Weekend Photo Fun, November 14-16, 2008

[loathar]

secondhandmodeler

Loathar,

Nice looking building you have there.  Your buildings have a very tidy, well assembled look to them.  Did that kit come with roof details?  Nice work.

Thanks Corey. I'm waiting to get my whole city set up before I start any real weathering on them. Some of the details came with the kit. (water tank/shed/sky light) I also got a Walthers detail kit that's a great buy for $10. Lots of different vents and large AC units in it.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3733

PS- The electric meter is an Athearn bronze bearing with a rounded off piece of plastic sprue stuck through it and painted. I thought it turned out pretty good.

 

[secondhandmodeler]

Loathar,

Nice looking building you have there.  Your buildings have a very tidy, well assembled look to them.  Did that kit come with roof details?  Nice work.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[doctorwayne]

Art, nice work on your Yardbird. 

Mine was put out to pasture years ago, and Mother Nature is reclaiming her faster than the overworked shop crew:

Wayne

[AggroJones]

Driline

AggroJones

jasperofzeal

Is this a Genesis version or blue box version (I'm assuming it's an Athearn)?  I ask because I would like to know what color you used to touch up if is was a blue box.  I have two blue box 50'ers with the same name to which I want to replace the side ladders and stirrups.  Awesome weathering on this car (reference to the other two pics I omitted from this post).

 Its Athearn RTR. Good stuff.

After the initial dullcoting, its given a misting of Polly S dirty white to fade. Phil as for the upper...thats working the gouache and weathering powders.

So you used an airbrush with some "dirty white" pollyscale? No alcohol to remove the "shine"? Did you also leave the original "Galveston" decal along with the other main decal?

Great Detail....

"Dirty white" = reefer white with a drip of rr tie brown. No alcohol required, the dullcote adds grip to the surface for subsequent material and kills the shine.

[loathar]

Guess I'll add my with some pics of my never ending structure series. This ones almost done. Just have to add some signage to it.



And my next project.

Got a few DPM's and a City Classics diner to do now.(plus about 10 others...)

[Driline]

AggroJones

jasperofzeal

Is this a Genesis version or blue box version (I'm assuming it's an Athearn)?  I ask because I would like to know what color you used to touch up if is was a blue box.  I have two blue box 50'ers with the same name to which I want to replace the side ladders and stirrups.  Awesome weathering on this car (reference to the other two pics I omitted from this post).

 Its Athearn RTR. Good stuff.

After the initial dullcoting, its given a misting of Polly S dirty white to fade. Phil as for the upper...thats working the gouache and weathering powders.

So you used an airbrush with some "dirty white" pollyscale? No alcohol to remove the "shine"? Did you also leave the original "Galveston" decal along with the other main decal?

Great Detail....

[howmus]

 Tom, I think Remington will weasel his way into your heart very soon.  Beautiful Cat!  Lucky too.

[twhite]

Great work this week, everyone. 

Crandell:  I love that water tower.  Really nice work. 

Art:  Man, that loco is going to be SPECTACULAR!

Aggro:  Everytime I look at one of your weathering jobs, I wonder why I can't get up the courage to try it myself.  Spectacular, as always. 

Well, I did some work on the railroad this week, but forgot to take the camera out into the garage.  HOWEVER, I did have the camera handy yesterday when I recieved this neat gift from the Maine Coon  Cat Rescue Society: 

It's the latest TrainCat, according to his papers, his name is Remington--either the famous Wild West painter or the rifle, LOL--he's 2 years old, weighs about 16 pounds (he'll probably add another 5 or so before he's fully mature) and right now he's ensconsed in the Music Room while he gets used to the house, and the Music Room also contains my locomotive display case.  He's been eyeing my Yellowstones through the glass, absolutely fascinated by them.  As a lot of you know, I have another Maine Coon, the infamous Caboose Thief named Spooky, but I think Remington is going to bypass 'mere' cabeese, I think he's heading straight for the articulateds. 

He's a big, tall, Stud Muffin with ENORMOUS feet--I think he's going to be a lot of fun. 

Next week I'll get back to trains. 

Tom

[NSlover92]

 Hey guys,  I have been working on my grain scene for my 4x8. All I have left to do is add the doors and windows, and build the grain dryer, and finish painting them. Enjoy.

 

 

 

Mike

 

[AggroJones]

jasperofzeal

Is this a Genesis version or blue box version (I'm assuming it's an Athearn)?  I ask because I would like to know what color you used to touch up if is was a blue box.  I have two blue box 50'ers with the same name to which I want to replace the side ladders and stirrups.  Awesome weathering on this car (reference to the other two pics I omitted from this post).

 Its Athearn RTR. Good stuff.

After the initial dullcoting, its given a misting of Polly S dirty white to fade. Phil as for the upper...thats working the gouache and weathering powders.

[AggroJones]

ARTHILL

 

 You may have more patience than I.

 

 

[ngartshore350]

Olav, CNJ831, tecenterprises & jecorbett,

Thanks for your thoughts, I was tending towards a industrial backdrop and I think you are right that it will finish it off better. I'll see what I can find.

Nige.

[selector]

I think you have generated a very nice scene, Frank.  I like your roadway pavement...nice work.

-Crandell

[Packers#1]

Thanks Driline, first time I ever used this stuff. I'll try that next time.

