Love the myriad of patterns and textures captured with all the different wallpapers, rugs, and tile patterns. Really captures a 1930s vibe that you don't see too frequently done in miniature. Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks Scott , love art deco days man truly a unique era , along with the Victorian age .

Small update , from last nights work .

Hi Cheyenne, This project is coming along very nicely. Were did you get the brick molds? I am having a hard time finding some. The diving boards look great.

Robert

Thanks Rob , the bricks are made with plastic covers from wire splicing devices from when I worked as a splicer and a lineman with the phone company . [ now retired spent 31 years doin dat ] .
I have 7 or 8 molds somewhere here in my modeling hole but have only found one after moving from one room to another .
They're not a purchasable item . Just something I saw a long time ago and figured it would be useful someday for molding bricks .

Yep,those diving stations look even better with the primer on.
J

Incredible work on all the details, awesome job. Looks like an amazing project. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks I figured it was something like that.

This build is looking great and can't wait to see it finished. I love the imagination and planning being put into this...

One can only see so many tanks/armor that are built up. There are so many stories to tell and this is one. You took a photo and are recreating it in scale.

Excellent work!

Thanks guys , much appreciated !!!

More on the pool , yeah I know there's no bar in the ref pic but if it was my pool well there would be a bar .
Besides everyone knows that swimming promotes imbibing .
It's actually a state law here at the Jersey shore .

Don't know if the bar will stay there but I'll throw it in somewhere .

I am lovin the bar and the changing rooms! It is getting better and better.
J

I have to echo the others , awesome work !

Cheers ,

Kurt

That bar looks amazing!!

Are you turning those "spindle" pieces on a mini-lathe yourself?

Check here..

http://www.dioramadebris.co.uk/

This is coming along "swimmingly" haha!! Looks great! I suppose the answer to this question will be down the road, or "lane" a bit (sorry - the coffee has kicked in) but I'm really interested in seeing how you'll close the scene in - the structure that is.

You've shown strong attention to detail and proportion (you're building more or less to scale and not forcing perspective, which might be why it looks so good!) - you're in a self imposed Pandora's box of one heck of a detailed build! Eventually you'll need to define the dios edges, and then....some sort of long-span, airy looking roof structure, no doubt complete with ample destruction! Awesome!

Keep building!
Nick

Jerry , thanks man I've been thinking about the bar at work today and I'll be countersinking it into the wall behind its present location .

Kurt , thanks man .

Ivan , thanks for the link , I'll definitely be droppin down some money on their cool products .

Aaaah Nick , ....... if I was sittin down with ya havin a beer or two I could explain everything to ya .
Everything is delineated and drawn inside my Polish - Irish melon , .... the full build in 3d cranial imagery , but it's in my head and I just build in sub assemblies as I progress .
As you can see one diagonal line of the dio is the far end of the pool .
There will not be much roofing as most of it and the upper walls will have been fallen into the pool and insides [ and outside of the building ] of what you see already built .
This of course will have to be orchestrated from what it would have looked like when a complete building .
The real trick for me will be showing enough damage and debris convincingly fallen and leaving as much visuals of the insides as possible .
For example , the diving boards will have escaped destruction but will have damage .
The stairwell has that one leaning window wall tilting inward , the opposing upper wall [ when built ] and rafters will also be tilted inward yet semi intact .
This will allow a visual of much debris in the stairwell but less destruction .
A blend of what was , what has been destroyed and what's left .

I hope this is making sense , ........... as I'm building this I'll be counting on youse guys to let me know if I'm visually accomplishing this .

I guessed you were way ahead of me on this - I was curious though! I went back and looked at the old photo - the ceiling looks like it's vaulted - this might allow a couple of things - first, rather than thick concrete deck as a ceiling, it could be lightweight and thin, next, there could (would likely be?) be evenly spaced, curved, poured in place concrete ribs holding it up. The end wall looks like it has many windows - so, more glass, less concrete!

This combo (if a remotely accurate guess by me?!?!) could allow for some pretty cool dio building - you could keep a few, or portions of a few ribs in place, some ceiling between, some gaps (plus pipes, wires, metal bits, rebar, wire mesh etc), and some big holes. All of this could result in some great shadow makers from above, and enough, but not a huge amount of debris - so you could plausibly see a lot of the stuff you're building now, and still clearly look destroyed - whew! That's a lot of words! Sorry!

I guess now, even a while since my last comments, the coffee must still be working (haha)

Or...keep doing what you are planning!

Happy model building - and I'll keep quite!

Cheers
Nick

Keep quiet , ..... nonsense , more input .
I don't know how much ceiling I'll keep . The original idea was to have less ceiling and more debris yet that puts the catch 22 on the amount of crap fallen into the building which then means less stuff to see inside , yet I do like your suggestion which will leave less debris and more inside visuals ........... shadows too , cool .
Don't know about the concrete rib piers though that may not look good with the slight Victorian spin I put on the architecture .
I took license to replace metal tube type railings with old Victorian type wooden banisters and newels .
I do like your vision on the roof though , it sounds less complicated and easier to replicate than all that timber joists and rafters and such .
Yes that back wall is mostly windows which means just glass debris .

Ok how's this , a vaulted damaged back wall [ window wall ] area ceiling , giving way to almost no roof over the pool .
This way I can keep my original plan to fill the pool with debris and still keep the back wall diving board area less debrised [ which is not a word by the way ] .

Thanks Nick , I'll 86 the timber roof plan and rescribe in my melon this new setup .


Before I forget , Ivan [ 11 bravo ] the spindles are from wooden sailing ship accessories from my LHS .

Started on the lounge area , waiting on some dioramadebris products I ordered , should get them next week , slate roofing tiles , cobblestones , bricks etc.

Wow! Cheyenne, you are a model building machine! Looks great - in particular, the surface you achieved on the changing room doors! Nice!

Looking forward to your next post!

Nick

Cheyenne with every new post this just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for sharing.

Robert

This is absolutely stunning work and all scratchbuilt too! How did you get that worn effect on the cubicle doors? That looks amazing. BTW some thoughts on the roof - the Victorians were big on glass and wrought iron for this type of building (see Crystal Palace) and it looks like this sort of construction on the pay booth on the outside. This also fits with German Bauhaus/Art Deco inter-war design.

Every time you update it just gets better and better. How did you rock those changing room doors like that?
J

Nick , thanks man .
Rob , Steve , Jerry , first I primed it grey , then I painted everything a lighter gull grey , next white .
Next I took a number 527 sable brush [ it only has two horse hairs ] then it took six days , four cases of Miller Lites , two large bottles of Bacardi Gold and a case of Vanilla Coke to make all the little crack like lines ................ .............................

Nah , I went to Michaels craft store and got some acrylic crackle medium , first primer ,then acrylic light grey ,then medium then acrylic white , ...... stuff crackles all by its onesies .

Steve , yeah love that Victorian age and the art deco era .
I changed up the ref pic a little to give it a bit of a Victorian look which is where all the wood comes from .
I'm still trying to keep it as close to the pic though which to me looks to be 20's - 30's era .

Amazing detailed work. Love the doors too. Very creative. A lot of great work going on here. Good times!

JGphins

Incredible! ... Very classy stall doors!

—mike