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Weekend Photo Fun 17 - 19 January 2014

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    May 2010
  • From: SE. WI.
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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, January 19, 2014 2:44 PM

Thanks for the comments Garry, and Bear, and another excellent WPF of great pictures and modeling.  Can I sneak in one more? OK, you talked me into it.  We had a late Christmas dinner last night, now that all the kids were back in one spot, and my daughter gave me a few figures I just had to post, just for fun:

Looks like some campers took over the wayside, and made it "home sweet home".  I think these red necks are Packer fans, look at the canopy on the trailer!  I see the sheriff is doing a drive-by to see what's going on, but I think he got distracted by the jogger on the road !  Wink

 

Hikers stop to take a break, and take in the water fall.

 

On the local news front, UP is having a tuff time just south of Milwaukee, WI today.  19 cars of a 130 car coal train, heading north, derailed.  Looks like a huge mess!

Mike.

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Posted by Geared Steam on Sunday, January 19, 2014 3:10 PM

The Dallas area Train show was held this weekend, the star of the show IMO was the Elk Canyon and Western Sn3 display layout. It made me consider a shadow box layout concept for my future. It was done in such a way that it would look right a home in a family living room, even accentuate the living room.

More pics of the show are on my blog link below.

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein

http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Sunday, January 19, 2014 4:30 PM

Great work this week, as usual.

Here's my contribution; a train of recent craftsman kit completions (I just painted the reefer today):

 

 

 

Phil,
I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.

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    July 2004
  • From: Spartanburg, SC
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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Monday, January 20, 2014 8:27 AM

Great work everybody! I spent the past week installing my riser and inclines. When it comes to calculating grades, I'd rather let Woodland Scenics do the hard work. I glued them down with silicone caulk and covered the flex gaps with plaster cloth. By this time next week, there might be some track on the layout.

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com 

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Posted by jack308gtsi on Monday, January 20, 2014 12:49 PM

What receipe of colors do you use to get that beautiful sandstone colors on your rock work?

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, January 20, 2014 5:20 PM

I know.  "What the....."  Well, it's the tannery liftoff, a section a couple of feet across that just had to be removeable so that I could work behind it when necessary.  The picture above shows mostly the pink foam it's built on as a vertical wall, and the rest of the layout below as horizontal pink foam.  The overhang is sceniced plaster cloth, which sits right down into the scenery.

For reference, the small white building with the black roof is visible in both pictures.

Have fun the next week, gang.  I will be crossing the continent to ski at Whistler in British Columbia, just outside of Vancouver, so I'll miss WPF (and the Amherst train show.)  But, we'll have a great time, and I'll catch you in a couple of weeks.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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