Once Upon a time.........
My photobucket:
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/JohnReid/
I am a man of few words but lots of pics
I quit drinking beer because the download was taking longer than the upload !
This thread has now been replaced by my new thread called Modeling"The General" which better reflects what this new layout of mine is about.Hope you enjoy it . Cheers! John.
Moderator Edit: Here's a link to the new thread: "Modeling The General" -- John
This layout will be contained in a box,yes a locked cedar box and will be displayed only at Christmas or other special family occasions.It will be my gift to my family past,present and future.
Why so special ? Well it has been my experience that no matter how nice a layout/diorama is after a while it just becomes part of the furniture.Nobody really sees it anymore except guests or visitors.However, on the other hand ,only seeing something every once in a while will help bring fresh( if not new eyes) to an old piece.Also I don't want to encase it in a tomb like structure, even of glass, but I wish to have it open to natural light, but without the dust, for those who may want to take pictures.
As public as my other stuff will be this will be only for private family or personal viewing.Why do it this way ? Simply I would like something that I made survive for a while after I am gone to the "Happy Hunting Ground" as a gift to my children and the young at heart.I have heard to many stories about how Grandpa Fred's or Uncle Phil's layout ended up in the garbage shortly after his death.Too big,no room,tired of looking at it sit there gathering dust etc..etc..
I know you say nothing survives forever ! No one knows that better than I and besides when I am gone who really gives a *** ? I surely won't ! but you know somehow I do and I don't mind admitting it.Ego you say ?well artists usually do have some of that it is true,Why else would we do what we do ?
I think I finally got that straightened out !
Wow, shouldn't this narrative be a book or something akin to that?
I'm absolutely amazed that so much can be written on kitbashing a Bachmann car. Athearn was the "king" of kitbashers years ago, but I just cannot conceive that Bachmann has taken their place.
And frankly, with so many detailed and prototypical specific cars and kits now being produced, I just am at a loss as to having so much of the Forum "space" attached to it.
Surely it would be a benefit to all if the OP just gave us the address of his BLOG, so those interested could go directly to it.
Said another way, if each of us picked a topic and ran post after post after post on it, we would soon take all the fun out of this Forum........................
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
The third part of my layout /diorama will be to build the luxury passenger car.(Morton's car in the movie) I plan to use finer hardwoods and leave in a few remnants of furniture and memorabilia from the era.It will be weathered as though it has sat in the backlot for some time.I will build it like a sound stage and probably not even put it on tracks except maybe near one of the car stairs where Claudia Cardinale first steps off the train to make her unforgettable grand entrance in the movie.This was the one and only Western movie ever written for a woman and I would like to recognize that fact in the diorama.
JohnReid JohnReid wrote the following post on Thursday, August 26, 2010 I just received some Bachmann cars today and they are just super for kit bashing.I am planning to detail them inside and out using mostly real wood and furnishing them with 1/24 parts and pieces.These cars are early Victorian so there should be lots of stuff out there to work with and what I can't find I will scratch. JohnReid wrote the following post on Monday, October 10, 2011 This thread has now been replaced by my new thread called Modeling"The General" which better reflects what this new layout of mine is about.Hope you enjoy it . Moderator Edit: Here's a link to the new thread: "Modeling The General" -- John
JohnReid wrote the following post on Thursday, August 26, 2010
I just received some Bachmann cars today and they are just super for kit bashing.I am planning to detail them inside and out using mostly real wood and furnishing them with 1/24 parts and pieces.These cars are early Victorian so there should be lots of stuff out there to work with and what I can't find I will scratch.
This thread has now been replaced by my new thread called Modeling"The General" which better reflects what this new layout of mine is about.Hope you enjoy it .
What ever became of the Bachmann car kit bashing project?
Alton Junction
It sure would be nice if this extremely long thread got back to the topic - kitbashing bachmann cars - or if not, then just "go away".
There are a lot of them (bachmann) out there, and those Spectrum cars especially have some good bones for kitbashing..........
OK ! Lets try this again.Nothing happened to the Bachmann thread that is what you are looking at.
When bashing Bachmann cars you will find it here.
When modeling the General you will find it there.
The other choice I have is to make one thread even longer.
Cheers ! John.
JohnReid OK ! Lets try this again. When bashing Bachmann cars you will find it here. When modeling the General you will find it there. The other choice I have is to make one thread even longer. Cheers ! John.
OK ! Lets try this again.
John,
I was looking for an update on the kitbash project. Maybe some photos on your progress.
Rich
This is a large undertaking and I can only work on one thing at a time. I go back and forth between the two threads as I work on them individually. Anything Bachmann you will find here and anything General on the other thread.
Eventually you will see it will all come together in one layout/diorama titled "Gone Too Soon".