Having spent a lot of time on designing the trusses, deck, swing structure etc. the bridge’s complexity kept growing. But the more I added, the more I realized that still a lot of details had to be added. The pedestrian walkways on Third Avenue Bridge were not really part of the bridge’s core. Existing high […]
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Adding Detail to the Trusses It took me two weeks to review my design of the Third Avenue swing bridge span and to create the vector graphics files for the additional details. And cutting the files on their 60W laser wasn’t a top priority of my laser cutting service during Covid-19 times. But when I
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The section of the Third Avenue Bridge that was within my layout perimeter was completed a long time ago. I could have left it with that, a girder bridge ending on the eastern rest pier of the swing bridge. Modeling the complex web of a truss bridge was out of reach for me. After my
How many times have I browsed with envy through a catalog of HO locomotives, rolling stocks, structures and accessories just to realize they have everything and we N-scalers have almost nothing. Walthers has a nice though massive car float that looks like one of CNJ’s prototypes. Nevertheless, there is no N scale equivalent of that HO car
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