We have a great Weekend Photo Fun this time with lots or quality stuff.
Here is my C&S 700D. (Colorado & Southern was a subsidiary of the old Burlington Route.) 700D was originally a normal F7-A when new, but following a head-on collision with an E7-A, it was rebulit into an F9- Am. The E7-A was scrapped.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Hi Bob: I have used the Walthers Modulars to create three background structures. I am modelling in HO but I actually used N scale kits to give a little bit of forced perspective. I did not use the supplied windows because they were too small for HO and because I was trying to model highrise buildings they looked too industrial. Instead, I simply put a .010 styrene strip across the middle of the window to simulate a sash joint. These are obviously only in their very early stages but I think they show what can be done with the Modulars pieces. I should mention that these are the top floors only. The final buildings will be 30" - 36" tall but the bottom sections will not be visible.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Whew! I made it just in time. I was going to post earlier in the weekend, but I had a lot of homework.
Excellent photos everyone. What a great way to finish out the weekend.
Anyway, here are the two bulkhead flat cars with the pipe loads. The closer car I just completed last Tuesday. The other load I posted on WPF a few weeks ago.
Will
chpthrls Tom, the building looks great. Just as an aside, I put 140,000 on a "73" 1600 Sport Coupe. What a great car, and I always liked checking the "olio", topping off the "aqua", and filling the tank with "Benzina". Gerry S.
Tom, the building looks great. Just as an aside, I put 140,000 on a "73" 1600 Sport Coupe. What a great car, and I always liked checking the "olio", topping off the "aqua", and filling the tank with "Benzina". Gerry S.
I always enjoyed telling my wife we were doing 80. What I didn't tell her was that was kph instead of mph. I really loved my 71 Spyder.
Tom
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Colorado_Mac Tom, the plywood in your abandoned store is great.
Tom, the plywood in your abandoned store is great.
Thank you. It was very easy. Glued on some 1/32 balsa wood and hit it with alcohol and india ink.
ClinchValleySD40 Back to working on scenery. I like taking photos when I work on the layout, easy to see mistakes. Larry
Back to working on scenery. I like taking photos when I work on the layout, easy to see mistakes.
Larry
Hey Larry! Glad to see the layout is moving along again! This is Donald Stefanko by the way, I have been over a few times and we have exchanged emails a while back. Hope all is well!!
Don
OdieI feel these modulars are pretty underrated, and I am not sure why Walthers is having so much trouble selling them. A modeler could easily make a wide variety of full size buildings and backdrop buildings for a moderately sized layout for peanuts compared to purchasing separate kits.
I like the Walthers modulars a lot. Probably the reason they do not sell as well is the way Walthers packages them. For instance, you buy a package of walls, but the pilasters that connect them are not included. To get pilasters, you have to buy another package that includes pliasters and cornices. If you want to build tall (3 or more stories), you end up with a lot of spare cornices. the package of walls includes a number of styles of wall including ground level doors and freight doors; if you build a tall or large building, you have a lot of left over doors from each package you buy.
With DPM, you get 4 pieces of one type of wall incuding pilasters, so the spare left over items are not as much. In either case, the spare parts can be saved for future projects.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
hon30critter,
Thanks for the information and the pictures. Using N-scale is interesting. How far will the buildings be from the person viewing them? I would think to have a realistic "forced perspective" there would have to be a minimum viewing distance.
Bob
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While you schlubs were toiling away in your cubicles, I enjoyed the spoils of my Sunday-Monday weekend... I went back into my design program and revised the Company House plan to work with the specs of the Tichy windows and doors I scored at the Timonium show... From there, I was able to "systematize" the construction of the houses...First, I print out the elevations at 1:160, trim out the necessary parts of the image, and apply them to the styrene to be worked...Tichy says their windows are 30" x 62", and by golly, that's right on! Anyway, this new addition to the neighborhood has a blank back, so I moved around the kitchen door and eliminated the rear bump out.The other advantage to using the drafting program, was the ability to quickly whip up the hip roof as a single piece using score lines.Here you see the neatly assembled building, ready for the paint shop. I used strips of masking tape cut to 3' wide, to simulate the tar paper roofing.And finally placed in the block with the original house, which was all laid out by hand. There's a noticeable difference in how uniformly the second one was built... Although for the hollers of West By God Virginia, the first is probably more accurate!Anyway, doing everything by hand, including the front porch on the first house took about 8 hours, including the painting and final weathering. Using the computer to layout the second house allowed that one to come together in about three hours, from first cut to gluing on the chimney and glazing the windows with gloss Mod Podge.I started spreading some spackle to smooth out the roads in town, applying it over the Sculptamold base.Lee
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Bob: The buildings will be along the backdrop in a coved corner (hence the odd angles). They will be about 40" from the front of the layout and will have HO scale City Classics built 2 or 3 kits high in front of them which will hide the lower parts of the highrise buildings. What you saw in the photo was only the parts of the highrises that will be clearly visible above the buildings in the foreground. I will use foam core to construct the lower sections with photocopies of the Modulars pieces on the foam core. I hope that will give the impression that the high rise buildings go all the way to the ground, but the lower parts do not need the detail because you will only catch glimpses of them as you look down the streets between the buildings. The overall heights for the highrises will be 30" - 36". There are no tracks back that far so reaching in will not be a problem, except when installing them.
Dave