[Driline]

Packers#1

I have essentially finished this, except for adding a few F1-50s to the road when I can afford them, and any tips on how to enhance the "forest". When I get some more foliage, it'll probably grow in size. Sp here's some random pics:

 

 

 

yes, those are my jeans in the final shot

Here's the whole photobucket album:

http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/Packers_1/mainline%20diorama/?action=view&current=IMG_2272.jpg

Well its probably too late now that you've glued your"forest" down, but here's a tip. I bought the same stuff from woodland scenics and I like it a lot. I ended up cutting the clumps into tree's and glued them in place that way. If you're going to lay them in clumps like you did, I would take a pair of scissors and cut off the branches you see sticking out everywhere, so they look more like bushes. Thats my recommendation. Heres my trees from the same package you bought.

Do you see that yellow tree in the background and then the orange one further in? Thats how I used it.

 

[Packers#1]

I have essentially finished this, except for adding a few F1-50s to the road when I can afford them, and any tips on how to enhance the "forest". When I get some more foliage, it'll probably grow in size. Sp here's some random pics:

yes, those are my jeans in the final shot

Here's the whole photobucket album:

http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/Packers_1/mainline%20diorama/?action=view&current=IMG_2272.jpg

[SecretWeapon]

[Driline]

jeffrey-wimberly

 

Nice painting and decaling. You have come along way since I first saw your layout several years ago. Now all it needs is a little weathering and you're all set to go!

[pike-62]

Currently on the bench are these Funaro & Camerlengo hoppers.

3 ACF 1790 CuFt hoppers and one National Plate Glass hopper.

All are ready for the paint shop. Maybe I will be able to get to that today.

Dan Pikulski

www.DansResinCasting.com

 

[Ibflattop]

I also found one up at the Lansing Trainshow last weekend.  :-)    Kevin

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[steinjr]

 As always - great and awe inspiring work from a lot of posters.

 Not even nearly as finished on my layout, but this weekend I've been messing around with the part of my layout I refer to as "Eastside" - a fairly narrow shelf along two walls, trying to make the tracks and industries here work for me.

 My original setup was like this:

  Taping together a structure to test out "Gopher Distribution", it looked like this:

 

 I felt that my layout was getting a little top-heavy on warehouses, even for a layout called "The Warehouse District"

 I had lots of destinations for boxcars, almost no destinations for tank cars or gondolas or open hoppers or anything like that. I thought about doing a fuel distributor as an industry:

 

Tried a mockup of this industry:

 

  Mmm - would work, but now it feels like I am getting a little tank car heavy. I went back to prototype photos at the Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources web database for inspiration, and found these very cool photos:

 http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=81148

 http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=102086

  Minneapolis has one major defining characteristic, which is what turned the city into "Mill city" - it is as far up the Mississippi as barges can go - the falls of St. Anthony was the end of the line for barges coming all the up (or going all the way down) the Mississippi.

 That's what I'd like to do. A barge terminal - it is a pretty general industry - a lot of things can be brought in on barges and transfered to the railroad, or brought in by railroad and transferred to barges.

 New plan for this corner:

  Trying out a mockup of this industry (that "barge" is a very crude mockup - the top of two plastic boxes cut off and taped together to get something that is 12.5" long and 4" wide - about a 90 x 30 foot barge)

 

 

 Looking at the industry from the other direction:

 

  Yep - I think I will go with this one - I can swap out load for the barge (or have a couple of different barges), so I can ship or receive machinery, coal, grain, fuel etc.

 Time to dig into the layout (quite literally) and carve out a river bank next to the track there, and get (or probably try to make from scratch) a barge.

Smile,
Stein

[jecorbett]

Nige,

I have those same structures on my layout but not all in the same location. It is my belief that these shallow background structures are far more convincing when they are place against a printed backdrop with two dimensional buildings both above and to the sides of them. When placed directly against a sky backdrop, it is just too obvious that these stuctures are only a few inches deep. The same structures backed by two dimensional background structures are much more convincing. They seem to blend better into the backdrop when there is something other than sky behind them. To me, the ideal situation is when you transition from full width structures to the shallow background structures to building flats to printed backdrop. Everything tends to blend smoothly together.  It is not always practical to do that so in some cases it is necessary to skip one of those layers.

If placing backdrop buildings behind your shallow buildings is not a feasible option, I would agree that it is much more convincing to butt these together to eliminate some of the sky surrounding them.

[graphitehemi]

Some great work this weekend!  

I just finished a little work on the diorama. This is the first road I've made. I think it turned out farily well for a first attempt. Just need to add the thick white lines for the crossing, and do some weathering!

Enjoy!

[gear-jammer]

 

I see that Aggro is up to his usual standards.

Sue 

[howmus]

 Great stuff as usual folks!

I haven't had much time to work on the layout at all this week.  Today I finally decided to spend some time down there so all the other projects will have to wait a day longer.  I finished putting the final tortoise machine (for the time being at least) in place on the layout.  This was another one of those "will not fit" locations.  So I resorted to the old rail with piano wire soldered to it for the remote throwbar trick one last time:



Here is a closup of where the rail meets the torti:



Crude, but it works well.  Topside looks like this after the install:



I also primed and painted the track bumpers I put together last weekend in Batavia:

[twcenterprises]

Nige

I also agree that the buildings should be spread apart, not only because it looks a bit better, but also because you will cover more ground with fewer buildings, so to speak.

 

As a side note, I have been away from the forum for many months due to various reasons.  With the economy sagging and employment proving elusive, I now find myself at home with more free time on my hands; fortunately also the raw materials (well most of them) to finish the future "train room".  Thank goodness for Unemployment insurance.

We now return to the regularly scheduled forum.

Brad

[Packers#1]

Got some more scenery work done, I've started adding the fall colors. Again, sorry for the quality, not the best lighting in the attic:

How far I've gotten the basic forest:

The forest by the road:

Finally, here's the clump I've got: