Thanks. I really like muddy rivers too and really wanted to try one. I used the base brown I use for scenery with just a drop of black added to get it slightly darker. That's it. Just covered it with a thin coat of Envirotex Lite.
Larry
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MILW-RODR Margaritaman How did you make those brackets??? I have recently got the go ahead to do just this, just not as big. 2 HO tracks and a single N track. I want to run HO on my layout, but Kato is coming out with some pretty nice N that I would like to have, and I don't care for static displays. So far it's the outter most HO track will run a passenger consist, inner HO track a mixed freight consist, and the N either a freight consist with a Kato Rio Grande, Katy, and Mopac UP heratige SD70ACe, along with possible Kato GS 4-8-4 warbaby Southern Pacific. I don't care about the cars but I just loooooooooooooooove that loke. I think it would look neat on the head end of that N consist. I know, I know, that's quite a list of expensive locomotives to be just traveling around a track hung a few inches from the ceiling. I've also got the go ahead to turn into a bit of a collector. I gave myself the approval on that one
Margaritaman
Just 4"x6" plates. Each plate has a support that is screwed to the plate from the backside. Each one routered. The whole project was pretty basic except for the curves as those were routed out of 3/4" ply and laminated with veneer.
And like the other poster said going any smaller IMO would look sort of silly, if you could even see it. And yes, the dust is a headache.
San Dimas Southern slideshow
zgardner18Dude, give your daughter back her little pony. Stop messing with her by putting it up high like that where she can't reach it. Plus the wine rack looks kind of empty. That foot must really be killing you.
That and the Mother-in-Law is with us for the month...
Nice Video BigBlue,
I like the low angle you used.
Next time try to have some additional lighting, it will bring up the detail and the images will look better. Just be careful that the background looks as good as your models. There is nothing as distracting as some plumbing work or windows where the sky should be. The dark background in this one is good, but I'd rather see blue sky. You can use some cardboard painted blue that is easy to move around for each scene.
cheers
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
I like the muddy water in your river. It is a look I see in many of the streams and rivers in my area but one that is not often modeled. You seem to have gotten the color just right. Are there any special techniques you have for modeling dirty water.
I wouldn't even bother putting N scale up there. The dust that accumulates will be murder, especially if you have a ceiling fan in the room that does nothing put push dust to the perimeter of the room... Even HO could be pretty dicey. I have a G scale rig that' I'm toying with putting up in my den. I think that should work fine. I just need a plow for the dust and cat hair that I know will accumulate!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Great work EVERYONE!!!
Unfortunately, I have nothing to show, since my layout is up north. But once school starts up, I'll have plenty to show, as I begin to tear down my current layout (partially complete) and start building a new one (larger, and better suited for operations).
Keep up the great work!
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Heres an attempt at a short video, leme know what you all think.
An eastbound grain train with run through V&O power crosses the Clinch River on my Clinch Valley RR.
ford86 Finished the majority of the SDP45 project, just a couple details left and the task of cramming a tsunami into it. And a GN heater car is in the works.
Finished the majority of the SDP45 project, just a couple details left and the task of cramming a tsunami into it. And a GN heater car is in the works.
Are you sure you don't want to build me my MRL SDP40-2 #290? I'm sure you'll do a better job than I. Your SDP45 looks great!
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Dude, give your daughter back her little pony. Stop messing with her by putting it up high like that where she can't reach it. Plus the wine rack looks kind of empty. That foot must really be killing you.
Nice job on the SDP45, looks incredible.
twhite AndyManCNR This is what I did today: I finished most of the FWH piping on the engineer's side. The green stuff is the lagging on the larger pipe which is a thin strip of masking tape wound around the pipe and secured with CA. It's not perfect but for my first time ever doing something like that and my first ever project period, I am quite happy with it. Andy: I like that lagging, being a big Elesco FWH fan myself. One thing I was thinking about, that might save you some work the next time you need to lag some piping: Go down to the local guitar shop and get some 'flat-wound' Ernie Ball (or comparable brand) guitar wire. The winding on the wire looks exactly like lagging, and the wire is quite flexible. I would say probably .0020 or larger, and there's enough length to probably do the lagging on quite a few locos. Just a thought, understand. That's some really NICE work, BTW! I hope you post photos as you progress on that loco. And BTW, where did you find that all-weather cab? That is really SWEET! Tom
AndyManCNR This is what I did today: I finished most of the FWH piping on the engineer's side. The green stuff is the lagging on the larger pipe which is a thin strip of masking tape wound around the pipe and secured with CA. It's not perfect but for my first time ever doing something like that and my first ever project period, I am quite happy with it.
