I thought Zathros might appreciate this diorama

[ARMORMAN]

From Facebook by Greg Bierck:

Never got the lathe finished…sorry Bruce. Had a stroke and lost my “touch”, especially on little things. 1500 hrs. Machining all, and scratch making/ building the machine shop in 1” to the foot scale. PM Model raw castings. All machines are copies of a real machine… for instance, the mill is in the Ford Museum. All power take offs work, tables with”T” slots (all had to be made with a special tool I made). Has an office with a roll top desk, and a bottle of Scotch in the bottom drawer for those bad days. Also has a ceiling fan in the office run by the overhead belting system. This is after hours, and, the machine shop cat has not seen the rat yet under the work bench. All drawings are the blueprints used for machining, just reduced in size. I have one part on each machine station, being machined at each station. The time clock has time cards with names of friends who also machine things. A hand crank puts all in motion, which is outside the building. The building does expand and contract, and all belts can be adjusted for this. This was over a 10 year project. Not for folks who need immediate gratification!

 

[ennder]

WOW!!! Love the detail. I could spend hours looking at this

 

[mijob]

This is looking awesome. There is so m7ch to see.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

This looks way too "real" to be a diorama.

 

[zathros]

This has to be one of the best diorama's. The first time I saw it, I thought is was a conserved real one. It looks absolutely real, and to scale.!

 

[ARMORMAN]

This has to be one of the most diorama's. The first time I saw it, I thought is was a conserved real one. It looks absolutely real, and to scale.!

Thought you'd like it.

 

[ARMORMAN]

Found some more pics...

"Sits on this shelf in my museum; one wall is plexiglass, and so is half the ceiling. I put a mirror near the ceiling so one can look down in. There is a model steam engine which could be used on air to run the shop, but I would never steam it inside the building. The boiler is a toy one, fatally flawed, with a red light inside which makes it look hot in the fire box. There is also a smoke unit in the smoke stack to make it look like it’s really running. I hid a small electric motor in the fire box originally, with a push button to run, but it lacked the torque needed, so I replaced that with a heavy flywheel/ crank, which is “Armstrong”. One can turn it either way, but only one direction is technically correct. People just didn’t follow the signs saying turn to the right only…they have to TOUCH everything! So, I had to make it foolproof. "

 

[ElMäx]

that's some crazy level craftmanship and dedication! breathtaking. you could stand before it, bended down, head in the model to examine all the details until your back muscles surrender and your spine breaks.
could be displayed in a technologgy/machine museum

 

[Revell-Fan]

Holy moly, this is breathtaking!!! Thank you very much for posting this here. This is as encouraging as inspiring! Major kudos to the maker!

 

[ARMORMAN]

I just found out that this guy is about 1 1/2 to 2 hours drive from me. I'm going to see if he would let me come down and see his museum.