Thanks cudaken. It is operational. Here's an early video done with the mini cam.
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Mike, your work is very convincing. Really well done!
-Crandell
mikelhh Geared steam that one enlarges really well! And Hamilton - love your backdrop. This is the latest on Guilford's mud-pit Lots of landscaping to do yet. Oh - and a bridge to build across the top. Mike
Geared steam that one enlarges really well! And Hamilton - love your backdrop.
This is the latest on Guilford's mud-pit
Lots of landscaping to do yet. Oh - and a bridge to build across the top.
Mike-That is AWESOME!!!!I haven't seen WPF go past 3 pages in a while. Hats off to all the great work!
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Hey are we allowed to post more than once? This is a shot from one of my dioramas. Need work with my camera use but it was a fun scene to put together.
I am currently working on my fourth and hopefully permanent layout. I have the benchwork up, foam top and am painting the backdrop today. I all ready have 95% of the track work including T/O's hand laid from previous layout so once I get going it should go along smoothly. Who am I kidding. I am sure there will be many challenges on the way. Maybe I will take some pics when I get the backdrop done and post.
Of course you can post more than once Scubattery.You're probably thinking about the photo contest we haven't seen in awhile
Nice Scene by the way.
Springfield PA
James in OZ, have you considered adding a turnout immediately following the left side curve to create a siding?
My second contribution for this long weekend's WPF is a shot of a C&O 2-6-6-6 bearing down on the photographer who climbed up a signal tower to get the shot (bad photographer!) Trailing 2000 tons, this lone engine has just struggled mightily up the 3% grade from Seneca Falls.
My thanks go to RRCanuck for his added smoke, some steam plumes, and wiping smooth the backdrop's corner just behind the smoke.
Last week I posted this shot of my newest scenery module.
After looking at it for awhile I determined that it did not look near as impressive as I had hoped it would. The reason was obvious; I was going for a deep forest scene, but I did not have half enough trees. So I went out and bought another couple tree kits.
Much closer to what I want, the next step I think is to add some underbrush.
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!
Nice Stuff everyone Good weekend so far
TerryinTexas
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Great shot Crandell. What's with the white artifacts directly above and to the right of the loco on top of the trees?
Thanks, HB!
They are clouds painted onto the backdrop, but my friend must have air-brushed them a bit to widen them. At this oblique angle, they probably looked quite thin, so he feathered them and spread them out a bit. Or, so I guess. Here they are viewed more directly:
OK Crandell and Mike you guys have got me stumped! Great photos, but what I don't understand is how do your engines get electrical pickup? Tops of the rails look like the real deal. Is it photo shop magic?
Mike, that is the reason I asked if your section was for display only. Tops of my rails are clean looking and at times I have power pickup problems?
Breaking in some F's again, Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Hi Hamltnblue,
All the trackwork is not done. Along the back of the layout there will be a hidden passing loop to hold the local train whilst the through trains passby. There is also a turnout just behind the short train in the picture, but I've yet to lay the track. This will service the produce processors building. (the big one in the left of photos.)
Most of the operation will involve the local switching the two/three industries, and most of the staging will be off layout on shelving with the trains just required to be moved to the layout. Although I'm considering construction of a 4 track staging yard underneath the far window above my workbench, somehow. Atleast I could hold 4 trains and have a fifth running around the layout as well as the local.
cudaken - no photoshopping. I'm constantly cleaning my rails because of the semi-outdoors location [our side deck] They were no doubt in need of a cleanup when the pics were taken, which was just after painting the area.
Lovely shots Crandell. What's the car in the last pic please?
mikelhhIt is operational. Here's an early video done with the mini cam
Yikes Mike, that is some rough looking track that seems to work. Just like many poorly mainteined sidings somewhere off the main line.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G PaineYikes Mike, that is some rough looking track that seems to work. Just like many poorly mainteined sidings somewhere off the main line.
So Gplain, my track should not look like that? Darn, guess I have to start over
I was amazed that a car or a Engine could track over those rails.
cudakenOK Crandell and Mike you guys have got me stumped! Great photos, but what I don't understand is how do your engines get electrical pickup? Tops of the rails look like the real deal. Is it photo shop magic?
My rails hardly get any use at all, so they may appear dull and not shiny. Or are you saying they are really shiny? It's funny, but I don't seem to have any/many issues with my general lack of layout time. Occasionally I get a bad spot, and 600 grit paper does the trick for me, but generally my rails seem to permit pickup whenever I decide to run them. My main gets maybe 4 circuits a week...that's it. Sometimes I won't move an engine for a couple of weeks or more.
Aside from image sharpening, I don't do any manipulation of the image, such as adding or deleting stuff that isn't already there.
Mike, if you're still looking on, the car is a Hot Wheels "55 Chevy" made in Thailand, and I think it is 1:64 scale. It is much larger than your typical HO scale offerings from different places. HOwever, I feel that most of those claiming to be in scale are too small by near 15%. Mostly. I also find that many of the HO scale figures are quite disparate in size. Some are downright tiny, and way too small IMO.
Thanks Crandell
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2007120115582726202.jpg
I don't think Mike included a prototype pic but here is what the scene looks like in real life.
Alex
Kewl....the rails have sunk and bent so much they look like ribbons of steel. Now, I wonder how my Niagara would do on that...
I haven't been here much but it looks like Mike is reluctant to share his techniques on that scenery.
The only new stuff is a freemoN module I built for the upcomming June 5 and 6 Big Train Show in Ontario California.
John
Nice shots Spidge
As for my scenery - reluctant to share? everything is explained in detail on another forum. No secrets there. What would you like to know? No-one has asked how, and to avoid looking like a know-all I tend to keep quiet on here 'til then.
and just to prove the line is operational, here are two videos taken today
http://www.vimeo.com/12165967
http://www.vimeo.com/12166131
There's some boxcar wobble, but you can get that on good lines!
Crandell, to me the rails look dull like the tops of them where weathered. More than likely why you don't have much problem with power pick up is because you run a lot of steam power.
Mike, what can I say but great modeling! Enjoyed the clips.
Cuda Ken
Mike - Outstanding work! Once the bridge goes in, you just need to place a loco that got trapped and you will have this scene:
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=84705
http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=84708
Messing around with photoshop some. Y6B passes through town
I don't often post here, but this shot was, I think, pretty good: A Nebraska railfan caught this picture when a northbound local freight with FHN #721 stopped in front of the B&B Cafe to grab some quick chow as a Southbound passenger local with USRA Pacific #300 on point came slowly through town. (A speed limit has been imposed until the crossing gets some protection.)
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"Common Sense, Ain't!" -- G. M. Collins
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gmcrail what do you use to add the smoke and steam to your pics?
The local has spotted the last car, a box car of apliances for the sears store, and the brakeman has just climbed down from setting the hand brake. he will climb abord the lead F7 and depart.
Mike,
Great job on the bad track!
After seeing the prototype pics for this...ummm...mess, I thought there was no way that they actually ran trains (or attempted to) through the real thing. Then pics of a stuck locomotive. Holy Cow!!! I can just hear Bo and Luke Duke Engineer going ...YeeeeeeHawwwwwww!!!! (Wonder if they played Dixie on the air horn before hitting the mud hole?)
Robert H. Shilling II