Re-use Old Railway Scenery And Buildings To Create A New Diorama
Well seen as I am on a big mission to save money, I am trying to re-use as much of my old layout ‘Boddington’ and now it is time to re-use the ‘Boddington Parish Church.’
It was a great addition to Boddington but for the past 2 months it has been sat in my cupboard collecting dust, so now it is time to make it collect dust while on display! So when I was given inspiration from Model Town (A TV show on Discovery Shed) I decided to make a completely Non-Railway Diorama that included the parish church (My Church is a Metcalfe Parish Church Kit) this will also give my partner the chance to make some trees as she picked up one of my Model Railway magazines and saw an article on make them out of wire, and now wants to give it a go.
Measuring The Chuch For A CAD Model
Before I could get an idea for how the baseboard is going to look I needed to measure the chuch to make sure that it was going on to a good sized baseboard. So I simply used a steel rule to get all the dimensions.
Making A CAD Drawing
So using my favriote 2D CAD Program DraftSight I set about making a CAD design of the proposed layout of the diorama. I thought it best that I take this step to avoid any silly complications of sizes and such related issues. Plus when it comes to cutting all the different layers for the diorama I can have a cutting list made up and make sure I have the material to hand when I start making the baseboard. Plus it has been great practise for my CAD design skills.
If you want to download a larger size of these plans for FREE simply click on the image to the left and right click and save as.
The Nice thing about making a CAD design of a proposed project is that you can see what the final piece will look like once finished, with a few CAD tools like Rotate, Infinity Line and Layers you can create many different aspect views easily.
I am hoping to at a later stage do a full how-to video on making these aspect views in 2D CAD.
On To The build
Coming Soon! Once I have built it!
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