Hi all: I guess I get to start off this week. The crew of #633 is busy switching loaded coal hoppers at Blackwood Coal.
Great Photo as always Gramps !!!
I have nothing to add this week as my layout is still covered in plastic from the storm { Ike }
till i get my roof inspected
Wish i could get my camera to focus that close what camera do you use ?
TerryinTexas
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http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
Thanks Terry. I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ7, aper. priority f 8.0
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Sorry no picture, but over the week I finished building and weathering my Pikestuff n scale engine house. Just need to make a floor and foundation out of styrene and it is ready for instalation.
tim
Recently completed "Mimbres Valley Produce" in Deming, NM. The Reefer is scratchbuilt by an old friend.
Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:
This is one of my all time favorites.
N Scale
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Very nice images, Gents. Nice muted colours which work nicely. I like the soft focus around the periphery of Grampy's image.
I recently commenced the weathering of the Rivarossi C&O H-8. Here is what it looks like so far.
-Crandell
Great photos everyone. I will try and contribute this week. I am suppose to be getting in some rolling stock, well see if it makes it before the weekend is over.
BTW great photo grampys. I love the grade crossing it is perfect.
Just doing a little roofing work on an old coaling station this week. I want the structure to have the appearance that it was abandoned and hasn't been used for decades.
And now the other side.
I should have the top done by next weekend.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Another great start this weekend.
Grampys: Beautiful shot--love the soft-focus photography, gives the scene a LOT of mood. Terrific as usual!
Lee: I can see why that's one of your favorites--that's an absolutely STUNNING shot.
El Capitan: I like both that reefer and the produce shed. Really good work!
Crandell: Beautiful loco shot! I take it that the Allegheney is starting to run in well for you?
Jeff: Man, that roof has seen a lot of WEATHER, hasn't it? Neat job!
Well, here's mine for the weekend: Just to prove that I CAN operate two trains on DC, LOL! "Royal Gorge" pulling out of Deer Creek on the eastbound track while a 3-cylinder 4-8-2 brings a load of empty reefers down the westbound.
[Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I've recently completed weathering a dummy Athearn Soo Line Loco to match my powered one which was weathered by JKtrains. Together they look really cool pulling a drag of sooline hoppers.
The second loco on the right is the one I weathered.
Looking good Driline.
Very nice, Frank. Jerry does good work, and I think you are very close with what I see.
Just finished this, started life as a Santa Fe unit, re-did it SP , and just to get flamed by SP purist I did it up in Speed Lettering , which of course in real life the RSD-15 weren't around that long. But as I've said before I model the SP as if it didn't disappear.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Jerry--
As a huge SP fan and modeler (steam not diesel) all I can tell you is that if that Alco didn't exist in Speed Lettering, it SHOULD have, LOL! Nice job. Good looking loco. Back when SP was running Alco's, we Northern Cailifornians used to refer to them (particularly the PA's) as "Honorary Steamers" from all that neat exhaust.
Tom
GAPPLEG Just finished this, started life as a Santa Fe unit, re-did it SP , and just to get flamed by SP purist I did it up in Speed Lettering , which of course in real life the RSD-15 weren't around that long. But as I've said before I model the SP as if it didn't disappear.
Well I don't have anything amazing too add this week just more progress on my layout, I started laying cork (in my opinion, the worst and hardest part) on my layout so far 20% done about.
Crandell, I sure wished we live close by, but at last we do not. Great looking PIC as normal.
I learned two things to night.
1 Don't try to fix a BLI Steam Engine while you are talking on the phone with Jeffery! Got it back together, and fixed what was wrong with it, now I have a new problem? But, that will be a different posting.
2 I hate ballasting track! But I will get he hang of it.
I will not post any PIC till I get a little farer on the project, I have painted more of the mountain still needs some detail paint work. Plus I have learned how to straighten out Super Trees. Working on some dead trees as well, they add a lot to the over all look of K-10 Mining.
Thanks for all the great PIC's as well.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
I never really balasted before, I plan on reading up on it and doing alot of practice before hand when I get too that point...
Lee: Very nice photo.
Crandell: Thanks, and I really like those head on shots, very dramatic!
Tom: Thanks for the kind reply, you have a pretty nice looking photo, yourself!
twhite Another great start this weekend. ... Crandell: Beautiful loco shot! I take it that the Allegheney is starting to run in well for you?
