On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 3:03:30 PM UTC-4,
wrober...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 12:21:45 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 12:55:38 AM UTC-4, wrober...@gmail.com wrote:
My granddaughter needed a small model of a barn for a school project. I freehanded one for her and she painted it. It was a joy to build, especially for her.
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0gGzFCC1J52MJi
Bob
Very nice! It is fun to build things for our young family members.
My son needed to build something to "act out" a scene from a book he was reading. It too was a farm
scene and there needed to be movement. We built a rectangular box (wooden, of course) that was about
4 inches high, just tall enough to put one of those square 6V batteries inside. We used a belt from my
belt sander as a "dirt road" and attached a small toy tractor to it. The motor drove the belt and the tractor
moved along the "road", disappearing down into the box at one end and reappearing at the other.
He added other farm related stuff around it to complete the scene.
That shows a lot of creativity and I am certain it was special because of who you built it for.
Correction: ...built it *with*.
I actually stole the idea from something in my own youth. I grew up in Queens, NYC and spent a lot
of time in Flushing-Meadows Park, the site of the 64-65 World's Fair. (I actually lived one block
from the Fair prior to and during those years. I watched the fair being built in the swamp land
around the Flushing river. For 2 years we woke at 6AM to the sounds of the pile drivers.)
After the Fair was closed/demolished and the park was built, one of the attractions that they
left standing was a scale model of NYC, called the Panorama Of New York City. It was housed in the
Queens Museum, adjacent to the ice skating rink where I spent almost every weekend as a teen.
https://www.wanderlustingk.com/travel-blog/new-york-city-panorama
Back then, visitors "flew" over the city on a little train, with small enclosed cars made to resemble
a helicopter, and listened to the voice of the newscaster Lowell Thomas: "Let's get ready for take-off for
a flight into the past and present of the greatest city on earth!" Thomas then narrated your flight around
NYC.
It was the 2 airports (LaGuardia and JFK) in that model that gave me the idea for the moving road.
Imagine 2 lengths of closely spaced fishing line running from the ceiling of the building to the scale
model on the floor. Suspended between the lines were little airplanes. When the planes reached the
runway, they would disappear under the airport at the exact same time that another little plane would
pop up out of the floor and taxi along the runway. The plane had "landed". When the taxiing plane reached
the end of the runway, it would disappear into the floor and the plane on the lines would come up from
beneath the floor and "take off". The timing was perfect and landings, taxiing and take offs just repeated
all day (and all night).
I simply stole the idea behind the "taxiing" portion for my son's tractor road.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)