I was so happy to get my new locomotive running (see the thread about Proto locos shorting out) that I recorded this little video
BL2 working the line
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
I have enjoyed all contributions...a great start to WPF.
Nothing special from me...a lazy shot showing a Trix NYC Mikado backing down the switch back to Sentinel Coal.
mononguy63Driline mononguy63 What are you using for grass? Is that a woodland scenics product? The grass is simply a mixture of Woodland Scenics Blended Turf and some bright green dyed sawdust that I received as a gift many many moons ago and kept out of politeness but never thought I'd use, over a layer of cheap mismatched tan paint. Frankly I was surprised at how pleasing the result is, at least to these colorblind eyes.
Driline mononguy63 What are you using for grass? Is that a woodland scenics product?
mononguy63
What are you using for grass? Is that a woodland scenics product?
The grass is simply a mixture of Woodland Scenics Blended Turf and some bright green dyed sawdust that I received as a gift many many moons ago and kept out of politeness but never thought I'd use, over a layer of cheap mismatched tan paint. Frankly I was surprised at how pleasing the result is, at least to these colorblind eyes.
Ahhh...I wondered why I hadn't seen bright green grass like that before. Are you really colorblind? I know there are different levels of colorblindness, some more severe than others. I've always wondered, if one was colorblind how would one know they have a problem unless others point it out, to them it is normal.
DrilineI know there are different levels of colorblindness, some more severe than others. I've always wondered, if one was colorblind how would one know they have a problem unless others point it out, to them it is normal.
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DrilineAhhh...I wondered why I hadn't seen bright green grass like that before. Are you really colorblind? I know there are different levels of colorblindness, some more severe than others. I've always wondered, if one was colorblind how would one know they have a problem unless others point it out, to them it is normal.
The colored grass is old school from the 60's and 70's Driline. When I was a kid this was what allot of people used for grass, It was cheap and easy to use back then. It is simply saw dust colored green. In the early 70's that was what people used that were on a tight budget. I think I have about 5 pounds of the stuff still laying around.
I will look around today, but I think I have some photo's of an old layout I did back in the mid 70's using the dyed saw dust. I'll try and get them posted today.
I've been working hard the last week on a 5 foot section east of Bedford Falls but it's not quite ready for pics so I dug up this older shot of the engine terminal at the Franklinton yard.
Nice contributions this week. I haven't done a whole lot of new things lately on the pike, but wanted to contribute something...not exactly the acme of modeling skill, but better than nuthin' ! Cheers.
jeffrey-wimberlyDrilineI know there are different levels of colorblindness, some more severe than others. I've always wondered, if one was colorblind how would one know they have a problem unless others point it out, to them it is normal.That's usually the way it is. I didn't know I had a problem with color blindness until it was pointed out to me during an eye test in 1971. My problem colors are grays and dark blues. I see gray dark grays as silver and light grays as white or buff white. Dark blue shows up as a lighter blue or dark green. My father can't see most blues at all and my grandfather was completely colorblind. So yes, it does vary from person to person. Some people may go nearly their entire life not knowing they have a color perception problem.
I personally can't distinguish greens and browns (kind of a bummer when trying to do scenery) with the occasional orange and yellow thrown in for good measure, and purple looks like blue. But like Driline says, I literally don't know what I'm missing, so it's no big deal to me. Other than I refuse to go clothes shopping alone..
Here are some pics of a layout I started in the mid 70's. It was torn down some time in the mid to late 80's after a fire in our home, much of it was destroyed from the fire and water damage. I moved this from my parents home into our home, what a pain that was. I did some updates on it, but left the old saw dust grass and trees.
I just wanted to drop by and show off my diorama progress. After months of no work, this week I finished painting and laying the track and ballasted it. I thought ballasting by the switches would be a pain, but it was pretty easy.
Here's WSOR 3802 pulling a boxcar in the yard.
And leaving past the yard office.
RRCanuck, your weather tracks are among the top two or three I have seen. Excellent!!!
-Crandell
selector RRCanuck, your weather tracks are among the top two or three I have seen. Excellent!!! -Crandell
slow train Ed selector RRCanuck, your weather tracks are among the top two or three I have seen. Excellent!!! -Crandell ok what did I do wrong ? I didn't evon get a crack up on this week. gona try again.
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selector
Crandell,
It's always a lovely sight in my eyes to see a New York Central loco and, especially - the Trix Mike. It's still my favorite in my small roster.
I do have a question for you. Are the smaller conifers on the hill behind intended to "imply" forced perspective? If not, it works very well in that respect.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Slow Train Ed
I don't know what the problem is... maybe try deleting the stuff in front of the [IMG] part of the link...
Selector
Thanks for the kind comments. I experimented a bit in painting my track and found that the simplest approach was also the best...believe it or not, all I do is spraypaint rails and ties with ModelMaster Dark Earth. I tried all kinds of other approaches including spraying multiple colours, painting rails separately by brush, etc, and wasn't too keen on those results.
ok this is what I put in the url http://:192photobucket.com/abbums/z80/slowtrainedP1030047.jpg
and I just get the red x in the box.
slowtrainEd
Well, it's been a while since I've posted here on the WPF.
Perhaps something a little different. These are my HO to N-scale roadbed ramps:
The first two are for a straight section of track past the turnout. The third (a little more difficult to see) is used directly underneath the turnout.
I made the ramps out of 10-mil (0.01") styrene sheeting. They are 1-1/2" x 12" x 8-plies and create a 1% grade. Each underlying piece is 1-1/2" longer than the piece above.
Only the back 1" or so is adhered to the pieces above and/or below. The ramp in pics 1 & 2 was actually trimmed so that the transition from the end of the turnout to the bottom of the ramp would be 12".
