Wow it's Sat morning and no Photo Fun Thread
Ok I'll Start it
Here's some photos of Buildings i'm doing for my friends Layout
He models the same area of the C&O
The little building is the East end yard office at Thurmond
It's the first Hip roof i've done
It took 4 tries
TerryinTexas
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First I have been talking about a RR I have been operating on. IT is owned by Roy Ward and has not missed a Weds. Night OP session in 29 years. That includes the week they switched from DC to DCC--although they were up late Tuesday night. The layout was featured in Model Railroad Planning 2006. Note the brass track.
This is a project I have been working on for the past several weeks. The model on the right is the current Train City Station. It is a Southern Pacific Station made by Suydan, and although I really like the way it looks check out the size of the doors and windows compared to the model on the left. The model on the left is a Muir Models of a DRGW station.
I'm beginning to think that the only reason to buy a craftsman kit is for the plans. The Muir kit is a wood kit that wanted you to make a lot of fancy cuts to imitate a particular station. Instead, I painted this one SP colors and left out the fancy work. Even so, the model had you piece together the wood in an impossible fashion. So I cut a piece of styrene the shape of the walls and glued the wood to it for support. At that point it would have been easier to build the whole thing out of styrene with board and baton styrene.
Anyway, there is a certain amount of bashing going on. I added the center ticket window and cupola. (Looks like the windows rotated a little while drying--darn camera.)
I also did a little painting on the backdrop. Last week it looked like this
Now it looks like this. I painted varying shades of blue up the wall. I will airbrush some white in this weekend, I hope.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Been working on a new yard in Fresno on my layout, didn't like the last one. Enjoy!
Chuck Geiger wrote: Been working on a new yard in Fresno on my layout, didn't like the last one. Enjoy!
Chuck,
Nice layout, but too bad the fog bank was rolling in for the pics.
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bogp40 wrote: Chuck Geiger wrote: Been working on a new yard in Fresno on my layout, didn't like the last one. Enjoy!Chuck,Nice layout, but too bad the fog bank was rolling in for the pics.
I would like to see some more photos of your layout.
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Chip nice kitbashing
I like the added cupola on the station
Curious though why are the windows so low on the side of the station ?
Chuck the yard looks great
I really like the painted backdrop
What is the purpose of the turnout in the second picture
that has no track leading off of it ?
Here's my kitbashed H10s posed at East Mifflin, PA.
Not a train in sight, but an idea of the depth of field one can achieve in N scale on a hollow-core door. This is Lewisport, PA.
Here's another view of Lewisport, PA.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
COFan wrote: Chip nice kitbashingI like the added cupola on the stationCurious though why are the windows so low on the side of the station ?
I was curious too, but they match the door height on top and that is the way they came cut out.
SpaceMouse wrote: COFan wrote: Chip nice kitbashingI like the added cupola on the stationCurious though why are the windows so low on the side of the station ?I was curious too, but they match the door height on top and that is the way they came cut out.
Dave, I'm in awe. Your work nearly puts me to shame.
The subject of the past week or so has been updating my Columbia Feed Mill by Walthers to appear more realistic. I need to go get some plastic to cover up a seam as weather stripping, as well as apply some sort of name to finish it off, following which I'll post pics.
Yesterday was spent railfanning across Central and Western Massachusetts, for which a thanks goes to my mother for driving.
This is a model railroading thread, so i'll just link the photo narrative.
http://yfcorp.googlepages.com/april20th%2C2007-anarrative
(19 pics)
It hasn't yet been edited for grammar or clarity, so please bear with it.
CO Fan wrote: The little building is the East end yard office at ThurmondIt's the first Hip roof i've doneIt took 4 tries
It took me a while to connect the dots. That's the lil guy you were fretting about on the other side.
Nice.
How did you finally work it out? I think I would have used cardboard and played with it.
Must be the new ADA regulations for the handicapped access.
dwhitetop2 wrote:http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i83/dwhitetop2/DSCN1396-3.jpg" border="0" /> Hello all, some nice work out there today. here is some of what Ive been working on lately. Let me know what all of you think of the mirror illusion. Keep in mind my work is not in the same league as most of you. Thanks Dave
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Hello all, some nice work out there today. here is some of what Ive been working on lately. Let me know what all of you think of the mirror illusion. Keep in mind my work is not in the same league as most of you. Thanks Dave
You "illusion" will have a lot to do with the height of the mirror. IF you can see any part of yourself, it will be a hard sell. IF it is low and the top makes sense in some way, running some trees will help, especially around the drive in.