This is what I did today:
I finished most of the FWH piping on the engineer's side. The green stuff is the lagging on the larger pipe which is a thin strip of masking tape wound around the pipe and secured with CA. It's not perfect but for my first time ever doing something like that and my first ever project period, I am quite happy with it.
Andy:
I like that lagging, being a big Elesco FWH fan myself. One thing I was thinking about, that might save you some work the next time you need to lag some piping: Go down to the local guitar shop and get some 'flat-wound' Ernie Ball (or comparable brand) guitar wire. The winding on the wire looks exactly like lagging, and the wire is quite flexible. I would say probably .0020 or larger, and there's enough length to probably do the lagging on quite a few locos. Just a thought, understand.
That's some really NICE work, BTW! I hope you post photos as you progress on that loco. And BTW, where did you find that all-weather cab? That is really SWEET!
Tom
Some very nice photo and modelling work, as always!
A lot of good 'railfan' angles, quite realistic looking.
I started a string of painting / weathering projects in early spring to work on my airbrush techniques and to get more rolling stock lettered. Here's the first project, an Athearn blue box Baldwin S12. Nothing fancy, no detail added, no masking - just paint and decals.
Here it's pulling a couple of empty hoppers (project #2) from coal dealer.
George V.
Really nice work guys. There's some great close-up shots this week. Don't have pictures this week. I'm in a serious project the past month in the train room right now and it looks like a hurricane went through the room. As soon as i get the scene done they will most definetly go on here.
I'm doing the hardest section of the layout right now. I have a crawl space with a 3' x 3' area to work in. Once the hills go in, I'll never be able to do any detail work in that particular area anymore. I also turned 50 last Tuesday and my body is telling me so. It's hard getting into the crawl space so all my tools are piled up where i can get to them without having to make too many trips back and forth through the crawl space...What a mess!....chuck
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
A friend of mine and myself went out on a mill hunt and found a more than a few modeling ideas to toss around. A couple of them are
and this scene---which he is looking to put together----we only got this one for now---this is the back end of downtown Paris ON. All those buildings are right at the riverbank. I lived in an apartment that had the balcony right over the river----
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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As always I am impressed big time by so much of the work shown here! Some great modeling, and some great photography!
I am starting to get the required photos for the NMRA Scenery Certificate. Every time I take a photo and take a good look at it, something jumps out at me that still needs to be finished. This is the service area at Hopewell showing the ice house up on the hill and the mountain behind it. There were 2 things that I saw right off that need to be done. Both on the Coaling Tower..... (There is actually a 3rd. item, but I photoshoped that out.)
If anything else jumps out at you, let me know as I would rather correct it before the judges arrive...... It is August 1925 on the SLOW located somewhere in the Finger Lakes region of NYS.
The town of Hopewell Junction:
And finally an area where I am finishing some scenery. I didn't notice the jar of ballast sitting there or the small plastic cup when I took the photo.......
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Terry,
The locomotive is a Kato F40PH with sound and DCC. I purchased it a few years ago at my LHS. The locomotive is a smooth performer with great sound (I don't recall the the company that manufactures the decoder but it was factory installed). The Amfleet V passenger cars are by Walthers.
Hawksridge
Hawksridge Some really nice photos this week. Here is my entry for the weekend. The shot is of an F40PH pulling into the North Hawks Ridge station on my freelanced layout. The background was added with Photoshop. Snip
Some really nice photos this week. Here is my entry for the weekend. The shot is of an F40PH pulling into the North Hawks Ridge station on my freelanced layout. The background was added with Photoshop.
Snip
Nice looking loco Who makes it ?
TerryinTexas
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Todd McWilliamHere is my custom painted Iowa Northern Railway GP38-2. Just finished it this evening...
Here is my custom painted Iowa Northern Railway GP38-2. Just finished it this evening...
Nice clean paint job. No smears or drips And best of all its IOWA!
Good to see that there is another 3801 locomotive in the world. The one from down under is a well known steamer that is currently undergoing a replacement boiler.
Here is a photo at central Sydney, the second loco is another 38 class non streamlined and is the last of the 30 built class.
There will shortly be available models of these famous locomotives, both streamlined and non streamlined and available with sound.
regards
Bob
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twhiteAbout an hour later, 2-8-8-2 #3508 comes trundling by with an eastbound drag freight. Yah, I know the loco looks a little bright and shiny for a drag loco, but I just bought it two days ago and haven't hit it with the 'weathering' powders, yet. It's a new Proto2000.Tom
Obviously the hobby shop is on the way back from FedEx!
Here's one you guys haven't seen. This is my G scale train in the den that I built from scratch using 562 individual ties 3/4" x 1/2" x 6"! 20 brackets. blah, blah, blah. It was fun combining my love of woodworking and trains. It's in my media room. I also build my own high end speakers. The walls are painted dark to keep the reflected light down and it's actually darker than this shows.