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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, November 29, 2010 5:25 PM

Bob: The buildings will be along the backdrop in a coved corner (hence the odd angles). They will be about 40" from the front of the layout and will have HO scale City Classics built 2 or 3 kits high in front of them which will hide the lower parts of the highrise buildings. What you saw in the photo was only the parts of the highrises that will be clearly visible above the buildings in the foreground. I will use foam core to construct the lower sections with photocopies of the Modulars pieces on the foam core. I hope that will give the impression that the high rise buildings go all the way to the ground, but the lower parts do not need the detail because you will only catch glimpses of them as you look down the streets between the buildings. The overall heights for the highrises will be 30" - 36". There are no tracks back that far so reaching in will not be a problem, except when installing them.

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Posted by wm3798 on Monday, November 29, 2010 3:40 PM

While you schlubs were toiling away in your cubicles, I enjoyed the spoils of my Sunday-Monday weekend...  I went back into my design program and revised the Company House plan to work with the specs of the Tichy windows and doors I scored at the Timonium show...  From there, I was able to "systematize" the construction of the houses...

First, I print out the elevations at 1:160, trim out the necessary parts of the image, and apply them to the styrene to be worked...


Tichy says their windows are 30" x 62", and by golly, that's right on!  Anyway, this new addition to the neighborhood has a blank back, so I moved around the kitchen door and eliminated the rear bump out.

The other advantage to using the drafting program, was the ability to quickly whip up the hip roof as a single piece using score lines.



Here you see the neatly assembled building, ready for the paint shop.  I used strips of masking tape cut to 3' wide, to simulate the tar paper roofing.



And finally placed in the block with the original house, which was all laid out by hand.  There's a noticeable difference in how uniformly the second one was built...  Although for the hollers of West By God Virginia, the first is probably more accurate!

Anyway, doing everything by hand, including the front porch on the first house took about 8 hours, including the painting and final weathering.  Using the computer to layout the second house allowed that one to come together in about three hours, from first cut to gluing on the chimney and glazing the windows with gloss Mod Podge.

I started spreading some spackle to smooth out the roads in town, applying it over the Sculptamold base.

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Posted by rclanger on Monday, November 29, 2010 3:26 PM

hon30critter,

Thanks for the information and the pictures. Using N-scale is interesting. How far will the buildings be from the person viewing them? I would think to have a realistic "forced perspective" there would have to be a minimum viewing distance.

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, November 29, 2010 12:07 PM

Odie
I feel these modulars are pretty underrated, and I am not sure why Walthers is having so much trouble selling them.  A modeler could easily make a wide variety of full size buildings and backdrop buildings for a moderately sized layout for peanuts compared to purchasing separate kits.   

I like the Walthers modulars a lot. Probably the reason they do not sell as well is the way Walthers packages them. For instance, you buy a package of walls, but the pilasters that connect them are not included. To get pilasters, you have to buy another package that includes pliasters and cornices. If you want to build tall (3 or more stories), you end up with a lot of spare cornices. the package of walls includes a number of styles of wall including ground level doors and freight doors; if you build a tall or  large building, you have a lot of left over doors from each package you buy.

With DPM, you get 4 pieces of one type of wall incuding pilasters, so the spare left over items are not as much. In either case, the spare parts can be saved for future projects.

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Posted by GTW6401 on Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:45 PM

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Back to working on scenery.   I like taking photos when I work on the layout, easy to see mistakes.

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc354/ClinchValley/Clinch%20Valley%20RR/New112810006.jpg

Larry

 

 

Hey Larry! Glad to see the layout is moving along again! This is Donald Stefanko by the way, I have been over a few times and we have exchanged emails a while back. Hope all is well!!

 

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:35 PM

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Tom, the plywood in your abandoned store is great.

Thank you.  It was very easy.  Glued on some 1/32 balsa wood and hit it with alcohol and india ink.

