Weekend Photo Fun!

[Anonymous]

Texas,

Point of photo posting protocol: Your photos are very large: 1.4 megs and 2.5 megs!!!!!!!!!!! Those of us with older computers and those on dial up would appreciate it if you compressed them down to something more reasonable, say 150-200 kb range. I'm sure if you have a newer computer on DSL you probably aren't even aware there is a problem with the sizes. If everyone posted photos as big as yours, it would slow the thread down so much as to make it impossible to view on older gear. Right click on some of the other photos to see the sizes to give you an idea of what size people are posting.

Thanks,

[electrolove]

Aggro:

That is a good idea, maybe you can tell us your version of the things Joe does so good in the scenery clinic. The reason I'm asking you is that you are soooo good. And I want to learn from people like you. And I know that other will too. Someone said that Joe is one of the big names in this hobby, a name that we will remember. I agree 100%. I also love the work of Robert Smaus (http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/trains.html). And then we have Aggro himself. So if you have the time, please do it.

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones

QUOTE: Originally posted by electrolove

Aggro:

Fantastic work! This is the kind of pictures that gives me ispiration. I would love to see a scenery clinic of your methods like the one Joe did. Please consider it.

Thanks for sharing your photos and keep up the good work!

Thanks. I can not elaborate as well as Fugate. I'm more of a "do-er" than a "talk-er". He seems to be both. But I can state some of my techniques somewhere. Mabey I'll just tack it on his clinic.

[electrolove]

jeffshultz:

Can you please tell me the item numbers of the woodland scenics products you are using in this picture?

Thanks in advance

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffshultz

A shot from my layout:

[jeffshultz]

Electrolove,

Yikes... the bushes are WS lichen with some clump ground foam mixed up in it, and the ballast is WS grey... I think it was supposed to be fine but I think some medium got mixed up in it. I'd prefer it all be fine. It probably started life as B1393 - Gray Blend Fine Ballast (32 oz. Shaker), but there is also some B74 - Lt. Gray Fine Ballast (10 oz. bag) in there as well. I've learned that the best way to deal with ballast is to soak it down with 70% rubbing alcohol, then hit it with the watered down glue. Most of the stuff in this picture wasn't done that way... it's why I learned to do it that way.

Not in the photo, but elsewhere on the layout, I tried out some beach sand I got off of the Peter Iredale beach in Warrenton, OR. (note: strain a lot of fresh water through the stuff to remove salt) It turns out much too dark when glued down to be effective looking ballast around here, but almost makes it as asphalt/oiled road when you spread it out over wet black paint. Perhaps if I started out with a lighter color sand - the northern Oregon Coast sand has a lot of basalt in it.

The vegetation is a mixture of WS fine ground foam colors, everything from bright green "weed" (can't find) to "turf" (T42) to dead grass "yellow" (T43) and a couple green/brown shades in-between - probably including T45 - Green Grass. Basically I just tossed portions of the straight colors into a disposable bowl and started mixing until I thought it looked okay.

The yellow stuff on the bushes is the dead grass "yellow" straight from the bag. It's supposed to represent Scotch Broom, a really noxious invader species around here, but the yellow really isn't bright yellow enough for the real thing.

Hope this helps...

[electrolove]

Thanks a lot for helping me out. When I see something I like I always want to learn how it's done. And you gave me a very good explanation on this. You are great!

Thanks again!

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Trainnut1250
[Point of photo posting protocol: Your photos are very large: 1.4 megs and 2.5 megs!!!!!!!!!!! Those of us with older computers and those on dial up would appreciate it if you compressed them down to something more reasonable, say 150-200 kb range.

Wow, don't know what happened. I specified size to be something like 320 x 220. At least it still compressed them, the raw pictures are about 6 meg each. I'll resave the web site where I posted them and see if they revert.