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A treasury of weekend projects for all model railroad enthusiasts, spanning everything from bench framing to wiring, assembling buildings, creating realistic ground covers, detailing locomotives, and running the railroad.
Each project includes a handy table explaining the time (one to eight hours), tools, materials, money, skill level, and space required for successful completion. Studio photographs complement the text, and although the focus is on information specific to HO scale, each project includes a list of scales to which it is applicable.
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This book is an accumulation of discussions and project profiles related to the design and creation of animatronic based exhibits and attractions. The first part of the book explores the design considerations and challenges for 25 different projects. The final designs are presented and discussed within the context of basic design and communication practices and theory. The second part of the book provides a detailed description of the processes behind creating animatronic figures. The technical components and artistic processes are presented, along with a discussion of how those processes affect the overall design of animatronic exhibits and attractions.
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Author Edwin Wise has written the perfect book to help you liven up the holidays! This hands-on and project-oriented book on animated holiday displays covers simple, classic projects and advanced motion animation used in professional mechatronic systems. Along the way, it includes tips and tricks for sculpting and decorating all your self-operated mechanisms.
While other books on the market describe only static displays, none provide the advanced hobbyist with the tools needed to create a complex animated display. Animatronics: A Guide to Animated Holiday Displays is targeted at the intermediate and advanced builder and covers four broad categories:
ò Electrical animations
ò Pneumatic animations
ò Servo animations
ò Control systems
Also covered are background projects that include stationary systems such as Fog Chillers and how to make water glow under black light. Animatronics guides you through projects to build and control AC motors and pneumatic systems inside your animated props. It also includes some overlap with Wise's previous book, Applied Robotics, dealing with the sensor and MCU control projects.
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This comprehensive guide includes discussions of basic construction techniques and provides a single source of high-quality instructions for assembling different projects. A useful reference for beginners and veterans alike, Getting Started with LEGO Trains gives budding engineers everything they need to know to build trains, from setting up tracks to designing custom freight cars. Color photos, illustrations, tables and screenshots are included in this in-depth guide.
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If you've ever been frustrated by dark, out of focus photos of your models and wonder how the pros do it, this book is for you! Nationally known author and photographer Bruce Nall takes you step by step to shooting clear, sharp photos every time: All without spending thousands on photo equipment. Illustrated with over a hundred photos and diagrams, this book will have you shooting like a pro in no time!
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Casey and Jeb are back with new adventures aboard everybody's favorite railroad, only this time they?re dealing with an expanded landscape. Fans will meet their boss, stationmistress Mrs. Withers, who?s just as crusty as Casey; the rascally and thankfully inanimate statue of TTR?s founder, Caddington Frink; Jeb?s phlegmatic girlfriend Trixie Sue Kazoo; Buzz, the appropriately-named assistant of Mrs. Withers; and a passel of ghosts haunting the station's attic who need a few lessons from Freddy Kruger!
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Why do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks those who share his ôpassion beyond scaleö and discovers a wonderfully strange and vital culture.
PoseyÆs first layout, wired by his mother in the years just after the Second World War, was, as he writes in his Introduction, ôa miniature universe which I could operate on my own. Speed and control: I was fascinated by both, as well as by the way they were inextricably bound together.ö Eventually, when PoseyÆs son was born, he was convinced that building him a basement layout would be the highest expression of fatherhood. Sixteen years and thousands of hours later, this project, ôthe outgrowth of chance meetings, unexpected friendships, mistakes, illness, latent ambitions, and sheer luckö was completed. But for Posey, the creation of his HO-scale masterpiece based on the historic Colorado Midland, was just the beginning.
In Playing with Trains, Sam Posey ventures well beyond the borders of his layout in northwestern Connecticut, to find out what makes the top modelers tick. He expects to find men ôengaged in a genial hobby, happy to spend a few hours a week escaping the pressures of contemporary life.ö Instead he uncovers a world of extremesûextreme commitment, extreme passion, and extreme differences of approach. For instance, Malcolm Furlow, holed up on his ranch in the wilderness of New Mexico, insists that model railroading is defined by scenery and artistic self-expression. On the other hand, Tony Koester, a New Jersey modeler, believes his ômissionö is to replicate, with fanatical precision and authenticity, the way a real railroad operates. Going to extremes himself, Posey actually ôtest drivesö a real steam engine in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to understand the great machines that inspired the models and connect us to a time when ôthe railroad was inventing America.ö Timeless and original, Playing with Trains reveals a classic, questing American world.
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