Weekend Photo Fun!!! weekend of 1/11

[selector]

Thanks, Charlie.  I'll take a look.  What you have posted sure makes it easy to want to....

-Crandell

[BCSJ]

I had an op session on the Bear Creek and South Jackson Saturday the 12th and spent a bunch of time chasing the trains with my camera.

If you're interested there are more pix on my website at:

http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/operations/bcsj3_ops/ops_080112/index.html 

Regards,

Charlie Comstock 

[Blue Flamer]

Driline you complain about Jeff and his album ,why do you quote every response,go figure.

Because my quotes don't include 11 PICTURES Genius! 

Now pick up your crayons and go home.

Children.

If you don't start playing nice, Daddy is going to confiscate your Mice and lock off your Internet access. 

Blue Flamer. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Now that's funny!

[Driline]

Driline you complain about Jeff and his album ,why do you quote every response,go figure.

Because my quotes don't include 11 PICTURES Genius! 

Now pick up your crayons and go home.

[edo1039]

Driline you complain about Jeff and his album ,why do you quote every response,go figure.

[johngraser]

Terry / KenFolk,

Thanks for the comments! 

I have been working on the layout for about two years now.  The bridge has been the main issue for not completing the layout; do to it being in the middle of the layout. This is my first real HO layout attempt (been in O, G and S gauge before this).  It's been and interesting experience building this bridge, the photos that the bridge is base on are only of the top plus the full size version is a lot long then this.  Hope fully I can lay the track in the next couple of months.

John Graser

[jeffrey-wimberly]

That river looks dynamite! Great work.

[Bill54]

Everybodys pictures are great. 

I hope to have some in the coming weeks.  Right now I'm still  in the process of building the basic layout.  I will have some layout pictres soon.

Bill

[BCSJ]

Hi guys

I spent the weekend making the final details on a sceen with a bridge and a river on my layout. This is my first attempt to post a picture I hope it will show.

Roland Levin
Sweden

Hey Roland!

That's some NICE water you've got there! Great job.

If you're using a digital camera have you checked your white balance setting? Things are looking a bit on the reddish/yellow side.  Some cameras, even when set to 'incandescent' white balance leave things a touch more reddish than they perhaps ought to be. Is there a manual white balance mode?

Again, that's some great water!

Regards,

Charlie Comstock 

[Kenfolk]

I click on Weekend Photo Fun to see the pictures--

Thanks Jeffrey, for posting all of those. I admire your work. 

John--Great bridge!

[C&O Fan]

Nice looking bridge John

[johngraser]

I just finish relaying my track with caulk, do to removing track nails and drilling holes for my switch machines.  Here is a picture of a Walthers 90' turntable I just completed last weekend.

The bridge has been a work in progress and I am currently preparing the ties to be installed. 

John Graser

[Driline]

Driline 

This is the kit I bought http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1008  It contains everything you need plus lots of things I never used. The armature, the matte medium and the leaf material is the most important parts. The tweezers, the spraymaster and the trays are usefull. You can build 15 - 18 threes with the kit.

I found a local (swedish) supplier of the armatures after I tested the Scenary Express kit and have built most of my threes with things I bought from them. It's the same stuff. They gave my one good tip however. Buy some piano wire 0,5 - 0,8 mm and push that into the armature before you start the process. This will straiten them and reinforce them. You might have to soak the armatures in water before pushing the wire in to them.

Roland

Great! Thanks, I found the starter kit on Walthers web site #653-220 retail $41.98, but I'll get 20% discount when I order it through "Thunder Road Hobbies". Thanks again...

Oh, and I've got my plane ticket and Hotel reserved in Sweden to look for those armatures. Now thats gonna cost me a little more.....maybe $5,000 ? But well worth it.

[Roland_Levin]

Driline 

This is the kit I bought http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1008  It contains everything you need plus lots of things I never used. The armature, the matte medium and the leaf material is the most important parts. The tweezers, the spraymaster and the trays are usefull. You can build 15 - 18 threes with the kit.

I found a local (swedish) supplier of the armatures after I tested the Scenary Express kit and have built most of my threes with things I bought from them. It's the same stuff. They gave my one good tip however. Buy some piano wire 0,5 - 0,8 mm and push that into the armature before you start the process. This will straiten them and reinforce them. You might have to soak the armatures in water before pushing the wire in to them.

