Here's my contribution to this week's WPF. First, we have Officer Mike keeping an eye on the voters during the county elections. I decaled the PD unit this week and added spotlights, which are devilishly difficult in 1/87 scale. The decals and spotlights came from policecarmodels.com if there's anyone else foolish enough to be working on these little things:
Here's the GM&O local pulling into Hillside station for some interchange work with the P&N:
After cleaning up the interchange track, the local heads out of town. The GM&O GP38-2 is an Athearn RTR that I detailed. It runs really well and doesn't look bad with the extra details:
A view of the GM&O caboose crossing First Avenue. There will be crossing signals there soon if I can get the signal department off their butts. You can see the boys are still at work on that pipe break. The locals are starting to get mad now.
mls1621 wrote: 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.
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......
mls1621 wrote: Another note, the refrigerator in the background is 1:1 scale. It has since been moved for another module in that corner.
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.
Is Amber Bock a fine Anheiser Busch product? If not, you may be in violation of the St. Louis Regional Brewed Beverage Act of 1927 which states that all model railroad activities shall be lubricated with locally produced liquid sustinance.
Otherwise, sounds like fun. Rule G only applies in 1:1 scale, not 12 oz. to the beer belly.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
UP2CSX wrote: 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.
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.
Jim, it took us about six months, start to finish, on the module. Most of that time was taken up by scratch building most of the structures. There are only four kit structures on the module. The blast furnace, two brick buildings and the casting house made from two Walther's rolling mill buildings. Everything else is from scratch. The star of the module is the coke oven. Bob took over a month to complete it. There are thirty doors on each side of the coke oven. Each door has two latches and each latch is three separate pieces. I learned some colorful new words and phrases while Bob was building it.
One side is in the back ground of one of the pictures in my first post this weekend. Here's the other side and a few other views of the module.
The Walther's blast furnace has no way of getting to the top of the structure, even the HO version is missing this feature. I spent eight hours building these stairs from Evergreen and Plastruc parts.
Here you can see coal off loading in the dump building.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: 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_0005.flv
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_0005.flv
The reason they are so quiet is there is no audio present LOL. Or at least none my computer can pick up
Jim i really like the small town square scene !
You've managed to capture the flavor of alot of the small southern towns
but shouldn't there be a statue of guy on a horse in there some where ?
The E-7 in the video is by BLI with QSI sound
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LOL, alfadawg, digital concrete block is one my few specialties. After 25 years on the street as as a cop, you get an idea of how things should look...or not look.
Mike, I take it back. Installing spotlights on a police car is a piece of cake compared to the work you've done. It only took you eight hours to fabricate those stairs? I would have been at that for six months alone. That must be some layout to see in person. I wish I lived closer to St. Louis.
alfadawg01 wrote: mls1621 wrote: 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.Is Amber Bock a fine Anheiser Busch product? If not, you may be in violation of the St. Louis Regional Brewed Beverage Act of 1927 which states that all model railroad activities shall be lubricated with locally produced liquid sustinance.Otherwise, sounds like fun. Rule G only applies in 1:1 scale, not 12 oz. to the beer belly.
It is that, sir, Michelob Amber Bock to be exact.
Jim,
There's alot going on that layout, the steel mill is just one of the more prominent items. Bob has a paper mill, a small intermodal yard, a flour mill, metal cabinet fabricator, saw mill, grain elevator and a modular furniture company.
The real draw for me to N scale was that you could get so much in a given space without it seeming to be crowded.
I'll try to get some pictures to share in next weeks WPF.
Jim i really like the small town square scene ! You've managed to capture the flavor of alot of the small southern townsbut shouldn't there be a statue of guy on a horse in there some where ?The E-7 in the video is by BLI with QSI sound
Terry,
Yeah, there should at least be a statue of a Confederate soldier somewhere. I just didn't have room for that and the benches and decided the people lounging around on benches at the courthouse was at least as southern as the statue. Maybe I'll try rearranging the courthouse landscaping and see if I can fit one in.
I've been looking with envy at the BLI E-7 and that QSI decoder sounds awful good. I'll have to keep checking with Trains Direct and see if they ever come out with a Southern or GM&O unit
John
Driline wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: 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_0005.flv The reason they are so quiet is there is no audio present LOL. Or at least none my computer can pick up
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The Port Able and Pacific is in the process of getting new power!
I tried to kitbash these two following prototypical thinking. They are based (very heavily I might add) on the Pennsy's experimental E2b and E3b locomotives. I used "old" Athearn F-7s (I feel better about cutting up a $20 locomotive than a $150 dollar loco) reasoning that the non-prototypical oversized windows and slightly different nose contours would have been modifications requested by the PA&PR.
The rear loco is about half way through the conversion process and the front unit just needs to be sanded and painted. The pilots are from an old lifelike BL-2 and the pans were donated by a Rivorosssi GG-1 that had a corn field meet with a concrete floor a few years back.
