Well, I finally get to start it! Well... enjoy this weekend's photo fun!
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
aren't you supposed to start it with a photo ?
New Haven I-5 wrote: Well, I finally get to start it! Well... enjoy this weekend's photo fun!
ereimer wrote: aren't you supposed to start it with a photo ?
Apparently not. It looks like this weeks photo fun will be discussion only.
Driline wrote: ereimer wrote: aren't you supposed to start it with a photo ? Apparently not. It looks like this weeks photo fun will be discussion only.
Weekend Discussion Fun just doesn't flow too well. Here's an old one of mine just for the H of it.
I spent a few hours this week applying wet plaster castings to my layout. Here are a couple of photos of the rock work. I can't wait to get it colored...trying to take a photo of white plaster is really difficult!
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Hoorah! I finaly get to contribute after lurking as a spectator for ever. This is an Athearn RS-3 Rio Grand I converted to an Erie unit with Microscale decals.
This is what it looked like before. It was a very nice scheme but I wanted an Erie unit. I didn't think to take better pictures before I started.
Here it is all stripped with the yellow sprayed and masked. I used brake fluid (Dot3) as a striper, worked like a charm. This is actually a replacement shell because I screwed up my original. Do NOT use brake cleaner on styrene
Here the black is shot. Its a custom blend of Testors Flat anf Gloss black.
That's all for now. Thanks for looking.
John
Nice cliff work Don, should look pretty cool once it's painted. Can you give us a run down of how you did that cliff face? I'll need to do a small pary like that myself.
I wanted to upgrade an Atlas TT for my layout so I styled it after the much photographed/modeled SP Gallows Turntable at Laws California. No attempt was made to create an exact model and some elements are slightly out of scale...just a "good-enough-stand-way-off-scale" approach to disguise the less than eye appealing Atlas model as it comes out of the box! I used balsa stripwood, stone blocks from A.C Moore, piano wire, stain and india ink/alcohol. I'll do final installation this week to get it operating. It was a bit time consuming but a fun creative project, even though not up to rivet counting standards in any way.
Out of the box Atlas TT
Stripwood work
Laying block
Shanty upgrade
Gallows added plus stain/weathering
Location on the layout
The prototype
My new TT !
Don Z wrote:I spent a few hours this week applying wet plaster castings to my layout. Here are a couple of photos of the rock work. I can't wait to get it colored...trying to take a photo of white plaster is really difficult!Don Z.
Tom, you did a great job on the trusty old Atlas TT, well done. I have one sitting awaiting some form of modification in the future.
My son Crispy is participating in a nationwide interchange program with several other modellers on another forum. Here is his freight car (weathered by his own hands) getting ready to be interchanged. It is currently on its way out west on a hot freight destined for Colorado.
yesterday arriving from Florida came this fine reefer. Here it is getting switched in the yard ready to head out on a local around our layout.
Once a month we forward the interchange car and will see our model arrive back here in Illinois some time around Christmas.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
I love the rock work with plaster castings, and that turntable project is awesome!
I started work on some background structures and the backdrop yesterday and also added some new clouds using a new template I cut out of card stock and with some thinned out white acrylic paint with my air brush. Using some images from the Internet I was able to re-size them and then printed out on glossy photo paper with my color ink jet printer, and then attached them to 1/4" thick foam core using 3M spray adhesive. I attached the "Dixie Machine Welding and Metal Works, Inc." structure backdrop to the background just behind the roundhouse.
This area is still a WIP!
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Great work everyone. Tom, great looking turn table. I like the way you weatherd the wood deck. And Simon, nice looking box cars, a little weathering really brings them to life dohnit?
J.P.
simon1966 wrote: My son Crispy is participating in a nationwide interchange program with several other modellers on another forum. Here is his freight car (weathered by his own hands) getting ready to be interchanged. It is currently on its way out west on a hot freight destined for Colorado.
How does that work for you? I've been thinking of trying one, it sounds pretty fun, but I'd be worried about not getting my car back.... plus shipping would get expensive.....
Maybe it would be a permanent decal file swap, so someone could paint and decal a car for my railroad and keep it.....
I may have photos in time for the weekend, the WRS shops have been busy playing with junk and turning them into revanue cars...
Hope to finnish this wheel pit lathe this weekend. Have a wheel tread lathe for the back of the wheel shop area. Then may start a wheel boring mill. Trying to get things done before I have two carple tunnel operations, of which sounds like a piece of cake LOL.
Hosler Helper spotting the #1 driver on the "peeler"
Enjoy all the pics here as I really love to see the talent of you guys. Have a great weekend...John
TrainManTy wrote: simon1966 wrote: My son Crispy is participating in a nationwide interchange program with several other modellers on another forum. Here is his freight car (weathered by his own hands) getting ready to be interchanged. It is currently on its way out west on a hot freight destined for Colorado.How does that work for you? I've been thinking of trying one, it sounds pretty fun, but I'd be worried about not getting my car back.... plus shipping would get expensive.....Maybe it would be a permanent decal file swap, so someone could paint and decal a car for my railroad and keep it..... I may have photos in time for the weekend, the WRS shops have been busy playing with junk and turning them into revanue cars...
