Well just to bore everyone to death with this project , signs are up , stores are open. Last post of this project, aren't you glad !
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Lots of great photos this weekend, all.
Bruce, You are up to it again. Background blends nicely.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Lots of fun seeing everyone's work.
Here's an "old" photo of a scene on my n-scale layout.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
The last four days, or so, photobucket contributions have often shown up as red X's, or taken an inordinate amount of time to load, and not just on this forum. Is it me, or what is going on? Brakie's last two came up as X's by the time I lost patience and initiated this post. Maybe they'll be up when I post this and return to the thread.
Edit - nope. I left the thread and re-entered to reload, but not even red X's this time.
Nice pictures and modeling everybody!
A Westbound C&HV train running on trackage rights to DM Yard.
A oldie but goodie picture.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
I'm a bit late as I've been busy painting all weekend. No, not a loco, layout scenery, or rolling stock- just my family room. Thrilling work...
A mountain pass on my layout in N-scale. Backdrop is digitally added.
Rick, Hawks, TrainMan Ty:
Thanks for your kind words. Maybe it looks better in pictures than in real life! LOL. Anyway, thanks again for your encouragement.
Tyler, I see the pic of the New Poland station just fine (nice).
Cheers.
RRCanuck wrote:The SOO is an old Athearn SD40 that I rarely run. I decided to practise some weathering on a "junk" engine before I took a crack at Atlas and Kato stuff, and figured that, being white, it would be a good specimen to experiment on. I was surprised to see that I had already had this same idea many years ago - when I pulled it from its box I saw that I had already tried to weather this engine years ago - and botched it up pretty badly. What you see is a an attempt to salvage it, but I think it's still a botched job. Live and learn.
The SOO is an old Athearn SD40 that I rarely run. I decided to practise some weathering on a "junk" engine before I took a crack at Atlas and Kato stuff, and figured that, being white, it would be a good specimen to experiment on. I was surprised to see that I had already had this same idea many years ago - when I pulled it from its box I saw that I had already tried to weather this engine years ago - and botched it up pretty badly. What you see is a an attempt to salvage it, but I think it's still a botched job. Live and learn.
I think it looks fine! Other people have different perspectives, I weathered my Atlas SDP35, and I thought it came out okay, as the weathering on the trucks was kinda focused of a few spots, and there was a patch on the long hood that looked like the cleaners missed it, but my brother said he loved it even more than my Atlas U23B which I though came out awsome!
I'll be happy to take it off your hands if you want, give it a home where it can run, yuou know..........
BTW: I love the head on view with the signals!
Great stuff as usual everyone!!!
Oh, can anyone actually see my photo on page 2? I'm getting a little red X......
Rick Bradley wrote:I don't really see what wrong with your re-salvage job of your SD40, just looks like a well used engine,close to retirement or major overhaul.
This yard shack is what I,m working on this weekend. Needs a fence and more junk and looks like I will have to start weathering some rails.
glenn (N Scale)
MGRy 471 passing a KCS F7 waiting in a spur.
Hawks05 wrote: WCfan wrote: As always, nice work guys.Lee I really like the lumber yard. Very nice. Well for the past couple months I've been working on a Diorama of mine. I would like to get some more supplies for scenery, maybe even ballast tomorrow (I know, I'm dreaming). Hopefully I can get some pictures on Sunday. Hopefully it doesn't snow.That's kind of like what I want to make over winter break. Just something to look at and better my very minimal skills. Try and make something that looks respectable. Very nice start.
WCfan wrote: As always, nice work guys.Lee I really like the lumber yard. Very nice. Well for the past couple months I've been working on a Diorama of mine. I would like to get some more supplies for scenery, maybe even ballast tomorrow (I know, I'm dreaming). Hopefully I can get some pictures on Sunday. Hopefully it doesn't snow.
As always, nice work guys.
Lee I really like the lumber yard. Very nice.
Well for the past couple months I've been working on a Diorama of mine. I would like to get some more supplies for scenery, maybe even ballast tomorrow (I know, I'm dreaming). Hopefully I can get some pictures on Sunday. Hopefully it doesn't snow.
Thanks. It dosn't take muck to build. It took me a day to build the "bench work" and add the foam on top. One thing through don't use the White foam. It's messy to work with.
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Great stuff as always. I've been adding a new industrial spur this week, but until I receive and build the structure I ordered for that effort, there's not much point in showing it.
These are a couple from the archives that I haven't shown before, and yes, I used photoshop for the sky and part of the hill in the head-on shot.
Salutations and appreciation to all you folks, past and present, in the armed forces.
Lots of great pixs this week. I too love that lumberyard very realistic looking.
My contribution to this weeks modeling madness is the final throws of my strip mall project. Not quite done but getting there. Store signs still need to be invented.
Front view
Rear view
WCfan wrote:As always, nice work guys.Lee I really like the lumber yard. Very nice. Well for the past couple months I've been working on a Diorama of mine. I would like to get some more supplies for scenery, maybe even ballast tomorrow (I know, I'm dreaming). Hopefully I can get some pictures on Sunday. Hopefully it doesn't snow.
Thank-you!! I appreciate your remark.
-Crandell
Great photo's as usual. Makes me look at how much I don't work on my layout, when I see how much progress alot of you all have made on your layout each week. I have been working on another southern car of mine. I gave it alittle dust and grime, and added a custom load. I am still messing around with the camera as far as croping, brightness, etc.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
awesome,Awesome, AWesome,AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! These are great pics this week guys. I love them all. Dave nice job for the show layout. The list goes on on who I would like to say great work but I would tire quickly going back and forth getting all the screen names. Keep em coming all
mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Damn, that looks like Richard Nixon! Is he breaking into the crate? Maybe he *IS* a crook?
ukguy wrote:Great work so far everyone, no trains here yet but here's a detail shot from a loading dock I'm working on.
Great work so far everyone, no trains here yet but here's a detail shot from a loading dock I'm working on.
spectratone wrote: Still working on the highway. I sure hope this doesn,t offend anyone. Remember the old days when good old dad used to drink and drive and nobody knew what a seatbelt was?N scaleGlenn
Still working on the highway. I sure hope this doesn,t offend anyone. Remember the old days when good old dad used to drink and drive and nobody knew what a seatbelt was?
N scale
Glenn
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Very quiet...must be the holiday weekend thing. So, if it won't be overstepping, I'll post some more images.
This last one is an attempt to simulate a night shot. I call it Last Light at Seneca Falls. I havent gotten into the details of setting the shutter speed and iris on my camera, so this had to be done in low light. Depending on your monitor and settings, it may seem too dark to see much at all, but on my monitor it shows the engine clearly, if quite darkly. Anyway, I hope it works for you.
sledgehammer wrote: Tom is that track bent or is it just the way the pic is. it looks like there is a dip in the track where it comes across to the lower one. I f I,m correct how did you do that without kinking the track?
Tom is that track bent or is it just the way the pic is. it looks like there is a dip in the track where it comes across to the lower one.
I f I,m correct how did you do that without kinking the track?
It's just the picture. All three of those tracks are level and on the same plane.
Regards,
Tom
These are my new Atlas Silver Series SD24's hauling their first train.
WOW! What scale is that, UKguy?? I could never put induvidual nails in stuff like that!
Jacon; amazing shot!
Selector; I love the tunnel photo!
I don't beleive I've posted this before:
The depot is too close to the tracks, a fact I discovreed when my CP wide vision caboose scraped it! Nothing else hits it though........ I don't have problems with it, just annoying. Unfortunatly, I installed scenery and glued it down before I discovered this, so now the depot is permanatly connected to the ground!