what to use them for, how to use each of them, and any other bits of information I can relay about what can go wrong as the build progresses.
If you want to experience your own learning curve, you don't have to wait.....I'd kind of like the idea of seeing the same project done however you would like to do it. There would be two different approaches to the task, and more information for any others who might like to try this bridge.

P5se Camelback Wrote:Wow, Sumpter! That is some really nice modelwork! Both on the bridge and on the site for the bridge's final placement! And I see LOT'S of bridges in that photo!! :o
I still have a lot of back reading to do to get all caught up on what everyone has been doing, and I will be looking forward to reading more about your layout and the models that you build. Thanks for sharing the fruits of your labor!

The bridges in the background are modified Life Like Scenemaster Steel Arch kits, on the new module set. The ones in the far background are on the old module set, as are all the trees.

This link will take you to the new modules thread :
http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...=19&t=1773

Nicely done! Looking forward to the tutorial. I haven't built many bridges but they sure look neat.

Galen

Jim, as I build the next two, I'll do a tutorial on what materials and what to use them for, how to use each of them, and any other bits of information I can relay about what can go wrong as the build progresses.
If you want to experience your own learning curve, you don't have to wait.....I'd kind of like the idea of seeing the same project done however you would like to do it. There would be two different approaches to the task, and more information for any others who might like to try this bridge



thanks Pete will wait I still havent ruled out the leanticular truss might do then both as i don't have a under clearance problem.jim

Thanks, Pete, for sending me to the "New Modules" thread and giving me some added insight into "Who is Sumpter250?" as it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I can appreciate your affinity for the sea. I learned to sail in a Duster and a Moth when I was about six or seven on the largest lake in Northeast Pennsylvania, and sailed into New York Harbor on July 4, 1976 on a 140' Barkentine named "Enchantress," out of Port Jefferson Harbor on Long Island's North Shore. I love sailing and the water, but I am first and foremost a rail freak!

Your model work is superb! Your planning process is not unlike that of an artist or a set designer, visualizing a scene, then creating and refining it. It is all very impressive.

Once again, I am truely humbled by the modeling skills of some of the people on this forum! I am in honored to be in such highly skilled company! I will have to work my hardest in this new Summer Structure Challenge to try to earn the priviledge to be in the same Cyber Room as some of you guys!

Thank you for the great visuals (which I have bookmarked and will return to for study ... I will "go to school" on you guys!)

The new bridge looks great, along with the rest of the harbor seen. Nice work, Keep it up.

P5se Camelback Wrote:I can appreciate your affinity for the sea. I learned to sail in a Duster and a Moth when I was about six or seven on the largest lake in Northeast Pennsylvania, and sailed into New York Harbor on July 4, 1976 on a 140' Barkentine named "Enchantress," out of Port Jefferson Harbor on Long Island's North Shore.
Your model work is superb! Your planning process is not unlike that of an artist or a set designer, visualizing a scene, then creating and refining it. It is all very impressive.
I will have to work my hardest in this new Summer Structure Challenge to try to earn the priviledge to be in the same Cyber Room as some of you guys!

OK, first, I'm really not worthy of all the praise. I've been at this for over fifty years, and I still have a lot to, learn.
Second, consider yourself "priviledged", you are most welcome here.
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I grew up about thirtyfive miles SSW of Port Jeff, on the south shore. Copiague. I learned to sail in a canoe, with a juryrigged sail and mast ( if you can do the hardest of things, the rest is easy ) The largest sail I've ever taken the helm of, was on a Bright afternoon in Penobscot Bay, Me., in the 68' coastal schooner Stephen Taber. They had to pry my fingers off the wheel ! My favorite sailboat, was my parents' 27' Irwin Sloop, in, and around Noyac Bay, on the East end.

Yes, I can, "box the compass".

Pete "Sumpter250" --

Now it's my turn to wear the :oops: :oops: ... it's been so long since that weekend, I have gotten the two "B-tines" mixed up! I haven't been on anything as large as the Enchantress since '76! My apologies! It is, in fact, a Brigantine, having only two masts.

Interesting that you posted that photo ... I'm wondering if it was taken by one of my two old Best Army Buddies, M. Madigan, Marine Photographer, out of Shoreham, L.I., NY? You see, I have almost the same photograph hanging on my office wall ... I took it out of the frame to eliminate the glare from the glass ...
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And now I must apologize to all for the temporary hijacking of a thread on an odd bridge with a large photo of a sailing ship!

(BTW, I found some distressing information on her from The Milwaukee Journal - Dec. 10, 1977 ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19771210&id=1m4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fikEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3781,7658866">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 81,7658866</a><!-- m -->)

I hunted a little further and found that she was re-named Young America. She doesn't appear on Wikipedia's list of tall ships afloat today, but I did find a reference to her in this link Atlantic City hotels near Young America Tall Ship.... Possibly a docked tourist attraction?

Wayne