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Posted by Chuck Geiger on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:13 PM
Bruce nice....Enjoyed the mill in current MR

 

 

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Posted by Flashwave on Monday, July 6, 2009 12:17 PM

C&O Fan

Ok Enough is Enough

I'll see your H-8 and Raise you A Berkshire and a F-19 Pacific !

Either of you wanna go all in ?

Purdy picture, but all I can see ya right now is half a heavy Mountain, Th other half is still at Bachmann.

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Monday, July 6, 2009 9:40 AM
Catt

My uh contribution this week is this two stall garage I just finished for my Z scale layout.It is a rather crappy picture but I wanted everything to show in the picture  ;D

It's Z scale! Wow! It must be small enough to set on a penny with room to spare. Excellent work.

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Posted by C&O Fan on Monday, July 6, 2009 7:31 AM

What a great Holiday WPF lots of great photos

Gotta admit i was just a bit jealous of Tom's Beautiful

New York Central L-4a Mohawk

Then of Course Crandell had to go and post a great picture of his H-8

 

Ok Enough is Enough

I'll see your H-8 and Raise you A Berkshire and a F-19 Pacific !

Either of you wanna go all in ?        Smile,Wink, & Grin

 

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Posted by wedudler on Monday, July 6, 2009 2:08 AM

Flashwave

Love the ps everyone. Especially Wolfgang;s simply because it;s a great MRR pic without a train.

That said, Wolfgang, there;s something in the formattin of the blog that has mashed the first paragraph way to the left, annd it is kinda painful to read.

 

Thank you, I found my mistake in the html code.      Angry

You see it with IE .

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Posted by selector on Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:32 PM

Catt, I wish I could see it better.  I'm afraid your image doesn't do it justice, but I can see that it turned out very well...net, backboard, and all.  Well done!

-Crandell

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Posted by Catt on Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:07 PM

My uh contribution this week is this two stall garage I just finished for my Z scale layout.It is a rather crappy picture but I wanted everything to show in the picture  ;D

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, July 5, 2009 9:29 PM

I managed to just run across a "before photo of the area I showed earlier (page 2 I think).

The area used to look like this:

Same area today:

 

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, July 5, 2009 9:07 PM

 Worked on cleaning up some details.  Ran a few trains between hamburgers and sparklers...


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Posted by spidge on Sunday, July 5, 2009 6:43 PM

markpierce

Are the colors accurately reproduced in the picture?  The rails look green to me.  What brand and color is the paint?

Edit -- I'm referring to John's photo of a train crossing the steel bridge.

Mark

The rails are actually railroad tie brown. I intend to paint them a grimy black with some brown rust here and there. Now that you mention the green tinge stands out to me to, in the photos anyway.

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Posted by markpierce on Sunday, July 5, 2009 6:28 PM

selector

Mark, on my monitor the colour of the rails in John's image is identical to the tone of the earth at the upper edge of the image above the tank car most removed from the tunnel portal.  I see a sort of hand-held fan-shaped swath above that first tanker with its top edge contiguous with the top edge of the photo itself.  The colour there and what I see of the rails on the bridge are so close as to be indistinguishable to me.

-Crandell

That's a relief.  I thought maybe John used Floquil's rail brown (green).

Mark

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Posted by selector on Sunday, July 5, 2009 5:28 PM

Mark, on my monitor the colour of the rails in John's image is identical to the tone of the earth at the upper edge of the image above the tank car most removed from the tunnel portal.  I see a sort of hand-held fan-shaped swath above that first tanker with its top edge contiguous with the top edge of the photo itself.  The colour there and what I see of the rails on the bridge are so close as to be indistinguishable to me.

-Crandell

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Posted by markpierce on Sunday, July 5, 2009 5:10 PM

Are the colors accurately reproduced in the picture?  The rails look green to me.  What brand and color is the paint?

Edit -- I'm referring to John's photo of a train crossing the steel bridge.

Mark

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, July 5, 2009 5:06 PM

Flashwave
there;s something in the formattin of the blog that has mashed the first paragraph way to the left, annd it is kinda painful to read.

Funny, I had no problem with it at all.

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Posted by Flashwave on Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:59 PM

Love the ps everyone. Especially Wolfgang;s simply because it;s a great MRR pic without a train.

That said, Wolfgang, there;s something in the formattin of the blog that has mashed the first paragraph way to the left, annd it is kinda painful to read.

-Morgan

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Posted by wedudler on Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:10 PM

 I was with friends at the FREMO meeting in Bathmen, Netherlands.

