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selector wrote:Very quiet...must be the holiday weekend thing. So, if it won't be overstepping, I'll post some more images.This last one is an attempt to simulate a night shot. I call it Last Light at Seneca Falls. I havent gotten into the details of setting the shutter speed and iris on my camera, so this had to be done in low light. Depending on your monitor and settings, it may seem too dark to see much at all, but on my monitor it shows the engine clearly, if quite darkly. Anyway, I hope it works for you.-Crandell
Very quiet...must be the holiday weekend thing. So, if it won't be overstepping, I'll post some more images.
This last one is an attempt to simulate a night shot. I call it Last Light at Seneca Falls. I havent gotten into the details of setting the shutter speed and iris on my camera, so this had to be done in low light. Depending on your monitor and settings, it may seem too dark to see much at all, but on my monitor it shows the engine clearly, if quite darkly. Anyway, I hope it works for you.
-Crandell
Crandell,
Once again your modeling has me standing beside myself in awe. This is the amount of detail I want to capture on my layout, Great job!!!!
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
GAPPLEG wrote:Well just to bore everyone to death with this project , signs are up , stores are open. Last post of this project, aren't you glad !
Well just to bore everyone to death with this project , signs are up , stores are open. Last post of this project, aren't you glad !
GAPPLEG,
Now that is a strip mall!!! Dang makes me want to scratch build one....dunno where I would put it on a steel mill layout though. Great job.
MisterBeasley wrote:Awww, I wanted a Victoria's Secret in that strip mall. Maybe this could be a "living" model, with a shop closing down now and then, being vacant for a while, and then re-opening as something else.I'm still working on my stockyard and packing plant. I got a lot done this weekend, with the wife in Florida.This is a really old Suydam model, which you've probably seen in other places. I saw it a couple of weeks ago at the South Shore Model Railroad club, but this one is over 50. I originally got it in a yard-sale Box o' Trains my Mom found when I was a kid. (Don't laugh to loud. Many of my turnouts are powered by Atlas switch machines I found in that box, and I've even got an Athearn F7 from it, running with a decoder.)I'm going to replace the windows in the plant, and put some hogs or maybe sheep in the pen. The stockyard is part of the Walthers kit, cut up in pieces to fit it into this odd curved space.
Awww, I wanted a Victoria's Secret in that strip mall. Maybe this could be a "living" model, with a shop closing down now and then, being vacant for a while, and then re-opening as something else.
I'm still working on my stockyard and packing plant. I got a lot done this weekend, with the wife in Florida.
This is a really old Suydam model, which you've probably seen in other places. I saw it a couple of weeks ago at the South Shore Model Railroad club, but this one is over 50. I originally got it in a yard-sale Box o' Trains my Mom found when I was a kid. (Don't laugh to loud. Many of my turnouts are powered by Atlas switch machines I found in that box, and I've even got an Athearn F7 from it, running with a decoder.)
I'm going to replace the windows in the plant, and put some hogs or maybe sheep in the pen. The stockyard is part of the Walthers kit, cut up in pieces to fit it into this odd curved space.
Mr B,
I'll take a steak rare,please hold the steak sauce. Looks very very good,love the time and detail you've put in it.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:MGRy 471 passing a KCS F7 waiting in a spur.
MGRy 471 passing a KCS F7 waiting in a spur.
Jeff,
Looking really good,keep up the good work. Like the two engine shoot,it adds a sense of raw power headed this way.
And your steel mill is fantastic.
And really only cost about ten dollars in parts. Sheet styrene, some evergreen channel, etc. Beats the Summit price, I'm sure their product is great but cheap is good.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
RRCanuck wrote:Tyler, I see the pic of the New Poland station just fine (nice).
Tyler, I see the pic of the New Poland station just fine (nice).
Thanks! I just needed a reality check, as Picasa Web Album doesn't work on another fourum I belong to, (I'm switching to photobucket) and I didn't know if it worked for you.
Bruce: AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
dragonriversteel wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: MGRy 471 passing a KCS F7 waiting in a spur. Jeff, Looking really good,keep up the good work. Like the two engine shoot,it adds a sense of raw power headed this way. Patrick
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: MGRy 471 passing a KCS F7 waiting in a spur.
It does look good. I think Jeffs surpassed your layout skills
Patrick, we have just weathered the worst storm in many years up here. Our power has just been restored, allowing me to read your effusive, but most welcome, praise. Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate your kind remarks.
Been puttering with some motive power shots...
More new pics at my layout gallery page... http://www.wmrywesternlines.net/gallery/index.php
I love the smell of Hagerstown in the morning!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Great shots WM3798!
Makes me want to finish my loco terminal. The 2nd on screams "White Balance!" though.
That last one is awesome!
selector wrote: Finally, an FA2/FB2 set that must have plowed through some near liquid clay during a rainstorm somewhere back along the run.
These are the first shots I've seen of your F unit. Nice.
My photography was not so glamorous. Took 6 times as long as I thought. At least it's done. Now for the switches, then I can test the track.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Holiday is over, back to work!
I use the F units often, Chip, and like the sounds with the DSD100LC decoder. Looks like a nice duo parked up beside all the old dragons. Many of which still need some mussin' up so that Aggro smiles.
I admire your wiring prowess. Guys like you make my spaghetti bowl below the layout look just awful. Oh well, at least it all works.
selector wrote: I use the F units often, Chip, and like the sounds with the DSD100LC decoder. Looks like a nice duo parked up beside all the old dragons. Many of which still need some mussin' up so that Aggro smiles.I admire your wiring prowess. Guys like you make my spaghetti bowl below the layout look just awful. Oh well, at least it all works.-Crandell
I've got the same decoder. Do you find that the audio level is not loud enough? At least compared to my QSI sound units. I've tried increasing the volume level via the CV's but I've got it pegged.
Driline wrote: selector wrote: I use the F units often, Chip, and like the sounds with the DSD100LC decoder. Looks like a nice duo parked up beside all the old dragons. Many of which still need some mussin' up so that Aggro smiles.I admire your wiring prowess. Guys like you make my spaghetti bowl below the layout look just awful. Oh well, at least it all works.-CrandellI've got the same decoder. Do you find that the audio level is not loud enough? At least compared to my QSI sound units. I've tried increasing the volume level via the CV's but I've got it pegged.
They are not very loud. I have on in a GP-38 and at the club a BLI will drown it from the other side of the room.
Driline wrote: selector wrote: I use the F units often, Chip, and like the sounds with the DSD100LC decoder. Looks like a nice duo parked up beside all the old dragons. Many of which still need some mussin' up so that Aggro smiles.I admire your wiring prowess. Guys like you make my spaghetti bowl below the layout look just awful. Oh well, at least it all works.-CrandellIt does okay. I haven't fooled with this decoder since the day I got it (quite reliable!), and have since acquired another six or seven noisy steamers, but I can still hear it when it runs around my layout, and the horn is just fine. It could be that the difference is where it is mounted...not sure. I had the B unit dummied and the speaker(s?) placed inside that shell. I lost power, but the sound is really quite good for my diesel-uneducated year.I've got the same decoder. Do you find that the audio level is not loud enough? At least compared to my QSI sound units. I've tried increasing the volume level via the CV's but I've got it pegged.
It does okay. I haven't fooled with this decoder since the day I got it (quite reliable!), and have since acquired another six or seven noisy steamers, but I can still hear it when it runs around my layout, and the horn is just fine. It could be that the difference is where it is mounted...not sure. I had the B unit dummied and the speaker(s?) placed inside that shell. I lost power, but the sound is really quite good for my diesel-uneducated year.