https://youtu.be/E4uCbioimzg
The Personal Pan Pizza, now named Weda & Heckawe Junction, on the road at the 2016 Great Train Show in Costa Mesa
Have fun with your trains
Personal Pizza is served:
Overall
Town
backside of town
Close ups:
I got tired of how hard it is trying to focus on the layout while competing with all the background junk in the garage so I matted out the mess.
Hopefully I'll be able to bring this to the next show.
Hotel Califoria ?? a place where you can check in but you can't check out?
Dave, sunny norcal
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Some new pics
and the new watertank
Some shots of the interior of the hotel
all balsawood and a bunch of stuff from a local art shop that specializes in Mexican folk art, lots of really cool detail stuff thats perfect for large scale
If you know where to get a 1/24ish figure ...
Where's Wiley E. Coyote?
dwbeckett Nice small store, what size is the foot print? Dave
Nice small store, what size is the foot print?
Dave
About 3" x 3", the hotel will be much grander at a palatial 5" x 3"
First building finished, a small (very small) dry good store.
Foam core with wood overlay, Precision Products doors/windows, Paper Creek roof paper
Next a small (very small) hotel/bar.
Great job! Great pictures! Thanks for posting.
Hi Ben glad to see you on the forum.It is carved blue foam with lots and lots of paint. Still adding paint and more stuff. Stay in touch.
Updates to the Personal Pan Pizza
I want to finish this one up so heres the layout to date:
The last picture is the true color, some reason the camera color shifts with the flash.
The bridge is now over a small wash and I'm going to do a small town/mine at the top, just something fun.
Added ball bearing wheels to the caboose, they work so good on this kind of track now I have to replace all the other shorty car with BBs. Guess I can always sell the metal wheels to subsidize the task.
'You da Scratch Man', Vic!
jwhitten vsmith My signiture pic is this one, an LGB Porter: I particularly like the Porter! How long did it take you to make the other one?
vsmith My signiture pic is this one, an LGB Porter:
My signiture pic is this one, an LGB Porter:
I particularly like the Porter!
How long did it take you to make the other one?
For me a Whaddahellizit only a few days work usually spread over a couple weeks evenings. I did the Mylargescale Masterclass a few years ago (not offered anymore sadly) building a scratchbuilt 1/22.5 model of the Souther Pacific CP Huntington, the skill learned there and from subsequent bashes allow me knock these out pretty quickly, of course another point is to use whatever parts are on hand to build a beleivable looking freelance model without being restrained by rigidly adhering to prototype, its a lot of fun too to see where your parts supply leads you. For Whadda #2 I used a cab from a Scientific Toys loco, and scratched a boiler from plumbing pipe, scratched the tank from sheet styrene and scratched the bunker .
Large scale is very easy to bash in
vsmithMy signiture pic is this one, an LGB Porter:
I definitely see room for a second mainline.
that is cool.
good day
Thanks for the information. I did a little research on foam cutters and if I was going to buy one I'd go with the Hot Wire Foam Factory products. Their products are a bit more $ but I think they're worth the extra few bucks. The "Pro" tools are pretty cool-take a look at them.
Forget about the layout and give us the pizza, Later RJD
Pink foam and Blue foam are both the same foam, extruded polystyrene, but from different manufacturers. I use the blue Dow foam because I have a local source for it. The foam has a dense texture, cuts and carves really well. I bought a Woodland Scenics foam cutter and it does make working with the stuff MUCH easier to shape and form.
Geodesic foam is a 2 part mixed foam that has to be poured over a latex form to get the rock texture, that is then layed over either, I just learned to carve the rock forms into the blue foam but the geodesic stuff looks way better when painted correctly
DO NOT USE WHITE STYROFOAM, the large beaded stuff used for shipping packaging. It is a hellish mess to shape.
Blue foam, pink foam, Geodesic foam? What's the difference? Pink foam is extruded foam, right? Geodesic foam is totally different, right? So what is best?
jwhitten PJM20 A Hartland Locomotives Works (HLW) Mack:http://www.h-l-w.com/Products/Selfpowered/Mac%20Yellow%20web.jpg A very nice engine from waht I have heard. - Peter That's very cool. I have always liked it in the OP's signature, but never knew what it was. John
PJM20 A Hartland Locomotives Works (HLW) Mack:http://www.h-l-w.com/Products/Selfpowered/Mac%20Yellow%20web.jpg A very nice engine from waht I have heard. - Peter
A Hartland Locomotives Works (HLW) Mack:http://www.h-l-w.com/Products/Selfpowered/Mac%20Yellow%20web.jpg A very nice engine from waht I have heard. - Peter
That's very cool. I have always liked it in the OP's signature, but never knew what it was.
John
Actually in the upper pic its this one, a Mack based Whadahellizit #2
The Porter was used as a model for the Mack bash
I like them (Macks) too.
Vic, I think you may have convinced me to someday build a Pizza layout!
PJM20A Hartland Locomotives Works (HLW) Mack:http://www.h-l-w.com/Products/Selfpowered/Mac%20Yellow%20web.jpg A very nice engine from waht I have heard. - Peter
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What type of locomotive is that?
Fantastic, but you sure do have a future in politics. I don't believe you have demonstrated individual control, running one slow and one fast (an impossible feat as are most political solutions), so you demonstrate something else. Bravo!
Art
So far theres no word if the MLS group will have a booth or not.
Are you brining the pizza to the Fairplex?
Tom Trigg
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