Roland

[Driline]

Driline

I made them from a Super Tree starter kit by Scenic Express. It's not very difficult. You paint (airbrush) the armature, dip them in the "glue" you get with the kit and sprinkle Noch Leaf Flake Flock from above. Let them dry and then spray more "glue" and add more leaf material and/or lighter leaf material. I made about 50 of them in 5 hours. I have about 80 of them on the layout and need to make about 50 more.

Roland

Roland, did you buy the "Super Tree Kit" or the "Super Sage Tree kit" ? I want to order the correct one from walthers so I wanted to make sure...

[Driline]

Driline

I made them from a Super Tree starter kit by Scenic Express. It's not very difficult. You paint (airbrush) the armature, dip them in the "glue" you get with the kit and sprinkle Noch Leaf Flake Flock from above. Let them dry and then spray more "glue" and add more leaf material and/or lighter leaf material. I made about 50 of them in 5 hours. I have about 80 of them on the layout and need to make about 50 more.

Roland

Thanks....I've got Scenic Express on my "To buy list"

[Driline]

Sorry. It only takes a couple of seconds for me.

I figured out what you were doing after the first 5 or 6 shots.... I didn't need to see an album

Thanks for not understanding

[Roland_Levin]

Driline

I made them from a Super Tree starter kit by Scenic Express. It's not very difficult. You paint (airbrush) the armature, dip them in the "glue" you get with the kit and sprinkle Noch Leaf Flake Flock from above. Let them dry and then spray more "glue" and add more leaf material and/or lighter leaf material. I made about 50 of them in 5 hours. I have about 80 of them on the layout and need to make about 50 more.

Roland

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Sorry. It only takes a couple of seconds for me.

[Driline]

Here's a few things I was working on yesterday.

New decals for one of my E7's.

The L&N E6 is now in MGRy paint.

And new decals for one of my E6's.

Hey man can you keep the picture count down? I counted 11 this last post! Even with broadband its taking too long to load.

Thanks.....

[Driline]

Hi guys

I spent the weekend making the final details on a sceen with a bridge and a river on my layout. This is my first attempt to post a picture I hope it will show.

Roland Levin
Sweden

Very nice! Are the trees off a store shelf or did you make them? They look exceptionally good.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's a few things I was working on yesterday.

New decals for one of my E7's.









The L&N E6 is now in MGRy paint.







And new decals for one of my E6's.

[Roland_Levin]

Hi guys

I spent the weekend making the final details on a sceen with a bridge and a river on my layout. This is my first attempt to post a picture I hope it will show.

Roland Levin
Sweden

[zgardner18]

Well, since I already had the weathering supplies out, I did a few more pieces.

Here's the BN SD40-2 that I've been superdetailing.

And a Athearn CSX 2970 Covered Hopper.

Good work everyone.

Hey Jktrains,

Question: on your engine's trucks did you do the weathering with an airbrush or with chalks?  What about the rest of it?  I'm always looking for better ideas and your stuff looks great!

[rolleiman]

Nice photo's guys! Hey rollieman, you mean to tell me you didn't do like I did when we put our roof on a few years back, dumping the falling off grains out on the new shingle packages and save them for you know what! LOLOL! Had almost a ice cream bucket full and the color was porfect for coal.

That's a new one on me. Never thought of doing that. Considering that roof is about a 7:12 pitch, no one will EVER see me up there. It was wet that particular day and the roofers kept sliding off down to the walkway they had at the edge of the roof (probably there to keep them for sliding completely off to the ground). There's probably enough of that stuff lying in my driveway to ballast about 400 feet of track. If I wanted green ballast that is.. (or as you used yours for, coal)..

 

Jeff

 

[LNEFAN]

This week I have been working on applying ground goop to hills. It's a mix of Sculptamold, Vermiculite, white glue and latex paint.

Also I completed a Walthers cement plant kit which I have renamed Keystone Cement, a prototype industry that still exists along the former line (L&NE) that I model. Weathering and more detail work to follow.

 

[WCfan]

Well here's my contribution. All weekend I have been working on a CNW interlocking tower for my future layout.

I hand painted it with paint brush and mixed my own paint.

Here's what t looked like before I put the boards over the windows. This isn't glued, just "air" held.

Here's the front of the finished product.

Here's a back veiw.

Here's a WC train crossing it. This is on my diorama and not the real layout. My new layout will have it blended in and the CNW crossing the WC.

[CanadianShield]

 

 I Have a little Video I made usig my digital camera

 

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d28/CanadianShield/?action=view&current=FinalCountdown.flv