I'm ba-ack!. School starts in around 2 weeks here
And before you ask, yes, I did see a shark at the beach. It was a 3-4 ft. shovel head shark (member of the hammerhead variety). It stayed within 20 ft. of the shore mostly, and even got to within a yard or 2 of me. That was awesome.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Alex
My Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/JR7582 My Flickr Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wcfan/
I got my best clips up, (finally.) Here it is!
*Drum Roll*
WRS - Best of 2008!
Enjoy!
super cheif n wrote:anyone else not have time to do that much model railroading with school and stuff?
Sure do. I always get more done during the summer's rainy days...
I'm glad I graduated. But now I have to go to college near the end of August. Then I have worked at my job for a year (means a raise, more train money)
I'm serisouly thinking of quiting college an working for the CSX around here. I think I'll see if I have an insane or biased instructors this semester.
As for me working on my trains, I usually don't do much unless I think it needs it. Right now I'm working on the following:
2 GP30s, Superdetailed; airline hose and rerail frogs fell of on seperate units
U28B with sound needs a horn, The non sound has just gotten programed with speed match with the sound one, just need a horn.
GP35, needs a motor, driveshafts, and worm gears. (that or me to modify a P2k GP30 chassis I have). A guy at the MR club has some left over from his older athearn units
SD9s, new decoders and LED, just needs some programming and paint the insides of the shell black (LED shines trough, even the black part of the shell), the old lightboard wouldn't allow me to use LEDs. I also found out NCE is really good.
The FTs I have are all good, but the GP9s are away and need to have the back ends straightened out. (the shell and maybe the frame are bent down in the rear of the units, same is happening to my GP30s)
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
super cheif n wrote:well mine starts the last week in Auguest, but i have band this whole month and 1 week is 9-4, another 9-9, and the last i think is 9-12.
Ugh, Band Camp Starts for me...tommrow...and I haven't totally memorized the songs completely...looks like I'll have to guess...
I have a fair amount of time, it's just that I lack motivation to work on the layout mostly. I occasionally try to run it, then I get depressed when it runs poorly and I go and do something else...
The backdrops on my layout are 1/8" masonite, painted blue and fastined to the plywood base with small (1" by 1") L braces with small bolts/nuts holding the pair of L braces (one on each side of the backdrop board) together with the backdrop sandwiched in between.
Each backdrop board is blended together with aluminum tape. I would recommend using something else, like drywall putty or something instead, as the joints between the boards aren't very smoot, there are a lot of wrinkles on each joint...
The clouds are made with stencils and an airbrush. I use New London stencils, using a technique I learned in a clinic by the makers of the stencils at the Springfield, MA train show.
School doesn't begin for another month over here...
I'm paiting WRS' GP9 at the moment...
Sawyer; visited your blog as well as downloaded the RTS software. I'll play around with it when I have time.
Jordan; I had two of those videos a while ago; both from a while ago though. Here's the one I didn't delete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZoMLGPMykw
I also have a playlist of two videos following Train 41T; the New Poland Turn, which runs across the whole layout except the staging yards. This is the most up-to-date video; but there have been a bunch of changes since I filmed it.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F770B58ABB40831A
I'm going to film a version of the tour without all the camera shaking in the current version; this time I'll make sure to ge tthe staging yard; I filmed it but the camera lost it...
Good thinking. I could actually think and reflect on the work I do!
Railfan Alex wrote:Looking good! I should think of creating a blog...
Do it. You can get all your thoughts down and get the world's input on it.
finally created a decent blog:
www.sbpackernut.tk
Please vist.
And I would like to know what you used for the backdrop. It looks really good!
Hey tyler, see what you can do w/ this software:
http://www.atlasrr.com/righttrack.htm
It's roughly 12' by 22', and I used to have a track plan...excpet the dimensions are wacko and I've rearranged some stuff since then. I'll try to draw up an updated plan this week.
EDIT: Yeah, the camera work was pretty bad in this one... I was in a hurry. And Alex; if you go to my WRS blog in my sig, I've got a lot more info as well as some overhead photos in the older posts.
Wow Tyler! I didn't realize how large the layout was!
What are the dimentions? And do you have a track plan?
Yeah, the other one got deleted a while ago. I got the new tour up. I may revamp the old one to remove that horrific music...
Here's the new one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cHjx3Qr6U