This build had taken me some time to put together. The base is a pic frame mount with poster board foam as ground base. The electronic ground concrete ground mounts and fence concrete rectangular blocks were both plaster cast and poster board foam cut and hot glued together. Then, I added wall Spackle to cover the joints. The signs were downloaded from the internet and scale to size using a similar WORD like program. The boom setup and detail around, were scratch built using styrene and misc. parts, from my box of tricks.
Once again Tiking you have nailed it. I used to drive here in the states and scales, weigh stations, were a source of aggravation. Can’t imagine a remote unmanned scale house were your overweight ticket pops out of a kiosk.
You are so full of It ! Stop taking pictures of real stuff , Photoshopping it and showing it as models ! Dad Gummit ! You nailed it again ! ! Very believeable from any angle .
The weathering is so subtle . Are you sure this isn’t photoshopped ? LOL.LOL. T.B.
It’s amazing to see how similar, and how different, European weigh stations are to US ones.
US one’s would be a bit boring as dios. About 75-150m long, 2 to 3 lanes wide, with a low box next to the metal contact plate. Bunch of lights to illuminate the working and staging (and the pull-over, post-weigh, area). Spot for the state policing agency (commercial vehicle or weights & scales, or the like) vehicle to park. Some bollards.
All the signage is a half mile (0.6km) up the road away.
The kind of thing only US truckers and people who designed highway department appurtenances might recognize.
This dio, on the other hand, captures every thing about the experience in a simple, elegant way that is neatly on a base without wasted open space, and only needing the one vehicle to carry off.
its just a matter of practice my friend.