WPF 11/27 - 11/29

[cudaken]

Jim, thanks for the Monon Fix! I need to get my BL 2's up and running.

Packer, look into getting a tripod, it will help with your shakes. They can be had for a round $15.00 to $30.00 range. Far as your modeling skill, your no Cuda Ken, LOL You are doing fine, and you will get better. Your tress look great, weathering is getting better and good looking buildings. I all so like your track plan.

 What I would say your weak point is so far is the ballast. I don't know if I don't like it because it is all black, or just the way it looks in the video. But you are getting better at this hobby.

      Ken

[selector]

Terry, thanks very much for your remarks.   Yes, it is a sweet locomotive, the J.  Initially I didn't care for the looks, but they have clearly grown on me...quite a bit.

-Crandell

[loathar]

Berlingo- Outstanding work! Wish I could come to Tailand and see your layout!

[C&O Fan]

Art Borman hosted an operating session on his C&O layout

last night for the ex  CSX employees that were in town for the layout tour

Some video of Arts H-8 and T-1 in action 

http://www.blip.tv/file/2907826

[selector]

Very cool, Terry!!!  It is nice to see that mighty Allegheny trying to pull the couplers out of a long string of cars.

I think you guys were having a little too much fun....almost indecent, if you ask me.

-Crandell

[Packers#1]

Silver Pilot

Packers#1 - looks like your prior video wasn't very well received.  Hopefully you'll take the replies to heart and see that there are better ways of doing what your trying to accomplish.  If you learn from the criticism then it is completely negative.   Both videos are pretty shakey.  Anyway of getting rid of the shakes and saving us from motion sickness?

 

Unfortunately, the camera I'm using is my ipod nano I got for my birthday last weekend, and it won't fit on a tripod. My only option is to hold it with my hands, and well, we've seen how that goes. I'll probably swap back to the other camera I've been using as I can feed that video file into Windows MovieMaker.

I'm currently taking the plaster off of the layout to try another technique for the roads. I don't mind criticism; I mind bashing. Oh well, I'm working to improve my skills; the old saying Rome wasn't built in a day applies to the Gorre & Daphetid wasn't built in a week. My mindset is bashing is jsut like water on a duck's feathers; rolls right off. I am trying to fix the problems with my scenery that can be fixed w/o destroying everything i've built, and learning for the future scenery with what didn't work.

Ken, the ballast it a technique I tried, didn't work. the black is medium cinders, which I put between the rails which were ballasted w/ fine grey ballast form Woodland Scenics.

[G Paine]

Packers#1

Unfortunately, the camera I'm using is my ipod nano I got for my birthday last weekend, and it won't fit on a tripod.

There is always a fix to a small problem - try duct tapeing your Nano to the tripod

[Packers#1]

G Paine

Packers#1

Unfortunately, the camera I'm using is my ipod nano I got for my birthday last weekend, and it won't fit on a tripod.

There is always a fix to a small problem - try duct tapeing your Nano to the tripod

 

I've pondered ways to make a mount for it; think I just found my next doodle for school, lol.

[Driline]

cudaken

Far as your modeling skill, your no Cuda Ken, LOL You are doing fine, and you will get better.

 

I don't think its quite fair to compare a 40 something year old man's modeling skills to a 14 year old kid in high school, but there it is..........

[Packers#1]

 

Driline

cudaken

Far as your modeling skill, your no Cuda Ken, LOL You are doing fine, and you will get better.

 

I don't think its quite fair to compare a 40 something year old man's modeling skills to a 14 year old kid in high school, but there it is..........

15 year old 

Made this update video just now. It's a slideshow with narration to display how my yard has formed from the beginning to now.

[fec153]

Packer- I 'm 73 and cannot compete with your work. You are a heck of a lad. Keep on learning.  Every mistake leads to doing it right.

Flip

 

[twhite]

A couple of shots of one of my workhorse 1500 4-8-2's (obviously fresh out of the shops) climbing the east side of Yuba Pass with a westbound freight.   Area is seldom photographed--hard to get to and even harder to find a 'perch', on the almost 1,000 foot sheer drop LOL! 