George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
SPidge - It's the CON COR with new trucks, detailed and painted. I can't find SP cabooses in N scale anywhere, it seems to be the only one and I think it's not made anymore. Tom's Trains in Fresno has 5 of them in stock.
I took this for another thread about turntables, but I liked it because it reminds me of the currently in-vogue proliferation of satellite imagery on the Web:
It's my turntable and roundhouse, with extra outside stalls, currently occupied by GP-9's. I stood on a chair and stuck my arm over the layout, taking one shot after another until I got it right and didn't shake too much.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Another great start to the WPF thread!
Here are my contributions:
Testing roundhouse track alignments with styrene (concrete floor) in place
Another view of testing car with the inspection pit in the foreground
Turntable and roundhouse after painting the guard rails with caution yellow
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
I like your idea of a concrete block sky. The thought helps ease my apprehension, brought on by countless dooms day predictions on Discovery and History channels, about the impending asteroid strike on our planet. It might also block the tsunami that's expected to engulf the planet at any moment.
This is the final picture in my steel mill series for the weekend.
In the background, you can see the Atlas bridging we modified to join the steel mill module to the rest of the layout. We used Plastruc trusses and widened the bridge for a single track feeding the mill and a two lane road.
Switching, what else???
Wolfgang
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This my fist attempt at posting pictures, through Photobucket, so we will see what happens.
Assuming that this works as advertised you will #1)Know where we went on summer vacation. #2) See what I have been up to since we returned.
I have just completed the 1/4 scale structure, which is intended to be the centerpiece of a set of 18" x 36" modules that will display my On30 collection. Now that I get a first look at it I do note that I have some blemishes to attend to. I hope it's not necessary to point out which shot is the prototype, and which is the model.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
stebbycentral wrote: I hope it's not necessary to point out which shot is the prototype, and which is the model.
I hope it's not necessary to point out which shot is the prototype, and which is the model.
You almost have to!
What I want to know is where you got all those super realistic HO figures. Wow!
Come to think of it, how did you manage to get the proto shot with nobody around?
Here's my contribution to the weekend. I've been roughing out the next six feet of scenery on the Cedar Branch & Western.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
So many great pictures this weekend. Stebby, if you didn't know that second picture was a model I would have thought it was the prototype after the tourists left.
MSL, that is one heck of a bridge. When do you find the time to do all this?
DR, that is a nice job of roughing things out. I usually just tear things up and start making scenery and it shows.
Mr. B, you are making me dizzy now. Plus, I'm afraid the plane might crash
George, that's a very interesting concept locomotive. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the BN had gotten the Milwaukee Road before it was deelectrified and abandoned.
Ryan, that roundhouse and turntable are coming along. I'm so jealous of people that have that kind of room. My four track yard will have to do for me.
Wolfgang, your pictures are always simple but really convey a feeling of railroading.
This my non-railroad contribution. A happy father and son return to mom and the dog after a successful fishing trip on Lake Layla. Yes, it's a small lake but it's also a very small town.
This is a reproduction of a paper mill in town, it is HO and is on our club's permanent layout.
Jack W.
Hoople wrote:Dragen Rider, who makes that bridge? It looks awesome!
I wish I knew! A friend of mine had one too many for his layout and gave it to me. He says he won them off of Ebay. It's stout and very well assembled.
loathar wrote:UP2CSX-That pond looks great! You really nailed the 3D depth effect on it!
Thank you, Loathar, but I must always tell the truth. I bought the pond on e-bay. Yes, my modeling skills consisted merely of placing it on the layout, although I did have to do some excavation and ground cover work to get it all to blend in. I've added about 10 coats of Enviorotex to it also, which I think does help the overall look. I haven't checked lately but I think he still makes ponds of various sizes and sells them on e-bay. He's really good at getting that deep look with less than 2 inches of depth. For anyone who has the same skills at water as me (practically none), it's really a very good deal.
Hi Guys,
Top work by all! Here is an image I took with my cell phone as the camera was on another mission at the time. Just mounted the station today, I am going to add more platforms when time permits. It is an old HO/OO scale Hornby/Dublo station from around the 60s that my dad bought.
You'll notice the sheets of styrene under it to give it some height, when I had it in place to test it, one of my double deck container wagons hit it and dragged it along, so I had to give it a little more height.
Regards,
Nige.
ngartshore350 wrote: Hi Guys,Top work by all! Here is an image I took with my cell phone as the camera was on another mission at the time. Just mounted the station today, I am going to add more platforms when time permits. It is an old HO/OO scale Hornby/Dublo station from around the 60s that my dad bought.You'll notice the sheets of styrene under it to give it some height, when I had it in place to test it, one of my double deck container wagons hit it and dragged it along, so I had to give it a little more height.Regards,Nige.
That's a pretty good picture for being taken by a cell phone. What kind of phone do you have? My RAZR takes lousy pics, it's a good thing I have the Kodak 6.1 MP around.
TONY
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