Modelling a Windmill from World War 1
Posted
#236243
(In Topic #13040)
Full Member
The model is to be presented to the Mayor of Pozieres sometime this week and I believe it will be placed in the museum. Nigel (the police officer) was able to send me some photos of what the Mill looked like and a couple of other confusing shots that as it turned out were not the mill at Pozieres. Some research on the net and I found that the mill was a French tower mill and I was able to find a document that indicated the sail construction. All aside this was an interesting model to build with a sad history as the mill was never reconstructed after the war.
Posted
Inactive Member
Max
Port Elderley
Port Elderley
Posted
Site staff
Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
Posted
Full Member
Posted
Full Member
Yipeee! I got an Elephant stamp woohooo. Thank you Max.You've nailed it, Robyn.
Posted
Full Member
I wish, I reckon it might take more than a model windmill to get away with that.Very nice Robyn, will it give you some brownie points if you should accidentally exceed the speed limit by 3kph?
Posted
Full Member
Be careful, though, windmills are addictive…
Gordon
Posted
Full Member
Great job Robyn – love it!
Be careful, though, windmills are addictive…
Would you believe that I have two members of our club who want a windmill on their layout now. Perhaps they are addictive.Gordon
Posted
Full Member
Very nice model Robyn. Nicely presented too. :thumbs
How about some details of how it was constructed?
Terry
Last edit: by col.stephens
Posted
Guest user
Just another uselss fact from my cluttered brain.
Rob
Posted
Inactive Member
Max
Port Elderley
Port Elderley
Posted
Full Member
Hi Terry,Very nice model Robyn. Nicely presented too. :thumbsHow about some details of how it was constructed?Terry
I really should start to put up some tutorials, it seems that a lot of the things I do are a bit of a rush and the last thing I think of is photographing the steps in building the item. Most of what I do is achieved quickly and the methods I use are not difficult, so let's do this, I will start a new thread on building this windmill exactly the same as the original and I can present it to the guy who made this happen. I will start this tonight and put a link in this thread.
Robyn
Posted
Full Member
Interesting information Rob, I based my model on these photos where the sails were in the + direction. I really had no idea what was right or wrong so the original photos won.Nothing to directly do with modelling, but in my bit of Derbyshire the local mills used to park their sails either with one vertically "+" or at forty-five degrees "X" to show the local farmers if they were milling that day or not. All except Heage Windmill (which still operates) as that has six sails.
Just another uselss fact from my cluttered brain.
Rob
Posted
Full Member
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=15656&forum_id=14
Robyn
Posted
Full Member
Last edit: by RobynT
1 guest and 0 members have just viewed this.