Tom

[selector]

Tom, what can I say...okay, how about WOW!! 

I took Ken's statement to be one of self-deprecation, which, if you spent much time on this forum, would be highly characteristic of him.  I could be mistaken, but I'm very sure he intended to tell Packers that it is almost impossible to make all the mistakes The Great Cuda Ken has made.  It was, therefore, his way of offering encouragement.

-Crandell

[Silver Pilot]

fec153

Packer- I 'm 73 and cannot compete with your work. You are a heck of a lad. Keep on learning.  Every mistake leads to doing it right.

Flip

But for one to learn from teir own mistake there must be someone willing to say that what they did was a mistake.  If no one says it is a mistake, then how does it lead to doing it right?  Something to ponder in this PC world.

[blownout cylinder]

Silver Pilot

fec153

Packer- I 'm 73 and cannot compete with your work. You are a heck of a lad. Keep on learning.  Every mistake leads to doing it right.

Flip

But for one to learn from teir own mistake there must be someone willing to say that what they did was a mistake.  If no one says it is a mistake, then how does it lead to doing it right?  Something to ponder in this PC world.

It is a good idea to tell the person if there is a mistake, sheeesh, I make enough on my own---but let us not beat the poor horse to death every time----

[twhite]

Crandell: 

Thanks--I appreciate the comment very much.  You might have noticed the 'weathered' boxcar right behind the tender--my first attempt.  Okay, it looks like it got caught in a Sahara dust-storm for about 4 years, but it's enough to make me want to bite the bullet and try some more freight cars.  Besides, if I run out of weathering powders, Bragdon Enterprises is just 40 miles up the highway from me, LOL!

As to the Ken/Packers--I agree with you wholeheartedly.  I think that's what Ken meant and I think it is probably the way Packers took it.  In my book, they're both pretty tops as people and turning into darned good modelers! I always look forward to seeing their work.  

Tom

[Packers#1]

 Thanks y'all. hey, i know I screw up constantly; that's life. Just don't appreciate it when someone acts like they know everything and I know nothing. Eh, that's life though. I'm not the best, and I know it. But I'm working to improve.

I've fixed the link to the latest vid. Wound up deleting the original and reuplaoding the file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2vRQvcr8E

[Margaritaman]

Packers#1

 Thanks y'all. hey, i know I screw up constantly; that's life. Just don't appreciate it when someone acts like they know everything and I know nothing. Eh, that's life though. I'm not the best, and I know it. But I'm working to improve.

I've fixed the link to the latest vid. Wound up deleting the original and reuplaoding the file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2vRQvcr8E

You get my vote for your willingness to post your work and being humble about it.  

Post those pics folks, be proud of your work.

[Packers#1]

Margaritaman

Packers#1

 Thanks y'all. hey, i know I screw up constantly; that's life. Just don't appreciate it when someone acts like they know everything and I know nothing. Eh, that's life though. I'm not the best, and I know it. But I'm working to improve.

I've fixed the link to the latest vid. Wound up deleting the original and reuplaoding the file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2vRQvcr8E

You get my vote for your willingness to post your work and being humble about it.  

Post those pics folks, be proud of your work.

 

Amen. hey, I'm of the mindset "You built it, you be proud." Heck, it's a hobby. We're here to have fun, except for those few snobs who have no business being rude about anything, yet still do. Fortunately, our mods here are excellent at minimizing their impact and quick to deal with them.

[Packer]

This is what happens when you are bored, have some spare plywood, some cardboard, and some ductape:






So I pretty much have a layout again...

I switched the thing the other day with a BLI NW2 (the SP one that I've been trying to see if I could trade for a BN) and it worked pretty well. Although the engine wants to pick the switch closest to it's box in the 1st picture. Will try with a P2K BN GP9 to see if it's the engine or the switch.

[cudaken]

Driline

I don't think its quite fair to compare a 40 something year old man's modeling skills to a 14 year old kid in high school, but there it is..........

