Weekend Photo Fun 2-23,24,25-07

[C&O Fan]

I finished my scratch built Speeder Shed

but it still needs some landscaping and other details

 

[fiatfan]

I've been concentrating on scenery lately.  This is RailFan Park in the town of Adobe Flat.  Some fans are gathering to watch RI SW9 perform some switching chores.



I still need to add glazing to the windows and level the ground below the building but progress is being made.

Tom

[selector]

Excellent, C&O!  Have you described your techniques and materials elsewhere?  I'd like to tackle a job like that myself, maybe this summer or fall.

You do good work.

[selector]

Tom, that is a nicely composed and a nicely rendered photo.  I like it...reminds me of being near the AT&SF 4-8-4 at Kingman in AZ...a nice effect.  Lots of good perspective there.

-Crandell

[Anonymous]

user="C&O Fan"

I finished my scratch built Speeder Shed

but it still needs some landscaping and other details

 

Looks good.  I am in the same boat with a new building; it is still just sitting on top of the ground where it, and future details, will go.  Here is the new Ken Burns Coal and FireWood building in place on the layout.

 

[simon1966]

Very nice Terry and Tom!  I am finishing off some details on my shed (barn) project and will try and post later this evening.

[C&O Fan]

I've been concentrating on scenery lately.  This is RailFan Park in the town of Adobe Flat.  Some fans are gathering to watch RI SW9 perform some switching chores.



I still need to add glazing to the windows and level the ground below the building but progress is being made.

Tom

Great Photo Tom

Wish my camera was that good

What kind are you using ?

[C&O Fan]

user="C&O Fan"

I finished my scratch built Speeder Shed

but it still needs some landscaping and other details

 

Looks good.  I am in the same boat with a new building; it is still just sitting on top of the ground where it, and future details, will go.  Here is the new Ken Burns Coal and FireWood building in place on the layout.

 

Turned out pretty good Alan !

love the metal roof !

[C&O Fan]

Excellent, C&O!  Have you described your techniques and materials elsewhere?  I'd like to tackle a job like that myself, maybe this summer or fall.

You do good work.

No i'm just an amature but there are plenty of great modelers on this forum

to learn from.

[fiatfan]

Thanks for the kind words everyone.  The camera is a Canon S3 IS.  The picture was shot in manual mode with GE Reveal lights, F8 at 1.6 sec. ISO 100.  No additional lighting was used.

Tom

[ARTHILL]

Still trying to improve my forest. Here is my first attempt to use Noch leaves for Elm and static grass for pine trees. And one Oak on Arizona weed. I will have some finished forest by the end of the storm headed our way.

[jecorbett]

I am in the middle of scenicking the next section of my layout and I don't like to post pictures of works in progress. Having basically completed the longest wall of my layout with the major classification yard, I have now rounded the bend and am working on a little crossroads town with a commuter station with a large lumber yard. I have made great progress this past week putting up about 20 feet of backdrop and using foam board to create the basic shape of the gently sloping terrain. I've had a lot of fun laying out the roads and deciding where all the structures will go. I hope to have something worth showing in two or three weeks. In the meantime, seeing the work of others is inspiring me to press on. Good work, guys, keep it coming.  

[SpaceMouse]

Couple three gents moved into the boardin' house. Don't know their names yet.

 

And out back of the Flattened Penny Saloon, Pappy pulls on his pipe while talking to the feller known only as "The Scout-Master."

 

[selector]

Here is another photo of my yard, taken from near the drop o' doom....really an interchange, but I like the other idea better.

 

[Hoople]

Nice Selector!

I have two drop-o-dooms to.

They actually are drops of doom, being about 35" from the floor. Their for the diesels.

(And for the hand of god (AKA the 0-5-0...)to pick up freight cars from the interchange.)

[MOJAX]

Here is another photo of my yard, taken from near the drop o' doom....really an interchange, but I like the other idea better.

 

Great photo! I like the green doors on the double door boxcar. 

[selector]

Thanks, Hoople...it means a lot.

Chip, I like your theme, and I think you are doing very well at it.  Some mules a la Oatman, AZ, pines and scrub oak, and you are in business.

Okay, since I told JaRRell I'd post a pic of my village...such as it is... here it is.

[Pruitt]

Life after Helix:

Still no scenery, but work is progressing.

Laurel engine terminal construction has begun. The turntable is in and I can at least turn locos now. The turntable will go some serious cosmetic changes, including weathering and changes to the arch (that's why it isn't installed):

Here the Glenrock subroadbed is being extended towards Casper. This is an awful lot of 1X2 just to support one track, isn't it?

