Good stuff here. Had an operation on my foot so what's a guy to do while healing? Start a city scene at the yard! This is a lot of hours at the kitchen table with my foot propped up on a pillow, a few kits, glue, hobby knife, and styrene plastic.
Lots more good stuff here this week. Keeps me working
You know, even if I work all weekend on a project, I feel like I didn't get anything done unless I post on WFF. Maybe next weekend.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Chris, I like the building with the Vette in front of it.
Brad, Those great buildings will sure make you feel like progress is happening.
I posted my husbands work, but not mine. Here is what I worked on this weekend.
This is the beginning picture with cut-outs to reach up through to clear the track.
Geodesic foam hardshell.
Here is the geodesic rock to help complete the box canyon
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Last minute addition, these were posted on the layout building forum for the benefit of CudaKen, but I thought I'd throw them up here anyway....
Unpainted DPM.
Various DPM's in various stages of completion/painting. Sorry a couple are kind of dark...
I consider this one finished. Another DPM.
Another DPM in progress. Checking placement with this one.
All structures were placed temporarily to see how the "town" would look, and to consider scenic possibilities. Still thinking about it. However, even when "just running trains", just having the buildings there just adds a certain something, I can't put it into words, it's hard to describe.
Brad
EMD - Every Model Different
ALCO - Always Leaking Coolant and Oil
CSX - Coal Spilling eXperts
Well it's a little later in the weekend and I'm at a point where I am lost on what to do.I wanted to cover up the open space I had in the ack of my layout so, I decided to make a cliff,
And , I tried to weather it and make it a little more appealing?
Now I'm wondering if i messed it up. It looked good to me in the garage but, now I am unsure if i messed it up or maybe it's because the color doesnt match the rest which I will later have to figure out how to color to match without destroying everything or getting color on the rest of the layout.
Opinions , accepted please
Thanks ,Chris
Late as always, technically the weekend is over. Especially seeing I had to go into the office.
Anyway, apart from assisting numerous operating sessions on my sons layout (wooden, thomas).
I continued last weeks project, but not by much.
Great photos everyone.
We have been busy this weekend. Larry worked on weathering the little Weyerhaeuser 0-6-0. I thought that I should share these.
tomkat-13 wrote: Here is a six-pack set of BREX Reefers that I'm getting ready to run tomorrow, the 17th, on the clubs modular HO layout. We are going to set up at the clubs spring swap meet.Click on image to enlarge.
Here is a six-pack set of BREX Reefers that I'm getting ready to run tomorrow, the 17th, on the clubs modular HO layout. We are going to set up at the clubs spring swap meet.
Click on image to enlarge.
Update:
Here the reefers on the clubs layout.
Here is the swap meet.
Selector - you're very welcome. After I posted the pic I had second thoughts and wondered if I'd overstepped my bounds.
Anyway, yes, I used photoshop for this image - an edition that I bought 5 years ago and have never upgraded / updated. It was just a quick 'n dirty cut and paste effort since the forum format is pretty low-res. I search the 'net and find interesting sky photos and build a library of them for uses like this. Photoshop is a pricey piece of software - frankly it's overkill for me given my limited skills. I think you can find similar functionality in adobe Image Ready, which came already loaded when I bought this computer a few years ago (v. 3.0) and is probably a lot cheaper if you buy it as a stand-alone program. I'm sure there are graphic arts experts who can give you better counsel on this stuff than I can.
Selector, if you ever have a hi-res photo you'd like me to take a stab at so you can make a good quality print, let me know and I'll give it a shot.
Cheers.
Great work as usual everyone. Here is my contribution.
Scott
RRCanuck wrote: SelectorI normally wouldn't presume to alter anybody's contributions, but if I understood correctly, this is what you were hoping for. Maybe it'll tide you over until you do your own.Cheers
Selector
I normally wouldn't presume to alter anybody's contributions, but if I understood correctly, this is what you were hoping for. Maybe it'll tide you over until you do your own.
Cheers
(image removed as a courtesy to those on dial-up)
Oh, presume away, Dear Fellow! If you can do that for my otherwise modest photos, you have not only my gratitude, but my admiration.
So, how does one do this? Do I need PhotoShop?
Thanks very much again, RRCanuck. It is better than I could have done, believe me.
-Crandell
Don Z wrote: Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Amazing work everyone. Extended my staging yard another 2 ft.Regards,Tom,I like the staging yard extension! Looks like it was meant to be...Don Z.
Tom Bryant_MR wrote: Amazing work everyone. Extended my staging yard another 2 ft.Regards,
Amazing work everyone. Extended my staging yard another 2 ft.
Regards,
Tom,
I like the staging yard extension! Looks like it was meant to be...
Don Z.
Selector, Thanks for the response and the link to Bobs' site which has enough info to keep me busy for some time.
