ukguySome nice pics this week, thanks for sharing, My latest scratchbuild from the bench..... , so new some of the glue is still wet...... Karl.A
Some nice pics this week, thanks for sharing,
My latest scratchbuild from the bench..... , so new some of the glue is still wet......
Karl.A
That is such a nice looking structure. There's nothing like wood to make it look all so real. I like the different paint color between buildings. All you need is one of those wooden speedboats from the 50's and a few figures fishing from the dock.
Sorry Crandell.... The Village of Seneca Falls voted a couple of weeks ago to dissolve! Yep they are no more! Of course the Village of Seneca Falls was located in the Town of Seneca Falls which now has jurisdiction, so I guess it is still Seneca Falls, just not "The Village of Seneca Falls".
There is a small group of people over there who want to have the town rename what was the village to be the "Hamlet of Bedford Falls" from the movie (Which may have been written about "Seneca Falls" as a lot of things fit and the author had been to Seneca Falls several times...).
Good to see "Seneca Falls" is still alive and well on your layout!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
G PaineLee, that roundhouse is HUGE, how many stalls? About 20?? I think it even dwarfs in size the 6-stall HO scale one I am working on for the club layout.
Yes, I'm going for 20 stalls. The original Hagerstown roundhouse in the WM had 25, but the track spacing was tighter. My building will end up being close to the original's arc. I wish I had room for all the back shop buildings, too, but alas... I need that real estate for my freight yard.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
But....but...I was there just this past summer. I swear! I took this picture.
-Crandell
Karl....... Very, very, nice sir!
Greg nice weathering!
Crandell, love that steam! You do know that the Village of Seneca Falls no longer exists don't you?
So after a much needed vaction I have returned the the hobby room....
I have kept up on my spree of weathering cars and here are the two latest ventures!!
Be Wise Beware Be Safe
"Mountain Goat" Greg
SP&S Oregon Trunk
Ken-
Those were the Wabash F units that Athearn brought out last summer. 'took us a while to find a set, but they look good and run well. I still have to reconfigure the lighting so the Gyralight works correctly, but they've been quite popular during our operating sessions.
The Monon crossed the Wabash at Lafayette Junction, on the southwest side of Lafayette (along with the Nickel Plate and the New York Central), and at Delphi. On our layout we represent both interchanges, and have Monon local jobs in addition to our Wabash operations. While our model of Delphi isn't a very close replica of the real town at all, it's challenging and the jobs that switch there (both Wabash and Monon) are fun to run (our track plan is on line at http://www.railsonwheels.com/ors/trkplan.shtml).
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
The difference between a brightly colored car and a faded one is pretty profound to my eyes. This was done with an airbrush and a very thinned warm white.
Before:
After:
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
A PRR J1 assists a Q2 out of Seneca Falls.
Fmilhaupt, great photo! Like the weeds as well. I saved the photo I will add.
Who are the engines by I love the colors! Would have the Wabash had a interchange with Monon? Being from Indiana I have a soft spot for there rail roads.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Same crossing, before the above photo. An Atlas RS-3 (just a rock solid piece of equipment)
Not really trying to be 'artistic', but I thought this came out kind of neat.
(unfortunately the lack of crossing gates kind of kills it)
A good beginning again this week guys. Keep up the good work.
Fritz, thats a beautiful pair of Wabash locos.
Here are a few random shots from the BRVRR this week.
A few commuter passengers board NYC RDC #53 for a trip into Cleveland.
A driver struggles with the load tarp at the Farmers Union Elevator.
NYC GP-40 rounds the curve behind the Berea Engine Facility at the East end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep up the good work guys. This is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Only two towns on the Operations Road Show layout can be considered truly scenicked so far (though a third is under way). Al Robertson's work on Buck Creek was on the cover of the NMRA's Scale Rails last year, so here are a couple of shots I took today of my work at Burrows.
Extra 637 West on the east end of Burrows, Indiana
Extra 637 West the middle of Burrows, Indiana
More information on the Operations Road Show project can be found at http://www.railsonwheels.com/ors
wm3798 the new roundhouse for Ridgeley Yard
the new roundhouse for Ridgeley Yard
Lee, that roundhouse is HUGE, how many stalls? About 20?? I think it even dwarfs in size the 6-stall HO scale one I am working on for the club layout.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
cudaken Sawyer, I like what you have done as well. But, the weeds just look to uniform? Mainly the tops all look the same height in the photos. Might try trimming the the sides and flatten them down a little. I just watch your videos and like the layout! Videos are much better as well, did not need motion sickies pills!
Sawyer, I like what you have done as well. But, the weeds just look to uniform? Mainly the tops all look the same height in the photos. Might try trimming the the sides and flatten them down a little.
I just watch your videos and like the layout! Videos are much better as well, did not need motion sickies pills!
good point, I do need to make them uneven more.They're pretty good size for SC though, as that's the ditch where all the run-off would collect and weeds can get pretty big here (more like tall grass though). Thanks for the compliment on the video!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
cudaken OK Dave, I would love to see what your Birthday Cake looks like!