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Tom, thanks. I like how the front end has turned out, but the side of the tender is a bit heavily weathered, and the drivers haven't been done. Honestly, I haven't run this engine in four or five months. I am having a Tsunami put in it in the next six or seven days because the Loksound sound files for the chuff and the whistle are terrible. Meanwhile, when I did try to get it to move after the weathering and dull-coating, it stuttered and stalled, so I have a clean-up job on the wheels.
I will use this engine once I am happy with its sounds. It is beautiful...Rivarossi did a good job.
I haven't seen an image of yours I didn't like. This one is no exception...quite a grand view. I am for some reason drawn to your large retaining wall, and think to myself...hmm, I could do that in my steep area near a curve. Yours looks great.
Ok I guess I can contribute here as most have seen I put a plow on my SW1500 check out the post somewhere on the forums but I have been working on this next project for awhile finally got the rest of detail parts.
Its a P2K GP30 it will be a Milw Road unit
Here I added the rear weed cutter plow by details west and MU hoses
Here I added the correct plow
Next step will be primer and then the paint job.
Lots of cool photos already, but the one that made my jaw drop, was LEE's shot with the water feature down the middle of it...man, if I ever try doing water, I can only hope it comes out HALF that good.
I know a couple others have already commented on that photo, but I also know you can NEVER get too much praise when you pull off something good.
I just assumed that the shot starting off this weekend's thread, (by "gramp?") was put into a photo fiddling program (like the one I use: Picassa) and I thought it was BRILLIANT to have the out of focus close areas, softened with one of the tools such programs allow you...I figured in that case, the one where you tell the thing to leave the middle of the picture sharp, and the rest blending out in softness. But later, I read that it may have just been taken with a REAL camera (not like the lame little Kodak I use.) The kind that may provide the feature of filtering the shot to look like that from the start. (?)
Hi unca roggie: I was experiementing with some of the editing effects in Picassa, and when I tried the soft focus effect, I liked the result. I'm glad you liked it enough to comment on it. I'm a relative novice at photography, I still have a lot to learn about it. But, it's fun trying different things.
Switching moves at Slade Jct., October 25, 1941, on the Hudson Highlands RR.
CNJ831
CNJ831, the composition and depth of your shot is great and that fall foliage is incredible - one of those pictures that leave you wondering if it's real or not.
I'm going to be pictorially verbose this week, I think. I spent a few evenings setting a couple of Con-Cor yard building kits I assembled a few year ago into the scenery. I have found that building sand makes a great scenery medium - you can easily blend the scenery into the building base. I also use the sand to make gravel roads. After getting the sand in the right place, it gets misted with water and held in place with 50/50 white glue/water.
Here's the finished scene. The area around the building gets the paint / sifted dirt / ground foam treatment. I use acrylic paint on the road. In the past I have brushpainted it but this time I used my airbrush.
Here's a closeup of the work shed showing the gravel. I did get a bit of overspray on the scenery. Next time I will lay paper next to the road.
I still have some of the buildings I built when I was just a bit younger... This old yardmaster office was, I think, a Revell kit that I built back in the mid-60s - over 40 years ago. I think the current one is still availble from Con-Cor. It is amazing how long these same model dies have been in use.
George V.
CNJ831 - That's a MR CALENDAR shot! Great pic.
Great job everyone.
Lee, That is a great shot. It looks like a stretch of road in Northern California that I know. Good memories.
Crandell, I always like angle of your trestle shot. I never noticed the insulators before. What did you use?
Tom, Your yard looks very functional. Do you have more shots?
CN, Great lighting for your fall scene. Did you photoshop your sky?
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
I always enjoy your photos. And with this one, I can smell someone burning their leaves in the backyard.
Pittsburgh, PA
Wow, lots of just beautiful work here this week. I like the in-progress shots that people are taking and showing. They remind people that these great scenes don't just appear. Each one represents many hours of effort. (Note that I said effort, not work. I hope everyone else enjoys their layout-building time as much as I do.)
Anyway, this is almost done, but I can't put the track down and ballast it until I finish some more scenery up the line a ways. We had a discussion over on Layouts and Layout Building about bridge track which will solve that problem, but again, that will wait until I finalize the trackwork. The engine house in the background needs a bit more work to get the roof on right, too. For now, you can go feed the ducks.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Heres my latest car. I finished it up this morning. Now hopefully I can work on my layout some now.
Before:
After:
"Rust, whats not to love?"