Some progress pics of my not-quite-finished big hill and tunnels.
The houses near the top are N-scale and this is my first attempt at forced perspective. There are a few N-scale telephone poles as well. The trees will get gradually large as I work down the hillside.
Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun, JECORBETT. What a great way to do it. Your big hill is going to be ourstanding. Benchwork looks solid. I like the tunnel portals. I am a bif fan of forced perspective, and yoours is looking really good.
Here is my bridge over the Mrs. Hippy River. The train is a westbound piggyback train circa mid 1960's with new GE U30B's which are the most modern power on my layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Ace was taking his Mustang back to the base, his wheels down and locked, when he saw the passenger train sitting on the passing siding. Buzzing trains has gotten him into trouble before but hasn't stopped him yet. Here Ace quickly banks to the right to avoid the bridge.
The plane was suspended by sewing thread which was later digitally removed.
And old meets new as an H16-44 pulls an ailing boxcar to the car shop past a Mikado at the sanding tower and an 0-8-0 switch engine delivering it's load of coal.
Jarrell
Haven't posted on wpf in a while, with work and being busy around the house I always miss it. And I believe in only posting on the weekend from friday thru sunday night. Any way here is a pic of my little diaroma. It is 12" deep and around 40" long(maybe less I can't remember). Any way this is a rough design. The track going off to the bak will have a slight grade I think. The whole thing will be in the deep woods. I am stuck on where or if I should put hills in. I am thinking there will be a stream in there as well.
These are a couple of brass log cars I got off ebay one set of four(the pic with the log on it) for $60.00, the unpainted brass I got 3 for $30.00 and the mdc I got 4 for $20.00.
These are a couple of engines I have worked on. The hustler is athern and has the ernst regear in it. After a little tweaking it runs real good. The plymoth is and AHM that I remotered with a cv-backshop heilser motor. I added a digitrax dz123? decoder. I just need to wire in a light or 2. I filed off all the molded grabs and bent my own using brass. I accendently melted a hole in the front grill so I had to make one of my own out of brass screen.
I have more but I will post later. Got some things I gotta go do.
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
John, your layout will be a photo study when you are ready for that part of the enjoyment...it is coming along nicely.
Jarrell, excellent and whimsical..what else can I say? I do really like your trackwork...very realistic.
Garry, you did a really nice job on your bridge..well done.
Mike, love the photos of the logging operation...looks like the real thing.
Here is my WPF entry...a big monster this way comes! (H-8 fans, eat your hearts out!)
Cool! I too really like the way you've done this!
selector John, your layout will be a photo study when you are ready for that part of the enjoyment...it is coming along nicely.
I thank you. I have about a 3 foot section to the left of the photo to be scenicked and around the corner to the right is about a 14 section that is just track, plywood and foam. A small town will go there with just a couple industries. When those are finished I will have a fully scencked run around 3 walls leaving only my large urban area on the fourth wall to tackle. The plan is to finish the scenery around the three walls before the golf season starts. I figure I have about 3 weeks to knuckle down and get it done. It's warming up here this weekend. We are supposed to hit 70 degrees and the golf clubs are calling my name. We'll see how it goes.
JE, outstanding work on your big hill and tunnel scenery.
Garry, great bridge scene, esp. the backdrop.
Jarrell, gotta love those P51 Mustangs. Nice job on the sand bins.
Mike, you mean that little loco is gonna pull those big logs?
Crandell, nice tunnel shot, at first I thought you meant that building in the background looks like a monster!
Traffic is backing up behind a truck ascending the hill, while GP7 no.8577 leads a local across Hammer Creek bridge.
Great work, Jarrell.When you digitally cut the thread, did the plane digitally fall, or fly away?
Garry--that is one nice bridge. Was it eligible for stimulus funds?
Grampy--So real looking I thought I'd been there!
Mike--I have an n-scale plymouth switcher. It runs smooth, but won't pull too much.
Great start to the weekend thread.
My n-scale freelanced layout saw some running this past week as I continue to work on the scenery.
selector John, your layout will be a photo study when you are ready for that part of the enjoyment...it is coming along nicely. Jarrell, excellent and whimsical..what else can I say? I do really like your trackwork...very realistic. Garry, you did a really nice job on your bridge..well done. Mike, love the photos of the logging operation...looks like the real thing. Here is my WPF entry...a big monster this way comes! (H-8 fans, eat your hearts out!)
I really like this shot
How did you do It ?
TerryinTexas
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Grampys Trains JE, outstanding work on your big hill and tunnel scenery. Garry, great bridge scene, esp. the backdrop. Jarrell, gotta love those P51 Mustangs. Nice job on the sand bins. Mike, you mean that little loco is gonna pull those big logs? Crandell, nice tunnel shot, at first I thought you meant that building in the background looks like a monster! Traffic is backing up behind a truck ascending the hill, while GP7 no.8577 leads a local across Hammer Creek bridge.
Grampy, I don't think you are ever going to run out of great scenes to show us. I really like the creek and the white cap ripples. What water material did you use. I like your rock faces and outcroppings too. Are they all molds. I've used molds but lately have been sculpting some of mine with Scultamold which I think gives a nice rocky texture. I'm curious about techniques others use.
selectorJarrell, excellent and whimsical..what else can I say? I do really like your trackwork...very realistic.
Thank you sir! Btw, I love your engine and have thought about getting one, but I'm afraid it would overwhelm my 22 inch R. curves. Could run it on the club layout though, but since that's a modular club it would only be about 3 times a year. I'm a sucker for large motive power. Heck, I model the transition era and almost bought an AC-6000 the other day.