 

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:33 PM

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Tom, the building looks great. Just as an aside, I put 140,000 on a "73" 1600 Sport Coupe. What a great car, and I always liked checking the "olio", topping off the "aqua", and filling the tank with "Benzina"Wink. Gerry S.

I always enjoyed telling my wife we were doing 80.  What I didn't tell her was that was kph instead of mph.  I really loved my 71 Spyder.

 

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Posted by wholeman on Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:19 PM

Whew! I made it just in time.  I was going to post earlier in the weekend, but I had a lot of homework.

Excellent photos everyone.  What a great way to finish out the weekend.

Anyway, here are the two bulkhead flat cars with the pipe loads.  The closer car I just completed last Tuesday.  The other load I posted on WPF a few weeks ago.

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:49 PM

Hi Bob: I have used the Walthers Modulars to create three background structures. I am modelling in HO but I actually used N scale kits to give a little bit of forced perspective. I did not use the supplied windows because they were too small for HO and because I was trying to model highrise buildings they looked too industrial. Instead, I simply put a .010 styrene strip across the middle of the window to simulate a sash joint. These are obviously only in their very early stages but I think they show what can be done with the Modulars pieces. I should mention that these are the top floors only. The final buildings will be 30" - 36" tall but the bottom sections will not be visible.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:31 PM

We have a great Weekend Photo Fun this time with lots or quality stuff.

Here is my C&S 700D. (Colorado & Southern was a subsidiary of the old Burlington Route.) 700D was originally a normal F7-A when new, but following a head-on collision with an E7-A, it was rebulit into an F9- Am. The E7-A was scrapped.

 

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Posted by Colorado_Mac on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:45 PM

Tom, the plywood in your abandoned store is great.

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Posted by chpthrls on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:45 PM

Tom, the building looks great. Just as an aside, I put 140,000 on a "73" 1600 Sport Coupe. What a great car, and I always liked checking the "olio", topping off the "aqua", and filling the tank with "Benzina"Wink. Gerry S.

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Posted by Odie on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:15 PM

rclanger

 

 

 

Could you, would you post a parts list? I have used DPM but not the Walthers. Easy to use?

 

I used parts from #3721, 3722, 3723, 3725, 3729, 3730 and 3731.  You could probably get away with less, as I had a ton of leftover parts.  The parts listing on the packaging is kind of confusing, so I just bought a couple of each item number since they were so cheap.  

 

The parts fit pretty well, but I found that it was helpful to sand some negative relief (bevel) to the backs of the horizontal mating surfaces of each wall section to make the joints fit a little tighter.  

I feel these modulars are pretty underrated, and I am not sure why Walthers is having so much trouble selling them.  A modeler could easily make a wide variety of full size buildings and backdrop buildings for a moderately sized layout for peanuts compared to purchasing separate kits.   


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Posted by rclanger on Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:58 PM

Odie

I had the week off, so I finally got to using up some Walthers Modulars that have been gathering dust for some time.  They have been bargain basement priced for quite some time now.  Not quite finished yet, but getting there.

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Could you, would you post a parts list? I have used DPM but not the Walthers. Easy to use?

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:34 PM

Jamie,

Your layout continues to inspire!

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Posted by ClinchValleySD40 on Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:27 PM

Back to working on scenery.   I like taking photos when I work on the layout, easy to see mistakes.

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Posted by CSXDixieLine on Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:18 PM

CSX SD70M #4694 leads a northbound autorack train into the siding at South Emerson (GA) on the CSX W&A Sub:

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Posted by jon grant on Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:10 PM

Nice photo Wolfgang. Very realistic.

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Posted by wedudler on Sunday, November 28, 2010 4:54 PM

Switching at Third Street District

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, November 28, 2010 3:50 PM

An abandon building.

 

 

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Posted by selector on Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:29 PM

 

Lee, your structures look very good, and especially so perched as if they were on a rocky shoreline.

BATMAN

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Crandell I think we need to start a thread on how to add smoke. It makes a huge difference to a photo and you've nailed it. I wouldn't mind having a crack at it myself.

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                                                                           Brent

Brent, it is probably a lot easier in Photo Shop than it is for me in Sagelight.  I have no experience in PS, but in Sagelight there is a clone brush.  You can place a reference circle over a reference colour on the photo and use that to dab and create effects.  There is more to it, but it takes a lot of time dabbing that darned circle.  If anyone is interested, and wants to get Sagelight, then sure I'll help all I can.

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, November 28, 2010 12:58 PM

As promised...

Finished the first company house (well, two really... it's a duplex!) for Thomas, West Virginia.




Obviously there's still plenty of landscaping to do, but I'm going to build 3 or 4 more of these, plus some flats for against the back drop, then I'll whip up some fresh sculptamold to sink the post foundations into...

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, November 28, 2010 11:08 AM

Crandell and Grampy. Thanks for the Yes on my rock work. It is my first effort "using foam".

Crandell I think we need to start a thread on how to add smoke. It makes a huge difference to a photo and you've nailed it. I wouldn't mind having a crack at it myself.

Grampy, believe it or not it is the platform in your photo that really does it for me. The chunks of concrete broken off around he edges take me back to places I've been. It makes your shot look like it has a real history.

It is go home weekend for our nine puppies so the place has been a madhouse. Trips to the Airport and such. Hopefully back to more rock building now the dust is settling.

 

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, November 28, 2010 9:51 AM

Started working on a company house duplex last night... might have some pictures later.  In the meantime, we'll feature a couple of decoder installs that have been done for awhile, I just now got around to photographing them...


MDC Mogul...  This is a cool little engine.  I just wish the headlight wasn't blue...


Walther's 0-8-0.  Easy peasy plug and play.  Very smooth runner.


and last but not least, an old Rivarossi heavy Pacific.  Replaced the old bub with a directional thermonuclear LED.  I was excited to get this one to work on.  When I was a kid, I pined for this engine as it was displayed in the case at Lloyd's Hobby Shop in Towson.  I still have a little work to do on this one...  I think I glued the gears together by accident!

Lee

PS:  Did I mention how glad I am to have a proper camera again? :D

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Posted by Odie on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:39 AM

I had the week off, so I finally got to using up some Walthers Modulars that have been gathering dust for some time.  They have been bargain basement priced for quite some time now.  Not quite finished yet, but getting there.

 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:10 AM

Some Video of one of the layouts from yesterdays Houston layout tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Rg5_Y7COQ

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Posted by Odie on Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:48 AM

rclanger

Odie,
Good work, both modeling and photography.

HO scale?

 

Thank you for the comments everyone!

These are Bar Mills HO scale kits....The Market/Butcher shop is called "Four Fingered Tony's" and the bar is called "Saulena's Tavern".  I just recently started messing around with the laser cut wood kits, and I am really enjoying them.  I am currently working on a Bikini car wash from FOS Limited...hopefully i'll have some pictures next weekend.  Thumbs Up

 

 

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Posted by jdobo on Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:27 PM

Sawyer I played rugby at School some 40 odd years ago, now I only watch. I was at Twickenham yesterday to see the match between England and South Africa.

Enjoy playing while you can!

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:41 PM

Flashwave

 secondhandmodeler:

 Heartland Division CB&Q:

Nice work and great photography, everybody!

Here is an industry I just built. It is a large bakery (bread factory). It is consturcted primarily of Walthers modular pieces. The silos are for flour storage, and they are constructed mostly with 1 1/2" plastic drain pipe. I'll be adding more scenery and some signs eventually.

 

I still can't get over the difference between these two photos.  I opened both of them just to get a better look side by side.  One of them looks like a model, the other one could be real.  What different lighting are you using for the 'warmer' photos?

 

Hunch: Is the top phot maybe with flash?

Correct. Top photo has flash, and second does not.

Happy Model Railroading

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