Conrail92,
Another item....I hope you peeled the plastic 'skin' from your foam before you laid the foam and cork. The reflection of the glue bottle caught my eye.
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Ok the cork came today! Still waiting for more switch track and electrical stuff, But I started laying it down today. I got maybe 1/5 of it done. I'm still getting the hang of it for doing it for the first time.
Sorry for the one fuzzy pictur, I hope to share with you more progress on this as time goes on.
Very nice photos, everyone. And the tone is so civilised this week!
Anyway. I spent a good part of the day manning a table at the Boeing Employees Railroad Club Swap Meet in the 'burbs of St. Louis. Made some healthy sales and thus was able to treat myself to some phinery from the land of the rising sun:
....a shiny new Kato SD70MAC! Now before you blow the civilised bit out of the water, please note that no, I have not yet applied all of Kato's tiny, tiny details, no, there is no ballast on that track (it's a 6' long test track, the extent of my layout, currently) and no, the SD will not clear the canopy behind it. You're welcome.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Spectratone, what kind of scenery are you trying to recreate? If it's the arid desert Southwest, I think the background hills look just about right. Maybe a few more splotches of green to represent mesquite but it's very good as it stands.
Selector, your picture looks plenty sharp compared to the junk I take.
Jeffrey, did that GP-30 get involved in a grade crossing accident? The shop crew needs to get to work on those handrails.
The air smells nice and fresh after a whole bunch of pages and many interesting and fun images. Great going, everyone.
I thought I would throw in another at this point, but I must say it seems to have lost some sharpness and zip that the original has on my hard drive. This is cropped, and re-sized as you can probably guess, but its current size means that the image has lost quite a bit of sharpness and detail.
Dang!
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MilwaukeeRoad wrote: What kind of kit is that Jeff? Looks very nice.
What kind of kit is that Jeff? Looks very nice.
I agree. I'm a sucker for scenes with barrels and pallets, though. Stuff on loading docks always makes the scene come alive.
Also, can you guys help me find a good, big factory kit, already painted, I just have to put it together?
I suspect that you'll find kits that are unpainted, or RTP (Ready to Plop.) The Walthers Cornerstone series comes in "reasonable" colors, which I sometimes keep, but mostly I enjoy the process of painting, detailing and weathering a structure. Seriously, painting isn't that hard, and once you've done a couple you'll find yourself looking for the "right" color for every part. For me, even a simple structure takes a week (we're talkin' four walls and a roof here) and the more complex ones might be a month from box to layout. It's not the only thing I do in that month, not even the only railroad thing, but, as my old Pappy used to say, "Patience is a virtue."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I'm no artist either, but I sure like what I see there.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I,ve been working on backgrounds. This is a test board I painted that changes daily. Either I add to or start over. So far I,m only happy with the sky. Clouds still need work but getting closer. Mountains and hills need more detail. I am not a painter. So any artist out there want to offer help I,m all ears.
Glenn
Some fantastic pics here this weekend, as usual. I have been working on weathering this water tower for the good people in Traintown. I used real dirt for the weathering, just a little, didn't want to much. The painting on the front was done using the Testors Decal Maker. I will post some pics of it installed on the layout later.
I am pleased with the way this WPP is going this week, Ok Mark R. Are these crappy enough for you or should I change the settings on my camera LOL. Mike
Great images and plenty of model railroading going on this weekend!
Here is my first stage of weathering on my old Atlas turntable, part of my ongoing Roundhouse and Roundtable Renovation project. For more details, check out Roundhouse Renovations web page.
A little rusting here!
Looks like the rails need some work too!
First run on the newly wired for DCC auto-reversing turntable.
Looks like the MOW crew needs to make a trip out to the roundtable!
Enjoy,
Ryan
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.... no drama - no excitement ....
C'mon - SOMEbody post some crappy pics !!!
Nothing but three pages of great pics and cordial compliments .... maybe changing to "phinery" had something to do with it.
Mark.
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It's a Walther's Cornerstone kit, I forget exactly which one. I bought it a few years ago.
Check here for your factory structures:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=&scale=&manu=walthers&item=&keywords=cornerstone&instock=Y&split=60&Submit=Search
Nice Photos Guy !!I've always wondered Who the heck is Phoebe Snow ?
Nice Photos Guy !!
I've always wondered Who the heck is Phoebe Snow ?
I refer you to the Wikipedia article on Phoebe Snow. There was also a singer, songwriter and guitarist whose stage name was Phoebe Snow, but she was born in 1952, long after the Lackawanna invented the character.
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Rtpoteet & Tom, Thanks for the kind words. In answer to a couple of your questions/statements. No the exterior lights do not work (they're Tichy castings) but it is wired for lighting inside the scale/dump room. Doors do not work but I tried to add as much detail as I could to make it look like they do. As for staging the shot on a stark background, that's no problem, I don't really have a layout so there's no other background to choose from!
TerryinTexas
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This is my first (and not my last) attemp at a costom paint job of a make belive short line that has a track junction in the middle of a lake(the junction is real)
Great pic's everybody
Joe
A couple from the new layout,
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Glenn,
Let's make that a working video link:
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u44/calcity/?action=view¤t=F3SP-1.flv
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Beautiful work, mr moto! Although I haven't done much scratch-building yet, I do find it very rewarding. I also enjoy kitbashing and super-detailing.
Questions for you. Are those working lights above the doors or just props? Also, are the sliding doors working door or not. Either way, you've done a splendid job on that structure!
SpaceMouse wrote: It's not so much that we are surprised that scenery can be well done in N scale. It's just that we are surprised when you blow up a picture of an N scale layout and we can actually see what we are looking at. I felt the same way the first time I saw paramecium wiggling around in a drop of water.
It's not so much that we are surprised that scenery can be well done in N scale. It's just that we are surprised when you blow up a picture of an N scale layout and we can actually see what we are looking at.
I felt the same way the first time I saw paramecium wiggling around in a drop of water.
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
mr moto wrote: I finished my first ever completely scratchbuilt structure earlier this week. It is a representation of the many grain elevators my son and I saw on our road trip this summer. No real prototype. I learned a lot from it and now know some things to do different next time.
I finished my first ever completely scratchbuilt structure earlier this week. It is a representation of the many grain elevators my son and I saw on our road trip this summer. No real prototype. I learned a lot from it and now know some things to do different next time.
Early afternoon brings shadows to the deep valley's of the Ozark Mountains. Pictured below we see one of the Cedar Branch & Western's short trains threading it's way around the hills and hollows.
The same train caught again as it rumbles across Gaskins Creek, near the Missouri Pacific interchange.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!