An Attempt at Our Local Pub - The Lighthouse Inn, St Brides.

**ADRIAN.BRITTON** · #1 09-22-2008, 06:00 AM

While nostalgicating about trying to make "Micromodels" with scissors, razor blades and balsa cement in my schooldays, I thought... Why not have a go at it again?

...especially now when my days of being able to fly my model aircraft are getting a bit messed up by my disabilities:o

I'm usually found in the "RCGroups.com" Electric Scale forum ....they won't look for me here, will they?

So I bought some A4 card from Tesco's and started playing....

...and now I've worked the formulae for posting pics etc - I'll start making a nuisance of myself here, and give the poor balsa bashers a rest!:D

**B-Manic** · #2 09-22-2008, 07:04 AM

Very nice - thanks.

**jimkrauzlis** · #3 09-22-2008, 06:46 PM

Very nice, Adrian!

Never a nuisance, mate, just enjoy yourself doing what you like to work on.

I always look forward to new models, especially those of the Micromodel genre. To me, they are a bit magical, like someone has used a machine to shrink objects down to a size that fits in ones hand.

I look forward to seeing one of your builds when you get a chance, as well as anything you might like to design.

Welcome!

Cheers!
Jim

**ADRIAN.BRITTON** · #4 09-25-2008, 12:13 AM

Thanks Jim!

I'm wondering whether this should be on the "build" forum..... but I am designing it, so...

Now, thanks to you guys here I'm picking up quite a few tips as well as learning things like - having to think "in mirrors".

Made some progress with the CAD and the model. That card from Tescos is probably good value at £3 for 50 sheets of 160 gsm? Better than cornflakes packets!

Now I'll be learning to put DXF's onto PDF's I suppose...

It also occurred to me that it looks somewhere near 00/H0 scale (1/76th?). I have started by scaling it to suit the A4 cards, but the end product could be better at the model railway size. I'll take a measurement along with my next pint.

Of course, it hasn't even crossed my mind that conjuring up these models could become an excuse for a Welsh national pub crawl!:D

Ade