Turtle Field Railroad N scale Layout.

[Bubule]

This morning the turntable have been weathered :

[Bubule]

Hello all.

Today installation of the first track of the turntable. Here is the first test :

I have modified the look the walthers turntable : Weathering of the pit, painting hand rails and cab, Rio Grande decalcs :

[Blazzin]

  Hello there!  I wanted to express how impressed I am in looking at your thread.  I'd like to point out to others as well,  this is N scale and N scale is no easy task.  I can see myself studying your pics as well as re-reading your posts.  I personally enjoy looking at other modelers works.  It gives me added inspiration.  I model with N scale and do my best to Scratch Build many of my buildings.  Finding solutions on how to build something is the part I like best.  Studying your pics I get insight.  Thank you and please continue to post .. especially on how something is done.  I love it.

[Bubule]

 

UP FEF 3 at work today :

[Anonymous]

You must be a professional model builder!

Gawd, this leaves me in awe!

[Bubule]

Here is the first test in place on the layout : You will see the connection to light rail Bridge, and how the main lin leave the foreground to staging trougth the base of the building.

[Bubule]

Here are the lastest photo :

 

[Bubule]

HD Video update ... in (poor) english, but you will seen the shape comming slowly ... :D

 

[Bubule]

Many thank's Ulrich !!

Here is a view of the structure of the second face. It is a lateral one, so it's have heavy reinforcement crosses like on the prototype.



And here is second view of the first face :

[Anonymous]

Truly amazing!

[Bubule]

The first face of the building is now putted-togever and painted :

[Bubule]

I just have finished the basement of the new building. It's take three weeks and 100 hours of work to put together and engrave the 179 pieces of this model.

It's in french, but you will see the globality of the basement. I think it is a better way to present this basement with a video because this model have a quite complex shape. It's HD720p so you can watch it on utube in full screen.
hope you will enjoy it.

 

[Bubule]

Thank you

Here is the construction of the base of the building: the base has got 2 levels with a ramp and a stair between the two.
It's realized in 2mm thick styrene sheet for hardness.



The future concrete is engraved with wide rectangles at 45° of angle.



Realization of the stairs. Stairs are difficult to realize because the size of the steps need to be very precise to looks good. Here the steps are adjusted at 1/10th mm:

[hornblower]

Jean-Francois

Very nice modeling work and your videos are quite nice, too.  I just wish I could get my son, Jean-Paul, interested in model railroading. Keep up the great work!

Christopher Jean 

 

[Bubule]

More strips .030 have been put together (46 pieces in this structure)



Here you can see the face verticaly with the entrance :



Starting the structure "Heavy Duty" whitch hold the buiding. It is composed of horizontal .080 sqare strips and vertical 3/16"  H columns. At this point there is 27 pieces on this heavy structure (73 part for the total face).



Some details. The ajustments betwin the light and the heavy structure need to be very precise.



Tomorrow i will start the reinforcement parts. To be continued ...

[Bubule]

Many Thank's these comments comes directly to my hart !

Today some views of the construction of the main face of the glass building. It is the lighter structure whitch hold the windows. An heavier will comme later to hold the entire building.

I start to realise to templates symmetrically opposed to create the structure. Here is the putting togever of the square of .080 :



Here is the putting togever of the I beams of .080 :



Here is the putting togever of the square of .030 whitch are in contact to the glass:



Here is some details :

 

[middleman]

I very much enjoyed the video,and look forward to seeing more.You're doing a great job of capturing the look of Denver's light rail.

Thanks for posting.

Mike

[rrebell]

This is the finest N scale layout I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!  You have got to be one of the top 1% in that scale.

[Bubule]

An overall view of the layout :

And the main face of the glass building :

 

[Bubule]

 Hello all.

Today i am starting a new project : A glass and steel building

To start the construction a was needing  ...  tinted glass.

After two week of research, i have found the way to do that :  tinted glas film for tunning cars applyed on clear styrene sheet from evergreen.

Quite simple when you have found this way but some technics needed to aplly the film. Glad if the Tip can help someone.

Here is a video of the tip. Sorry it's in french but you will see clearly how it work's :

I also have made an acces rampe in styrene for the tramway station :





To be continued ...

[dexterdog]

That is some outstanding work. You seem to be a very meticulous craftsman, all the more impressive seeing as you model in N scale! I am looking forward to seeing more of your light rail project as it progresses!

Merci beaucoup, joyeaux Noel et bonne annee!

[Bubule]

Hello all !

