dragenrider wrote: howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellJarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?! What a riot! Give me a minute to catch my breath from laughing so hard!
howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellJarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?!
jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!Jarrell
My ugly mug...
Hey... it's modeling!!
Jarrell
Jarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!
I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"
And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"
And you talk about UGLY!?!
What a riot! Give me a minute to catch my breath from laughing so hard!
Wow! Men After my own heart... and M.E.S.S. ! Ray your bench is almost as bad as mine! I'd show a pic but I don't have a wide enough angled lense to prove it.
Fergie
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Not sure on what I think about the work I did on K-10 Mining section. To say it did not turn out the way I was hoping is a under statement. Cliffs under the mine turned out lighter than I wanted, but that is a easy fix. After sanding some of the foam that is the ground of the mining company I added some brown latex paint. Brown paint was a little darker than I wanted so I added some white, it turned pink? Added black to the brew and got really nasty looking, but it is a mine so what the heck.
I added a little white glue on top of the paint and added real dirt that I sanded down with 36 grit sand paper. Left a few bare spots so I could added dying grass color foam, thinking the dirt would have soaked up the glue and only some would grass would stick. I ran the shop vac over the grass, all most all the grass stuck? Well, it looks sort of OK but it is no longer pink!
To the left I added a small hill to divide the C-line and the spur. Pretty happy with it, but I need to find away to hide the seam where I glued on the foam. I thinking either drywall compound, latex caulk or white glue then ground cover. Ditch between the spur and main is new as well.
Where you see the pink on the hill, that will be carved and made rock color.
For Crandall, does this make me a real modeler?
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Fergmiester wrote: dragenrider wrote: howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellHow do you find anything?Jarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?! What a riot! Give me a minute to catch my breath from laughing so hard! Wow! Men After my own heart... and M.E.S.S. ! Drag your bench is almost as bad as mine! I's show a pic but I don't have a wide enough angled lense to prove it.Fergie
dragenrider wrote: howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellHow do you find anything?Jarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?! What a riot! Give me a minute to catch my breath from laughing so hard!
howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote: My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellHow do you find anything?Jarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?!
Wow! Men After my own heart... and M.E.S.S. ! Drag your bench is almost as bad as mine! I's show a pic but I don't have a wide enough angled lense to prove it.
Hum, sorry the PIC's are so big. Loaded them a driffrent way I will not uses again.
See if this is smaller
Say, Ken, I don't mind how big they are...in fact, I get a new appreciation for what you are doing. I admit, though, that I have no idea if they mean a longer download time for folks...I guess we'll find out if someone squawks.
-Crandell
berlingo, I like your images, especially the second. Nice to see you drop in.
cudaken wrote:
Flamingo Santa Dolls?
OK, I gotta ask........WHAT THE HECK IS THAT!?!
Cuda Ken,
I LOVE YOUR TRACK BUMPERS!!!
lvanhen wrote: Cuda Ken, I LOVE YOUR TRACK BUMPERS!!!
yep me too !!!
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I have attempted to shoot a wintery scene this week. In the image below, you will see Woodland Scenics "snow" and on the right side a sprig of sage brush that I acquired while visiting in-laws recently at a place called Cache Creek in the central interior of BC.
A Pennsy K4s emerges to a fresh light dusting of early winter snow.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
we have a cache creek too. that guy really got around. I bet yours has water. Ours is dry. But we do have the sage brush. Miles of it. I,ve got some trimmed up and awaiting the "leaf" process.
Is the snow loose or glued down? looks good and cold.
Glenn
Ray, thank you, in return, for expressing your enjoyment of my image.
Glenn, I am almost definitely not going to leave that area around the tunnel sprinkled with snow, so I merely dusted it and intend to take it up again with a vacuum. Even had I intended to leave it permanently, I doubt I would have attempted to fix it in place with glue. I like the even faintly granular look, and fear that anything I used to get it to stick would affect its visual appeal significantly.
Over time, were I to leave it, I would probably either add more atop what was initially placed when the first application had gotten grey with dust, or I would vacuum it up and do a new dusting. The table is stable and solid there, so no real need to glue the stuff down. Just my way of doing it. If it were a mobile module, then, yeah, I'd have to use a thinned white glue or something.
Packers1 wrote: And yes, I know, I know, not the best pics. Hey, it is Weekend photo fun.
And yes, I know, I know, not the best pics. Hey, it is Weekend photo fun.
Cha, Cha, Cha, CHIA!If you were modeling Tennessee, I'd say you have a little Cudsue problem there!
Some of you may remember the Weimer's Mill kit I put together a couple of months ago. It's a Branchline laser-cut wood kit. I had a lot of fun with it, and discovered it wasn't that hard to do, as long as you took your time. For a refresher, here's the Mill, sitting on a white table with my photo background board behind it.
This model deserves better, so I've been working on the mill pond and a stream feeding it. Along the way, I found I needed a road over that stream, so I added a bridge. Anyway, here's an upstream view, with one of those large hooved critters that Moose Bay is known for:
Here's another shot from the other direction. I had to get a little bit of railroad in here. Sorry it's not ballasted yet, but that track needs to come up when I work on the water of the bay just to the left of the photo, so it's been held in place with paper clips for the last couple of years.
I made a latex rubber mold from the face of a tunnel portal a couple of years ago, because I needed much thinner portals. I used these to make the front face castings for the stone arch bridge. The mill pond wall, and the road-side face of the bridge sides, are made from a Dave Frary mold, again cast in Hydrocal. The pond is Envirotex, with due credit to Joe Fugate for his suggestions in his helpful scenery clinic.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MAbruce wrote:I constructed a test pile-bent (less stringers) and painted it camo-brown (pictured here with the ME bridge track that will sit on top of it):I'm still deciding if the color works (I'd add in some fading). I was going to use a dark wood stain, but as the bent is using three different types of wood, the stain will likely not set in evenly. Overall, I'm hoping for a final version that looks a lot like this:http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2006061420001629991.jpg
I constructed a test pile-bent (less stringers) and painted it camo-brown (pictured here with the ME bridge track that will sit on top of it):
I'm still deciding if the color works (I'd add in some fading). I was going to use a dark wood stain, but as the bent is using three different types of wood, the stain will likely not set in evenly.
Overall, I'm hoping for a final version that looks a lot like this:
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2006061420001629991.jpg
Nice trestle bent, Bruce. Just one thing - it'll need another diagonal brace on the other side going the opposite direction.
That pond/trestle setup should look really cool when you're finished...
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loathar wrote: Packers1 wrote: And yes, I know, I know, not the best pics. Hey, it is Weekend photo fun.Cha, Cha, Cha, CHIA!If you were modeling Tennessee, I'd say you have a little Cudsue problem there!
LOL, yeah. I went a little overboard, eh? But hey, that was my reasoning, cudsue. i model S.C., and there is cudsue around here (I've seen it along the highway, lol).
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Bapou
Great to see new life in an old Athearn. Just shows with some work they are still a viable locomotive.
It's only a little "fast growing vine that nobody bothers trying to do anything about and I never knew how to spell" problem because the stuff isn't growing over all the windows and doors yet.
edited for Don Z's enjoyment
In case anyone is interested...it's KUDZU:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/pumo1.htm
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Ray, don'tcha let these guys give you a hard time about your workbench. Why, I'll bet you can instantly put your finger on any tool you own.
Say... isn't that an Optivisor you have there? I've been thinking about buying one to replace my El Cheapo knock-off imitation with a gin-U-wine real McCoy but just haven't done it yet. It looks like the model you have lets you get in nice and close and that's what I want.
