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The updated forum system software took a byte out of my apples (Thanks, Burley Jim, for the great opening line, )
Here is a recreated SBS for making the apples.
New York was/is the number one McIntosh grower. Macs are an earlier variety of apple. Both of those made macs a perfect selection for a truck load of apples on the NEB&W, set in NewYork and Vermont in September.
I used these colors of FEMO polymer clay for the apples. To get good colors for modeling macs a little white was addd to the red. Then the green was toned down with a bit more white and some yellow. A "prototype" Mac was used as a reference.
Several snakes of the red and green clay mixes were twisted together and then rolled out by hand to a diameter of about 3-5 scale inches. The piece of monofilament line and the small holes in the blue bread tag were used as guides for the size. The X-Acto knife cut the snakes into short lengths.
Here are 2 red/green snake samples. Care was taken to not overly blend the red and green together. The chopped pieces were then rolled into apple shapes, again not over blending the clay colors.
The pinvise with the needle above was used to poke dimples into the apples for the stem ends. The apples were separated and placed on a disposable pie plate and baked as per instructions for the FEMO clay (250° F for about 20 minutes).
Apples get packed in standard one bushel boxes. Those bushels are measured by weight not volume. A bushel of apples weighs between 42 and 48 pounds depending on the variety and where you check. Twenty four bushels tip the scale at a minimum of 1,008 lbs, plenty for an older half ton truck. I initially planned three dozen boxes never suspecting that would overload the pickup truck by more than 50%.
One manufacturer listed the standard apple box as 19′′ long by 13′′ wide by 11′′ tall. A dozen don’t quite fit the model bed which is a bit small due to the thickness of its plastic sides. Happily, field measurements confirmed, like everything else, boxes vary slightly. I built boxes 18′′ × 13′′ × 11′′. They
still are packed more tightly than they should be, but it isn’t noticeable.
Here is a recreated SBS for making the apples.
New York was/is the number one McIntosh grower. Macs are an earlier variety of apple. Both of those made macs a perfect selection for a truck load of apples on the NEB&W, set in NewYork and Vermont in September.
I used these colors of FEMO polymer clay for the apples. To get good colors for modeling macs a little white was addd to the red. Then the green was toned down with a bit more white and some yellow. A "prototype" Mac was used as a reference.
Several snakes of the red and green clay mixes were twisted together and then rolled out by hand to a diameter of about 3-5 scale inches. The piece of monofilament line and the small holes in the blue bread tag were used as guides for the size. The X-Acto knife cut the snakes into short lengths.
Here are 2 red/green snake samples. Care was taken to not overly blend the red and green together. The chopped pieces were then rolled into apple shapes, again not over blending the clay colors.
The pinvise with the needle above was used to poke dimples into the apples for the stem ends. The apples were separated and placed on a disposable pie plate and baked as per instructions for the FEMO clay (250° F for about 20 minutes).
Apples get packed in standard one bushel boxes. Those bushels are measured by weight not volume. A bushel of apples weighs between 42 and 48 pounds depending on the variety and where you check. Twenty four bushels tip the scale at a minimum of 1,008 lbs, plenty for an older half ton truck. I initially planned three dozen boxes never suspecting that would overload the pickup truck by more than 50%.
One manufacturer listed the standard apple box as 19′′ long by 13′′ wide by 11′′ tall. A dozen don’t quite fit the model bed which is a bit small due to the thickness of its plastic sides. Happily, field measurements confirmed, like everything else, boxes vary slightly. I built boxes 18′′ × 13′′ × 11′′. They
still are packed more tightly than they should be, but it isn’t noticeable.
Bill that's a lot of apples, and they all look delicious. Excellent build in every aspect. Thanks for posting. What kind of pan did you use to bake the clay???
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