I have started the construction of the RTD ligth rail line juste behind my future Engine Facilities.

First part of the line a 25" long and curved bridge. The ligth rail run above and pass over the turnning triangle.
It's a two track bridge. It is fully scratchbuilt in styrene card and tripes.

First i have bent the I beam and sticked them on the base (cutted in one piece in styren sheet) :





Here is my prototype inspiration :



The second part is to made the poles. Poles are pairs big square bars sawed, sticked togever, Filled, mastiquated an sanded :





A tube for the pole :



Slater hand-rail and styren walkway complete the upper part :



The scratch built abutment :





The line with paltform of the future elevated station under construction :



To be continued ....

[Bubule]

Hello all,

A friend of mine (Bernard FABRON) comes today at home to test his Kato Mikado Eqquipped with a Micro V4.0 ESU loksound decoder.

Here is some views of the installation :

Bernard have drilled the Tender chassis to allow the sound to go out.





Here is the wiring of the locomotive, motor have been isolated :





Details of the 3 poles micro plug:





The suggar cube speaker :





The decoder in the tender :





Here is a video of the test on the Turtle Field Railroad :

 

Seen ya !!

[jmbjmb]

Stunning, your craftsmanship is absolutely stunning.  Love the short painting lesson on how you did the Texaco star.

 

jim

[cowman]

Jef,

Beautiful layout and very nice videos.  It had been a l ong time since I stopped in with the first comments, because, though I had seen the thread come up again and again, I knew I had visited it and did't check back.  My loss, you  have added much to it since then.

I wonder if more folks would see your great work if you posted it on the WPF (Weekend Photo Fun), as there are those who might not check in to a thread with just the name of the railroad on it.

Just a thought.  Beautiful work, keep posting it somewhere, as it is obvious those of us who have found it are enjoying it very much.

Have fun,

Richard

[Bubule]

Thank you so much Ulrich.

I have just seen that you were modeling Japanese prototype. I have just puschase a tomytec T100 japanese tram to design my RDT ligth rail line for my layout. ( will help me for design radius, ramps and gauge).

I have bring the decision to built a part of Denver ligth rail on my layout when Kato/lemke announced theyre Bogestra DüWag in n scale :

It will be a good base to built RTD siemens SD100 or SD160. I have mailled Lemke The Model will be availabe in mid 2015 :

So for the testing of the RTD ligth rail line, i have purchased a tomitec T101. The video is in french but you can see the model, replacement of false chassis by motorised chassis, the digitalisation pocess and at 13min30 you can see the test on my layout ... amazing slow speed performance with the digitrax DZ 123 decoder :

 watch?v=ner458ryYc&list=UUdiu8Syl5wuLnXd59tBtiqA

 

[Anonymous]

My eyes must be deceiving me. You are doing unbelievable work in N scale, Jean-Francois! I wish I had your talent and skills!

[Bubule]

Thank's !




To continue on the S. Gonlales Speed towing garage (Arriba, Arriba ! Ay caramba grosso mineto !  ;) )  , i will show you the contruction of the junk yard behind the garage.

I have wheathered some cars and trucks for it. i have used a decoration paint with two componements. One is an iron charged paint, the second is an oxidizer paint to transform the iron in the first paint into rust. Transformation take a day and is is a natural process you did not know how it will bee before realizing the process ... The result is surprising :

 







Here they are in place on the layout :



The garbage dumpster, and the loading dumpster mecanism of the Ford truck are scratch built.

[Bubule]

Thank you sir ...

 

Hello guys !

I am waiting for some scratch building supplies to go forwar on the "spirit of denver" modules, so i will do a little flash back on the construction of some scenery elements on the Turtle Field part to wait ! :o

First i propose you a zoom on the S. GONZLES speed towwing and repair garage. It is the place to repair or feed in fuel all rolling vehicules in the Turtle field town.

To make the gas tank i used a tank rail car. I have remove chassis an made with plastic a retention. I also scratchbuilt the pump and brass pipes. The valves are comming from the tank car :

 







The primer from alclad II have been sprayed with an air brush :




I choose to affect the garage to the texaco gas supply company (love the star logo). I have paint with mask the white circle :



And now applying the mask of the star and painting the red, So the star will stay white  :



The retention have been painted in concreate and some whethering done :





I will post some more details on the construction of the S. Gonzales  Building.

[Anonymous]

Jean-Francois - you are certainly one of the most skilled model builder I have come across! Mind you, this is N scale! Keep those pictures coming!