 

More pictures and infos at my blog

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, July 5, 2009 7:46 AM

I'm really impressed with layout photos added to WPF on the 4th.....Crandell, Steamage, Engineer Jeff, Jon, Zk, etc....... WOW......outstanding work!

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Posted by loathar on Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:41 AM

Aggro wrote-You won't see me makin a how to video. I can only give writen tutorials and such.

Or you could make a how to video and sell it at a reasonable price...I'd sure as heck buy one.Thumbs Up

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Posted by zgardner18 on Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:16 AM

Aggro,

What I would like to see is you create a video of one of your trains running by with all of your nice weathered cars.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:38 PM

 AggroJones,

 I Bow to thee, Master of all weathered railroad cars!

I will never be able to achieve what you do Sigh -

unless you teach me!

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Posted by spidge on Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:27 PM

Oakhurst Railroad Engineer

The darker soil looks better in the particular lighting that you used to take the picture.  How typical is that lighting?

Have you glued down the dark real soil yet?  I tried some ballasting recently with real dirt and it darkened significantly (and too much) when I used some alcohol to "wet" it before hitting it with diluted white glue. It never lightened, even when dry.  Suggest you try a small test area.

Marty

 Thanks Marty. I have not glued the dark soil yet. I will add a variety to see if that helps.

 

Aggro, Have any links?

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Posted by AggroJones on Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:15 PM

You won't see me makin a how to video. I can only give writen tutorials and such.

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Posted by Oakhurst Railroad Engineer on Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:09 PM

spidge

I only have one section of layout with scenery and am still decideing what color soils to use. Here are two photos, one with light colored soil the other darker real soil.

Any thoughts?

The darker soil looks better in the particular lighting that you used to take the picture.  How typical is that lighting?

Have you glued down the dark real soil yet?  I tried some ballasting recently with real dirt and it darkened significantly (and too much) when I used some alcohol to "wet" it before hitting it with diluted white glue. It never lightened, even when dry.  Suggest you try a small test area.

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Posted by spidge on Saturday, July 4, 2009 10:50 PM

I only have one section of layout with scenery and am still decideing what color soils to use. Here are two photos, one with light colored soil the other darker real soil.

bridge_photo_024

bridge_photo_028

 

Keep in mind the background hills are all honey colored grass and when I settle on something they will get the same treatment.

 

Any thoughts?

John

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Posted by nik .n on Saturday, July 4, 2009 10:39 PM

tattooguy67

Happy 4th of July everyone, may your bottle rockets glare extra bright and your firecrackers be nice and loud!

well at least that is my TRAIN of thought so...happy Birthday America!!!

Also super nice work this week all, i again seem to have picked a week to post when all the stars showed up! lol.

Chuck & Heather.

 

Happy 4th!

I wish I could get the license for firecrackers and bottle rockets. rocket motors duct taped to sticks with a crackle ball with a elongated fuse on to just doesn't cut it.Sigh  

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Posted by tattooguy67 on Saturday, July 4, 2009 10:08 PM

Happy 4th of July everyone, may your bottle rockets glare extra bright and your firecrackers be nice and loud!

well at least that is my TRAIN of thought so...happy Birthday America!!!

Also super nice work this week all, i again seem to have picked a week to post when all the stars showed up! lol.

Chuck & Heather.

Is it time to run the tiny trains yet george?! is it huh huh is it?!
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Posted by howmus on Saturday, July 4, 2009 9:05 PM

selector

howmus
...I love the Tomar kits, but are a bit of work...

But not for you, Ray.  You done real good!!! 

Your layout is astounding.  You have been plugging away at it for months in a big way, and the results show it.  Big Smile Thumbs Up

Thanks for your feedback.

-Crandell

 

Thank you sir!  And your welcome as well! 

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Posted by selector on Saturday, July 4, 2009 8:57 PM

howmus
...I love the Tomar kits, but are a bit of work...

But not for you, Ray.  You done real good!!! 

Your layout is astounding.  You have been plugging away at it for months in a big way, and the results show it.  Big Smile Thumbs Up

Thanks for your feedback.

-Crandell

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, July 4, 2009 8:43 PM

Happy Independence Day to my Fellow Americans, and a great weekend to everyone else as well!

Crandell..... Nice shot!  That loco is making me drool all over the keyboard!  Outstanding job on the concrete dock as well.

I have been continuing around the corner from the farm to the Team Track  by the Freight Depot.

Wider view:

I Also put together this Tomar Horse Drawn Farm Wagon this week.  The team is actually from some other horse drawn equipment now set over by the shed. I love the Tomar kits, but are a bit of work.

Bird's eye veiw of the same:

And an overview of the entire area.

I am about 80% done with this scene.  Just needs a lot more small details, people, and frieght. 

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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