Awesome welcomes, thanks, and pics of my humble layout in Progress

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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http://s1113.photobucket.com/albums/k507/Greg_Atkins/

Above is the link to my pics of the Only sceniced section of my layout (7x11 shelf around the walls.) Widest shelf about 2ft, Narrowest one with mine is about a few inches shy of a foot.

Buildings scratch built with a very few odd bin parts bin parts on it.

Cheers

Greg

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excellent work Greg ,really enjoyed your picts…Jerry

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Thanks Jerry [:D], might not be up there in the big leagues just yet, but one day…ever the optimist I am [:)]

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Very natural looking.Excellent work.Thanks Bob

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Thanks Jerry [:D], might not be up there in the big leagues just yet, but one day…ever the optimist I am [:)]

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By the way Why is your name Louisville Railfan.I thought you were in Louisville Ky.Intill I seen the Natal South Africa Location,Are you a Zulu.Cool Bob

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Thanks a million Bob :slight_smile:

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Excellent work !!!

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Greg … Welcome … Nice layout photos!

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Nice work Greg, Fantastic scenery and weathering. Really like the weathering on that Chessie Gp40-2.

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Humble? In progress? Looks quite nice, and quite far along, to me!

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Hi there Bob, to be honest i fell about laughing when I read this, I am a Louisville fan, great railroad with great modelling area, as for the Zulu part, no I am not a born Zulu, I am white…but I speak the language fluently, and I have been formally adopted into a a Zulu clan, (thats a whole story unto itself) so I am officially a white Zulu, with the clan name of Ndlovu, meaning elephant, its one of the Royal Zulu clans, so it is an honour and a priviledge to be called Ndlovu by my Zulu Brothers.

Cheers, and Sala Kahle Mfowethu

Greg

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Thanks a mill Gary, one day I hope to get them onto trackside scenes in MRR, I have seen you in those hallowed pages if I am not mistaken?

Cheers

Greg

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Greg

Neat layout!

And neat story! Just because it is way off the subject of model railroading doesn’t mean that you can’t tell your story elsewhere and provide a link to it here. Many of us who have been limited to the North American routines of life would be fascinated to hear it.

Dave

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Tx a mlillion BobK, its a really cheap Bachmann so has exact prototype flaws, non the less it was cheap and now has a digitraxx sound decoder in it, and the weathering was to show that you can cover the flaws with good weathering.

(Good weatheringis relative to the eye of the beholder i suppose) I wanted the loco to look really worn down and neglected and relegated to boondocks, and also tried a a new technique to weather the rust, same technique used on the really

gastly red western Maryland Hopper, I will add a pic of a rusted caboose that was inspired by a protophoto I found on the Net :slight_smile:

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Thanks Kolja, the rest is just one great big great plain of ply and foamboard, but I am busy with the next section of sceniking. :slight_smile: So hence the comment in progress, and as for humble, yes it is far from what a lot of other modellers don and achieve, but i work steadily and am pleased with the results

Cheers

Greg

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I’m still pretty much in the ‘armchair’ since I’m never sure when i’m going to be moving again, so I aspire to your level of ‘in progress’! [8D]

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Very nicely done layout thus far.I look forward to seeing the rest of it.

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SO. MUCH. DETAIL. Truly Awesome!