lone beep
I would like to know in your first picture Is the engine yard a catch all or storage place or did the caboose have an acadent into the building? no resect intended just wondering?
slow train Ed
mlehman GS, The instructions say it needs a base that's 7.5" x 4". That includes the boom, which sticks out a variable amount depending on what position you rig it. For the stiff legs and mast, you only need 4" x 4", provided the boom can hang over other things, like the dock and siding at my mill. The leg that's farthest from the camera is actually somewhat shorter, as the ground rises back there, so if you have a hillside it can also be modified that way to squeeze it in a tight spot.
GS,
The instructions say it needs a base that's 7.5" x 4". That includes the boom, which sticks out a variable amount depending on what position you rig it.
For the stiff legs and mast, you only need 4" x 4", provided the boom can hang over other things, like the dock and siding at my mill. The leg that's farthest from the camera is actually somewhat shorter, as the ground rises back there, so if you have a hillside it can also be modified that way to squeeze it in a tight spot.
Excellent, I think I can make that work!
Thanks for information.
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Great looking photos/layouts guys! Some good inspiration for the new guy still in the dream stage
Geared Steam mlehman I put together one of those classic Alexander stiff-leg derricks to help at the lumber mill with loading larger timbers. SNIP Hi Mike, I'm interested in this derrick, great job. By any chance do you have the footprint of this kit. I wondering if I have room.
mlehman I put together one of those classic Alexander stiff-leg derricks to help at the lumber mill with loading larger timbers. SNIP
I put together one of those classic Alexander stiff-leg derricks to help at the lumber mill with loading larger timbers.
SNIP
Hi Mike, I'm interested in this derrick, great job. By any chance do you have the footprint of this kit. I wondering if I have room.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I was working on my railroad the other night. I was working on my yard/ paper mill lead.
Lone Geep
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mlehman I put together one of those classic Alexander stiff-leg derricks to help at the lumber mill with loading larger timbers.
Aikidomaster Great scene!! I would love to see more of your work, Crandell.
Great scene!! I would love to see more of your work, Crandell.
Oops, missed this comment earlier. Sorry, and thanks very much. I have a jumbled gallery on photobucket, but not very large.
http://s302.beta.photobucket.com/user/mesenteria/library/#/user/mesenteria/library/?&_suid=135386243707609843500289239329
Crandell
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Second shot of the same subject from earlier in the thread. (Hope that's not "illegal".)
Yesterday I placed my hunter's cabin on it's foundation, and added a covered front porch to dress it up a little.
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!
Outstanding work everyone. I'm finally checking in this weekend since I've been busy with a big project, but more on that in a minute.
After a missing gear arrived from Grandt, I finished putting together my 23-tonner. I still need to take it back apart to install the headlamp once my next shipment of SMD LEDs arrives, so am holding off on final detail parts and decals. It runs well. I'm using a NCE N12SRP decoder. I added weight by epoxying some titanium weights to the inside of the frame; there's room for more if needed. BALLAST! It's a big project, but it was time. After the big push the last couple of days I only have some tracks in Red Mountain, Durango and Hesperus to do. Both SG and NG mains and most other tracks are finished. Ballast really pulls scenery together, focusing the eye on the rail line traversing the landscape. It's too neat now, but after some more weathering, etc, it'll really look great.
After a missing gear arrived from Grandt, I finished putting together my 23-tonner. I still need to take it back apart to install the headlamp once my next shipment of SMD LEDs arrives, so am holding off on final detail parts and decals. It runs well. I'm using a NCE N12SRP decoder. I added weight by epoxying some titanium weights to the inside of the frame; there's room for more if needed.
BALLAST! It's a big project, but it was time. After the big push the last couple of days I only have some tracks in Red Mountain, Durango and Hesperus to do. Both SG and NG mains and most other tracks are finished. Ballast really pulls scenery together, focusing the eye on the rail line traversing the landscape. It's too neat now, but after some more weathering, etc, it'll really look great.
Yesterday I did some hardshell on the layout.
I used Durhams water putty and used clothes dryer sheets for the hardshell.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Tom... Nice photo sir! If it wasn't for the box or whatever it is in the background, I would have thought it was 1/1 scale!
I have gotten a bit more of the tree line along the back wall near the hillside. It looked like this a few days ago:
Yesterday it looked like this:
And, by this evening it now looks like this:
One more pass for the treetops, and it will be almost done. It will be sprayed with hairspray and a sprinkling of fine turf in a mixture of colors will be done to blend in the green shades.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Basic Pikestuff building with Wathers rooftop details. First painted with Kylon Primer and then Kylon paint for sides, Testors for Roof. This is another building in my Power Plant complex. Thanks Cody G for the inspiration. Still need to weather this, especially around the side air vents.
Great stuff as usual this weekend. Here's my contribution, a late afternoon water stop at Bassetts on the Sierra Buttes, just west of Yuba Pass.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Craig North Carolina
Bryan B.
Wow, didn't think I would DoubleHead...
I have a unique project, help form the community here led me to these Sylvan Resin Kits, & I (actually do &) took advice! So, here is one moched up Kit style, & one 'After Chad & the LAGun' milling machine..And, one of the first the Prototypes! A CRDX Ballast Hopper!
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1383724
Now the model, in (Chad's Production), being milled into alteration to fit the prototype....
Great Photo's of really neat subjects this weekend!!!
Here is an oldie, but I am hoping that everyone has safe travels & good times, no matter what leade engine they have!!!
Nice photos every one.
Looking back.
Rolling toward disaster.
This 35 car C&HV train detailed just a second or two after I took the photo..17 of the 35 cars will leave the rail inside a tunnel..I still don't know why the train derailed and the bigger mystery is how 17 cars left the rail blocking both mains.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Looks like this is turning out to be "half-finished projects" weekend. Here is a little laser-cut kit I was working on Thursday while the turkey was in the oven.
I envision it as a hunter's cabin in the woods. I have a little foundation and a porch gluing up on the workbench. Eventually I will run a wooden stairs down to the parking area, and plant trees all around it.
Page two huh? I'll bump with an old photo from me.
Excellent work this week (as always). This week I took a plain RTR Athearn F7 and detailed, painted (top) and weathered it. Currently it has a SoundTraxx mobile decoder. The paint was a rattle can of Tuscan Red Scalecoat paint and heated Valspar Flat finiish. The detail parts are Cal Scale.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Paul_in_GA Still need to detail things.
Still need to detail things.
An Alco RSD-15 taking the curve at Stoney Creek. DJ.
Add signs and other details to major intersection on the NPBL.
Bob
Photobucket Albums:NPBL - 2008 The BeginningNPBL - 2009 Phase INPBL - 2010 Downtown
These are a few custom painted NKP models I have done. I am nowhere close to having my layout done, so I took their photo on an old module that has been stripped.
You inspired me to put some details on my layout.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS