WPF 1-14 to 17

[G Paine]

It's after noon EST here, so time to start another one

This is an overall shot for Greenvale Junction. It's mostly done, with some additional work needed on the right side

I also completed some Bar Mills rooftop signs that I will use on future buildings in Sheepscott

[Motley]

Uh oh, it's already Friday, you know what that means...

Love that city scene George

A coal mine tucked away in the Colorado Rockies on a cold winter day....

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

George ... Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. Your Greenvale Junction is very impressive!

MIchael .. Nice coal mine !!

On my layout, I completed my large bakery a few weeks ago. In the past few days I worked on scenery next to this industry. Passenger trains are meeting on the mainline to thre right with a Kato Business Car at the rear of one of them.

 

[dti406]

Here is my second installment for January!



This is a Front Range ACF 50' Boxcar that I used to represent a stretched 40' Boxcar of Lot 981-B of the P&LE.  I substituted a 10' Youngstown Door from my scrapbox and added reinforcing around the door as noted on prototype photographs.  On the roof they left the added roof panels in Galvanized Metal and painted the boxcar red panels green. Microscale Decals.



This is an Athearn 50' Outside Braced Boxcar used as a stand-in for the PRR X58 Boxcar that was used on the LV on two classes of their boxcars.  Added Extended Coupler boxes for the end of car cushioning. Herald King Decals.



This is a Robbins Rails (Life Like Mold) 50' Boxcar that replicates the PC X72 Boxcar.  The Robbins Rails car came with a Details West Underframe and good trucks rather than a stock Life Like Car.  I removed the CR lettering from the car and added A line sill steps.  Microscale Decals.

Thanks for looking!

[Grampys Trains]

Great scenes and modeling, guys.

As the brakeman climbs the tender, heading for the "doghouse", I1sa No. 4440 prepares to lead a coal drag, West Bound. DJ.

[C&O Fan]

Crew office i built for my friend Arts C&O layout

 

Proto type

 

[ClinchValleySD40]

Long hoods forward.

Southern SD40 leads coal train over Clinch River past Old Man Tweed's place

N&W SD35 leads another coal train over Hwy 52 at Iaeger, WV

 

[Tashtego]

My GP38-2 by night.

[Seanthehack]

HI Everyone,

Long time WPF lurker, now I have something to share.  The new layout is coming along very slowly.  I am satisfied with the reliability and operation of the track so I tackled some scenery. The pictures are of a CNW GP-7 delivering gondolas to the rock quarry. The scuplatmold is still wet when I took the pictures.  All comments are welcome, particularly about my photography.

 

Sean

[selector]

Michael, I really enjoyed your scene.  Well done!  Same for you, Garry.

Grampy, you have the loooong consist photos down to a fine art.

Larry, that's a wonderful scene you are showing us.  I like the shack and the river.  Well done!

I generated and posted this image in a slightly different form about 8 months ago, but I have added or improved the lighting a bit (brighter), added a steam plume at the base of the smoke column, and added a steam plume rising from in front of the fireman's side of the cab to signify the turbo-generator's exhaust.

C&O Power!

Crandell

[G Paine]

Your Photoshop smoke is getting better all the time. It is always neat to see the front engine of an articulated loco going offset as it goes around a corner.

[selector]

Thanks very much, G Paine.  The smoke and sky were inserted by RRCanuck back in May, and I think I may have shown the photo soon after.  Since then, I have made the changes I mentioned.  I wanted the smoke to look a little more dynamic lower down, so I added some lighter blooms and some darker nodules in the outer profile.  I then super-imposed the thin steam plume.   In each case, I used the clone brush in Sagelight.  I don't have photoshop.

I appreciate your remarks!

Crandell

[MisterBeasley]

Thank you, gentlemen, for the inspiration.  I've been building, not photographing, for a few months now.  Finally, Station Plaza along Beaver Street in Moose Bay is almost ready for public viewing.  Yeah, the roof is still missing from Beaver Liquors, but the scene is mostly done.

The tall buildings are from City Classics.  I cut the side walls back by an inch to gain some space in this narrow spot of my layout, squeezed between the road in front and the 4-track (what?  staging yard?  freight yard?  anyway, it's 4 tracks) in the back.

The station is actually the Walthers YMCA building.  Again, I cut the side walls down to reduce its size.  Lights are Walthers Cornerstone, both the street lights and the wall-mounts.

[gandydancer19]

Well, I'm in for this week.

By the way, NICE WORK EVERYONE.

This is my newly completed loco facilities.  Some detailing still needs to be done, but other than that, it is complete.

[kansaspacific1]

gandydancer19:

Nice looking loco facility.  How did you do the turntable?

Chuck

 

[Packers#1]

hey folks, nice work everyone! 

elmer, loving that engine facility!

anyways, would have some pics to go with the vid, but the SD card reader on this comp doesn't read for some reason and the other comp isn't working, so i refilmed this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1CwfjlXMbU

[ngartshore350]

Hey guys,

Some good work here, some images playing around and test fitting of a new warehouse, still more work to go and details. Let me know what you think of my attempt at an old timber fence.

Regards,

Nigel

Old New addition, has been sitting in the box for a while!

Attempt at old timber looking fence!

Super Chief, after some repairs to make the locomotive work after constantly derailing out of the box, all fixed now!

[P&Slocal]

Really nice work showing up this week.

Grampy's pics always impress me as does the weathering  and detailing that some guys are doing.

Mr. Beasley - "Finally, Station Plaza along Beaver Street in Moose Bay is almost ready for public viewing.  Yeah, the roof is still missing from Beaver Liquors, but the scene is mostly done." I like the detailed city scene you are creating. With beaver and moose, all you need to add is a loon somewhere and I'd move to that town. Sounds very upeastern. Beaver Liqours!!!!

[krupa]

My first laser kit.

 

I colored it with powered pastels because a) I don't have an airbrush and b) I was a little concerned with warping.  I know a lot of people haven't had problems with it but I was still concerned.

I had some trouble with the trim.  It's an N-scale building so it was a little difficult getting exact.

I'm also looking for suggestions for making better looking shingles short of cutting individual shingles.

Incidentally, I couldn't find powered pastels at the craft show so I got solid pastels and ground them up with an old tea strainer:

[P&Slocal]

krupa

I'm also looking for suggestions for making better looking shingles short of cutting individual shingles.

Looks good. I have no idea how you N scale modellers do it. My overgrown sausages for fingers would never allow me to do something like that.

Not sure of the locale you are shooting for, but I have seen many old houses of this style with rolled roofing instead of shingles. I have also noted slate shingle in areas and in eastern PA many houses like this have old standing seam metal roofs.

[jeep35]

This is an Atlas model that was modified with a kit I purchased to make it a "hammerhead"  (unfortunately I can't remember who made the kit)

[krupa]

 

P&Slocal

Looks good. I have no idea how you N scale modellers do it. My overgrown sausages for fingers would never allow me to do something like that.

Thanks!  To get pieces into position, I use toothpicks, pointy exacto knives and a lot of patience. 

Not sure of the locale you are shooting for, but I have seen many old houses of this style with rolled roofing instead of shingles. I have also noted slate shingle in areas and in eastern PA many houses like this have old standing seam metal roofs.

I'm not modeling any specific region at the moment.  I just always think of roofs as being either metal or shingled.

[wedudler]

This work is far from finish, but I have had to take pictures.

Wolfgang

[yankee flyer]

 

The scuplatmold is still wet when I took the pictures.  All comments are welcome, particularly about my photography.

Sean

I seem to have a better depth of field when I back off from the layout and zoom in to fill the picture frame with the subject. You get better focus front to back. Thats one of the few thing I remember from the photographers' classes I attended a way back when. I am assuming an auto focus camera with zoom.
It looks like the project is coming along great.

Have fun

Lee

[Seanthehack]

Lee,

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, my camera is an older point and shoot, If I remember correctly it is only 3 mega pixels.  But I will try your suggestion on my next round of photos.

 

Sean

[jalajoie]

This is what I am working at on the club's layout. Still more details and balasting to do but it is getting along fine.

My first try at static grass.

 

[tony314]

Ok, these pics make me wanna not even try MRR after all these long years away lol

[cudaken]

 Some great looking pictures folks.

 Micheal Very impressed with your mine and the snow scene. Are you going to go with snow all the way around or is this temporary? If you would not mine (bad pun) I would love a few more pictures of the mine. 

 Krupa Love the PF 45 Warbonnet's! Far as grinding up chalk have you tried sandpaper? I use 80 to 220 git depending on how fine of power I want.

 Sean Don't sell your old 3 Mega Pixels camera short, it will still make a good photo. Best tip I can offer is get a tripod for around $25 to $30 and turn off the flash. Turning off the flash should give you a slower shutter speed. Then adjust and crop using your photo program.

 Here is a picture from the club with my old HP 320 3.2 Mega Pixel camera.

 My fleet of Old Dutch Hoppers rolling past the park.

       Cuda Ken

[gandydancer19]

kansaspacific1

gandydancer19:

Nice looking loco facility.  How did you do the turntable?

Chuck

 

Hi Chuck,

The base for the turntable is a wood block with the track laid on top.  The pivot is a 1/4 inch phone plug glued in a hole in the center of the block.  The phone plug plugs into a phone jack in the center of the pit.  The plug and jack are used for the electrical connections from the layout to the track.  The turntable is moved or turned by hand.

The sides are ME bridge girder sides glued to the wood block.

Some spaces were cut between the ties and square brass tubing slipped in to form the deck support (about 4 of them), then the outer planks were glued on and brass railings added.

The pit walls were made of speaker rings and the bottom a piece of Luan.  N scale track was split down the center and one half was used for the ties and rail in the pit.

[BRVRR]

Great stuff again this week guys! Keep them coming.

Grampy - Great photo as usual. Your layout is inspiring.

Crandell - Lovely shot, again. I have to learn to add smoke and steam to my photos.

gandydancer 19 - Nice little engine facility. Love the turntable. Makes me want to re-engineer my engine house.

Nigel - Nice FP-45s. I have a soft spot for them too.

I've been working on the railroad a little this past week. I filled in the last bare spot on the layout this week. The area around Grafton Tower finally has some basic ground cover. I added a few roadways and a couple of crossings. I added a few details and weathered one of my FP-45s to match it better with its running mate.

 

Keep up the good work everyone. This is always the best thread of the week.