Thank you, Mike!
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ray: 'Looks like it's going to blend in beautifully with your backdrop(which also looks very good). I hope to see more in next week's WPF.
Mike
Hope this addition isn't too late for everyone... Just wanted to update my earlier post and show what I got done yesterday and today.
A bit different angle:
Closer...
And one close-up of the rock face.
Obviously much, much more to do, but getting there!
Thanks Terry,
I purchased the alum. sheet material, the siding is corrugated and the roof is raised seam.
regards, Peter
A weathered U28B I picked up
As always this thread has some amazing modeling being shown....
I have started putting a corner scene that will have a road going from the city of Kanandaqua back into the hills. The road will have an at grade crossing over one track and then under a RR overpass and then into the end of the yard area. Here is a series of what has been accomplished so far:
Plaster central. Plaster cloth over foam with a couple of coats of diluted joint compound and some plaster rock castings.
Similar photo with the rock castings painted. Yes I know they are dark, but they will lighten a bit as they dry. Photo was right after I painted them.
Again similar shot after the earth has been painted onto the plaster. Again the color will change as it dries. Amazing how well the camera points out the little spots the paint brush missed...
Lion:
Your creativity continues to amaze me.
Joe
LION is building a staircase for his subway layout.
Him starts with corrugated cardboard cut into strips of identical length, laminated them with an offset and then cut them into two staircases.
Him cut and glued sides to the stairs.
Him printed tile walls and station signs on his laser printer using card stock. These in turn were glued to the outside of the stair case, and the treads and runners were painted.
LION uses this plastic crafts stuff that people might otherwise use for needlepoint or something. When I asked the clerk at Walmart what it was called she said it was plastic craft stuff. I used a scalpel trim away the parts that did not look like a staircase railing found on a subway platform, some poetic license was invoked, and then painted the material green.
The almost finished product is tried out on the layout to see how it will look.
Of course, the trains were running the whole time I was working. Isn't it nice to have an automated layout!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
A short,dark(sorry 'bout that) video of the K-36 with a QSI Titan installed.
watch?v=LZB2lI5KcE&feature=youtu.be
HO-Velo Foundry structure. Hey Lion, Thanks for the enlightenment. regards, Peter
Foundry structure.
Hey Lion, Thanks for the enlightenment.
Peter, did you make or purchase the corrogated sheets? That looks great!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Reading Co. GP40-2`s in the siding while a passing Union Pacific train flies past............at the Rockville Centre Model Railroad club in Long Island NY.
Passing by the railfan park.
And passing by a Metro commuter train.
A pic of Amtrak work equipment at Lancaster PA station.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
All the photos this week are great.
Rick J.... The U25B looks like a prize winner.
Bob G ...... Thanks for sharing the inspiring photo of the trestle. Feel free to post here more often.
DJ ..... Nice scene.
Everybody has outstanding work.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
This week I've been working on some buildings to hide the hole where the tracks go through the wall to staging.
I've cut and taped some buildings trying different placement.
Wayne
Finally finished building a New Haven U25B that I have been adding detailing to, painting and lettering.
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Added various detail parts from Detail Associates, Utah Pacific, and Details West. Painted with Floquil Socony Red and Scalecoat II Black Paint, and lettered with Microscale Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Lots of great contributions this weekend!
I continue to play around with the idea of an On3 switching layout beneath the HO layout... 'picked up a K-36 to keep the K-27 company:
I just finished putting a QSI Titan decoder in the K-36,will try to get a video tomorrow.Here's a short video of the K-27(Tsunami decoder).
watch?v=bb9TCOO85MM&feature=youtu.be
Have a good weekend,
Just to see if I could do it, this is HO-Velo's picture from above...
1) Go to the Flickr page and click "Share"
2) Go to "Grab the HTML Code, select the HTML Button and copy.
3) Paste that to an empty text document.
4) after the text <img scr= copy the line http://.... through .jpg without the quotes to your clipboard
5) come back to the forum and click on "insert Image" and paste there.
Marc,Very impressive work, nice workmanship!
Sorry, I make a mistake when sharing the pictures, so here is the picture whith the curved turnouts.
photostream
It was a busy saturday morning, working from 8 to 12 without interruption under a bad grey sky in Belgium.
I built this curved Nscale turnout arrangement and the n°8 from Fastrack jig in code 55.
There are two different curved turnout, both n°8, but one whith a standard Fastrack radius, the other whith custom made radius made for me by Fastrack ( 40 and 46.5 cm)
I must admit the curved ones are somewhat difficult to build, but all in all the jigs are so helpful in Nscale to semi handlaid these turnouts; I say semi handled, because they are'nt handled directly in place.
I prefer to mount this kind of arrangement on the workbench like the advice of Mister Popp.
The small straight track is the track of a working Nscale high lift rotary car dumper slowly taking form.
Next week I hope to lay this ones and some n°6 and share the pictures.
Got my latest fun item, an SP police caboose from Athearn, marker lights and interior lights work. No credit to me they did it all.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Nice work, everyone!
Dennis,
Thanks for the tip on a different use for an old circuit board. Good idea!
I haven't done much on the RR since the recent ops session because writing on the diss is going well. I did finish up my story about my simple car card ops, moving concentrate from the mines above Silverton to the mill in Durango. Here's a pic of #39 finishing up switching at the ASARCO mill.
The whole enchilada is at:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/214270.aspx
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
C&O Fan Phoebe Vet C&O Fan: Where do you get your front surface mirrors? Special order from Bunswanger glass >Not Cheap< but they also cut it for me to exact size http://binswangerglass.com/ but there is also a reflective glass for commercial buildings not sure of the name
Phoebe Vet C&O Fan: Where do you get your front surface mirrors?
C&O Fan:
Where do you get your front surface mirrors?
Special order from Bunswanger glass >Not Cheap< but they also cut it for me to exact size
http://binswangerglass.com/
but there is also a reflective glass for commercial buildings not sure of the name
Thank you.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
tcwright973Sam - That's a very nice scene, especially the way the church is built into the hill side. Not only I have
Thanks Tom,
That church is a left over from my first layout, but is now on the new one
Sam
Here's some recent work. The skirting has been completed on peninsula and I have started the next benchwork section. The paneling on the skirting and fascia was reclaimed from our family room and lower level rec-room when we remodeled the house over 15-20 years back. the skirts hang on nails or hooks made from 12 guage house wire. First a before shot:
Now the after. Amazing how much nicer it looks when you hide the junk. Also, quite by accident I discovered that putting the skirts inset from the fascia 6 or 8 inches maked the aisles seem bigger.
And the other side of the peninsula
Here's the benchwork. There will be liftout at the other end in the open gap to get to the rooms at the other end of the basement.
George V.
TerryinTexas
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http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
A City Classics East Ohio Street kit has been added to the layout under the name "The Bralick Building"
John R.