Well the weathering on the Jenny diorama is now almost complete.The workshop just needs its tools etc... so I thought that I would start on the hangar doors.
The doors are of the sliding variety,six in all.Three are housed in skeleton like structures on each side of the main hangar.The arrangement will be similiar to the hangars built in Canada of that era ,and seen on most air force bases of the period.
I have been racking my brains trying to figure out the mechanism that is required for the doors to slide on.The bottom is fairly simple as they just seem to slide in tracks on the floor.The top is another story.
I gave it some thought and it finally came to me.Dont bother making something that will never be seen or used.The doors will be shown stored in their side structures,one on top of the other.The top is fitted with a sloping valance behind which would be the sliding mechanism which is almost impossible to see from a normal viewing position.The whole diorama is to be enclosed in plexiglass so the open hangar doors wont be a problem for dust or probing little fingers.I am busy now making the lower tracks out of layers of tongue depressors which will be glued to the exterior, as these doors are actually outside the main buildings structure.I am trying to figure out how I can make the whole assembly one unit to be screwed and not glued.The diorama up until this point can be taken apart with just a few screws and I would like to keep it that way for ease of maintenance, especially the lighting.
I will try to take some pics of all this soon.Cheers! John.
(Every child is an artist.The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso)