Starting to add tree's to the layout. These are some handmade Aspens I put together...
Soo Bandit Scheme BLI Paragon ready to cross the bridge...
A Rix Product Modern Highway Overpass, really adds depth to any layout. For $29 dollars it was well worth it. I still need to add details, but its getting there.
Cool lookin trees ! Driline
Here's a video of an East bound H-5 with a string of emptys passing
a west bound H-8 loaded coal drag at the junction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li4K9vqS0YE
TerryinTexas
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Nice work! I especially like how the Aspens turned out.
I'm in this week. Trying to gear up and motivate myself to get back into scenery work after a summer off. Here's a shot of some newer tree canopy work. The foreground still needs some work:
Here's a photo I haven't posted on WPF yet...
This is new scenery in Enfield, NH, looking west, with a roster shot. From foreground left to background right, GP18 #9423, GP7 #8569, SDP35 #1402 (retired), GP9m #1701 (retired), U23B #2306 (retired), GP30 #2752, L&N GP18 #902 (to become WRS 902), and CSX U23B #3243 (retired).
Good work so far . Keep the pictures coming!!!!!!!
Here's a boxcar I've been working on.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
No Pics this weekend, here's a video of the Sep running session.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAxprMYRwI
-Dave
O_KamotoNo Pics this weekend, here's a video of the Sep running session. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JAxprMYRwI -Dave
What a great looking video. I really like the idea that you are able to run very long consists. That must be one large club layout.
My modular club set up last month at the Temple Model Train Show in Temple, TX. Here are a few highlights.
You can see more photos at http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg252/Arjay1127/BVMRRA/Temple%20Train%20Show%202009/
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
Weekend Photo Fun is off to a fast start with some truly great photos from each of you so far.
Here are photos of my new (as of two days ago) P1000 F7's on their first run on my layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Driline Starting to add tree's to the layout. These are some handmade Aspens I put together...
I like the look of those Aspens---even the bark work!! Hopefully your eyes did not stay crossed when you finished those----nice work!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Finished up a couple projects last night mostly because I was sick of looking at them....BN (Ex CB&Q) painted for m day and a gn heater car
Heres a couple shots of a drovers caboose at Collier Bluff. BILL
Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
Hey all, Driline nice trees. Was that sedum? No pics again this week from me. I have been busy doing all sorts of thing. Some mrr and lots of home stuff.
This week I got my 2 atlas Rs-1 painted in the home road scheme. Got them detailed with rotary beacon, antenna and gps dome. I lightly weathered the frames for now. Later I will lightly weather the bodies but for right now I like the way they are. I also painted and detailed a 3rd body and now just waiting on money to buy a frame and trucks. I already have the motor and spline and worms for it. I also learned how to properly use a multi meter. I also attempted to put a decoder in an IHC mother hubbard but lost that battle as the motor pulled a min of 6 amps. Wierd I thought can motors were low draw. I am also knee deep into converting and rewirirg for dcc 2 athearn sw-9 switchers. I have one done but the other has the metal sideframes and I can't seem to find anything to solder to so I have bid on a set on ebay. They will be detailed with beacons, antennas, and gps domes and have led lights wired in. I will see if I get the house work done enough to snap some pics.
Have a great weekend everyone.
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
duckdoggerDriline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
The kit is called "Forest in a Flash" by Janes trains. I don't think they are available anymore. My hobby shop has had them for 15 years now and only has a few left. I'm not sure what kind of plant it is, but you do the following to make the trees.
1) Remove the small leaves found on the stem.
2) Paint the branches white
3) Wrap 2 or 3 branches together with wax string
4) Set the tree in a foam base with wax paper.
5) Spread white latex caulk up the trunk
6 Paint the trunk white
7) Use a fine black sharpie to make lines on the trunk and larger limbs.
More trees to add.....
Off to another great start this week. ford86 - gorgeous paint jobs.
This week's contribution is not so much about modeling (admittedly mediocre) but photography. Recent articles in MR and past posts here about methods to enhance depth of field (like Helicon software) were the inspiration for this week's pics. I don't have Helicon, but figured I could achieve similar results taking 3 exposures of each scene that were identical except for the focus point, then using photoshop to "stitch" them together. The objective was to achieve zero-to-infinity focus.
I have 2 things to say about this project: 1. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, and 2. Looking at photos is a great way to see all the mistakes you've made. You just don't realize how much you need to improve things until you look at your photos. A bit sobering, frankly.
Cheers.
As a tribute to the late, great Athearn blue box kit, I assembled all 26 of mine in one spot for a family photo. Not shown are another 18 still unassembled.
The Great Northern in the center is my first HO purchase back in about 1962. The UP boxcar next to it was my first and only attempt at painting and decaling.
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Looks like my weekend is not going to be that fun! It will be spent sorting out the spur from K-10 mine to the A line. First fixed a curve that 50 foot cars did not like, then a turn out my Big Boy did not like. Now the Y6 B does not like curve the 50 cars do like. Then the Big Boy decides it doesn't like the turn out again? RSD 15 does not like any of it! M1A is fine with the first turn out that the Big Boy does not like,but does not like the second turn out all the other engines are fine with.
Only engines that are fine with ever thing are the F-3's.
Ken, laying rail again, and again and again!
I hate Rust
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Jeff - Kudos to you on your latest image. In my opinion, it's the best shot you've posted to date. You've come a long way in the past couple of years with your modelling and photography.
CNJ831
great work all,love my weekend morning coffee and picts . they go together nice.......thanks for your effort's
Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose? The kit is called "Forest in a Flash" by Janes trains. I don't think they are available anymore. My hobby shop has had them for 15 years now and only has a few left. I'm not sure what kind of plant it is, but you do the following to make the trees. 1) Remove the small leaves found on the stem. 2) Paint the branches white 3) Wrap 2 or 3 branches together with wax string 4) Set the tree in a foam base with wax paper. 5) Spread white latex caulk up the trunk 6 Paint the trunk white 7) Use a fine black sharpie to make lines on the trunk and larger limbs. More trees to add..... ...snip.....
duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
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That looks like peppergrass, also known as "Candy Tuft" available in the craft stores. I have used it with moderate success but was never very happy with it. There's a shot of a couple small ones painted as fall trees. The problem I have had is the trunks are so thin and attempts to wrap multiple stems with clay or tape to make a larger tree just didn't look good. But I never thought of using caulk. Gonna try that!
George V.
RRCanuckThis week's contribution is not so much about modeling (admittedly mediocre) but photography. Recent articles in MR and past posts here about methods to enhance depth of field (like Helicon software) were the inspiration for this week's pics. I don't have Helicon, but figured I could achieve similar results taking 3 exposures of each scene that were identical except for the focus point, then using photoshop to "stitch" them together. The objective was to achieve zero-to-infinity focus. I have 2 things to say about this project: 1. It was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be, and 2. Looking at photos is a great way to see all the mistakes you've made. You just don't realize how much you need to improve things until you look at your photos. A bit sobering, frankly.
If you have a camera that can go up to a high aperture, you can use that instead of / in conjunction with HeliconFocus to get a high depth of field. I shoot at F/36 for my photos and get plenty of depth of field, with the camera mounted on a tripod for the long exposure shots.
That being said, the new camera I'm considering (the Canon SX1) only goes up to F/5.6, so I will presumably get to learn how to use HeliconFocus! I believe it is free (or there's a similar version that's free), and I would imagine that it's a whole lot easier than Photoshop! I've tried to manually create HDR images using Photoshop 6.0, and it didn't work so great and was pretty tricky...I would imagine the effort is similar with depth of field.
Tyler, the 3 exposures I used each time for a given image were pretty small aperture - f22 or more, with exposures typically around 3 seconds. But when the foreground is only 4 inches from the lens, even a very small aperture won't give me clarity at distances of 4 feet or so.
I looked at the Helicon site and I think they want $30 for a limited time license - a perpetual license if I recall correctly was over $100...which is why I decided to use photoshop, since I already have at my disposal.
Anyway, it was a fun, if laborious exercise.
I love the aspens. Som eof the detail stuff that you guys are doing is great, but with my oversized fingers and ability to drop objects without reason, I am skeptical of my abilities to do detail work on fine scale.
It was in this pic that I think I found the answer to fine detail work (see lower left hand corner of pic for empty Crown Royal bottle).
Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
Robert H. Shilling II
Milwaukee, Racine & Troy #1023 is hard at work setting out one of the company's gons on this brisk mid October afternoon.
P&SlocalI love the aspens. Som eof the detail stuff that you guys are doing is great, but with my oversized fingers and ability to drop objects without reason, I am skeptical of my abilities to do detail work on fine scale. It was in this pic that I think I found the answer to fine detail work (see lower left hand corner of pic for empty Crown Royal bottle). Driline duckdogger Driline - very nice tree work. Kit? If so, whose?
And yes, its still contains alcohol. Albeit a little more potent. 91% isopropyl alcohol to be exact. I use it with an eye dropper as a wetting agent for scenery.
CNJ831Milwaukee, Racine & Troy #1023 is hard at work setting out one of the company's gons on this brisk mid October afternoon
OK---who snarfled the eras up?! Great shot there!!
Driline your trees are awesome. Your gp- or sd- whatever it was you sent jerry to weather is.......well he said he teased you with a vid of the working beacon....ahhhh yea
it is nice man. I wish I had 1/2 is tallent. I was over his place today to help with his layout. Very neat building. I learned a lot on how I am going to build my eventual layout. Can't wait to get back and help some more. He is a wealth of info that I am glad to suck up. Wish you could see what he is doing.
Have a good weekend all
rs2mikeWish you could see what he is doing.
Yea, too bad I'm about 9 hours away..... I've got family in Pittsburgh, so next time I'm out that way I'll swing by.