Getcher photos in while you can, everyone! C'mon, I know you have one in there somewhere.
Caption: Dagnabbit! I meant yer other reverse!
-Crandell
I'll bite! Here's a video compiled from clips I shot while the manifest I was running was in the hole during my most recent operating session. You can find my blog post about that session in the video description. Dubbed sounds and realistic train speeds (some digitally fixed this time) as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4TcHoV9rCg
I've got a 70's or 80's era Bachmann hopper I just started on yesterday. This is all I have done so far.
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Here's a couple of old ones from me.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
selector Getcher photos in while you can, everyone! C'mon, I know you have one in there somewhere. Caption: Dagnabbit! I meant yer other reverse! -Crandell
Crandell, your scenery reminded me of White Pass.
Mark
And I do love that look, Mark, the high Rockies type vistas and rock outcroppings with lots of conifers. Maybe I should have developed some rock outcroppings by painting some prominent features on my layout....a thought for next time. Thanks!
I doubt I'll ever get my rails to look that good.
I don't have anything new either so here's one of my old favorites...
Jarrell
Getting there.......More details to come.
Truck close up....
Ok..."pot-topper" fun...borrowing Cody Grivno's idea...
Gotta do something about that horse's bloody nose!
Matt
Heres my Norfolk Southern "fantasy" fuel tender. Its still incomplete in a lot of areas. The pics show a "custom" graffiti laced car i drew on with fine tip sharpies, a microtrain conrail gondola with railties (dave vollmer, you may recognize this car as you posted a pic of yours!) and my atlas NE-6 Norfolk and Western I recently purchased from Reggie of Reggie's Trainworld. It has metal wheel sets on it.
So it's a MUTINY eh?
Alright, count me in! Here's a couple of shots of my current scratchbuilding project. I got the water spout hardware attached, after finally locating some scale chain. It does raise and lower, but right now it's strictly manual. And I still have to finish off the valve mechanism.
Before:
After:
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )
ME&O
Jarrell,
Your tress are fantastic! How did you get them to look so real?
Ryan
Excellent modeling and photos.
An upstream shot of Roaring Creek, with an SD45 in the background. DJ.
Ah the weekend only early..... I like!
Grampy you have perfectly captured the look of the Endless Mountains in the Northern Tier of PA!!! I was BSA Camp Director at Camp Brulé in Sullivan County for 2 years way back when, and the stream could be one we had right there at camp. The rocks are perfect!
I have been playing with Photoshop trying in vain to get some smoke to look right... This is for a Photography Clinic I will be doing in May. This is as close as I have gotten so far:
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
At the advise of a friend, (thanks Crandell) I did some modification of the above photo...... Hope you like!
For my Silver Creek module I need aspen. I have still to do some work with these trees.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
Come to us http://www.westportterminal.de my videos my blog
Slightly older pic of a couple of my Atlas Gold units:
Springfield PA
A pair of AC6000's One is a Blueline, the other is Paragon 2
selector Caption: Dagnabbit! I meant yer other reverse!
And I thought I made mistakes!
I have been meaning to try to take photos of my latest masterpiece, a (former) BN GP 20 (weathered beond "needs new paint" status) on scrapyard duty, but I don't have a proper layout to display it on (my layout is a quick track-tack-on-wood thing, and I havn't done any sceniking.)not to mention that I still can't figure out that didgital camera Ive had for avout 4-5 years now .I don't think it will be done untill after this thred disappears into the wide world of cyber-space.
Oh well... I guess everyone needs something to start with.
salt water cowboy Ok..."pot-topper" fun...borrowing Cody Grivno's idea... Gotta do something about that horse's bloody nose! Matt
Hi Matt, Where did You find the Pot Toppers? I have looked at Michaels, Jo Ann Fabric's ans My local Wall Mart, And found Zero...
Great Western Rwy fansalt water cowboy Ok..."pot-topper" fun...borrowing Cody Grivno's idea... Gotta do something about that horse's bloody nose! Matt Hi Matt, Where did You find the Pot Toppers? I have looked at Michaels, Jo Ann Fabric's ans My local Wall Mart, And found Zero...
Here in Davenport Michaels has plenty of Pot toppers. I bought two. Only 3 dollars a piece.
selector
Luckily I didn't have any such trouble making this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3L_ghK5uE
My layout is in Australia but uses US Locos etc. Most Australian railroads (Called railways here) were government owned. My model is of a ficticious privately owned railway that bought it's rollingstock of US railroads. That way I can run all my favourite US locos. In future they will get their own paint scheme, Steamers will stay black and diesels a blue, grey and silver scheme similar to theQueensland railways.
cheers from down under
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
It was turn back the clock day at North Junction... this could be a shot from the early 1950's. (My layout is set in the early 70's). Actually, these are all engines that did decoder installs on for their owners... it just happens that they all fit my WM/Hagerstown theme.
Happy Weekend, everyone!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
howmus At the advise of a friend, (thanks Crandell) I did some modification of the above photo...... Hope you like! 73
Shouldn't that smoke be coming out of an Alco diesel?
I checked out the Michaels near me and they had two sizes. They had a bigger "top", and I believe it was $3.99, and a smaller "top" for $2.99. They had plenty in stock.
Maybe the stores were out of them, and soon will be in stock.
Old Roundhouse gondola kit purchased at a recent show. I put in a balsa wood floor and added lots of crud and rust.
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
Great Western Rwy fanHi Matt, Where did You find the Pot Toppers? I have looked at Michaels, Jo Ann Fabric's ans My local Wall Mart, And found Zero...
As others said above, Michael's is where I found mine. I think they were in the floral section. Check with a store manager if your store doesn't have them. As you can see in my pic, I have to do some work on blending the edges of the pot topper into the ground. I found that the grass part was very "green" and had to be toned down. I sprayed a little india ink/alcohol wash and mixed in fine ground foam and real dirt to help with the "green-ness".
Detailed and weathered an Atlas Penn Central GP38 to represent an early Conrail paint-out.
The prototype CR #7797:
http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp38/xpc7797ef.jpg
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.