Boy, I wish I worked as fast as some of you guys! 

[loathar]

ARTHILL-Those trees look great Art! I was wondering if anybody was using those Noch leaves. What's that dark green cedar looking tree in the first pic made of?

[trainfreek92]

Crandell, Nice work keep it up. How long have you been working on that layout? Tim

[selector]

Thanks, Tim.  I got the benchwork, spline roadbed, and the tracks and wiring done between early April and late June of last year.  Then summer things took over, and I didn't start working on the scenery until early September.  I did the yard only in the last three weeks.

I am retired, so I can spend a fair bit of time in the train room over the winter.  I have never undertaken a physical project like this in my life, and certainly not one that has taken nine months.  In my professional life, most things were written and generated in a day or two.  While many members here marvel at all I have accomplished in such a short time, I still can't believe I have been at this for nine months.  Where'd it go, anyway?

I appreciate your encouragement...I guess I'll keep at it.

-Crandell

[selector]

Art, I haven't said, yet, that I really like what you've done with the trees.  That second photo of a gnarly tree is...well....

Mark, You have a whopping project there....and to think you started with that monster helix! It looks nice and solid, and quite interesting.  I see you will have three entrances/exits to the turntable...nice!  BTW, it bugged me when for so many long weeks I was doing this and that, and the sections of track and joins to turnouts had ties missing...it was one of the signs that I had so much more to do.

-Crandell

[ARTHILL]

loathar  - The leaf trees are either sage brush, micro fiber and leaves or weeds and leaves, I am expermenting with super trees. They have a nice shape. The pine trees are mostly variations of Aggro's filter on a stick. There are a few that started as Astilbe flowers. There is a learning curve to this. I hope that some of the rest of you who are further along can share what you have learned.

[simon1966]

Well, I finally got my barn or shed (size does matter) completed and for now have it in the form of a diorama that I will drop into the layout when the space is created.

Here is the back with the fake brick tar paper siding all torn and faded.

The front side of the barn

 

 

 

The side lean-to shed complete with tree and all manner of junk, tools and scrap lumber.

 

The real place for reference

Now I have this posted I can go back and look at everyone elses work.

[simon1966]

Art, it looks like you and I have been tree making together.  Mine is a sagebrush armature with poly-fiber and ground foam. Your trees look very good and convincing. 

Selector, I really like seeing the long views of your layout.  It really does look fantastic with the hills and the backdrop.  You are making great progress and if the slightest doubt comes into your mind, put it aside, I think you are doing wonderfully.

Mark, your layout looks like it is going to be excellent.  A good foundation will surely lead to great results.  I wish I had not rushed my bench-work and spent some more time on it.  The layout runs OK, but I know it could have been better.

[tstage]

Simon,

That is FABULOUS work!!!   The tree growing up through the roof is just terrific!  You're turning into a real scratch-building animal!  Date it and sign it.  That's a work of art!  (No, no, no! - Wait!  Art did the trees! )

Anyway, don't forget to add the exterior light...

Tom 

[bogp40]

Still trying to improve my forest. Here is my first attempt to use Noch leaves for Elm and static grass for pine trees. And one Oak on Arizona weed. I will have some finished forest by the end of the storm headed our way.

Fantastic for first attempt using the Noch leaves. I'll have to give them a try. How many shades of green does it come in?

What did tou use for the armature?

[tstage]

Art,

I really, really like your elm trees.   The Noch product is far superior looking than the WS armature and ground foam method.  It really looks like individual leaves.  Even my dear wife went "Wow!" when she saw it.

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Crandell,

I love that shot of the servicing track in the background, the field and town in the foreground, and the elevated track up above.  The part of your layout has some very nice sweeping and graceful lines to it.  Almost Iain Rice"ish", if I can coin a phrase.  Good work, Crandell.

Tom

[C&O Fan]

Well, I finally got my barn or shed (size does matter) completed and for now have it in the form of a diorama that I will drop into the layout when the space is created.

Here is the back with the fake brick tar paper siding all torn and faded.

The front side of the barn

 

 

 

The side lean-to shed complete with tree and all manner of junk, tools and scrap lumber.

 

The real place for reference

Now I have this posted I can go back and look at everyone elses work.

 

Simon that is a work of art !

Great Job ! Hard to tell the real from the model !

[selector]

Simon....incredible!