ereimer wrote: SpaceMouse wrote:The figures are bigger and easer to get paint on, but because they are bigger look fake with a monotone paint job. I figure to make them look good, a lot more attention will have to be put on layout lighting/highlights and shadow. That means more time in vested in figure. If you put in the time, the figures will look like dolls plopped in place. look online for Warhammer painting sites , there's tons of them . they do a much better job of painting figures than almost any model railroader i've seen . other military modeling sites will have similar info . BTW , don't get seduced by the cool looking models while you're there , they'll eat away at the time and money you need to dedicate to your new basement empire ernie
SpaceMouse wrote:The figures are bigger and easer to get paint on, but because they are bigger look fake with a monotone paint job. I figure to make them look good, a lot more attention will have to be put on layout lighting/highlights and shadow. That means more time in vested in figure. If you put in the time, the figures will look like dolls plopped in place.
The figures are bigger and easer to get paint on, but because they are bigger look fake with a monotone paint job. I figure to make them look good, a lot more attention will have to be put on layout lighting/highlights and shadow. That means more time in vested in figure. If you put in the time, the figures will look like dolls plopped in place.
look online for Warhammer painting sites , there's tons of them . they do a much better job of painting figures than almost any model railroader i've seen . other military modeling sites will have similar info . BTW , don't get seduced by the cool looking models while you're there , they'll eat away at the time and money you need to dedicate to your new basement empire
ernie
This is a good suggestion. I have painted well over 2000 figures. When you paint for miniature war games you paint the sparkle in the eyes. Then you highlight that. A Ho scale wrist watch would have probably 5 to 10 layers of paint if it was done by a good miniature painter just to accent the highlights and shades. That would give you guys an idea.
I always think that HO scale figures looks really really poor. They need a lot more detail and it isn't hard to do.
Magnus
exPalaceDog wrote: To the Old Dog, logging lines have two great attributes, funky equipment and structures, and great scenery. If one is primary interested in the equipment, On30 might be the way to go. If one is interested mainly in the scenery, then a small scale would allow more material to be fit it.But the Old Dog must ask, in the unlikily event that the layout is ever "finished", how much operational interest will it have? Logging lines existed mainly to haul logs from the landings to the mill pond. That could get old after while.Have fun
To the Old Dog, logging lines have two great attributes, funky equipment and structures, and great scenery. If one is primary interested in the equipment, On30 might be the way to go. If one is interested mainly in the scenery, then a small scale would allow more material to be fit it.
But the Old Dog must ask, in the unlikily event that the layout is ever "finished", how much operational interest will it have? Logging lines existed mainly to haul logs from the landings to the mill pond. That could get old after while.
Have fun
Dog, you are not thinking it through. In a major logging operation there are all kinds of uses for trains. There is the obvious logs in/empties out/lumber out. But the Union Lumber Company also ran a full service railroad with passenger and freight service. The lumber yard alone will need supples to service the massive machinery. Click on this photo and look around. Just in the lumber yard count the rails. Look at the trestle in the background.
And that is just the saw mill, the log camps needs supples brought in daily. Union lumber ran 3-5 camps at any given time. Each camp ran multiple harvesting operations. A lumber yard like Union Lumber supplies the country and the Orient.
Check out the photo of this logging supply yard.
Equipment, men, and supples need to be shuttled in daily to the camps.
This is in addition to all the supplies needed by the town.
Move out the railroad to the interchange with the Northwestern Pacific at Willits. From there all traffic goes to the Ukiah yard where all traffic must go through power changes. From there it goes to the Ferry at San Raphael & across the bay to San Francisco.
Come over, I'll keep you busy.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Even in the mid-1960s there was an area where the available options for transportation were foot and a 762mm gauge logger - no spots flat and clear enough to land a helicopter. As a result, the Kiso Rintetsu (which had some really funky equipment, as well as about a gazillion standardized semi-disconnect log trucks) had to carry everything - including schoolkids!
Most non-timber loads were carried in 'gondolas' formed by laying planks on the bunks of a pair of disconnects (coupled with a bar between the link-and-pin couplers) and adding a few planks screwed to the vertical posts at the ends of the bunks. There was also a motley collection of tank cars for both water and petroleum products, as well as closed cars of several different designs. While most train movements were empties into the woods and loads out (to dry storage, not a pond,) there were also scheduled passenger and mixed goods trains.
The Kiso had a mainline engineered to Norfolk and Western standards - steel bridges, long tunnels through solid rock... OTOH, logging branches wandered off into the woods on temporary trestlework that appeared to have been assembled from slash not worth taking to the mill.
(My own version, in HOjn762, goes by the name Kashimoto Forest Railway)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)