weekend photo Fun

[rexhea]

Wow! Thanks a lot guys.
Yeah, I guess that I won't revoke CJ's pass for awhile. He could come in handy (if he will just stop that danged crying).
[}:)][(-D]

REX

[lesterperry]

Rex that is very impressive. You need to put Cjcresent to work on a regular basis in fact if he is looking for more work I can use the help.

[MisterBeasley]

rexhea and cj - Thanks for the diesel servicing area shots. It's fine work, and it give me some ideas. Really, really nice work, and good photos, too. You guys rock. (and not just hydrocal)

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ARTHILL

Babe, How did you do the water? It is great and exactly what I need. I have never suceeded with water. I have been working on the pheasant hunting scene but nothing has worked yet.

Arthill,
I've been hearing about your ongoing search for Pheasants etc.. have you seen any of these?

http://www.eurorailhobbies.com/erh/eurorailhobbiesdetail.asp?pageid=&erh_find=birds&MN=10&stock=PR-10169

http://www.eurorailhobbies.com/erh/eurorailhobbiesdetail.asp?pageid=&erh_find=****&MN=10&stock=PR-10166

Maybe one of those could work or be pained a bit differently to work as a pheasant?

Peace.

Coyote

[rexhea]

babefluff: Good going on the post and very nice night shots. Hope the Kaman-Gia (sp) stops.

NZRMac: Man, just hop on the next jet and come on over...or up...I know, up and over.
[:D][:D]

REX

[ARTHILL]

Babe, How did you do the water? It is great and exactly what I need. I have never suceeded with water. I have been working on the pheasant hunting scene but nothing has worked yet.

[selector]

Rex and Carey, two thumbs way up!!

Babe, LUV that bridge shot!!

[babefluff]

Thanks Rexhea, here goes I hope it works. These are of the BF&D RR.

Scott

[NZRMac]

Great photo's guys.

Rex thanks for posting the diesel fuel pics, looks fantastic. Now I see what I need to do.
Wish I could drive up and see it in person.[:D][:D]

Ken.

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rexhea

For several months now, cjcrescent has been visiting the layout and each time he has begged and begged to build something. Well, after he began crying a few weeks ago, I began to weaken and decided that to stop this immature display of self-pity, I would let him build my diesel service facility.

The fueling facility is the new Walthers kit and the sand tower is from their sand facility kit. Note: The diesel engine house is scratch built from a pile of miscellaneous DPM parts, styrene strips, and a lot of ingenuity. The windows are made from printing a grid on a transparent and glazing them with Dullcote. Although there will be more detail added, I believe you will agree he did a fine job. [^]
REX

That's awesome work. Good job cjcrescent .

[rexhea]

babefluff,
You are correct that you need an account at one of the many web photo storage sites. There is a thread some where on the forum that explains all the details. Do an advanced search to find or maybe someone out there will post the link for you.
Here is one topic link I found for you. http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19098

Grandeman
As usual, you have done some excellent work. You may be disappointed when you see my layout with all the flat trees (plywood)[;)]


Hey, EVERYONE!
I know it's still summer, but there sure hasn't been many photo post the last few weeks on the weekend/Sunday Photo fun. I am sure that many of us really enjoy seeing your work and wish more of you would participate. Please share your good work with us.

BTW: There are some great photos on here today and thanks for the flowers on mine.
REX

[babefluff]

Hello all. Am I correct in thinking that the only way to post a picture is to have it on the Web? At one time could you not load them from the hard drive on your computer? Please help. I am tired of looking at boxes with little red X's in them!

[cjcrescent]

Cried huh?? Well you can kiss.....[:D] Actually rex did need some way to care for his many di-easels he has that just clutters up the area where those magnificent steamers live.[}:)]

The enginehouse was built from DPM modules that were cut apart and joined to make taller. The larger window openings came from the archways out of the DPM modules. Pilasters were used to help hide the joints. I still need to add some, smokejacks to each end, or some kind of venting system to the roof to eliminate the diesel fumes from the building. The extra concrete pads are made by building a simple form, pouring in Dap Concrete repair compound and then placing a smooth "pad" of styrene down into it. This was then painted to match the original cornerstone kit.

The fuel pumps are a Stewart/Shelly kit, and the small shed is an old Model Hobbies trackside shed. The tarpaper roofs are made from Masking tape cut to scale width and length, and then placed on the model. My Dad and I, did many a tarpaper roof when I was growing up, he was a carpenter, and compared to them this job was a breeze. Various oil spills are represented by drizzling grimy black and oily black on the platforms and between the rails,(pre EPA), The area inside the engine house was disguised by painting the inside and the floors black for now. Later on we may detail. After weathering the area with india ink and alchohol various areas were airbrushed with mud, rust, dust, earth to give a representation of rainsplatter on side of building. The whole area was then sprayed with dullcoat and then a very light was of alchohol and ink was used to bring out waterstains.

Meant to add there are lights inside the enginehouse but they haven't been wired up as yet.

[jeffshultz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by SpaceMouse


Good luck with your move. If I remember rightly, you're getting more RR space, right?

Yes - I'm going from the 2x8 + a bit to a single car garage. Preliminary benchwork design can be found here:
http://www.shultzinfosystems.com/gallery/W-P-Model-RR/garage_railroad

[dave9999]

Rex,
Looking good. I'm going to have to make my way up to T-town
in the near future and see your fine work in person. I still haven't
made a decision about the Fla/Bama game, but I might still
make the trip one weekend just to visit. Nancy and I love road
trips... especially when trains are involved. Keep up the good
work and Go Gators[;)] Dave

[SpaceMouse]

Rex,

Like the water stains on the engine house.

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffshultz

Nearly time for the move... my wife and I are moving on the 20th, so I've had to strip the layout down to it's "bare" elements - or at least what isn't glued on.

Good luck with your move. If I remember rightly, you're getting more RR space, right?

[jeffshultz]

Nearly time for the move... my wife and I are moving on the 20th, so I've had to strip the layout down to it's "bare" elements - or at least what isn't glued on.

Before - as far as I had gotten:


Stripped for action (yes, it still has the locos on it, I've still got a week to play!):

[rexhea]

For several months now, cjcrescent has been visiting the layout and each time he has begged and begged to build something. Well, after he began crying a few weeks ago, I began to weaken and decided that to stop this immature display of self-pity, I would let him build my diesel service facility.

The fueling facility is the new Walthers kit and the sand tower is from their sand facility kit. Note: The diesel engine house is scratch built from a pile of miscellaneous DPM parts, styrene strips, and a lot of ingenuity. The windows are made from printing a grid on a transparent and glazing them with Dullcote. Although there will be more detail added, I believe you will agree he did a fine job. [^]
REX

Crow's view of Diesel Service Facility



Loading and unloading fuel.



Crow with glasses on view



Engineer's view

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by steveblackledge
Ken, you must be THE man when it comes to wiring layouts, good luck to you[bow]

Thank you Steve I wish that were true; substitute the word "wiring" with "getting-in-over-ones-head" and you're closer to the truth![(-D] On that GE warbonnet, did you get your inspiration from the July MR where the author was weathering N scale diesels for his Montana Rail Link-based layout?

Terry - a collapsible layout, huh? Smart idea![tup]

Adam - since nobody else has asked: What materials did you use for the scenery in your photos?

[scubaterry]

My first w/e photo fun post. Finally finished the trackwork on the west yard/small pass terminal.
West yd holds 31 cars and the east yard holds 30 not very large but I only own 30 rolling stock so it works out. Small pass term as this is a small time operation. I have a set of the Riv 60' hvy weight pass cars. The only thing left to do as far as track laying is the engine facility in the upper right of photo. Once it is done I can start to scenic which is my favorite part of MRR

Long shot of w/yd pass/term. This is a temp layout as we will be moving within six months. I have it built in sections for easy (???) moving. At our new place I can pretty up the bench work and put in the bldg etc. I have been stockpiling for a while now.

Terry

[steveblackledge]

Excellent pictures everyone, they give inspiration, glad you liked the video clips, there are more at Don Burgess's web site @ http://www.burgess57.freeserve.co.uk/railways.htm
Ken, you must be THE man when it comes to wiring layouts, good luck to you[bow]
Dthurman thats a great looking load you have done, i must give it a try when/if my printer decides to work

[eng22]

For Spacemouse,

I like both pictures, the top one is only focused on the loco and a couple of cars, the bottom picture trys to bring everything within the picture into focus. I like the lower one better because it shows more detail.

For Cheese,

The loco is an Alco S-3, Ann Arbor #5

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by steveblackledge

Just one new pic this week,

Steve, looks like that Warbonnet needs to be a B unit, suprised the crew is complaing to the trainmaster [:D] Good looking weathering job.

Here is a couple of shots of wrapped lumber loads I grabbed from an actual cnterbeam on the web, then fixed and printed on my Mac.



Closeup:



Cheese3 your outcrops look sharp! So does everyone elses.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cheese3

kenlarsen Good luck with the wiring, I did some of that today, I got my turntable all hooked up and ready to go.

Wow, now there's a wiring challenge![:O] I had an old Atlas flat turntable 2 layouts ago, my wife had to keep the basement door shut so the kids wouldn't hear the language I was using while I tried to make it work...!

[cheese3]

kenlarsen Good luck with the wiring, I did some of that today, I got my turntable all hooked up and ready to go.

lesterperrynice picture

scott Those two look great together

grandemanNice work as usual

eng22Nice Pics, what type of loco is that?

This is hard to fit everyone so this is a big Great Work Guys I cant wait to see more!

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen

Great work everyone, it inspires me to keep plugging away at my current project. Much as I'd love to be able to post pictures of what I've been doing, I don't think 12-guage bus wire is very photogenic![:D]

Yean, but seening other people making progress on unglorious aspects of the hobby is. Post it.

[Anonymous]

Great work everyone, it inspires me to keep plugging away at my current project. Much as I'd love to be able to post pictures of what I've been doing, I don't think 12-guage bus wire is very photogenic![:D]

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eng22

Been working with a new camera, Canon S2-IS. Trying to figure out new terms like depth of field. First pic does not have any, second picture does. It only took me two weeks to figure out how to do it. There is so much to learn with this camera, I have had no time for trains[banghead][banghead]

So which depth of field makes a better picture?

[eng22]

Been working with a new camera, Canon S2-IS. Trying to figure out new terms like depth of field. First pic does not have any, second picture does. It only took me two weeks to figure out how to do it. There is so much to learn with this camera, I have had no time for trains[banghead][banghead]