As always some fantastic work shown here!
I haven't had much time this week to get anything done in the train room, but have completed the loading dock for the old Freight House ("Temporary Freight House"....). Still have a lot to do. Will be adding a ramp, steps, and lots of freight, both inside and out.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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
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
Ed,
I use photobucket too. You need to copy the link with the [IMG] on the front end. It is the last of the four choices below the photo.
trainnut1250:
Are those plows in your 2nd picture? Are they commercially available? Scale? (or, maybe you just pulled off the road and took a picture of some farmer's field!) Very realistic, as are your other 2 photos. The truck in Pic.1, and the detail of Pic. 3, particularly the subdued, subtle colors of the workers' clothing, provide the elements of some of the most impressive scenes posted.
Thanks, in advance, for your reply.
RRCanuck 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.
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.
Dick,
I love the detail on the back of that building.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
gaelicpropties trainnut1250: Are those plows in your 2nd picture? Are they commercially available? Scale? (or, maybe you just pulled off the road and took a picture of some farmer's field!) Very realistic, as are your other 2 photos. The truck in Pic.1, and the detail of Pic. 3, particularly the subdued, subtle colors of the workers' clothing, provide the elements of some of the most impressive scenes posted. Thanks, in advance, for your reply.
Gaelic,
Thank you for the kind words. The scale is HO, the plow in the second picture is actually an Austin Road Grader (kit #3055) from Rio Grande Models. It is a white metal kit. Eric (the owner of RGM) makes lots of cool stuff. They are craftsman kits (lots of work but they always come out well).
http://www.riograndemodels.com/HO.htm
The truck in the first picture is a wheel works kit. I had a different cow in the shot originally that looked fine from normal viewing distance but when photgraphed up close his eye was poorly painted and he looked like the "alien cow from Mars". I replaced him with the animal you see in the shot.
The track crew in picture three is from a set of white metal castings of early American track laying figures I bought on Ebay a few years ago. I painted them and then washed them with India ink to subdue the color. The photo was then slightly desaturated in photoshop to give it that "look". I always wanted to have a scene of track removal on the layout somewhere....Currently it is the only semi-finished scene on the layout.
These scenes are part of my realistic grass experiment. I recently built a static grass gun ("Grassinator") and bought some of the new "California Gold" grass from Silflor. I am quite happy with the results. I recommend that anyone modeling California (or the west in general) check out the new grass. Beats anything else I've tried so far. To see more grassinator effects see this link, first and fourth photos:
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/127351.aspx
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
Here's a picture of my 2-10-2's new Bell & Whistle wires, which I made out of copper:
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Got bored with the football game on TV, so I started playing with my video camera & computer
Trainwatching
"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
Did some experimenting with my camera this weekend, and took some pics of one of my engines. The pics came out a little underexposed and to dark, so I used the photo editing software that came with the camera and made some changes to the RAW file before converting to jpg and resizing the pic.
I started with this:
And ended up with this:
Full size pic here (warning: 3600x1800, 3,4MB).
This was my first time ever trying to edit a photo, but I got a lot of tips on a Norwegian forum, and I think the result isn't all that bad for a first try.
Next time maybe I'll even remember to remove the dust BEFORE taking the pic...
Svein
(edited: added forum link)
Svein, nice job on that photo!!! Black on black subjects are the very hardest thing to do!! Just look in almost any magazine & try to find a black on black photo!! Even the MR mags usually have loco photos as gray on gray!!
Svein, That's a terrific job of photo editing. The amount of details that come out from the shadows is amazing. Jamie
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mononguy63Got bored with the football game on TV, so I started playing with my video camera & computer Trainwatching
Great video (and great music)! I've got to get one of the atlas Monon U23Bs.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Setting one off on the interchange track
4 loads going out- you got the paperwork?
mononguy63I personally can't distinguish greens and browns
Same with me, to an extent. I can tell but sometimes.....? And you are right when it comes to picking colors for something I get this deer in the headlight look and holler for someone's help LOL.
Sorry I'm off topic, on with the photos the weekends young!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Great photos all! I always enjoy the Weekend Photo Fun, and right now (bedridden with a strained neck) it's a great way to pass some time!
More work at my Oil dealer and I've just finished a video about my working derails.
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
Svein. I am favorably impressed with the photo editing. Would you consider posting an English translation of the link to the Nraway forum? Perhaps, you can start a thread to explain.
Wolfgang.......Nice oil facility! ..........Working derails......... That is remarkable!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Mononguy: I gotta ask about your Monon Caboose. Who made or its it custom?
-Morgan
Very slick on the working derails! Jamie
Flashwave Mononguy: I gotta ask about your Monon Caboose. Who made or its it custom?
My caboose fleet started out as undecorated Athearns that I hit with some rattle can red spray paint and decaled to suit my fancy, as the prototype never had any of those types.
I needed some weights to add to some cars I am building. I used up the last of what I made a couple of years ago so out with the melting equipment. I made up this pile in about 15 minutes and was able to add them to the frames on the cars I am currently working on.
The weights each weigh in around 1 oz so it is easy to figure on how many I need. Some are a bit heavier and some lighter so I can mix and match as needed.
Before I get a bunch of coments on melting lead and the associated hazzards, I am well aware and take the proper precautions. I have a good fume hood/ventilation system in my shop that pulls all smoke and fumes outside. At full pull it can move 500 CFM (Measured with the gage from work) so I never smell anything. In fact the small amount of smoke that did come off of the wheel weights was visibly sucked right out of the hood.
Dan
I don't have a layout yet but here are some photos of engines I've been working on lately.
CN SD40 #5003 started as an Athearn RTR model that I added some details to.
CN SD40 #5233 was also a Athearn RTR model that I detailed, the biggest mod was removing the Dynamic Brakes.
Santa Fe FP45 #90 is an Athearn Model I detailed and weathered
Making your own lead weight, Hum seem you have a lot of time on your hands, hope no Lead.
I sure you know this tip, but wheel weights are cheap and have double sided tape all ready installed. I bought a box 25 sticks for $21.75. Reach stick has 8 one onces weights, so that is .09 cents per onces. I use to use penny's so the cost is about the same. But no gluing and I have had penny's come unglued. I have yet to have a wheel weight come undone.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
I use the peel and stick tire weights, too. So far, the store where I buy my tires has given them to me free.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
There are great scenes this week. Thanks all of you!
I've worked on the layout some this week, but no photos. I did a little railfanning on Friday:
All I did with RailRoading today is making a new logo for my layout:
I have used the stick-on weights in the past. I did have a couple of them come loose. No big deal though. I am a bit of a frugal person and was able to get about 200 lbs of old wheel weights from a friend in the automotive business. I figured I used up about 10% of the Map gas bottle and about 15 minutes of my time. I made the mold at work one day on my lunch break from a bar of steel from the scrap bin. I melt the lead in an old plumbers ladle.
I still have to add the link to the brake wheel and paint. This is the bottom of a Norfolk Southern boxcar. Up until the Depression NS painted their boxcars green. This car will receive the pre-1910 N&S scroll. The body is being detailed to match an ACF car of the 2300 series.
Next week I might start on Norfolk Southern's coal ops in the Piedmont of NC that ended in the mid 1920's.
got me an icon for my railway
Boomer Red: you did such a good job on your loco up there, that I had to blow it up to see if it was a model or a prototype...perfect amount of weathering (makes note to tone down the glopfest of watercolour paints, next session of dirtying things up).