outdoorsfellar wrote: A lot of great scenes to be seen ! With much of my Allegheny & Cumberland still under construction, I'm not sure if I have a " favorite " scene as of yet, but I certainly love engine facilities. Here's a busy day being had as a west bound leaves M&K Jct, heading into the Narrows....
A lot of great scenes to be seen ! With much of my Allegheny & Cumberland still under construction, I'm not sure if I have a " favorite " scene as of yet, but I certainly love engine facilities. Here's a busy day being had as a west bound leaves M&K Jct, heading into the Narrows....
Pages and pages of really great stuff.
outdoorsfellar,
I always like a nicely detailed engine facility also. Have you thought about adding a Chessie rock pilot to that GP40? It is one detail that is so road specific and really make quite a difference for the model? The Detail West Chessie rock pilot #205 and drop elbow air hose #AH302 are readily available and easy to install. The long centerset Kadee is needed, too. The rear pilot offered is wrong, I just shaped one from styrene and cut the MU slots.
And don't forget about the long hood mounted bell. Bad pic, but shows the placement.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
That is a great looking sky, over a very well done layout! Hope you'll fill us in on the backdrop.
-Phil
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
selector wrote: Everyone is hanging out their best linen on the clothes line today. Fancy, too. Here are what I call my best. It is all so subjective, isn't it?and I am quite partial to this one.-Crandell
Everyone is hanging out their best linen on the clothes line today. Fancy, too.
Here are what I call my best. It is all so subjective, isn't it?
and I am quite partial to this one.
-Crandell
Is that a photo of the clouds or painted ? It looks awesome !
This is an old one of mine
Here are a couple of bright spots on my layout:
The concentric curved trestles are part of a helix (conical Helix?) the rest of it is in two tunnels.
The rail bus (top picture) is my own kit bash using an NWSL Flea with flywheel and a Jordan school bus kit. Its pilot and lead truck are scratch built. Think MR would be interested in an article about how I built it?
To all you other guys: GREAT WORK!!!
Here's mine!
These are all awesome everyone keep up the good work. I hope mine comes out this good when i get around to building a layout
Bogp40 I love your club layout. Nice work
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
A few of my favorite from the club.
Ok. Here's one more. Coming out of tunnel 3 heading westward on the Bear Creek and South Jackson very late in the afternoon.
Cheers,
Charlie Comstock
msowsun wrote: Here is a phtoto I took of one of my favourite scenes on our club layout. (York Railway Modellers, Toronto, Ontario)
Here is a phtoto I took of one of my favourite scenes on our club layout. (York Railway Modellers, Toronto, Ontario)
Some real great scenery, doesn't get more realistic than that. nice work.
BRAKIE wrote: There is several areas on the club layout that I like.So.....I narrowed it down to these 2 scenes.
There is several areas on the club layout that I like.So.....I narrowed it down to these 2 scenes.
Is that second picture by any chance on the Bucyrus Model Railroad Association's layout in Bucyrus, Ohio?
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
DHRR wrote: zgardner18 wrote: I am very impressed! Everyone has great scenes.I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay. These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole. This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing. That is the I-90 freeway above. The scene is HO. Now thats looking good!
zgardner18 wrote: I am very impressed! Everyone has great scenes.I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay. These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole. This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing. That is the I-90 freeway above. The scene is HO.
I am very impressed! Everyone has great scenes.
I'm not sure if mine is premature since my scene isn't nowhere near done, but I figured since the title said "Favorite Scene" then I'm okay.
These pictures are old and i have infact applied the plaster coat over the masking tape and painted my bridge (only one) and tunnel porthole.
This is the a scene of a BNSF empty coal train heading out of the Bozeman Tunnel at Muir, Montana with another BNSF manifest holding before the dirtroad crossing. That is the I-90 freeway above. The scene is HO.
Now thats looking good!
I can't wait to see that when it's finished!
This corner of my layout came out well I think. The station on the left is Prairie View Depot. The highway simulates distance by being wide the front edge of the layout and getting more narrow as it moves to the back. Behind the trees, the road becomes paint on the backdrop. The county park in the foreground has its never ending volleyball game and a picnic birthday party for some children. The farm house was made from a Cambell kit. Dairy cows are smaller than HO scale to simulate depth. The farm road (behind the GP7's) has a rural mail box where it meets the highway. The scene includes the Woodland Scenics treehouse with dog house and has a boy on tire swing. Behind the house is laundry on the line and an outhouse. MR. and Mrs. farmer on standing on the front porch.
BTW, the locomotves are Athearn models, and rivit counters will tell you that the Burlington did not have dynamic brakes on their GP7's as mine do. Shhhhhh..... don't tell.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
those were great.
Anyone have any new shots for the new year
Derrick-
Two words...
Friggin' radical.
~ Jason
And here's another one from Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line layout - the bridge over the Umpqua River
(bigger image at: http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/otherlayouts/fugate/fugate_01.htm )
Joe is a master at making realistic scenery as a look at this picture clearly illustrates!
Here's some brand new scenery on my Bear Creek and South Jackson. I kind of liked the way its turning out...
(full size at http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/bcsj3/construct080102/constr_080102_01.htm )
Regards,
This is an older shot but it is my favorite, probaly the most scenery i have had at one time
ARTHILL wrote:My pheasant hunting scene
My pheasant hunting scene
Art - I like that cornfield; can you tell us how you made it?
Steve
EspeeEngineer wrote:Here is a GREAT scene from our club layout! It has it all: great scenery, plenty of switching and good mainline placement!
Here is a GREAT scene from our club layout! It has it all: great scenery, plenty of switching and good mainline placement!
I really like that tower, very sharp. What are the platforms next to the signals on either side of the tracks? Passing train orders perhaps? I don't recall seeing anything like that before. Was this peculiar to the SP?
Thanks for sharing.
Maurice
Here are my favorite scenes......
Las Vegas, anyone?
How about Miami?
How about Europe?
How about the carsystem?
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Everyone is doing a great job. I wish i could contribute something to the mix, but I have not started a layout yet. Hopefully soon I can post some pics of my favorite trains and cars. It is nice to see everyone got along in this thread. Keep up the good work everyone.
mike
Hello all,
This is a photo of a kitbashed Pennsy freight station I built for MR's Art Curren Kitbashing Contest a while ago.
To take the picture, I made a simple diorama on a piece of styrene foam. The road is a piece of 1/4 inch thick foam sanded to a crowned profile, painted with latex paint and weathered with ground pastels. Some finely sifted dirt and a little ground foam finished off the roadway shoulders and the parking area behind the building. The fence in the background is a photo of board fence near my home, printed on bond, glued to cardstock and cut out.
I weathered up an old K4s with a jammed mechanism for the photo, and I built a new body for the truck featuring adverts for "Art Curren & Co." out of styrene and paper.
I photographed the diorama on my back porch in direct sun at about 3pm. To compensate for reduced depth of field, I took several photos with different focus settings and used Photoshop to manually composite them. There is software now that will do this automatically, as described in the current issue of MR.
On the way home from the hobby shop one afternoon, I photographed the CSX mainline in Newport News, Virginia (near where I lived at the time) and a nice old oak tree just down the road. Using Photoshop, I inserted these elements into the composite photo. To finish it off, I added smoke from a photo of a Strasburg Railroad locomotive I had on hand, and painted in steam by hand. The illuminated headlight is derived from a photo of my daughter's school bus. A total of 13 photos went into the creation of the composite image.
Kind of a time consuming project, but I had almost as much fun making this image as it did building the model.
Charlie Conway
My favorite scene because its my only scene.
--Zak Gardner
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