I hope I'm not starting this up too early, nor am stepping on toes by initiating it (sorry Jeff ).
We continue to be on a good roll. There were loads of great pictures to see last week. There was a good suggestion that everyone who posts pictures tell us what scale its in.
Mine is in N-scale. This picture features copious use of a digital backdrop:
Bruce,
Step on toes? Didn't you start it last week, too? I don't think I heard any complaints.
With that said, I still think we should change the name of the thread to WLPF for Weeklong Photo Fun. It doesn't seem to want to stop on Mondays anymore.
Nice pick, BTW...
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Thank goodness someone started this thread! I was about to go crazy waiting for it.
I have got to do a little in the trainroom this week. I got my cedar shingles and GOW bulbs in on Monday and finished the roof on Cody"s Recovery:
I also got the floor and the foundation built for the scratch build barn and am waiting on the scale lumber.
Here a a few pics of some Chevy pick up trucks that I did some painting and weathering on
This one I weathered it and painted the top white, you cannot see in the pic but I also made some cracks in the windshield, I am thinking I might try a crumpled fender. This truck has had a rough life.
This one was completly disassembled and soaked in paint remover to the bare metal, primed, and painted with Dupli-Color. The interior I painted white. My hands and eyes won't let me do the chrome on the sides. I haven't decided whether to weather it or not.
I am working in HO scale. Have a good weekend and keep the pics comming. Mike
Great stuff everyone!
I don't think I've posted these yet:
(Wow Alex, I like your loco don't I?)
EDIT: I'm not sure what happened before, I saw the Xs too. Should be better now.
These aren't new pictures, but I wanted to share them with the group. These hot metal cars were scratch built for my neighbor's N scale steel mill module.
I've got more pictures of his module to share later. I didn't want to clog up the thread by posting them all at the same time.
Who says we have a small skyline in Fresno, CA? - Here's a veiw from Serrano Creek on my N Scale SP Fresno District:
Gee, I remember the days when you could tell it was N scale because everything looked so big and clunky. You guys are certainly doing a good job of proving that era has ended. Mike, I never thought I'd see steel mill cars that finely detailed in N gauge - great work. Now, let's see, was it Mikesmowers with the pickups? I think so. Nice job but more light! The truck stop has a nice sunset look to it though. Chuck, I always knew Fresno had a skyline - that's how I knew I was halfway between SF and LA. Nice job, too bad we'll never so those SP cabooses again. Oh, and Ty, all I see are the dreaded red "X"'s instead of pictures.
I've been detailing a police car so I'll post some pictures of that later.
Jim,
My neighbor, Bob, and I spent many hours running back and forth across the river to Granite City, IL to get pictures of the hot metal cars used there and Granite City Steel. these are based on that prototype, but the numbers on mine are too nice, they appear to paint theirs on with a two inch brush, and no regard for neatness.
I used the known wheelbase of the trucks to determine the rest of the measurements for the cars. They're 60 scale feet long and fit under the pouring floor of the blast furnace perfectly.
I agree whole heartedly with your observation about these cars in N scale and can't properly express my disappointment with the ones I've seen offered for sale.
mikesmowers wrote: Thank goodness someone started this thread! I was about to go crazy waiting for it. I have got to do a little in the trainroom this week. I got my cedar shingles and GOW bulbs in on Monday and finished the roof on Cody"s Recovery: I also got the floor and the foundation built for the scratch build barn and am waiting on the scale lumber. Here a a few pics of some Chevy pick up trucks that I did some painting and weathering on This one I weathered it and painted the top white, you cannot see in the pic but I also made some cracks in the windshield, I am thinking I might try a crumpled fender. This truck has had a rough life. This one was completly disassembled and soaked in paint remover to the bare metal, primed, and painted with Dupli-Color. The interior I painted white. My hands and eyes won't let me do the chrome on the sides. I haven't decided whether to weather it or not. I am working in HO scale. Have a good weekend and keep the pics comming. Mike
I like your new building. Your barbed wire fence looks great too. Nice cheap wally world vehicles you got there as well
How did you make your cement or is it asphalt roads? They also look very good. I'm experimenting with colored foam with quick dry drywall spackling mixed with grey and black acrylics spread thin over the foam. So far it looks good. I'll try and get some pics in later this weekend. I'm hoping to purchase a new Canon G9 LCD 12mp camera soon so my pics will look a little better, and with JKtrains help maybe even good.
Looking great already! Bruce, I thought you were starting us off with railfan pictures from a trip out West. Nice work.
Here's a pair of before-and-after pictures. The first one was taken when I'd just put the lighting and LEDs into my passenger cars. The Alco RS-3 was my newest engine at the time. The track on my HO layout is directly above the Saint Anne Street subway station, and the mess of wires and resistors is for the station lighting.
A couple of weeks ago, I tore out all the burned up light bulbs, replaced them with 16-volt bulbs and rewired the circuit for 10 volts. Hopefully, they'll last a while. I used flexible wire this time, and once I had the lights working I covered the mess with scenery. That first shot popped up on my screensaver slide show, so I dug it out and took it again.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
HHPATH56,
Bob and I are doing a steel mill for a friend in HO and have been looking for the kits also.