The styrene (vs. using cardboard) should make the ramp impervious to swelling when it comes to ballasting the track later on. I'm fairly confident that they'll work as I imagine them to.
ICRR1964 The colored grass is old school from the 60's and 70's Driline. When I was a kid this was what allot of people used for grass, It was cheap and easy to use back then. It is simply saw dust colored green. In the early 70's that was what people used that were on a tight budget. I think I have about 5 pounds of the stuff still laying around.
A story to go with the old school dyed sawdust scenery.
When I was a kid my first layout was a sheet of OSB with track nailed to it and all the scenery including the ballast was dyed sawdust. When I put it away in my late teens/early twenties the OSB with the sawdust moved with me a couple of times. durring a re-roofing project on a garage at my house I needed 1 more sheet of sheathing so I grabbed the old layout board from the garage and used it. When ever I go up into that attic I can still see the sawdust glued to the bottom side. I wonder what someone will think 100 years from now when they see that.
I've finsihed basic scenery with my oil dealer at Diamond Valley.
The area of the oil dealer is limited by the aisle, structures are cropped:
Wolfgang
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Slow train Ed
I think that in order to make the link work you need to have [IMG] at the very front and very end of the link. ie. in front of http and after jpg
Give that a shot
RRCanuckSlow train Ed I think that in order to make the link work you need to have [IMG] at the very front and very end of the link. ie. in front of http and after jpg Give that a shot
Dick,
I actually tried that for Ed and it still didn't work. It appears to be a bad link/URL.
Slow train Ed, I don't know what it is you intend to do. Are you quoting me, or RRCanuck's image, or are you posting an image of your own from another location?
If quoting, simply hit "reply", and when the next window opens, click on "quote". Click in the text box after all the text you see, including the [/quot e] and type your message or paste your image code.
For your own images, you must use a host site that will store your image files. There are free ones such as railimages.com and photobucket. For any one image, you must paste the full-sized image's URL bracketed by the [img ] and [ /img ]...without the spaces between the brackets.
As Tom did, I tried clicking on the blue URL you show at the top of this page, but firefox says its a bad URL...? Sorry, I am out of my depth at this point.
Tom, Great idea for maintaining a smooth transition when using different scale roadbeds. I'll have to remember that one.
Wolfgang, Very nice on the oil facility. I have lots of spots along narrow shelves where I would like to locate an industry such as yours--very helpful to see what you have done. And looks great too!
Jamie
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slow train Ed ok this is what I put in the url http://:192photobucket.com/abbums/z80/slowtrainedP1030047.jpg and I just get the red x in the box. slowtrainEd
Maybe This ?
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C&O Fan slow train Ed ok this is what I put in the url http://:192photobucket.com/abbums/z80/slowtrainedP1030047.jpg and I just get the red x in the box. slowtrainEd Maybe This ?
I have made some progress on scenery (still have roads to finish). As far as the old sawdust use as scenery, I still use some but not that bright green. A little bit mixed in gives texture.
Aha! Yep, it was a bad URL, Ed. Compare your posted URL to the URL of the picture that Terry posted for you:
Yours: http://:192photobucket.com/abbums/z80/slowtrainedP1030047.jpg
Terry's: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z80/slowtrained/P1030047.jpg
You had "abbums" instead of "albums". That would do it.
Good catch, Terry!
slow train Ed C&O Fan slow train Ed ok this is what I put in the url http://:192photobucket.com/abbums/z80/slowtrainedP1030047.jpg and I just get the red x in the box. slowtrainEd Maybe This ? yes sir you have it.thank you .now if you can tell me how to do it from this end .I would like to post several pictures of the new layout in its starting stages.For the people that don't know whats going on here . this is my grandaughter painting the new sky for our layout room.the new helix is behind her going very slow trying to get it right ,and the old layout is between us,witch will be added togeather latter on down the track.Thank you VERY much for posting this ! slowtrain Ed
Sure Just pick the photo you want then left click on the very last link under the photo the one marked
"IMG"
then Right click then click on copy
then in the body of your post
left click to position the photo
then Right click
Then left click on paste
You'll see a link like this
{except i removed the final [/IMG] so you could see the link rather than the picture}
[IMG]http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z80/slowtrained/PA170019.jpg
tstage made the ramps out of 10-mil (0.01") styrene sheeting. They are 1-1/2" x 12" x 8-plies and create a 1% grade. Each underlying piece is 1-1/2" longer than the piece above.Only the back 1" or so is adhered to the pieces above and/or below. The ramp in pics 1 & 2 was actually trimmed so that the transition from the end of the turnout to the bottom on the switch grade.The styrene (vs. using cardboard) should make the ramp impervious to swelling when it comes to ballasting the track later on. I'm fairly confident that they'll work as I imagine them to. Tom
made the ramps out of 10-mil (0.01") styrene sheeting. They are 1-1/2" x 12" x 8-plies and create a 1% grade. Each underlying piece is 1-1/2" longer than the piece above.Only the back 1" or so is adhered to the pieces above and/or below. The ramp in pics 1 & 2 was actually trimmed so that the transition from the end of the turnout to the bottom on the switch grade.The styrene (vs. using cardboard) should make the ramp impervious to swelling when it comes to ballasting the track later on. I'm fairly confident that they'll work as I imagine them to.
Great thinking about using styrene instead of a paper product on the switch 'ramp' ...it's a idea 'keeper' for my future.
Great stuff again this weekend. You guys are really something.
Here is a photo from my updated website. The Farmer's Union elevator is a replacement for the Black River Valley COOP, Walther's ADM elevator, that used to occupy this space. I think the wooden elevator fits in better than the old one. Still a few details to add but I am pleased with the new structure.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.
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Allan
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