"How to model a sunken city" Topic

Cool-looking HO Scale barges:

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Those are really nice. I still think barges are simple enough that foam and card could produce some nice ones, especially if they are going to be covered in dwellings.

-Eli

I agree. Making your own works best.

But it has been a while since I saw an actual barge so, for me, it helps to see what a model of a barge is expected to look like.

CC

Fair enough. Where I live, we can see them all the time. I end up at one waterfront or another just about every weekend.

Those models are great visual references and the dredger would be good to get to salvage for the crane parts.

-Eli

You guys are on fire, I'm really enjoying this thread. I can't currently add any thing of use. But I'm thinking of making some water craft (in 15mm). I'll be sure to post wip and pics if i remember.

actually, I just bought some Wills Scenics OO/HO corrugated iron which I reckon could pass for 15mm

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I have a thought about makeing several platforms, and barges linking them together You can have roof tops too I like the idea of a sheet of plexiglass as the water line an then having the underwater area too! and it will be called Miami year 2030

Mil Dot,

Florida will look nice . . .

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The pirates will love it.

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But a 100-meter rise won't leave much of Florida left:

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Mil Dot,

Look at this:

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But, with a 6m rise, I'm sure there will be lots of building-islands in the Miami area.

CC

I can see Miami being the new Venice but with sharks and sting rays. Oh I'm sure the government will step in and do whatever they can so the rich don't lose any of their property value or mass fortunes so I can see them piling up breaker rocks on two sides and back filling them in like old roman walls, so have to model something like that also.

One more thing up here in the Minneapolis the have almost seven miles or better of skyways you can almost go clear across the city and never step out of a building
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Mil Dot,

So Miami will become the next New Orleans or Galveston, exposed to the elements and open to disaster assitance just about every year? :)

CC

Miami will not be the only city, New Orleans, Galveston, Manhattan, pretty much any major city world wide, where the water level could rise 6 meters to 18 meters and consume the city proper, will be screaming for hand outs and government aid from where ever they can get it.

Yeah, but that's no fun!!!

We need ghostly flooded cities, with crumbling high-rise buildings acting as islands for post-apocalyptic survivors.

CC

When you take in to account the number of people in those areas that will be trying to get out, I think your wish might come true.

Emu2020,

1) How high a sea level rise were you planning on? and

2) How many years into the glacial melt flood are you trying to duplicate? 20? 50? 100? 500?

CC

CC,

Hadn't considered that really. Designing more on style than anything else.

-Eli
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Eli,

I'm thinking of making a trip to a local hardware store and a craft store later today . . .

How big would you say each "island" should be?

Would a few irregularly shaped 8" x 6" 'rectangles' be too small?

I'm thinking of getting 1/4" mdf today, and have the sections cut out at a friend's house this weekend.

Your thoughts?

CC

I was thinking about that size, myself. I was looking on Ebay, and found some nice lots of precut foam core intended for picture mounting.

-Eli

I'm also looking at foam core, but more to make "sampans" for the "islanders":

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Imagine those, but with a proper (post-apocalyptic) corrugated metal roof!!!

What do you think?

I wonder what scale these two sampans happen to be (middle of page)?

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PS. I wish they turn out half as nice as these:
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Eli,

Check this out:

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Eli,

What do you think of this?

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CC

Looks excellent!

Imagine these intermodal container "homes" on top of a barge:

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CC

Check out the ruins of "Manhat", at 6:15 in this clip:

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CC

Stray dog bands and wolf packs would definitely make it interesting:

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Crocs can get out of flooded zoos and add to the fun:

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There was, years ago, a comic book series in which the Earth had seen a major rise in the water level and Roanoke, Virginia had become a major coastal city. I remember hearing about it as a Roanoke resident, but for the life of me can not remember the title.

Would this piece make a nice little "island", if one were to add brick rubble in between, and three treehouses with bridges on top?

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More inspiration here, from Pictors Studio:

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CC

Gotta get some big branches to stick out of the water too:

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Check this out:

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Imagine that as an island, with water all around it and, with boats instead of jeeps.

I wish someone made resin shacks like this, but for 15mm:

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CC

If one took Matakishi's city here, and filled it with water up to half the overall height, I think that the taller buildings would be the first to collapse (instead of remaining at their current height), right?

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Any structural engineers out there?

CC
PS. Don't tell me it would float, because it's made of cork. You know what I'm asking. :)

For possible "accessories":

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Gotta have a few of these dwellings over the water:

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Dan

Emu2020 (Eli),

Did you make any progress with your plans?

Dan
PS. I am still planning on turning something like this link into something like this link

More on how to make huts on platforms:

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Just imagine those over a marsh or river side.

Dan

More ideas for stilt houses:

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Dan

Imagine this, but with ruins of modern buildings peeking through:

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Dan

Here's a couple of ideas link

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and this one just picture water down below

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This is an impressive little model:

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Dan

This looks like a nice terrain piece:

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Dan

I'm sure they would build up their own little artificial "islands", much like the Aztec Chinampas:

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Dan

There might be some useful ideas here too:

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Dan

What if you use these buildings link they seem you can make each floor removeable and just insert a sheet of plexi glass you could use waterline crafts on the glass and diver figure down underneath

Doug
PS the sheet would make it more stable and you could go higher with the buildings. just a thought.

Gotta have lots of these bridges too, between the ruins that surface above the water:

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Dan

Oh yeah other wise one would just have to swim, LOL, you can make them wider, shorter, lower to the water and taller for variety of options, nice find

you could cover the washers with some greenstuff and then use a stiff brush and lightly poke at it, for a barnacle look that way it would hide the washers.

Doug

Good idea!

I still plan to use the smallest washers possible to put under the supports.

Thanks.

Dan
PS. Now, if someone had an easy and sturdy way to make a rope bridge, like this one . . .
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Nothing good ever comes easy. LOL
How about a thin strip of fiberglass screen underneath the planks, hot glued to the screen then sew brown twine through the screen then over the planks so it looks like its lashed together. Or use heavy gage copper wire just cove it with pulled cotton and paint to look like rope, then glue the planks to the wire and use brown or tan thread to make lashing and glue the underneath side of the thread you could make the lashing look like the image and the bottom
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Then you could use twine for hand rails and heavier string for the supports. either one should give you the support your looking for.

Doug

Wow. If it wasn't for the overwhelming size of it all, I would love to make this image my inspiration for a PA pirate board:

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Dan
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UPDATE: Rebel now has the perfect set of figures to use as Post Apocalyptic pirates:

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Dan
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