SpaceMouse wrote:Note the brass track.
Texas Zepher wrote: SpaceMouse wrote:Note the brass track.And despite the animosity most people are showing toward brass today I'll bet it works like a champ.
He says zero maintaince. He also added that it probably wouldn't be that way if he didn't run every week.
Hey, nice work everyone. Mother Nature has you beat today in New England - 70's and sunny, no wind, no bugs (yet.) Picture perfect, as they say. I was gonna go take a pic or two, but the camera batteries were dead. So, maybe film at 11.
I like the stockyard. If I had more space, I think I'd put one in, along with some grazing land. This high-density urban scenery is fun, but kind of time-consuming per square foot. But, would you put some hay in for those poor little dogies?
I'm with The Mouse on the mirror behind the Drive-In. It needs a scenic obstruction to hide those Leonardo DaVinci letters on the reflection. But three stars just for modelling a Drive-In in the first place. I haven't been to one of those since, let's see, last summer. Saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
SpaceMouse wrote: CO Fan wrote: The little building is the East end yard office at ThurmondIt's the first Hip roof i've doneIt took 4 triesIt took me a while to connect the dots. That's the lil guy you were fretting about on the other side. Nice. How did you finally work it out? I think I would have used cardboard and played with it.
Well i finally smartened up and did the front and the back roof pannels
then just taped them together in an up right position at the pitch I wanted and actually broke down and mesured the other two openings and they ended up being 2 scale feet longer than the front and back panels and Ta Da perfect
If that had not worked i was going to use paper cause i was running out of wood
My project today was remotoring a Rivarossi U25C with a Mabuchi can motor (the same one used in medium Spectrum and small Bowser steam).
I don't have the right size screws for the motor, so I just glued it to the frame with a small piece of foam under it. The pulley is a piece of plastic that I pressed on the motor shaft and filed to the right shape, and the belt is a small orthodontist rubber band. Because of the differences in pulley sizes, the belt/gear ratio is around 20:1, so the top speed is only about 45 scale MPH, but it runs really well now! It's also a lot quieter now. The old square motor was in poor condition and ran as loud as a cheap dishwasher. All it needs now is better wheels and more weight.
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No current layout at the moment, but I did just add on to my WC fleet with a WC HO GP40 from Atlas. Heres a shot of about half my WC fleet, hoping to add on more this summer.
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2495/p1010794mm8.jpg
Alec
Dave Vollmer wrote: Not a train in sight, but an idea of the depth of field one can achieve in N scale on a hollow-core door. This is Lewisport, PA.
Dave, I've always enjoyed your deep scenes. They are very believeable and create the feeling of a real town, not just a stage for the trains. It is the one thing about N scale that makes me envious. Not that I'm contemplating going over to the dark side.
Not bad for half a days work. There are more pics in the 'Abandoned steamer' thread.
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bogp40 - You know, I looked at my cloud stenicls, I am using for clouds, the one called "details" and it was so clogged with white over spray, the clouds did look like a fog bank. I repainted the backdrop and re-stenciled the clouds after cleaning up the stencil and they look great. Will post pics tomorrow.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
wctransfer wrote: No current layout at the moment, but I did just add on to my WC fleet with a WC HO GP40 from Atlas. Heres a shot of about half my WC fleet, hoping to add on more this summer.http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2495/p1010794mm8.jpgAlec
A very nice locomotive, I'm sure you'll be very happy with it. Smooth runner, and I added a Soundtraxx decoder to mine (also WC). It is currently undergoing rebuild to a CNR GP40-2L(W); I'll post the pics when it's ready.
Chris
I made some progress on my yard; laid track, wired, tantative structures set up, painted the track, installed Caboose ground throws, then the batteries were dead. Argh!. I was looking forward to sharing some pics here but matbe tomarrow.
I must say there were are some nice pics this week.
John