LION just fixed up the Chambers Street Station.
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I like it Lion.... New place you can prowl around waiting for trains...
Looks nice!
Ricky W.
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LION is trying to make a fool out of us - this is the real thing, not a model! The shot was taken at 3am, when the cleaning crew was just gone!
How about some HO scale litter on the tracks?
Vacuum Train, AKA the Super Sucker has just been therough the station.
I will make a model of that for my layout too.
ROAR
How about the chewing gum on the platform?
Seriously, you have done a marvelous job! I can really smell that unforgettable subway stench!
Lion,
It just keeps getting better and better.
Joe
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Lion, I like your tile job!
Regards, Peter
Lion - I've got to add my thumbs up to the "Chambers Street" scene. Nicely done in all respects.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
WAAAAY too clean. And where are the rats climbing around the tracks?Chambers street is one of the nastier stops in southern Manhattan.
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Michael Mornard
Bringing the North Woods to South Dakota!
Looks really good!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
OK, even I have to admit the station walls look rather nice - so are they photomurals, painted styrene, or something else?And since I never miss an opportunity to bust Brother Elias's chops...Presuming the NYCTA, which I believe we safely can base on his prior statements:Did Chambers St. (BTW which one - IRT, BMT, or IND?) even have round support columns? All on-line images of all Chamber Streets show the typical "H" columns. And why does the near post look like it's floating above the floor?The lighting...NOT good. For station platform, they should be long rows/lines of flourescent fixtures, and you know it!What era is your layout set in, anyway? Wagner? Early Lindsay? Late Lindsay? Beame? Early Koch? Late Koch? Dinkins? Rudy? Early Bloomberg? Late Bloomberg? Today? Each era is somewhat different in terms of equipment, station fixtures and signage, general state of upkeep (or lack thereof), wear and cleaniness level, and so on...
The wall began as a photograph of the tiles, probably at 34th Street on the BMT. I isolated a set of nine tiles in photoshop, and made a bmp file of it. I used Serif PagePlus X8 to create the wall, and used the .bmp file as the fill. I could then resize it both vertically and horizontaly until it was what I wanted. I enlzrged it on the screen, made a black square the size of a tile, and put a letter on it. And then used that as a model to spell out the eintire sign. I repeated it as necessary. I used the same idea to create the clearance strip. I glued this to a plastic background and set it into place.
The LED lights are inserted into a strip of pegboard. I used nails for the posts (that's why they are round) but some of them got driven in too far and I could not withdraw them. I will put some benches or waste baskets to hide this problem. I will use a steel back when i puch the next set in.
I have tried wooden swaure posts, but when I painted them they warped rather badly. I made some round ones with dowles and used a wrap to give them their color and their station sign, there were issues there too. I also used plastic I beams, but those are pricy. The Nails look like they will work. The next platform will use thicker nails, and I'll drive them point down, with a block guide to keep the tops in line, and will put a header across them. I have in the past made "H" beams by puting paper strips on either side of the post. I think that will work real well.
LION tries to build things with the least amount of effort. Big Furry Paws and Claws do not help, neither does neuropathy, so details are out of the question. So is spending money. I do what I can do, and that has to be good enough.
I kind of figured you did something like that with the walls, as you have used photoedited images in the past, especially to good effect on your 42nd St. walls (the light reflections looks great there). Those photos also show, as you stated above, you were not adverse to H-beams in the past (and your gloss-painted dowels columms look good too - compare with reality).The round LEDs bug me, NYCTA underground station lighting is rows of long fluorescent fixture (except for some stations like Archer Ave./Suptin Blvd). Last word on that was to use LED strip lights, except that's 11.97/foot, not 10cents a Christmas bulb - ouch.As for the era of your layout...I saw this image of your 14th St. passageway walls in the Subway station thread. Your modeled era is one where studios are actively concurrently advertising "Aliens 3", "ET", "Amadeus", "War Of The Worlds" (the Tom Cruise one), "Superman Returns", "District 9", and "Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull"...so I guess the answer to my question of whether your era is Beame/Koch/Dinkins/Giuliani/Bloomberg/DeBlasio is...Yes.
Those south Ferry Dowels were not painted. They were printed on lable material and wrapped around the dowel, signs included. The lables not sticking too well, so I wrapped them with clear tape. It worked ok.
BroadwayLion The wall began as a photograph of the tiles, probably at 34th Street on the BMT. I isolated a set of nine tiles in photoshop, and made a bmp file of it. I used Serif PagePlus X8 to create the wall, and used the .bmp file as the fill. I could then resize it both vertically and horizontaly until it was what I wanted.
The wall began as a photograph of the tiles, probably at 34th Street on the BMT. I isolated a set of nine tiles in photoshop, and made a bmp file of it. I used Serif PagePlus X8 to create the wall, and used the .bmp file as the fill. I could then resize it both vertically and horizontaly until it was what I wanted.
I've been using Serif PagePlus since "the middle ages" of Win 3.1. Serif makes good stuff! Serif even has a "free version" of its' major apps.
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
Bayfield Transfer RailwayAnd where are the rats climbing around the tracks?
LIONs eat rats as an appetizer...
Allow lions to roam the streets of NYC and no more rat problem
Ed
Love it.
Sean
HO Scale CSX Modeler