OK Dave, I would love to see what your Birthday Cake looks like!
I'm still busy with my Silver Creek, here two pictures with water tower test fitting.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
I will be posting a spur I am working on latter this weekend so feel free to point out anything you think could be done better.
Ken
Dave, thank you very much! Very nice Easter eggs btw. That's how I'm looking at this layout though; as a testbed for developing my skills and having some fun along the way.
I've always liked the look of the weeded-over industrial spur. my mainline will be getting some weeds as the ANRR is a shortline and track maintenance isn't as good as say the BNSF or Norfolk Southern. And it does a pretty good job of hiding the fact all the track is Atlas code 55 as well, like you said.
As to the boxcars, I wanted a couple rustbuckets and the light blue was perfect for this. I used all three shades of rust in the Bragdon Weathering Powders kit I have and a paintbrush with almost all the bristles cut off to apply the streaks, then went back over with one that had all the bristles and brushed up/down to even out the powders and align them vertically.
I'm looking forward to continuing to work on this layout and improving my skills.
Packers#1 Great work by everyone this week! I don't have any photo, but I'll recycle one I posted last week (I posted Sunday night last week)I have two videos. I finished up planting the weeds between the two lines, now to continue on that role. should be a few weeks long project.First video is railfanning. I don't have enough cars to fully simulate all the trains but I did the best I could with what I have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eActbQGP2osNext up is an update video. there isn't much but there's been several requests so here it is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dn6OHYNspk
Great work by everyone this week! I don't have any photo, but I'll recycle one I posted last week (I posted Sunday night last week)
I have two videos. I finished up planting the weeds between the two lines, now to continue on that role. should be a few weeks long project.
First video is railfanning. I don't have enough cars to fully simulate all the trains but I did the best I could with what I have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eActbQGP2os
Next up is an update video. there isn't much but there's been several requests so here it is:
Hey, Packers#1... I wanted to comment on your stuff. You're fairly new to the hobby from what I've seen, but you've really made some amazing progress in such a short time, especially for a young man such as yourself. It's been fun watching you build your layout and get into scenery. I'm particularly impressed by two aspects of this photo.
The first is the use of different ballast and weeds on the various yard tracks, indicating track hierarchy. This is a technique more advanced modelers use (as does the prototype) to distinguish relative importance of trackage from a maintenance perspective. It can also be used to disguise the fact that you're probably using the same commercial track throughout, so rail size does not vary. Bury an old spur in weeds and cinder, and the rail won't look as tall as out on a well-ballasted and groomed main. Good job there.
The other is your choice of rust color on those boxcars. Although the rust may be a bit heavy, it's streaked very well (i.e., perfectly vertical). The color is very, very convincing. I wish my rust combinations were that convincing in color.
Anyway, good on you for plowing ahead and not being afraid to try new techniques.
Happy Easter from the Vollmer family!
Amtrak at Springsteen.
A good start guys!
Lee, I can't compete with that roundhouse! I can only fit this 2 stall Walthers kit in the space I have. I had to chop off the corner for the backdrop too!
Another kit I have been working on recently
Regards,
Nige.
I've been working on a couple of things... first the new roundhouse for Ridgeley Yard... it's a composite of the Hagerstown, MD roundhouse and Maryland Jct. It will surround a Walther's turntable I have.
I've also been playing around with my architectural program to plan some other buildings for the layout...
Here's the station for Elkins, WV
and here's a brewery I'm planning for Cumberland...
Have a pleasant Easter and/or Passover!
Excellent! Thanks!!!
Just got back from a 2,030 mile southwest road trip. Grand Canyon, Bryce, and Durango were the main destinations. Along with the many other activities we also did the Grand Canyon Train and the Durango and Silverton. I was in heaven!
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Just me, back again....
The loco I showed being weathered earlier has been put back in service. Here she is blasting through the lower tunnel at Hopewell Junction:
I am actually taking photos to use for a Model Photography clinic I am presenting the 1st. of May for my local division of the NMRA. The photo above was shot just using layout lighting with a Canon Digital Rebel Sxi, EFS 17-85mm lens, f/20, ISO 200, exposed for 5.2 seconds. Headlight was turned on for about 1 second during the exposure. The blue in the tunnel is the painted wall behind the layout. So Photoshop quickly removed the offending color:
I took this one with everything the same, except it was shot at f/32 and the headlight was left on for the entire 12 second exposure time resulting in the flare:
Finally I decided to play around with adding smoke to the scene. Not sure I like it so I will do more work with a different smoke addition later.......
I will be using several of the photos to illustrate what can be done and how it affects the photo.
[edit] one last shot taken with my 100mm fixed lens, f32, 32 second exposure. Camera had to backed away about 2 foot to get the shot. The medium telephoto/macro lens even stopped way down is fragile when it come to depth of field........ Enjoy!