Go figger!
Grampys TrainsJarrell, gotta love those P51 Mustangs. Nice job on the sand bins.
P51's, are they cool or what!
Your scene reminds me so much of the eastern mountain areas, they look that real. If anyone has done ANY traveling at all in that region they can directly relate to the road, river, bridge and all in your photo.
Way cool on that P-51 Jarrell!
I work at Boeing in St Louis & get to see F-15 Eagles & F-18 Hornets up close but I still like the WWII warbirds the best.
Grampys Trains, that photo reminds me when I was going from Norfolk to St Louis & in West Virgina on US-60 it was bumper to bumper going up & riding the brakes on the way down!
Here is traffic on MO. 47 in front of Prestage Tool & Gear, Hawk Point Mo.
C&O Fan...How did you do It ?
Terry, the tunnel as we see it is open below, except for the cylinder you see here (about 8" long). Once it opens to be just a ground goop and wire shell draped to make the mountain, I can get to the spline roadbed all along the length of the tunnel, which is about 6' long. Therefore, I can reach up from below the bench, which is open frame, and place the camera on the rails pointed back towards the tunnel mouth.
This is the view from outside looking back toward the tunnel.
Grampy, It probably won't see any logging stuff, possibly a switcher at the lumber mill
BUT........
The plymoth pulls 8 boxcars no problem and the hustler just start to spin at 8 on level track. Not sure how many the plymoth will I ran out of straight track to test.
Nice pics everyone. I love the tunnel shot.
Don't recall if I've used this one on a previous WPF, or not
CNJ831
I was fortunate today to have been visited by Art Hill, one of the finest model layout builders I know and also a great teacher. Most of you on this forum already know Art, and here's a few pics of the day...
I always wondered what would happen when an HO scale modeler spent a few hours with a O scale modeler. Well, all we had today was a bunch of fun! Art --- thanks very much for the visit today! It was a real pleasure to meet you!
"Now wait, this train is way too big to be HO scale!!!"
"I must admit I can see stuff real good , even from far away. You mean it's gone around the track three times and has not derailed even once!"
Art and Kali hanging out in the Garage, in front of my workshop.
Art in my driveway, in front of the Superstition Mountains...
Art's view from inside a access hatch in Castle Canyon...
Spitwater Hotel...
Castle Canyon...
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Some more stuff I have worked on in the last few months.
I just finished the crane a couple weeks ago. Need to finish lettering it and weathering it.
I have been working on this for a little while. I kind of stalled out looking for the front plow. I have been trying to win a ahm gondola plow to mount on the front of the rs. I have a jordan spreader kit that I am going to use the wings on it and make it a full plow. So how it sits right now
This one I have been strugging on. My first kitbash. I don't know how to keep the trucks mounted to the body. I need to mount a rear coupler but have to figure that space out as well. I have hand rails for it but they need some trimming. I would like to power it but lack the tought on that as well. If the gentelman who models the westport terminal sees this could I talk you into a little help please
And lastly for me this week I weathered this roundhouse rs-3 model. It is on an atlas frame with atlas trucks. This one might end up with sound unit some day.
Thats all for me folks. Everyone keep up the good work!!!!!
I haven't done much to the layout, but I got this video with a few others today. I've been doing more rail-fanning lately, than the layout.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Wow! the projects and picts look great & are quite the inspiration to a dude building his first layout (not including the help-dad-build-the-xmas-tree-support-20-years-ago layout).
Just finished building my first scratch-built structure. Saw the plans for this A-Frame bridge in the July 94 MR for HO, so reduced it for my Nscale "Sourdough & Sequim RR" (Olympic Pennisula, WA). So here it is (minus guard rails). I hope the CA holds the rails! (anyone have a different suggestion? don't know how to spike).
M.C. Fujiwara
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More backdrop painting on my friend's layout:
Gary
Thanks, JE. To answer your questions, the creek is Magic Water, WS Water Effects, and dry brushed with light gray. The rocks are all WS molds with Hydrocal Lite.
One day I will post the first photo of my layout on one of the WPF. And when that day comes, I hope my photo just has a tiny piece of the magic that shows up in all of these magnificant photos so far this weekend. Another great week of modeling and photography everyone! Jamie
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Good looking stuff all. The economy is getting so bad, I am having to resort to scratch building. Nah just kidding. I started this Passenger Car Service Building. Mainly I want to store the cars on the track but keep them in a safe clean place. Using balsa for the framing and Evergreen metal siding styrene.
Nice work here this weekend from everyone. Just back from an extended trip to Asia and have been too swamped with other obligations to contribute anything of my own. Haven't even set foot in the layout room.
Robby P, thanks for the video. I don't think I've ever seen an 8-loco lash-up before, or one with such an eclectic mix of power.
Cheers.
Difficult to keep track of what I have and have not posted here in the way of images, so here's another one from me that I don't think folks on this forum have seen before.
perry1060 I was fortunate today to have been visited by Art Hill, one of the finest model layout builders I know and also a great teacher. Most of you on this forum already know Art, and here's a few pics of the day...
Perry, how did you keep those dinosaurs from attacking Art HIll when he was in that hatch?
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
George,
I shipped all the dino's to Minnesota before Art arrived. I heard they all froze to death!
In the spring, this was all that remained
CNJ831Don't recall if I've used this one on a previous WPF, or not CNJ831
Kon
Modelling the BN 1970-1995