Please. I enjoy the detail. When you do too much scenery, the details are a welcome relief.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Nice Videos, that Shay looks great!
Here are my little pics from the club layout. I aqcuired some new SP and Cotton Belt Power so I wanted to try them out on the local club layout (DCC). The pictures aren't the best in the world because they are from my camera/phone but you get the idea . I purchased these units from a great guy in AZ, he did an excellent job on the detail work. You can't notice it on these pics but I added a little more weathering to them.
Ok finally got the sky board painted 2 done 3 to go The new one is on the left 3 shades of light blue blended going from light to dark on the top I like this much better than the old on the right
Slow progress on the trees for the new skyboard on the window sill
All that paint can get you high. I could probably get some college kids to
do the paint for free
TerryinTexas
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gear-jammer wrote: Alan, I always like to see your town scenery. Is that a Proto 2000 0-6-0?Sue
Alan, I always like to see your town scenery. Is that a Proto 2000 0-6-0?
Thanks ! Yes it is one of the three P2k 0-6-0's that I now run. It, and the other 2, have now been re-branded to the BAH RR.
I've been in a dry spell with work eating up all of my time and then some. Yesterday, I started to get some basic ground cover down over some plaster that has been sitting for over 3 weeks.
Regards,
Tom
Tom i really like your back drop !
Is it a photo ?
Well, I finally got all the pieces and parts from Walthers to finish my Wisconsin Central GP7M.
Here are the prototype photos:
Here is my attempt at modeling it...
Edited:
I darkened the side vents, painted the frame around the brakeman's window, and painted the edges of the front and rear stairs today.
I still have to fix the number boards, add the rear ditch lights, and lightly weather it. But otherwise, this is my first attempt at a truely prototypical model. I know I didn't correct the front window, but like I said before, I'm new at this.
Thanks Terry. Yes it is. Took photos into PhotoShop to touch up and then printed using some shareware poster printing s/w.
Sue, Here are a few more pics as promised, I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I did building it. Mike
I still have some work to on the red barn, I want to put in a side door and paint the trim then weather it.
Great job everyone!
And it looks like a lot of excellent model railroading is happening across the great expanse.
Sue, I meant to comment earlier, great Shay and logging scene you got there! As always excellent work! What video editing tool did you use to create the patina view?
Ken, that is quite a "before and after" on the loco, great job there! Looking forward to more details on that one...
Now, here is my You Tube video I was trying to upload yesterday, the full 2:34 short video on my Southern Top Gon empty consist.
Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3DNuqGA3uA4
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Mike,
Thankyou. Thankyou. I love the activity on the layout, especially in the barnyard. The functioning lights are a nice touch.
sue that is gr8. one question if I may.How long is your accual timber bridge? I see your piller and the two timber crossin there .Is the right timbers longer than the left ones.Thank you for a gr8 film of it.
Slow train Ed
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Nice pictures everyone.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Great work everyone.
DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsA video of it in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tle-weT2uEKen.
NZRMac wrote:Great work everyone. DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsA video of it in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tle-weT2uEKen.
Men at work!
It wasn't a lot of work, because I've been working on the structures and other stuff for several weeks now, but this weekend the Saint Anne Street area came together. First, the area as it looked on Saturday afternoon, after I poured and smoothed the Durhams Water Putty roads:
That evening, I painted the road, and on Sunday morning I installed the sidewalks, a second layer of styrene painted a slightly different gray, and marked with a pencil grid. Then, I put in the fire hydrants and streetlights in the holes I'd drilled earlier. Finally, I put in some cars and figures.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Ed, The log bridge is 12" on the right section and 6" on the left. There is a stream below the longer section.
Electro, You are sure going to town with that benchwork, but it will be worth it.
tomkat, Are those castings from rusty rails?
I haven't done anything outside today, but here is my stockyard. Once it is dry I will get to aging it.
MisterBeasley wrote:
S & H green stamps? I love it. The grocery cart is a great touch.
NZRMac wrote: DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsKen.
DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsKen.
Ken
How are you working the track alignment? IS there some kind of switch or just 20-20 eyeball? It looks great, how many tracks do you plan?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
MisterBeasley nice job on the City Classics Market! Now I know where I can go to get a S&H Green Stamps book for the stamps I found. Buy the way that shopper with the cart makes it pop.....who makes it?.....
"tomkat, Are those castings from rusty rails?"
The gondola load is by Chooch....
Figures & Misc junk by Woodland Scenics
Shed is an old Magnuson Cast
Pickup is Life-Like
Signal Box by Model Power
tomkat-13 wrote:MisterBeasley nice job on the City Classics Market! Now I know where I can go to get a S&H Green Stamps book for the stamps I found. Buy the way that shopper with the cart makes it pop.....who makes it?.....
Yes, indeed, it's the City Classics market. The signs all come with it. They provide both 1950's and 1930's prices on separate sheets. There's a small sheet of paper enclosed that lets you order market-specific decals for a couple of dollars from one of the NMRA divisions. I did that, and put on the A&P decals from the supermarkets of my youth.
The figures are Preisers. There are a few others in the set, including a guy with another shopping cart. I'm going to put lights and interior details in the building. If you look carefully, you can already see the grocery racks inside. Once the lights are in, then I can see if the interior will show off the figures, or just hide them. If the good figures don't show up well, then I'll just put them outside and put some second-quality folks inside the store.
Everything is looking great! Electro, I can smell the sawdust.
Guilford Guy added some sounds to one of the videos I posted earlier. I think it made quite a difference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVV9801zps
WCfan wrote:Ezlielinski, looking good. How did you make the spark arrestors? I need some for my SW1500. Also, where did you get, (or how did you make) the bay window?
The bay window is an All-Weather Cab Window by Detail Associates (Walthers Part # 229-2301), and the spark arrestors are from Custom Finishing, listed as "Large, Round Style Spark Arrestor" (Walthers Part # 247-131). This style of spark arrestor goes into "backordered" status quickly through Walthers so order them quickly. Otherwise it's about a month before they get more.
If they are sold out of the Custom Finishing #247-131 spark arrestors, I have also seen WC SW1500's with the large round style (Detail Associates "Round Type" Walthers Part # 229-2102). It's then up to your personal preferrence.
Enjoy.
electrolove wrote:Very interesting. Do you have more pictures? NZRMac wrote: Great work everyone. DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsA video of it in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tle-weT2uEKen.
NZRMac wrote: Great work everyone. DCC staging update, IT WORKS!! laid some track and have been testing loco's over the gap, really pleased with the resultsA video of it in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tle-weT2uEKen.
No more pics so far, it's a bit messy underneath just some twisted wiring and good luck!!
Ken.