 Driline, I was making fun of my self, not Packer! He is doing just fine and in some respects better than myself. I will all so add I am not one of the folks here that been doing this for 20 years plus. I hope Sawyer understood it was poke at my self, not him.

        Cuda Ken

 PS, to bad it is not a late 60's Petty Fan.

[Jimmydieselfan]

Packers#1,  I think your layout is coming along just fine. Don't let the critics bother you.

[wm3798]

Not too much railroadin' this weekend.  Busied myself painting some kitchen cabinets.  I did get a visit from my friend Ken and his son Alex (you may have met them at the summer Rail B Q).  Alex jumped out of the car, grabbed my hand, and said "Let's operate some trains."







And for those of you fretting about the complexity of DCC, Alex, 5, was running his train in about 2 minutes, including delicately backing some cars up the coal branch and switching the mine.

Lee

[Geared Steam]

Packers#1

As others have said, keep it up, you are developing.  I think alot of peeps forget your 14, and don't have alot of resources available to you yet.

[DJO]

Packers#1

 here's an update video from me. I'll hopefully have pictures up soon. I think I need some sculptamold to even out the plaster roads though, but I already painted the lot, so that'll require more painting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dvdk3HHew

Packer i saw all of your videos.  i got so upset when i saw comments from two modelers that were so nasty and disgusting. im still upset with the one who is a member here. i seen his posts before.  i woud talk to him face to face or on his phone if i could. theres no reason for him to spit on you like he did.        

[P&Slocal]

Sawyer/Packers1,

I like the slide show with narrative. I was thinking that maybe you should add the dates to those pics too if you can. Then it would show what you achieved in the amount of time that you took to do it. You are coming along really well and using techniques that are affordable. As for sanding your scultp-a-mold or whatever that product you used for concrete was, borrow an orbital sander or even a belt sander would work. As long as it has the collector bag, it should keep dust to a minimum.

I wish I was at the stage you are at when I was 14 (I know, you are 15 but everyone else keeps making you 14...LOL). I am sure that the internet age has helped you out tremendously. 30 years ago we didn't have this technology for sharing information and other than MRR and MRC we had to dream up ways to create what we wanted. Haven't had a layout for almost 30 years now, but I know I have picked up ideas just from these forums and your videos proved people with a how-to, even if it a mistake or not.

Rob Shilling

[Phoebe Vet]

Packers#1:

Friends and mentors offer polite constructive criticism.  They say things like "You can fix that if you follow this advice".  Or "that looks pretty good, but try it this way, it's easier".

When a critic says something like "Your project is crap" you just have to ask yourself  "Is this someone who's opinion matters?".

As you progress in the hobby, learn from those who have preceded you, and teach those who are following you.

[Packers#1]

cudaken

Driline

I don't think its quite fair to compare a 40 something year old man's modeling skills to a 14 year old kid in high school, but there it is..........

 Driline, I was making fun of my self, not Packer! He is doing just fine and in some respects better than myself. I will all so add I am not one of the folks here that been doing this for 20 years plus. I hope Sawyer understood it was poke at my self, not him.

        Cuda Ken

 PS, to bad it is not a late 60's Petty Fan.

 

Don't worry man, I understood it. No offense taken.

Jimmy, thanks!

Lee, layout is looking good. DCC; so easy a 5 year old can do it. I just found Geico's next big commercial ads, lol.

Geared Steam, thanks. lol, probably doesn't help that I look 17 or 18, lol.

DJ, thank you. I wouldn't pull my hair out over those two though; there's just some people in this world that can't have their minds be changed, so it's better to just block them (what I should have done in the first place, but live and learn) and move on.

Rob, good idea. Now to figure out when I took those pictures, lol. I can't even remember. I'll have to see if there's an orbital sander around here. It definitely helps having the internet and knowing how to use it. I do keep up an MR subscription, and have on and off wanted to start a subscription to RMC.

P{hoebe Vet, thank you. I'll apply that advice next time I run across a comment

[berlingo]

Hi Loathar, Thank you very much, If you have a chance to come to Thailand , I would take you to Thai Model Railroad club. Any time......