Long Turkey Day Photo Fun Wed-Mon

[Anonymous]

This is has been  my week's project - completing the lighting on several scratchbuilt buildings for my N scale version of the old Hercules plant here in Brunswick, GA.

Here's a scan of the prototype facility I'm doing. The arrows indicate buildings I'll be doing.

Here are three of the buildings completed this week.

Lighting the buildings made it very necesssary to make a representation of machinery/piping inside. These are just various shapes, scratchbuilt piping, etc. 

 Her's two of the lighted scenery.

 

Next, of course, is turf, dirt, etc.

 

Mike Tennent

[Don Z]

Mike T.,

Very nice work! The buildings look exactly like the prototypes in the photos.

Don Z. 

[selector]

I would like to compliment all of our contributors this weekend, and the quality is steady throughout.  It is so nice to see the variety here, the interests and vision.

I took yet another photo of the N&W Train Master I recently purchased, now on the lower switchback track. 

[jktrains]

Yea, I noticed the coupler after posting the pics.  That's what happens when you cut off the uncoupling pin so it clears the plow.  Take things apart to install the decoder and lights and then rush to put it back together.

The class lights where not used by the BN.  They came with them from the factory on the front, but were later plated over.  Rear class lights were plated over.  I've used MV lenses in the past, the problem right now is try to get them, they're continually out of stock.  So instead of drilling the holes and having nothing to install, I chose to let them go and I'll be able to add them later, if they're every in stock.

All the changes/details where added to a factory painted loco.  Now its time to lightly weather.  BN usually kept the equipment very well maintained so the weathering will be on the light side and not overly done.  I've been able to find 1 B&W pic of 904 and a pic of 905 to use as guides.

 

[SteamFreak]

Tis the season when the MOW car becomes the dining car.

Now that is the way to serve Thanksgiving dinner!

[Railphotog]

Old model of a machine shop, photo by new camera and lens:

 

Camera: Canon Rebel XTi, lens Tamron 11-18mm zoom.  Machine shop scratchbuilt in HO scale many moons ago!

 

[howmus]

Great work as always from each of you!  I tried to clean my track last Thursday after I got home from the feast at my Daughter-in-law's family only to be greeted by a short after getting it half cleaned.  I didn't think i would ever get it back up and running.  Finally, this afternoon, I started taking rolling stock off the layout to see if that made any difference and Voila!  As soon as I took two reefers and my Decapod off the tracks at the Ice House, it came back on line.  After reading a thread about someone who ruined a speaker in a loco when it picked up some track nails that had gotten on the tracks, I decided to create a magnet car out of an old flatcar that is too modern for my 1925 layout.  At least the date on the side says it was made in 1947.  On the other hand the maker did put polling pockets on the ends of the car.  Lets see, Polling was outlawed in..........  Anyway this car will become a MOW car and do some milage on the SLOW after all.  A strong magnet was glued under the car (Right side).



Some of the stuff it found on it's first run of the mainline.  Notice the pile on the plaster in front of the magnet as well.  It was also covered with fillings on the magnet as well as the spikes (most likely from cutting the piano wires used in the Tortoise switch machines with the dremel).



I also have been working on another retaining wall.  Right now I am waiting on the LHS to get more in for me to finish it.

Bob, that is awesome work!  Both the modeling and the photo.

[Don Z]

I have been working on weathering my track and rails......here's a photo of a section I worked on today. I forgot to clean the top of the rails before I took this picture.

Don Z.

[Tom Bryant_MR]

It has been a long and fun week. Tomorrow, well, its back to you know where for many of us.

For the first time I tackled putting together some of the Walther's modulars. My target spot is that 1-3/4" space on top of the stone wall in the right of the photo - not much room.

 

I intended for this space to be the town of Taylor Tx and was originally thinking of pictures only. I had read that flats can be constructed from the modulars.  These are the backs of the buildings backing up to Taylor yard below. I'm experimenting with different photos behind them. By varing the depth of each building, a slight sense of depth can be obtained.  1-3/4" is tough.

Here is an overall shot from the front.

 

From the left (or east side)

 

And last, from the west side.

 

Regards,

[Hoople]

Tom B, I'd love to see a trackplan of your yard, or at least a full picture.

Excellent modeling.

[MudHen_462]

Old model of a machine shop, photo by new camera and lens:

 

Camera: Canon Rebel XTi, lens Tamron 11-18mm zoom.  Machine shop scratchbuilt in HO scale many moons ago!

Bob... the latest photo of your engine shed is absolutely mind-blowing!!!  Your modeling and photographic skills are fantastic.

 

Bob/Iron Goat 

 

 

 

[AggroJones]

I...I...I think this one was the weakest Thanksgiving I've ever had, but thats another story.... 

 Heres a photoz.

Before...

MUCH later...  

[Pruitt]

Old model of a machine shop, photo by new camera and lens:

...

Camera: Canon Rebel XTi, lens Tamron 11-18mm zoom.  Machine shop scratchbuilt in HO scale many moons ago!

Great photography, Bob! Those two sawhorses seem amazingly strong, though - that wheelset they're holding must weigh over a ton!

[Tom Bryant_MR]

Tom B, I'd love to see a trackplan of your yard, or at least a full picture.

Excellent modeling.

Thanks for the encouragement Mark.

A PDF of the track plan is at

http://home.austin.rr.com/tomsandy/Garage.pdf

An aerial (sorry about the mess) view is at

http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z259/TomBryant_mr/Texas%20Smithville%20Line%20RR/?action=view&current=b2a515f8.jpg

Regards,
-Tom B