"The General"

[Y3a]

John, I found out where the brakes are ....... I think. It looks like the fenders above the drivers ARE the brakes! They aren't at the backof the drivers or on the inside of the drivers so that leaves the front engine truck, which just doesn't have the weight to stop themselves. So I am assuming the brakes are big fender looking things. The springs and alignment bar behind the fenders seem to suggest it too.

[JohnReid]

Originally Posted by Y3a

John, I found out where the brakes are ....... I think. It looks like the fenders above the drivers ARE the brakes! They aren't at the backof the drivers or on the inside of the drivers so that leaves the front engine truck, which just doesn't have the weight to stop themselves. So I am assuming the brakes are big fender looking things. The springs and alignment bar behind the fenders seem to suggest it too.

Hi ! it seems to me I heard somewhere that putting it in reverse was the braking ?

[JohnReid]

The plywood is ground level,one level up is the future boardwalk that will be completed after the posts are in.

[JohnReid]

[JohnReid]

I want to try something different with this diorama by adding some audio/visual stuff myself.This time the storyline will be presented in a little different way.Instead of step by step pictures accompanied by an audio text as planned by the museum ,this time I plan to do my own .
Just a few short years ago this option was not available to me but with all the miniaturization of electronics today and the relatively cheap price I think that it could quite easily be done.
These two saloon boxes will be used to house the electronics and diorama lighting equipment.Facing outwards I plan to install either slides or scenes from the movie itself with good quality miniature speakers,if I can get permission to do so from the copyright holders otherwise I will have to come up with a plan 'B'.It will be a donation to a museum for educational purposes or for my own private use so maybe I will get lucky.
Plan 'B' will probably be to contact a few individuals that I see on You Tube and get their permission to use their videos and music.
Sounds like fun,something different for a change.

[JohnReid]

I don't remember where I got this totem (or house post because it has a flat back)but as you can see from the chip on the base it is real black soapstone.It is not signed so I don't know who or what made it.It can't be very valuable so I plan to include it somewhere in the diorama/layout. I haven't quite decided how to finish it.It has a polished surface so the only thing that I can think of is that in real life that would be a shiny paint surface.Old totem poles are usually grey(ceder turns grey with time)totally or sometimes with remnants of paint.I don't want to paint it as a modern totem as the bright colors would be too distracting for the viewer.
I want to include it because the native people were a big part of the old west theme though not in this particular movie .I am planning an old prop yard at the rear of the diorama with fake horses etc..so I will probably put it there.

[NWP95501]

Do you know forum member Will lenders? You two should start a thread together....it would have 500 posts in a day.....248 from you, 248 from him....and 2 others. Also, you can post pictures for him.

[railfan]

Originally Posted by NWP95501

Do you know forum member Will lenders? You two should start a thread together....it would have 500 posts in a day.....248 from you, 248 from him....and 2 others. Also, you can post pictures for him.

Hey....hey....hey....hey! 248 + 248 + 2 = 498, not 500. He will need 2 more posts.

Nice work in the photos here!




Mike

[JohnReid]

[JohnReid]

I have decided to make the saloon end of the diorama a kind of closed set,mostly by adding another building and a couple solid wood backdrops.