Speaking of bridge piers, here are some I had laying about. The large ones were cut from 2" foam with blocks "carved" with a ballpoint pen. They supported a viaduct over a river all of which was removed in favor of a gravel operation and a truss bridge. I never finished the foam piers. The smaller pier is a Chooch piece which is cast with a lot of nice detail. Hope that helps. J.R.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
Great Work everyone !
That's a good looking sky for Selector's Photo
TerryinTexas
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Last, my LHS has had this SP 4-8-2 for some time; but no longer. It is a Spectrum w/Tsunami. The bell is phenomenal and love the synchronized chuff. It will make up my passenger train through Elgin Tx.
I need to work on my lighting and photo work.
Tom
selector wrote: Mr. B. I hear you. I'll get into the manual and figure out how to use that feature. Thanks for the tip.Brian, thanks, again, for your encouragement. The bridge piers, the cement, are left over from my previous layout and were part of a German bridge kit. They are styrene, and stackable. I think the kit had 6 pieces included.The Micro-Engineering 160' combination bridge kit was not what I would call a breeze, but that is due to my level of experience. Persistence and patience paid off. It gives you the option of the curved top plate ends on the girders that you see, but the kit has square ends. You must cut the square corners at a 45 deg angle, round the girder web with a file, and then glue thin connector plates that they provide in the kit. Keeping them curved and in position while the glue dried took some ingenuity, but it worked.-Crandell
Mr. B. I hear you. I'll get into the manual and figure out how to use that feature. Thanks for the tip.
Brian, thanks, again, for your encouragement. The bridge piers, the cement, are left over from my previous layout and were part of a German bridge kit. They are styrene, and stackable. I think the kit had 6 pieces included.
The Micro-Engineering 160' combination bridge kit was not what I would call a breeze, but that is due to my level of experience. Persistence and patience paid off. It gives you the option of the curved top plate ends on the girders that you see, but the kit has square ends. You must cut the square corners at a 45 deg angle, round the girder web with a file, and then glue thin connector plates that they provide in the kit. Keeping them curved and in position while the glue dried took some ingenuity, but it worked.
I am currently building TWO of the 150' ME spans for a project... trust me, I know your pain... I get about one girder done per night (3 more to go!!), that is after I clean, sand and get the 600 pieces ready (which took 2 nights per span!!)... Darn, I was hoping your piers were poured/made, cuz I would love to see how you made that form!
Brian
Well, this isn't as exciting as some of the submitted photos.....but here's a picture of some benchwork I built on Saturday. I'm building this for a customer I met at the LHS. This is one third of the layout - basically a figue "E" with a blob at the ends of the E in an 11'x13' space. The layout will sit in a room that is about 17'x30' overall.
GMTRacing wrote: ...For those of you using digitals, what if anything are you using for auxiliary lighting? I finally figured out how to turn off the flash on my camera but could use some pointers on filling in dark areas with lighting. What kind of bulbs, etc. Thanks, J.R.
...For those of you using digitals, what if anything are you using for auxiliary lighting? I finally figured out how to turn off the flash on my camera but could use some pointers on filling in dark areas with lighting. What kind of bulbs, etc. Thanks, J.R.
I use the AV setting on the Canon Powershot A710is which automatically adjusts shutter speed for the light entering the ires. There is no flash in this setting, at least, not without some other input from me. So, I am using a mixture of window light from one window higher and at the end of the layout, and 10 overhead GUA 10 halogen bulbs on twin tracks spaced nearly 4' apart. I also have a portable "sunlight" lamp for those suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder that we purchased at Costco a year or so back. If the halogen shots are too yellow, add more daylight. You can also adjust colour balance in the camera, but I haven't learned how to do it yet.
Bob Boudreau's online tutorial at his website is very good. http://www.geocities.com/fundynorthern/ I think it is.
Thanks Mr. B. The fence is from Bar Mills - I like their stuff a lot.
Perry - whatever it is you're doing - keep it up. I like the sense of humor as well as the eye you have for scenery.
For those of you using digitals, what if anything are you using for auxiliary lighting? I finally figured out how to turn off the flash on my camera but could use some pointers on filling in dark areas with lighting. What kind of bulbs, etc. Thanks, J.R.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Thank you Lou.
That was very kind of you to say so, and I'm very glad that you enjoy my art. Ok Ok OK...maybe just one of the eggs is =====>>>> <<<<=====
http://home.mchsi.com/~ironmaster1960/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
perry1060 wrote: Lou,The eggs are not alien. Everyone knows that aliens are not real. These shots are for you, because I know you're not crazy about my third rail. Without the beast....
Lou,
The eggs are not alien. Everyone knows that aliens are not real. These shots are for you, because I know you're not crazy about my third rail.
Without the beast....
Perry - If they aren't alien eggs, and aliens aren't real, what's this
Sure looks like your aliens - er layout!!
Don't really hate your 3 rails - just makes me jealous that it looks better than a lot of HO layouts!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
top level of the new layout - the farm was one of the first scenes done J.R.