Railroad Model Craftsman 2009 10

When railroads were a primary conduit for opening up the west, facilities-stations, water towers, roundhouses and division points-were pretty much mandated by the technology of the day. If contemporary locomotives needed water every 50 miles, for example, water towers were built every 50 miles or so. It didn't matter where they were built, or how hostile the environment, it was every 50 miles. In many cases, when railroads entered desolate or unsettled territory and made their presence known by erecting stations or train order shacks, towns of all stripes tended to spring up around them. So it was that in 1905 railroading came to Kelso, California. It was a wide spot in the road when a one-story, wood-frame station was built, and it is still a wide spot in the road today. Legend has it that local railroad workers at Siding 16 drew names out of a hat. The lucky piece of paper had the name "Kelso" on it, which, according to the National Park Service, stood for John Kelso. A town was born.

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FineScale Modeler 2004 05

Talal Chouman has a job most of us only dream of - he's not only a professional model maker, but his work at the University of Massachusetts Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory gives him access to full-scale examples of the military's latest fighting vehicles. What more could a modeler ask for? Talal, 38, has built models since he was 10, and has built professionally for more than 17 years. His interest in AFVs and modeling doesn't end at 5 o'clock, though. His full-time passion for military hardware led him to scratchbuild this show-stop-ping 1/16 scale Operation Enduring Freedom Marine Corps LAV-25. Starting with four months of intensive research, Talal spent some 1,800 hours on the fully detailed, museum-scale model - that's an average of two hours a day for two-and-a-half years. Its not surprising when you look at the model. Constructed plate-by-plate just like the real vehicle, the model is a masterful assembly of styrene, acrylic, resin, brass, aluminum, and other media. The massive model features a fully detailed interior, one of Talal's favorite parts of the model.

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Euromodelismo 175

Este diorama está basado en el libro del reputado escritor Antony Beevor, Berlín, la caída 1945. Hay veces que la propia Historia nos estimula las ideas, que hay que desarrollar hasta encontrar una composición equilibrada que consiga contar una historia al que la mire. Una vez más, y disponiendo de unas medidas de 50 x 40 centímetros, me dispongo a realizar el "pedestal", el cual nos ayuda a visualizar el diorama, eleva la escena y la separa del "suelo", haciendo que nos centremos más en ella (al igual que un pedestal de una estatua de la calle). Lo realizamos elevando la base propiamente dicha unos 25 centímetros del tablero original, mediante DM de tres milímetros en todo su perímetro, al igual que en sus partes interiores para reforzar el apoyo del "techo". Pasamos después al embaldosado del suelo, siendo este una característica de este aeródromo en particular. Los llevamos a cabo con plasticard fino baldosa a baldosa, dejando una sutil separación entre ellas y confiriéndoles una forma ligeramente curva a la hora de pegarlas a la base. Se podría ahorrar mucho trabajo dibujando éstas con una cuchilla, pero lo que quiero conseguir es precisamente esa imperfección, huyendo de una perfecta colocación de las losetas las cuales tendrían un aspecto artificial. Después daremos un baño de putty con acetona y lijaremos de menos a más fina hasta quitar el exceso de material. Repasaremos con cuidado de nuevo, mediante una cuchilla, las uniones entre losetas.

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