Well a hard push this weekend squeezing time in between yardwork and chores, yields results, I give you
Tincan JunctionOverall view
Station looking up the hill
Looking up the hill from the crossing
View of Brien's Pinnacle
Tincan itself, a one horse town and they had to borrow the horse.
Still lots of little detail stuff to add, I thought this would take another month to do but it went surprisingly fast, BTW this is a full dress rehersal for the big indoor layout.
Have fun with your trains
Vic,
Looks great man! Lotta work and just great results!!!
Is that a Indian Motorcycle I see?
Toad
Need a break from all these "hom'impruvm'nt" projects, so....Began construction last night on building the permanant structure I had wanted to do for the BTS this year, but ran out of time for, the 3 "town" buildings were only "temps" for the show, I need them for the big layout. BTS 2008 display:
When I began finishing this I had planned for a mining structure on the top of the hill, so after some quick sketching I drew this up on the com'fuser: Its a large facade that will go along the back in the same place the 3 "town" buildings were located. Construction is basswood on a foamcore backing, one nice thing about being indoors is that I can use much lighter, and much easier, construction technics, its going faster than I thought since I discovered I could cleanly cut the basswood siding with a large scissors Pics when I can
Tom Trigg
vsmith wrote: sorry, no pics, camera's gone awol.
Time to go to the store for a new one! Unless ofcourse you would prefer to spend the cash on the RR, which is understandable.
I finished the Mine, its basswood and balsa stripwood on a backing piece of 1/2" foamcore, and am painting it now, My wife left our camera at a family members house, and now its gone AWOL
So no pics for now, I'm considering just getting another one, a cheap backup camera, for just such a situation.
Vic, your sick....think I am gettn like you now! Sick!!! Will post the Mule at later date, but she does run!
Sick Toad
Pictures at last!
Heck man....dang buzzard ain't gone yet! Your making me look way to slow!
This is really neat! I'm impressed. Reminds me of when I try to scrunch everything into my Department 56 Displays at Christmas time. Great work!
Monte
http://www.heather-ridge.com
Hi Vic
Have you thought about what you are going to use for winder wheels on top of the head frame.
I wondered if a mecanno or similar wheel would do the job for a head frame??
regards John Busby
Vic, your using my slang words now "copleted"! Man my stuff is © 2008
Sometimes the ol' fingers are not quite as fast as the ol' brain...or is that the other way round
PS new pics were taken with the new "cheap" camera, also a Nikon Coolpics like the old. The "cheap" camera has 8 megapixels vs 2.5 on the old, and where the old could hold 75 pics in the memory at 640x480 resolution, the new one (with card) can only hold 9999 (literally!) at the same size...all for less than 1/2 the price of that old camera... sheesh!
Time to resurrect this thread over here, some may remember my building log on the previous forum before it went away for this, been reworking this puppy as I'm adding a second track to this monstrously oversized layout. Where I left off. Setting up the foam pieces. Cold weather made glueing the pieces together a day long experience! Glue one piece, come back tomorrow, glue some pieces, and come back tomorrow. But progress was made, I originally planned to place a small tunnel on top but it didn’t look good at all, so I’ll add a small mesa along side the track to it instead. Bridge underway! Foam stone archway Bridge , with station removed, the lower parts of it will be covered by the station when its replaced That’s an Aristo 21” circle of track, stained the rails to brown them. Because of the nature of the track I had to build the bridge in place one bent at a time. Finished the bridge, paint it and touched up the scenery. Adding plant material and ballast next. New pics to follow.
Time to resurrect this thread over here, some may remember my building log on the previous forum before it went away for this, been reworking this puppy as I'm adding a second track to this monstrously oversized layout.
Where I left off.
Setting up the foam pieces. Cold weather made glueing the pieces together a day long experience! Glue one piece, come back tomorrow, glue some pieces, and come back tomorrow. But progress was made, I originally planned to place a small tunnel on top but it didn’t look good at all, so I’ll add a small mesa along side the track to it instead.
Bridge underway!
Foam stone archway
Bridge , with station removed, the lower parts of it will be covered by the station when its replaced
That’s an Aristo 21” circle of track, stained the rails to brown them.
Because of the nature of the track I had to build the bridge in place one bent at a time.
Finished the bridge, paint it and touched up the scenery. Adding plant material and ballast next. New pics to follow.
Vic, What's with the burro powered water tanker? It looks like the tanker has already de-railed. I'm surprised that the motorcycle has not been converted into a three-wheeled rail car! Have you given any thought to supporting those rails on the right end of the bridge?
OK, I'll be a good boy now and shut up.
Finally some finished pictures, some misc scenery to add but its 95% completed, I suppose I'll be adding stuff to it from here on out, as this is likely going to be my only layout for the time being. Thats OK I have lots of ideas to add to this layout, I'm discovering that one realy doesnt need a yard or basement full of track to have fun, after all for me its all about the modeling so as long as I have stuff to model I'll be doing just fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB5eF_6g6VY
Video clip
GOOD! Now I don't have to go to BTS just to get a vid of the two topper!
New town module, 12” x 36” this will act as a storage/display track for trains (unpowered ?), it will be detachable from the main layout. No hurries, will finish it when I can. ;)
Now you loose the title "King of the Short Lines".
Today the right hand edge, next week it expands to the backside with a siding. Next month it circles the "Pizza" and an entirely new empire is born. Only problem with that is that it no longer fits in the back seat of the car! Further expnasion will requre a U-Haul.
Watch out Vic, or this thing will get entirely too large.
Don't forget the auto-reversing unit when it expands to the backside! Then you'll need to fabricate a small passenger goose.
ttrigg Don't forget the auto-reversing unit when it expands to the backside! Then you'll need to fabricate a small passenger goose.
..that a certain somebody in Sandy Ego is just waiting for me to build for them ;)
...maybe something can be done about that later this summer, if things settle down a bit.
vsmith ttrigg Don't forget the auto-reversing unit when it expands to the backside! Then you'll need to fabricate a small passenger goose. ..that a certain somebody in Sandy Ego is just waiting for me to build for them ;) ...maybe something can be done about that later this summer, if things settle down a bit.
Vic: Among the list of projects currently
include combining a Mack with a "New Blight" passenger wagon, The Rosebud Falls County Fair Grounds (complete with hot dog stand, corn of the cob stand, carousel, Ferris Wheel, Big Top Tent, wild animal exhibit, and a kid sized "ride on train" [OK it's an "N" train being cut to fit]), also building a city for Flatbottoms Garden Railroad (yes, I'm doing it again, but this time I'm better armed with what works and what doesn't). But first I've got to finish replacing the fence.
For those of you who do not remember: Douglas Flatbottom, President of Rosebud Falls Scenic Railways has his own garden railroad (OK it's Z scale set into a G scale layout.)
I still say an auto-reversing trolley will do just fine along the red line.
anything is possible
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