Friday, February 08, 2008

Mock Ups, A New Home for the Department of Docks





The Department of Docks has found a home atop a rocky outcrop. This is how we had originally imagined the setting for our DOD diorama, but somehow ended up with a flatter scene at the time. There's still much work to be done. At the moment the diorama is not attached, and will have to be blended into the layout. A second building will be added as well, to the left; you can see a cardboard footprint marking it's location. It'll be a workshop and maintenance building, tending to small repairs for docks and aids to navigation. So, I'll have to come up with some kind of crane and dock in the small cove to the left.

The third pic is a mock up of a block of buildings, just to get a sense of how wide and tall the structures can be. I'll start those buildings soon.
At the top is a pic of our Brewer's Coaling Platform(discontinued)installed on the layout. The water column is from Tichy, the stone building in the back is an Ed Fulasz kit, still to be finished.