Red Horse wrote: Lillan, I hope you will post some pics when done?Expalacedog,Thanks for the links...soooo much info, wow!Loathar,I have two days off after each 48 hour shift and I like to work on my layout late into the night.
Lillan, I hope you will post some pics when done?
Expalacedog,
Thanks for the links...soooo much info, wow!
Loathar,
I have two days off after each 48 hour shift and I like to work on my layout late into the night.
I certainly will.
I just have to wait for spring, then I'm gonna tear out the old one(the one I built last summer) and start construction on the new room. I'm rebuilding my woodshed and insulating it and putting all that is needed in. It will take a while before any track is laid but it will be worth it!
Magnus
Great work Red horse.
I like it. I'm going to have a military base on my layout to. Well, just the gates and then the rest is in staging. But I will run some military equipment.
Thanks for showing us.
If you are doing a military base, you might find these sites useful
http://www.military-info.com/Index.htm
http://www.military-info.com/Aphoto/TM%205-280.htm
http://www.military-info.com/MPHOTO/P021G.HTM
http://military.railfan.net/
http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/armytm/tm5-628/
http://www.army.mil/usapa/eng/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/tm5_628.pdf
http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/cds/army5.html
http://www.tpub-products.com/archive/
http://www.tpub-products.com/archive/?../../subscribers/./Army-Training/Army-Transportation/
Have fun
Thanks for the encouragement my Friends,
Ozarkbelt, I can't do a pic of the over all layout yet because I'm building it in sections, I only have 2 sections of a 4 section layout, when the "Modules" are done they join up to make a full layout, each section is approx 3'X4' the good part is, when it is completed I can add a section at anytime during the life of the layout without having to wreck what I've already done.
I just make sure that when the sections are joined, the roads, rails and topography line up, the only thing I have to do is wire the telephone lines from section too section.
I have the military base and the rural side of the tracks done, now I have to create the Reservation and then the bad side of town, well more like a Bad Town....LOl!
The bad town will be a lot of fun because I get to make stuff that is seedy, gritty, dark and well lets face it, what I grew up with....LOL!
Thank God we get older and smarter and build a better life than whet we had growing up...LOL!
Well I'm off to find my Native Tee Pees and reworked mobile homes to start on the Rez scenes, when I get a little more done I'll post.
The construction scenes that I have posted already were learned by reading everything I could find on the internet, and I took a past comment here to heart, one responder made the statement that my very first work was "toy like' and that stuck with me, so I studied all the wonderful pics here I could find and realized what that poster was talking about so I raised the bar on my own work and when it's done I will be a master at building layouts on a "shoe string budget"....ah, and shoe strings....LOL!
I'm trying hard to do this right, I may have limited funds but I'm squeezing every drop of buildable worth out of those dollars that's for sure.
Happy Rails my Friends....
Jess Red Horse builder of the Penny Pincher Line.
Great Work! Your ground cover looks better then mine!
On a side note, i would love to see a pic of the overall view of the layout!
Keep up the good work!
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Dude...that's coming along pretty well!
You are progressing pretty fast for someone just into this hobby a few weeks!
Keep it up, Jess.
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
The pic below is of the simple hill that I moulded using a flexable "Sam Splint" formed, glued to lay out, back ground colors painted on.
Using blobs of this plastic cement style clay I applied grass around the granite boulders and highlighted them with a charcol brushed wash.
Here are a few other mounds, rock out croppings and boulders I've created, this is about as good as my skills will allow at this stage.
Heres a nice example of a rock pile in the fore ground,
Hills are cool;
Before (Na'Ape Pass)
Na'ape Pass After land scaping;
Well thats about it for now, I'll throw in a pic from the civillian side of the lay out, I will be photographing the "Town" section of the layout tomorrow and will try and post them here.
This is a Graffitti Bridge.
It isn't the best work you'll see here but I'm still learning.
Bonus pic (just found) The over view of the base section.