Weekend Photo Fun 11/16/07 to 11/18/07

[spectratone]

Picked her up for 30$ at the Greenburg Show.

$30 bucks for that dirty old thing, ( wait, thats what my mother in law said about me)

I bet it runs better than I do..........

looks sharp. 

[Guilford Guy]

Picked her up for 30$ at the Greenburg Show.

[howmus]

Howdy!  Haven't posted in this thread for a couple weeks (Haven't gotten much accomplished).  Some great looking work from all of you (way too many to list).  I do love this thread and look forward to seeing your work!

I finally managed to spend a little time on the layout in the last couple of days and got the basic scenery and scene done at Thompson Tile Co.  Still have a lot to do here - waiting on some figures to finish the scene.  It always amazes me how photos show every detail that I screwed up........

Mr. Thompson drives the 1923 Fordson towing a log around to be sawed and split to fuel the kilns.  He got it 2 years ago to replace an aging team of draft horses.  He still likes to be the driver (doesn't trust most of the other guys).



John sips his morning coffee on break when Harold shows up at the door.  "Boss says ta git yer rear in motion.  We gots wood ta split." Ayeup, I'll be there faster'n y' kin skin a mule" says John as he takes another sip....



Couple overview shots of the area.

[MisterBeasley]

Hey, everyone step back and give yourselves a round of applause.  Just excellent work this week.  'Fraid I've got nothing to show.  I'm doing a sound install on a P2K Geep, which isn't exactly photo-op material.  I did get some pigs for my stockyard, and some loading dock workers at the Greenberg show today, but their next stop is the Dul-Cote factory.

Here's a Laser-Art HO Drayton house I built just this week. I love these wooden structures. They look so much more realistic than the plastic structures. I haven't "weathered" it too heavily yet though.

And now for my final question:  What's that gray-haired, slightly overweight gentleman doing to merit a hot chick like her?  Is she turned on by craftsman kits?  If so, I'm starting my Weimer's Mill right now.

 

[jon grant]

Sweethome Chicago is currently appearing at the Newcastle model RR show this weekend. Here are a few photos from earlier today.

 

More of the same tomorrow.

Jon

[Dave Vollmer]

I love using the "clone brush" tool in Paint Shop Pro 7...

 

[Cox 47]

This is a oilfeild pump my Son and I "scratched" from my scrap box last saturday while listning to High School football on the radio...My old fat fingers wouldn't let me get a belt from the pump to the motor....Cox 47

[SecretWeapon]

FiNally fiNished this moNster.

-Smoke

 Nice work,I'm keeping an eye on it.

[secondhandmodeler]

You did a better job of cropping then I did!  Thanks, I didn't realize how much better it would look.

[tomkat-13]

 

I think you did a A#1 job on your weathering & the photo sharpness on the buildings "pops!"

 I use a free, easy to use IrfanView to crop my photos & resize them ect.  I think you will like it when you see how you can crop out the "fat"

Here is the after cropping on one of your shots.

Using IrfanView to Crop, Resize and Compress an Image link

http://www.deadzoom.com/member/nktower/tutorials/IrfanView_Tutorial_New.htm

[secondhandmodeler]

I don't mean to flood this thread with my pictures.  I tried taking a few pictures this morning with a timer and macro setting.  I think they're better than the previous ones.  It certainly shows me how much work I have to do to make these scenes presentable.  Next up, backdrop!

EDIT:  Photos cropped for cutting out the fat!  Thanks for the idea.

[tomkat-13]

A few of my favorites:

[stebbycentral]

This week's photos from me are some progress pictures on my Royal Blue restoration.

The engine, tender, and boxcar are all going to be repainted, and the engine and tender will be relettered.

You realize the guys on "Antiques Roadshow" are going to string you up by your thumbs.  You are detroying the original "patina". 

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Good stuff.  Don, I really like your second shot - spaghetti near the woods.

I'm off all week.  What shall I do.

The south end of Taylor yard (top in this picture) ...

 

is finally getting some structures.

 

 

Regards,

[C&O Fan]

 

Big improvement in that before and after series.  Wow, and congrats.

Love the Chessie steamer.  I also like the stenciled/decaled bridge...very cool.

 

Thanks everyone for the complements I'll pass them on to Art for his good work

Slector the Bridge in the picture is a very good model built by Andrew The proto type is on the Rend Subdivision and can actually be seen accross the river from Thurmond during the Winter when the trees are bare.

Here's a Photo of Art's H-5

He chose to go heavy on the weathering

[HHPATH56]

This is a shot of the bridge across a ravine on a very narrow ledge at the head of the stairs leading to my garage loft railroad layout.  I was forced to paint the flat area at the two sides of the ravine, a muted color, so as to not distract from the desired view. The scene above and  behind the bridge is composed of blue sky with a color matching the blue at the top edge of an N scale photo of clouds and hills in the background,(which are actually glued to a pulldown window shade covering the window.)  The bridge hides the top of the photo of a waterfall in the background. I am still not satisfied with the perspective of the flat foreground buildings, that will eventually hide a double toggle light switch, that will protrude through the buildings.  Any suggestions?

,

 

[selector]

Don, spectacular imagery and modelling.  Wow.

Here, a TH&B J1d Hudson steams along in the highlands above Seneca Falls

[DonaldAgne]

JaRRell,

I love that photo!  Very artistic.

Dan,

That Hershey's reefer looks good enough to eat!

Here are some shots of DDW.  I won't be near my computer next week--going to visit my folks in Kalamazoo--so I'll post some extras.

A D63 running across the (Kato) turntable.  The dormitory in the background is where the unmarried yardworkers live.

Spaghetti near the woods.

A Japanese inn at the lake.  The rowboats are scratchbuilt.

A wider view of the lake resort with the afternoon local pulling out of the lake station in the background. 

The following two pictures are of the river and campground just before sunset.

The top of the mountain at the ropeway station.  Don't fall off the observation deck!

Don

 

[spectratone]

Harley's, Hot Rods, and Trains.

 

Glenn

N Scale 

[SD60M]

This week's photos from me are some progress pictures on my Royal Blue restoration.

The whole set, plus some Marx cars that need an engine.

The engine and its new (to me, anyway) mechanism. I had to replace the cast front truck wheels with some stamped ones normally used on freight cars, since the originals crumbled.

The backside of the set. The tender is in pretty good shape, except for some scratches in the paint. It lights up!

The engine, tender, and boxcar are all going to be repainted, and the engine and tender will be relettered. The engine works great for its age, and with its 4 or 5lbs of weight, it's got enough traction to pull a house down! The motor runs a little noisy, and it's also pretty weak, and it draws 3 amps running free, but oh well, I'm happy with it. I'll post more pictures when its done in a couple weeks.

BTW, nice pictures everyone!

SilverSpike, I like that roundhouse!

WOW!! That NYC caboose # 556 I have it in my room! I found it at an antique store in Verona, Mississippi for 15 dollars. Thats crazy i thought i was the only one who hade antique O scale items!

[stokesda]

Smoke, I love those photos of your loco - it looks like it's some kind of angelic being coming out of the "bright light." Kind of like the "spirit horse" from Young Guns II. Maybe that's the vision a model railroader sees as he's going to that great LHS in the sky 

Last week I was out of town and took a bunch of kits with me so I could build them in my hotel room at night. One of them was this half-finished Branchline reefer that I'd started and quit several months ago. I got my #11 blade in one hand and the sprue full of tiny plastic grab irons in the other, and went to work one night until it was done. This was my first Branchline reefer, and while it was very tedious to build, I think it went together really well, and I am really pleased with how it turned out. Now I'm itching to tackle another one!

Here's a couple of photos of it on one of my under-construction layout sections. The biggest goof I made was I accidentally smeared a glob of ACC on one side near the grab irons, which left a pinky-nail sized shiny spot on the siding. It doesn't show up in the photo, and it's nothing some weathering can't take care of (If I ever get that brave).

[NeO6874]

some great shots as always guys

 

These are from the Sebring and Youngstown MRR club open houses this past weekend (Nov. 10).  They were great to walk around and look at, if a little cramped.

This is a shot from the Sebring layout, two WM 2-8-2's are pulling a unit coal train out of staging, up what looked to have been a 1.5% (ish) grade.

These next two are from Youngstown, the first is a B&O 4-8-8-4, and then a PRR K-4 sitting in the passenger terminal.  These were on the O Scale layout. 

 

This last one is on the Youngstown HO scale layout.

 

The guys who made these layouts, adn detailed the engines did some amazing work.  The photos don't do them justice... 

[Anonymous]

Some really great pics this week,

C&O and smoke, the weathering on your locos look great

 Well this week im going to start a new project, I want to weather and add sound to my Atlas D&H RS-3

now i just have to figure out where the heck to put the speaker!

(if anyone has any suggestions for me feel free to shoot me a PM) 

[Darth Santa Fe]

This week's photos from me are some progress pictures on my Royal Blue restoration.

The whole set, plus some Marx cars that need an engine.

The engine and its new (to me, anyway) mechanism. I had to replace the cast front truck wheels with some stamped ones normally used on freight cars, since the originals crumbled.

The backside of the set. The tender is in pretty good shape, except for some scratches in the paint. It lights up!

The engine, tender, and boxcar are all going to be repainted, and the engine and tender will be relettered. The engine works great for its age, and with its 4 or 5lbs of weight, it's got enough traction to pull a house down! The motor runs a little noisy, and it's also pretty weak, and it draws 3 amps running free, but oh well, I'm happy with it. I'll post more pictures when its done in a couple weeks.

BTW, nice pictures everyone!

SilverSpike, I like that roundhouse!

[wm3798]

Some visitors to the layout...

Lee 

[Driline]

Here's a Laser-Art HO Drayton house I built just this week. I love these wooden structures. They look so much more realistic than the plastic structures. I haven't "weathered" it too heavily yet though.

[jacon12]

Not much from me this week, just my little 4-4-0 and a string of passenger cars that are in need of me getting their hand rails replaced.

JaRRell

[graphitehemi]

Does anyone know what the large opening on the left of that building is?  I goes through to the back.  I have this model and was wondering why it is open all the way through.

 

It looks to be about the right height for a truck dock maybe?

[SOU Fan]

FiNally fiNished this moNster.

-Smoke

[perry1060]

That's great mr moto!  My wife and I always enjoy visitors so if you're ever in the area --- stop in.