Wow, outstanding work by everyone. I'm leaving for a short vacation tomorrow, so I've been working on a scene in the corner of my layout, I didn't have a chance to check out all the photos until now. We've got a bunch of high achievers out this weekend.
Here's what I've been working on. It's the Clampett residence, and the band (Bill Hilly and the Comments) is practicing on the porch. The ground is freshly-spread Gypsolite, and when I took the picture it was still slightly damp, so there's no greenery added yet. Hopefully, I'll get to it in a week or two.
For reference, the house is the "Aunt Millie's House" kit from IHC. Poor Millie would be horrified to see how the Clampetts have let the place get run down. The band is from Woodland Scenics, and most folks in the town wish they would go back there.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Great work all! There's so many great photos here I can't even narrow it down enough to compliment anyone individually!
Today I took a break from repairing track (I'm getting really sick of that!) to treat myself operating a train over the newest repaired track. The locomotives wheels were all clean and it was a pleasure to operate, at least until I (operating the lead engines and pusher seperately, two-fisting it with a pair of UT4s) didn't compensate for the tight curve at the bottom of the grade, stringlined 6 cars onto somebody's lawn...
But then I managed to get the train over the summit (the hardest part; which has caused several severe wrecks even with two engineers concentrating on keeping the slack somewhere in the middle, rather than just me trying to operate both ends while filming!) without any problems.
I shot this at a low angle with slow speeds, dubbing in audio afterwards. It really sounds like the locomotives are earning their keep slugging it out against the 4% grade!
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Enjoy!
TrainManTyI shot this at a low angle with slow speeds, dubbing in audio afterwards. It really sounds like the locomotives are earning their keep slugging it out against the 4% grade!
Nice video. Where did you get that audio? You synched it up very well.
Thanks! The audio is from a CSX manifest I filmed in Worcester, MA in January 2008, with a pair of GE AC6000CWs and an EMD GP40-2.
Wow, I have not been here in a while but I cannot believe the quality and quantity of the participants in this weeks post. I'll post but it wont be much compared to you guys.
This bridge area is the only area on the layout that I have add grass and rocks to.
John
I don't often have anything to post here, but maybe this'll do....
A trio of Alcos "smokin' it up" out of Council Grove in the late afternoon - no wonder they're called "honorary steam engines"!
The locos are by Model Power, with extra details - working class lights, MU hoses - smoke by Paint Shop Pro...
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Robby a few of my cars live in Norway too.
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Nice job of painting and weathering, Mister Beasley. It shows how even a simple basic structure can be dressed up. I have several versions of that same basic house from a previous layout. Right now they are sitting in a junk box (yes, I'm a packrat). This might inspire me to recycle them if I can find the right spot for them.
Nice pics,gang!
An old favorite of mine:
Terry
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Maybe they are on the same layout.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
I have a late entry, isn't that just like me? Anyhow, I'm a pretty cheap guy when it comes to my hobby and I won't always pay the prices for convenience of simplicity. I've made track bumpers before, some out of pieces of ties piled at the end of the yard tracks and one out of rails and brass plate for my coal yard. Here are three I made today. The longest track is the first one, then the next try then the third one is probably the best ouf of the three. By the time I'm done with my layout I should be able to make them a lot better. They're not exactly straight and I have to clean them and paint them, but what do yout think, comments welcome.
Thanks,
AggroJonesRobby a few of my cars live in Norway too.
Too bad they don't live at my house over here - but at least I know I have a happy compatriot somewhere around here
As usual - lots of great pictures of great modeling in WPF. To single out a few, even though it is unfair to those not mentioned specifically - I love Crandell's river, the exquisite photography and image processing that adds to excellent modelling in Jarrel and Jon's pictures, and the inspired rolling stock, scenery and structures in the the pictures by Terry, Garry, Grampy, and everybody else.
I haven't really finished anything this weekend - just got a start on extending my elevator complex.
I had already kitbashed a Walther's ADM elevator kit to look like it had 2x8 silos instead of 2x4 silos:
But it was still too small for that "Mill City" (Minneapolis) feel. So I increased it in size from having 2x8 silos to having 24 silos in two groups - one group of 2x4 and one of 2x8, and then scratched out a conveyor house for the second group of silos.
Now the scene is finally starting to get the right feel - with those gigantic structures towering over the trains:
Still a long, long way to go to make the buildings and scenery look even remotely as good as you guys do, though.
Smile, Stein
One of the coal shifters returning to Gilbert waits at Trace Fork Jct.
See ya
Larry
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Here's today's ops session and Railwire.net semi annual regional meet, summed up in just a few frames...Bryan and Brian scramble to switch the paper mill between passes of an Alpha Jet.Steve, Carl and John enjoy some selections from the library, while Gary wonders when some trains will start running...The crew gathers for traditional mug shot. From Left: Bryan (Sirenwerks) Tim (Sizemore) Gary Hinshaw (Gary Hinshaw), Steve (asciibaron), Dave Foxx (Dave Foxx) Ed Kapuscinski (Oh enough already) Carl (Choochin3) Brian (Rock GP40), in front, Me, and John.That's Carl's Penn Central consist there in front of us... in honor of my hat.Thanks again to all who participated, we'll look forward to doing it again soon!Lee
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Some great modeling again this week! Something tells me I am out of my league.
Selector, I like your water. Very realistic mountain stream.
Jarrell, that is a great photo!
Tim, your fascia is a work of art.
Jon Grant, fantastic as always.
Here is a photo I took today while running my 'circus train' of multi-colored box cars.
NYC GP-40 #3083 rounds the curve by the Farmer's Union Elevator on the Black River Valley Model Rairload.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Two views of a boxcar in the weeds.
Guy
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Guy:
How did you make those great weeds?
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Stein, I like your kitbash of the elevators....very creative. Thanks for showing us your idea.
-Crandell
Phoebe VetGuy: How did you make those great weeds?
Ditto! Those weeds look amazing..,
Well, the weekend's almost over... but I figure to close things out, I'll post a photo of probably one of the smallest mr's here: it measures a scant 3"x8"!
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Phoebe Vet Guy: How did you make those great weeds?
I built a static grass gun and used Silflor "California Gold" 6.5 mm static grass. Pardon the pun but now is the "golden age" of grass technology. Silflor and other companies are making all kinds of good looking grass scenery products.
Here is a link to the grass gun instructions:
http://www.ztrains.com/pages/tech/grassinator/grassinator.html
Here is a link to the Silflor section of the Scenic Express website:
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1126
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OzarkBelt Phoebe Vet Guy: How did you make those great weeds? Ditto! Those weeds look amazing.., Well, the weekend's almost over... but I figure to close things out, I'll post a photo of probably one of the smallest mr's here: it measures a scant 3"x8"! Enjoy!
No one will ever call that a bowl-of-spaghetti. Nice simple point-to-point schematic. Is that a staging yard to the left.
nice pics, all.
These are old pics with low megapixel camera's, but I like them.