Jim What did you use for the brick streets ?
Jim
What did you use for the brick streets ?
Terry, I used the Walthers brick street system along with the Walthers track insert system. It's a little fiddly to work with and I had to turn some things sideways to get them to fit my steet width but I'd recommend it for anyone who's considering brick streets. It comes with the sidewalks also so it looks pretty decent once you get it all put together. Just make sure you know the building layout and street width before you start. It would have been easier for me if I had done a little more advance planning.
Recently I was given a plaster casting of a stone wall section.
I want more so I made a latex rubber mold.
I have plaster in the mold at this time. I'll wait several hours before removing the casting.
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wm3798 wrote: As soon as the video is finished uploading, I'll post a link... Here's the movie!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0YpBX0tsI
Here's the movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0YpBX0tsI
Great! I like the movie!
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John, see, if I had been smart enough to leave the roof off before I started to try to shove those tracks in the slots, I probably could have done it without bending them all up too.
Lee, I just love those BL-2's. How many other railroads could you see MU-ed BL-2's but the old WM.
OK, last gasp for a very pleasant WPF (thanks, Bergie). Here's one I'm not sure I posted during the "unpleasantness" of several weeks ago. It's the P&N 638 shoving a covered hopper down Main St. to spot it at the Flint Paint Co. :
Lastly, since we've had some night shots, I though I'd try a few sunset shots. Here one of Hillside's finest is about to raise some revenue from an unlucky motorist - 30 mph in a 25 mph zone. The Hillside cops don't give you much leeway:
And here's Al's Ice Cream Truck, set up in Main St. Alley, a little closer to the residential district. Al hopes some more mom's will be lured out with the kids as the sun sets on another hot Southern day:
Great pictures, everyone. Let's do it again next week!
Hardwired a decoder into my new-to-me BL-2, and quickly put it to work.The first unit is #81, a newer split frame drive, which has been in service for a number of years now. The second unit, #82, is an older plastic frame drive. I was able to get them to M.U. without much CV tinkering at all.I was modestly surprised at the differences in the decorating between the two. The speedlettering is smaller and the yellow stripe is thicker on 82. I expect a bit of weathering will tone that down a bit. Otherwise, the old spring drive with lead blobs does just fine working in tandem with her sister.As soon as the video is finished uploading, I'll post a link...
Lee
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John
jwar wrote:UP2CSX Thank you for the compliment but I Gotta ask ya a question? I think I read somthing about that milkman in the newspaper a while back. About a jealous raging wife that shot her milkman, account of she thought he made a pass at her husband....ohh well it might not have been...but it sure looked like the same milk truck..John
John, since you and I are both from northern California, just about anything is possible Joe doesn't confide such things to me though - he's still mad at me for putting super glue on his elbow and his foot.
jwar wrote:MIS1621 Great wood truss, Your scrach built crain realy intrigues me...You have put a lot of thought into it, perhaps someday a ground man giving signal's to the operator, even without it is a great action scene. Great work...John
John,
The prototype for the gantry crain is in north St Louis at a steel fabrication company. I made a few trips across town to take pictures and make measurements. The original is over a football field long and has a roof over the whole thing with the sides open.
They don't use the operator's cab anymore, but have a control box hanging from the end of the travelling crain for ground operation. I liked the idea of a guy in the cab, so I didn't try to recreate the ground controls.
I finaly did something on the layout and feels good. It looks good on the layout to me and I hope these pictures are respectable.
This is a bachman car shed that I added service walkways to from thier engine shop( I did not like ). I painted with an airbrush(first, for me), CNW yellow for the sides and CNW yellow plus sand to the roof. I added some grimmy black to the center of the rails and a few high traffic areas, but it lightened up more than desired. After I assembled it a gave it a good dose of sand overspray as everything in the inland empire has sand on it. It brought the entire project together nicely for me. Hope you like.
Came across some of my favorites, wish the EM1 would be produced in plastic by BLI or Heritage
And the WM GP40s in Circus paint, I know that WM3798 can appreciate this one
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Hoople wrote:I think I'll do that. I don't know if I'm that patient. (Oh yeah I am, I spent 10 hours making my station...)
Los Alamitos,Boy do I know where that is!!I grew up just nort of you in a place called Hawaiian Gardens.Went to Artesia High School,andwent two years to Cerritos Collage.I left there in 1962 and only been back a few times to visit.Is the Naval Air Base stell there?
Any way was looking at you work,It is real looking for sure!I'am in "N" scale for now,"HO" in storage for a while Soon as I get more room ,out comes the "HO".Keep up the good work!!
JIM
Driline wrote: Joe the Milk man pays his early morning visit to Inga and SvenHmmmm, I thought Sven worked today...... so that would leave the milkman and Inga for a littly romantic rendezvous
Joe the Milk man pays his early morning visit to Inga and Sven
Hmmmm, I thought Sven worked today...... so that would leave the milkman and Inga for a littly romantic rendezvous
No, Sven got a suspicious that Joe and Inga were getting a little too friendly so he stayed home to have a chat with Joe.
John, you'd have to put that picture of yours next the the real Keddie wye to tell it was compressed. I've been to that location many times and your model really captures the feeling of the Wye.
UP2CSX wrote: Mike, that trestle and the lifting crane look really good. I always have to look twice at your pictures to see everything.Jeffrey, that ballasting is coming along nicely. Next thing to work on is the backdrop. I don't know how you have it glued on but parts of it make me dizzy. Maybe it's just a matter of remounting it on some masonite and rolling it out smooth since the background itself it a nice picture. Just been adding some details and extending Central Avenue out of town. Here's a few pictures of some of the detail work:Traffic jam at Court and CentralJoe the Milk man pays his early morning visit to Inga and Sven
Mike, that trestle and the lifting crane look really good. I always have to look twice at your pictures to see everything.
Jeffrey, that ballasting is coming along nicely. Next thing to work on is the backdrop. I don't know how you have it glued on but parts of it make me dizzy. Maybe it's just a matter of remounting it on some masonite and rolling it out smooth since the background itself it a nice picture.
Just been adding some details and extending Central Avenue out of town. Here's a few pictures of some of the detail work:
Traffic jam at Court and Central
I appologize for double posting, but I realized the earlier post had old pictures of the crain taken before it was finished. The two pictures below show the hooks and cables as well as a load of steel.
selector wrote:Veerrrryyyy nice, Mike.
Thankyou, Sir.
With all the bridges this weekend, I thought I'd contribute a wood trestle. This was my first scratch build project on my neighbor's N scale layout.
The latest project was this gantry crain, using Micro Engineering plate girders for the upper and scratch built verticals and crain.