Thanks for the photo!
howmus wrote: jacon12 wrote:My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!JarrellJarrell you have inspired me! I decided if you can do a photo like that of yourself, what is to stop me from doing it. I mean just because I don't have the Artistic abilities you have doesn't mean I can't come up with something good by myself. So I put on some good clothes, went down to the layout and cleaned my workbench thoroughly, got everything in order and came up with a couple outstanding shots of myself busily at work on a project. Here they are! Hope everyone enjoys these!!!!I call this one: "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?"And this one is titled: Maybe if I put this in line....Wonder what it is?"And you talk about UGLY!?!
jacon12 wrote:My ugly mug...Hey... it's modeling!!Jarrell
Cudken the ground around the mine looks really good. I like it. The track bumpers are neat. Any port in a storm.
Selector that's a really good snow shot. How did you make the snow?
Paul, thank-you. I merely sprinkled Woodland Scenics "snow" from one of their clear plastic containers with the split-lid red plastic top where you can pour wholesale or sprinkle through rather coarse holes...like their ground foam also comes. It pours like fine white sand, and takes very little to cover fairly planar ground. My ground goop is not refined in finish, so it appears here and there in the image.
Great looking scenes, Selector and MisterB.
BTW, if any of you are not familiar with kudzu, consider yourselves lucky. It's awful stuff and grows over everything. As far as I know, no one knows how to kill it. If for some reason you decide to plant it, there are two basic things you need to know:
1. Under ideal conditions, the kudzu vines can grow up to 18 inches per day.
2. Any conditions are ideal for kudzu.
- Harry
HarryHotspur wrote:Great looking scenes, Selector and MisterB.BTW, if any of you are not familiar with kudzu, consider yourselves lucky. It's awful stuff and grows over everything. As far as I know, no one knows how to kill it. If for some reason you decide to plant it, there are two basic things you need to know:1. Under ideal conditions, the kudzu vines can grow up to 18 inches per day.2. Any conditions are ideal for kudzu.
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Not even nearly as awesome looking as the layouts of some of you guys, but I had a fun MR moment today - the first local crossed the bridge/cassette in front of the door under its own power:
The junior engineer, standing on a chair to have a good view, was very pleased that trains finally are rolling again on the layout - it has been a while since the last train rolled on the old layout :-)
Oh well, quick lunch and then back to hooking up more track sections to the power bus.
Grin, Stein
Back in 1959, I was a junior engineer. This was my uncles layout. Pretty sure my hands were tied together and thats as close as I was allowed to get. Soon after the picture was taken he gave the layout away. Wish I had a picture of my face when I found that out.
glenn
Thanks Paul, after the dirt and paint dried it has a ruff mining look I was hopping for. Far as the push pins for track bumpers, I sure you folks realizes they are left overs from laying the rails. But, till I buy or making some proper ones they do keep the coal cars from rolling down the hill side.
On the Flamingo Santa Doll's? They are my wife's. She let's me Miro Wave dirt, so I guess letting her keep some of her stuff under the bench is only fair.
I hope to have some more work done for this last day of W P F and have them posted.
Crandall, Tom and other's, your posting here inspire and help me a long my way in this hobby I will add. Keep them coming.
steinjr wrote: Not even nearly as awesome looking as the layouts of some of you guys, but I had a fun MR moment today - the first local crossed the bridge/cassette in front of the door under its own power: Oh well, quick lunch and then back to hooking up more track sections to the power bus. Grin, Stein
Nice liftout section. It looks very similar to my layout. So far its worked out quite well.
spectratone wrote: Back in 1959, I was a junior engineer. This was my uncles layout. Pretty sure my hands were tied together and thats as close as I was allowed to get. Soon after the picture was taken he gave the layout away. Wish I had a picture of my face when I found that out.glenn
Thats one sweet layout. Especially for 1959. My uncle also inspired me as well. Heres a few recent pics taken in 2005 of his O gauge, mostly Lionel brand layout.
(Uncle and brother)