I asked the owner of a LHS and he told me that Walthers is going to re-release the blast furnace kit and the coke oven, but didn't have details as far as dates.
Here is an over view of the 11'X3' steel mill in Bob's garage.
Notice the digitally added garage door in the background(just teasing). MAbruce, I love the affect you've created by adding the sky to your picture.
Another note, the refrigerator in the background is 1:1 scale. It has since been moved for another module in that corner.
Love the pick ups Mike
The second picture looks great Mr B
Here's a couple of 15 sec videos
from my HO layout
http://s132.photobucket.com/albums/q4/TerryinTexas/?action=view¤t=MVC-001W-2.flv
http://s132.photobucket.com/albums/q4/TerryinTexas/?action=view¤t=MVC-001W-3.flv
TerryinTexas
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Nice pictures so far everyone!
Here's a few water shots....
Website:
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Bruce, not the one in the Peg, but the one in MA, I think that is a superior photo, altered or not.
Perry, you are in a class of your own....
Mike, nice looking industrial complex you have there. Maybe some closeups when you feel ready to do it?
Tyler and Chuck, nice imagery. Believable settings and composition.
For a while now, some of you have read in some of my posts that I have a very quiet Athearn BB F7. Here's a video to prove it. Two locomotives will run by. The first is a Proto 2000 PA1. Anybody who has one knows they're quiet as a whisper. The second loco is an Athearn F7 Blue Box that I converted to DCC last year. It's very quiet for an Athearn.
Here's the video link: http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/forum-1/?action=view¤t=Mpg_0006.flv
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Alex
Mr. B., you do really good work. I like your lighting effects.
-Crandell
This is my "concept" diner:
Click picture to enlarge
I'd like to kitbash a diner for my small 4 x 8 layout. This is a 70-foot passenger car that has been split in half and the cut sections set at right angles to one another. I would need to create or scratch-build the vestibule and kitchen areas. The car halves are at right angles to one another so that the diner can sit on a corner lot.
I'm not entirely sure whether or not I'd actually build this concept. Even so, I thought it would be fun just to draw it and see what it would look like.
Here's my best attempt to give everyone vertigo. HO. Tom nice art work.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Tom, I could see your diner almost as art-deco sytle the way you show it. I like it, but I am also intrigued by your mastery of whichever programme you have used to create the image. Nicely done! I do like the concept, apart from your creativity.
I was pleased with the positive response to my J1 emerging from the natural tunnel portal, so I have continued that theme this week. I hope you don't mind my lack of creativity.
selector wrote:Tom, I could see your diner almost as art-deco sytle the way you show it. I like it, but I am also intrigued by your mastery of whichever programme you have used to create the image. Nicely done! I do like the concept, apart from your creativity. -Crandell
Thanks, Crandell. Yes, an art-deco flavor is sorta what I had in mind with this.
The program I used to create the drawing is called SolidWorks. It's primarily used for 3D designing and checking proof of concepts, as well as creating working drawings. It's quite a powerful program and about 1/4 the cost of Pro E(ngineering).
I really like that you can make parts in "degrees of transparency", so that you can see hidden details inside. The vestibule is 75% transparent, while the dining area is only 25% transparent. I'm not entirely sure if a regular passenger car will be wide enough. I'll have to play around with it a little more to determine that.
Crandell, the Niagara emerging from the portal is very picturesque. The line pole to the left only makes it more so. Suggestion: You should think about adding a telltale, just before the portal entrance.
mls1621 wrote: Another note, the refrigerator in the background is 1:1 scale. It has since been moved for another module in that corner.
Is there 12"=1'-0" beer in that 'fridge? It better not be a digitally enhanced illusion......
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
tstage wrote: This is my "concept" diner:
Cool isometric drawing. And a good start towards a name: "The Concept Diner---Where Your Next Meal is Still On the Drawing Board". Or perhaps steal from an old Don Henly song: "Down at the Sunset Grille".
Terry, nice video and sound. Who made the E-7 and what kind of sound decodor are you using?
Perry, I see that dinosaur is still waiting for her eggs to hatch.
Mr. B., very nice night shots. What did we do in the days before constant lighting?
Mike in SL, that is one impressive steel mill layout. How long did it take to build? I like the garage door being digitally added. I'm ony good enough to add cement block walls.
Jerry, that is some view - looks like Google Earth. Everything fits together nice. Your roads really look good.
Tom, I don't think I've ever seen an RR diner cut 90 degrees but what the heck, I'll bet it would look sweet. Who was that with all the rail cars...on, yeah Victoria Station. You can start another chain with all their discards.
about to test the cow catcher..
JaRRell
alfadawg01 wrote: mls1621 wrote: Another note, the refrigerator in the background is 1:1 scale. It has since been moved for another module in that corner.Is there 12"=1'-0" beer in that 'fridge? It better not be a digitally enhanced illusion......
No digital enhancement there, sir, but the correct scale for the Amber Bach in the 1:1 frig is 12 oz.= a full bottle.
Bob's N scale layout takes up his whole two car garage. An operating session takes about two and a half to three hours, with six operators. Much fun is had by all and the liquids flow in moderation, but they do flow.
I hope some of the purists aren't too shocked.