Well we will have to see how it works out. The group is small and we have all known each other from the forum for some time. There certainly is a cost involved in shipping the freight cars, I figure about $4 per month. Plus there is the risk of not getting the car back, or it getting damaged. We chose a not too precious freight car, but I think that the enjoyment my 8 year old will get from seeing his box car on 8 or 9 layouts around the country is worth it.
That is a great looking loco, jep1267.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Hello I just love this thread there is some great stuff here every week . This my Browser 2-10-2 I started a week or so ago. It's no where near done yet but getting close. I did break the rear truck so I have to put in a call to browser and get a new one. Have a good weekend
Great TT Tom. Nice engine 0-6-0. Great picseveryone. I am still taking a break from Terraforming and putting in the engine service facility instead. Got the table work done last week. This week I added the top and the risers. Then the cloth and a coat of white paint. Next week I can get to the roadbed and some track. I had to set the TT and building in place just to see what they looked like.
Tom, I love your turntable....good work. You should be proud of that!!!
Simon, I like your weathering and the busy yard scene in the urban setting. Great image.
Art, you sure are smokin' along! It will be a stupendous layout once you are running trains everywhere. I really like that substantial round-house, too.
Isn't that K-28 a honey of a steam engine NH?
-Crandell
Wow... 2 pages by Friday afternoon!
Here's a recent shot on the Pennsy; an AB set of PRR class AF-15s (Alco FA/B1) await a clear singal through LEW Interlocking before continuing eastbound with a symbol freight.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Just wondering ART, The way you keep expanding your layout, is there any room in your house for the rest of your family? LOL Really looking fantastic!!
The rest of the pics look good also. May try to get some pics up this weekend of the new trainroom/layout. Mike
jep1267 wrote: Hoorah! I finaly get to contribute after lurking as a spectator for ever. This is an Athearn RS-3 Rio Grand I converted to an Erie unit with Microscale decals.This is what it looked like before. It was a very nice scheme but I wanted an Erie unit. I didn't think to take better pictures before I started.Here it is all stripped with the yellow sprayed and masked. I used brake fluid (Dot3) as a striper, worked like a charm. This is actually a replacement shell because I screwed up my original. Do NOT use brake cleaner on styrene Here the black is shot. Its a custom blend of Testors Flat anf Gloss black.That's all for now. Thanks for looking.John
Beautiful work! Thanks for the photo sequence.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Lately I've been experimenting in adding backgrounds to my images in photoshop. I also took the opportunity to add a headlight. I'm pretty proud of this photo and think it turned out well.
Sunset at the Station
If anyone wants more details on basic editing in photoshop be sure to check my blog.
Looshi wrote:Lately I've been experimenting in adding backgrounds to my images in photoshop. I also took the opportunity to add a headlight. I'm pretty proud of this photo and think it turned out well. Sunset at the StationIf anyone wants more details on basic editing in photoshop be sure to check my blog.
Since you are using photoshop, try taking multiple exposures and layering them together (the true power of the software). The lighting on the surrounding buildings really doesn't look good all washed out. Experiment with different orders of doing things. For instance, (tripod is a must have) Shoot the scene with the loco headlight on (if able) first. Then shoot the scene with the building lights on but not for so long that they glow like in your photo. Even take a shot with room lights on to get the general scene. Then load them all into a single file in photoshop each on a seperate layer and blend them together to get the best possible image. I like your effort but the thing that stands out most to me is the transparent green plastic on that atlas signal tower. I will say you did a nice job of adding the sky.
I may have posted this one before, don't remember..
Which started it's pre-photoshop life as:
rolleiman wrote:Since you are using photoshop, try taking multiple exposures and layering them together (the true power of the software). The lighting on the surrounding buildings really doesn't look good all washed out. Experiment with different orders of doing things. For instance, (tripod is a must have) Shoot the scene with the loco headlight on (if able) first. Then shoot the scene with the building lights on but not for so long that they glow like in your photo. Even take a shot with room lights on to get the general scene. Then load them all into a single file in photoshop each on a seperate layer and blend them together to get the best possible image. I like your effort but the thing that stands out most to me is the transparent green plastic on that atlas signal tower. I will say you did a nice job of adding the sky.
Aye. I tried painting the inside of the Atlas tower to avoid the glowing plastic effect. It didn't work too well. I think I'm going to have to add a resistor to the line to lower the brightness.
I'll also try to take your advice about multiple shots, however, I am without tripod at the moment. It's probably my next step.