SCUBA diving and Model RR scene on or by the water

[Anonymous]

As an avid technical SCUBA diver I am always interested in that subject too. Our On3 RR is placed in the 1940s, so the period is too early, but modelers in more recent period could model some divers suited and tanked up getting ready to enter the water, either from the shore or from a boat You could also model the head and arms of divers floating/waiting on the surface, Dont forget a 'float' with the red and white "DIVER DOWN" flag! .

I have NEVER seen this 'scene' on any model RR in any publication in 40 plus years!!! Here is your chance to be the first, just remember me when its time to give credit for the idea.

Hey Elliot, [ Big Boy] you could add the divers to the water edge at your 'Entertrainment' and see how many people can find them. ('[:I]')
Jennifer

[krump]

scuba diving can work for an accident recovery scene, a rescue operation, diving for treasure, or purely for the sport of it...endless options.
where there is water (or at least a lake), scuba diving is good.

[Anonymous]

Hey krump, you have some great ideas there for assorted SCUBA scenarios. I hope someone takes the lead and tries a SCUBA scene. I notice that your somewhere in BC, There is a LOT of great diving, some of the best in the world, along the shores of Vancouver Island and mainland BC.
Jennifer

[chutton01]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jennifer RR


I have NEVER seen this 'scene' on any model RR in any publication in 40 plus years!!! Here is your chance to be the first, just remember me when its time to give credit for the idea.

I'm afraid it's a bit late to be first:
Presier (of course) makes a Diver set - 6 figures with wetsuits, facemasks, and fins (not sure about the tanks - if need be get some N scale acetalyne tanks for a kitbash start).
Anyway, in the 2004 Walthers Catalog - page 398, these Presier divers are used in a scene with the Walthers Lighthouse - hmm, here I see tanks on the back of one diver as s/he scambles down. OK, so they are entering the water from land; diving from a boat scene with a bouy flying the diving flag (which is...quick, most common flag, or correct flag?) even I haven't seen. So, if you can see it in Walthers, it's probably everywhere else too...

With the recent release of the Boley Rescue Lifeboats, be certain that the diver rescue scene mentioned by Krump will eventually be found on many a layout with a waterfront area.

[krump]

Gotta love those Presier figures.

I have a plan including the California style hoover-crafts, the divers and a whale watching expedition. Actually the divers will likely be searching for the local OGOPOGO legendary lake monster.
I plan to do a small memorial type scene in a separate corner of the lake - depicting the divers involved in a local mud-slide recovery that I drove by two years ago. The mud slide tragedy covered the road, went into the lake, and closed the highway for several days. A reminder to me of some of the forgotten dangers. Not to be sounding morbid but those types of events, have a lasting impression in small town country life. I drive down that portion of the hwy every week.

Jennifer - I'm in Salmon Arm , BC (Shuswap) area - between Vancouver, BC and Calgary, Alberta (about 10 hrs NorthEast of Portland). I used to go to the Jesus NW festivals in the '90's - Vancouver Washington, and then hangout on the Oregon Coast for a few days. Beautiful area. My wife and I spent most of our Honeymoon in coastal Oregon ('96) --- Agate Bay (or Beach ?) was a favourite camping area, and the tidal pools were awesome.
As far as scuba diving - my experience is limited to a few lessons in Mexico, but mostly a lot of snorkelling. I'd like to take Scuba Diving up (lessons first) again when the kids are a bit older.

[Anonymous]

Hi krump, If you choose to dive near home, when you take it up again, you'll find that cold water diving is quite a bit different than warm water such as you find in Mexico. Most of us dive in dry suits which are much warmer than wet suits, but they are more cumbersome.. The beauty of the underwater sea scape is something to behold! We dive up in the Puget Sound and points north along the 'Straights' The only thing in Oregon, aside from a few coastal locations are mucky 'freshwater' lakes and rivers, so we spend most of our underwater time closer to you. I wi***here was a train to take to the dive sites! It would make the trip home, usually bone tired, much nicer. The van full of gear could be a 'baggage problem' though.

Preiser figures: WOW I gotta look those up and get a set just for the fun of it! Has anyone here actually made a scene with them, how 'bout some links to some photos.
Jennifer

[chutton01]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jennifer RR

Preiser figures: WOW I gotta look those up and get a set just for the fun of it! Has anyone here actually made a scene with them, how 'bout some links to some photos.
Jennifer

For those who haven't seen them, here is the Preiser set:

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-10249

Although the picture quality leaves much to be desired, it seems only one diver has tanks on (the squatting one on the right). If true, again perhaps N scale acetelyne tanks could be adapted.
I remember one scene (not railroad related) where a Fine Scale Modeler (hint) created an Apollo Capsule recovery team set in the Pacific ocean, where he poured several layers of expoxy (or water) then posed some frogmen in it, poured some more layers, added the capsule, and finished it off with some more layers of expoxy, painted and teased into wave ripples to represent the surface of the ocean. The key was you could look into the side of the 'ocean' scene and it see the frogmen and capsule were indeed floating in the water (I've seen this technique used in many other places).
Another layout scene I remember, but don't think I'd find on the web, was that of several divers surrounding a car which had drove off the end of a dock, trying to hook tow cables onto it.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the link.. I will be buying a set and put them to use somewhere on our yet to be built HO display diorama. No room for a full HO layout with the On3 and Lionel we have, but a senicked 1-1/2 foot by 12 or so foot 'display' layout will give us a place to show our collection of mostly vintage HO buildings and rolling stock. Perhaps next summer........
Jennifer