Hi guys ! Painting job is nearly finished :Now i need to built the roof and technical equipments : Hvac, pipes, air and water tank ventilator ... And more.So to bee continued
Here is the first building of Gates Rubber factory painted and weathered : Here is the prototype witch inpire me :
Hello all, so many thank's to you guys !!
I have bring back my tools in hands this week and i have stared a new project. It's a factory to fit the zone of the double briges.
The factory is full scratchbilt in 1mm thick carboard. The protoype that have inspired me is the Gates Rubber Co. in denver.
Of course my version will be much smaller, and have a quite different shape !!
Here is the first piece cuted since 1 year :eek::
This piece have been fitted with doors and windows from Ticchy train group.
Metal boarning is from evergreen :
Here is the inside view of the building, Corners are reinforced with sqare wood parts :
Here is the building fully putted toger, ready for paint job :
To be continued, see you soon folks !:guitar:
Hello all !
Here is a new video staring double stack Kato & Deluxe Innovation :
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Here is the diesel in action : Pulling the Ski Train on the Turtle Field
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hello !
Here is my lastest work : A F40PH D&RGW on a Call train kato base :
I have not found the correct "Ski Train" side logo, so i put smaller one. It does not have great importance for me.
Many thank's for the nice comments !
Hi Jean,
Very impressive modelling. I've really enjoyed all your pics and videos especially the CZ, wonder why ?
Your attention to detail is amazing and the work you did inside the truck terminal is fantastic especially when you realize it is in "N" scale. Then your rock mold work is real eye candy....
Keep up the great work and make yourself a regular here , I look forward to your further postings.
Johnboy out........................ Long live the CZ.... also glad to see you have some Western Pacific power on your layout.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Fantastic work Jean. I hope my new build will look as beautiful as what you have shown all of us on the Forum. You have given me a benchmark to progress too. Wow! Doug
Wow, excellent work Bubule!
Wow, it's been a long time for a new update! You have an excellent layout and are an incredible modeller! I look at some of your work and I have to keep reminding myself that it's N scale. I hope you will keep sharing your progress more often with us!
Hi all !!
Here is a all new video on my layout. I wanted to realise a HD video of the California Zephyr Kato on my layout. Here it is, i hope you will enjoy it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jirzzz3xgtM
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Hello all,
Here is some views of the realisation of a removabe dumpser truck.
The dumpster is in plasticard with some brass rods.
The truck is modified to with brass tubes, rods and sterene strips :
The video link dont work sorry ... here it is :
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Hello All,
I have on my extension a diamont crossing witch was not so smooth to run. The problem was that the atlas Straith 60° crossing was not the best way to give the right curve :
So i have made a complete revamping of the track of this area:
The hart of the project was to built a diamond crossing in double-curve with the correct 52° that i need :
Very hard to do in N scale 4 days of hard job 8 hours per day ...
Here is the test video of new tracks, it was lot of work but i think it look better now :
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Wow.
Hello all !!
Here is a video showing the athearn challenger equipped with a tsunami decoder :
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You can see on this film a part of the extention with the yard and the briges scene :
Here is the frame :
The briges scene under construction :
The water fall :
All the briges aboutments are plasticart scratchbuilt :
Bonjour, Great work !!!!!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I wanted fo my layout a B-double raod train truck. like that :
But i didn't found it on the market, so a decided to built one. The base is a kit kit of skelton container trail from deluxe innovation sell by 2 and a standard 48 trailer.
I needed to modify the tadem drive trucks into a Tridem :
The leading trailer frame have been modified to install a scratch built plasticard coupler on the tridem :
The tractor is a ford from GHQ white metal line :
All the length and axle spread are scale reduiced of conform to US legal specications :
The frame work :
Priming all pieces :
Painting :
The truck finished, compaired to a 48' trailer :
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a video with a chalenger :
And video made by a friend of the layout in exibition :
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Many Thank's !! I can't say enything after great coment's like your's... It's great to see that my work can be pleasant for some model railroader's !!
Some more pics, Now you arrive in nature behind the mountain at the back of the town (witch is used as scénics divisor) Wild vegetation and rock kingdom !!
The rock's are handly carved and in plaster, no mold's on this pictures. Broad-leaved tree are all scratch built with electrical wires, putty, aquarium fiber and woodland turf.
The montain hide the town just behind to creat another atmosphere:
And small videos tha showthis area :
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Jean-Francois,
you put us all to shame!
Your layout is an excellent example, that a rather simple layout, in terms of track plan only, can turn into a masterpiece, when executed carefully and with a lot of care for detail!
You pictures should silence all critics of N scale!
Many Thank's Brian !!
One more pic of the frame work :
Here is a view of the comercial row of Turtle Field :
Some detail's on Moe's Tavern buiding, You can drink DUFF at any hour !!! :
All the station is in curve :
The station is from Bar mills scale models :
Thank's Garry, Terry & Ulrich !!
No problem for the track plan :
The layout is a double 8, used to break the break the oval shape of traditionnal looped layout. Now i'm working on an extention ( two trcks goes to EXT). This extention is named "spirit of Denver" because the inspiration will comme from this city. But it would'nt be a real reproduction ... just inspired.
The track on the Turtle Field is Peco code 55 but Spirit of denver will be laid with Altas code 55 track.
Switch are powered by Tortoise motors (Not DCC).
The layout is drived by a NCE DCC system. I use digitrax plug and play decoder.
The structure of the Turtle Field is an open grid in 10mm plywood covered with aluminum grid and plaster bands :
Bonsoir, Monsieur Jean-Francois,
would it be asking too much if you would supply us with some more info on your layout? Things like track plan, type of track used etc.
I think your layout is a great inspiration for all of us!
Wow, nice work. Thank you for sharing. Whenever I see pictures like that I can immediately see elements & detail I can add to my layout (also N). thank you for the inspiration.
Welcome to the forum.
48 hours is a long time, but if I was just working on my trains I'll take it!
amazing work!
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Merci Marc !! Thank's Ulrich. Nice to meet europeen people how enjoy US model railroads !!
Here is a video showing a commuter rolling stock test on the on the Turtle Field division rail.
I love the commuter trains , i'm sad to have not enought time and space to built a sepcial layout on that theme. Should model railrooders have 48 hours per day instead of the regular 24 ?
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