Back to school and bored, feedback on my latest?

[engineerjoey]

Hi all,

 

No train forum that I have found replies quicker than this one. Thanks.

 

I'm back teaching music as school has started up and I'm sitting around waiting for students. Perhaps you'd care to look at some pics of mine;

 

 

Or even this video which shows the use of Kadee delay uncouplers...

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1378894974668497607&hl=en

 

 

THANKS!

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Kyle, I must say that looks really good. Your scenery looks like mine did before I tore my layout down and started over.

[Driline]

Everything looks great except the water scenery. I'm not sure but it doesn't look quite right to me. Maybe too bright? Did you use any special water resin? Or is it just paint?

The rest of the ground scenery is good though. My layout will look similar to yours when its done.

[selector]

Everything looks great except the water scenery. I'm not sure but it doesn't look quite right to me. Maybe too bright? Did you use any special water resin? Or is it just paint?

The rest of the ground scenery is good though. My layout will look similar to yours when its done.

Oh.....I thought it was a model of a radioactive spill exhibiting the Cherenkov effect where the water glows blue.   Seriously, though, I like the images.  Good realistic effects in the terrain and greenery, and I think ('cuz I can't see it when I'm typing this message) the third image is really very good.  I'll edit if I have to.

[secondhandmodeler]

I hope my layout looks half as nice as yours.  Your buildings are what catch my eye. Good work!

[GAPPLEG]

The buildings look very nice , gotta agree on the one shot "water"  way to blue. Generally a very nice layout.

[engineerjoey]

Everything looks great except the water scenery. I'm not sure but it doesn't look quite right to me. Maybe too bright? Did you use any special water resin? Or is it just paint?

 

Interestingly, the wet hillsides and crannies are gray stucco patch on pink foam. No color at all. I took the pic when the scenery was still wet and that was the color I got. (tint saturation bumped up two clicks) Down it the valley by the culvert, that scenery is not as fresh. It's a creek painted field grey with black for the deep spots and coated with varnish. Again, the blue must be from the natural light in the room.

I love it. it looks more like water than water to my eye.

  

 

 

 

 

[selector]

Kyle, when I take this shot during daylight, and the sun is out, the colour of light on the far abutment makes it blue, no matter what I do.  The foam beneath the paint is blue Dow, but the paint should mask that...you'd think so, anyway.  At night, with no light coming in the window to the right of this image, you get what you see.

This one was taken in daylight, and you can see the difference.  I take all my images at night under the halogens now.

So, about that Cherenkov Effect....could it be?

 

[UP2CSX]

Some very nice work, Kyle. I especially like the work on the DT&I gondola. The water does look strange. Were you using a flash? Sometimes I find that water looks too blue when hit with a flash. Or it may be that you just need to tone the blue in real life. Whatever it is, the rest of the scenery look great. 

[engineerjoey]

Thanks for the kind words everybody. When I noticed the blue water, brought out by the sun I HAD to crank up the color saturation in my Photofiltre program. Here it is toned done like the original was.

 

 

Better?

 

 

[wm3798]

The weathering on the Beano switcher is great.

Lee 

[Driline]

Thanks for the kind words everybody. When I noticed the blue water, brought out by the sun I HAD to crank up the color saturation in my Photofiltre program. Here it is toned done like the original was.

 

 

Better?

 

 

Wow....much better. Although I did like the phrase selector used. "Chernobyl" LOL. Maybe you did have a radioactive spill?