Here it is the finished layout pics!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Well I will be adding some more bushes and be installing side walks but that should be it.

I want to start with the night shots that I took to try and show the light installations, here a few of my favorites, I tried to post the link to my photo bucket album but didn’t get it too work?

This is two of my Bat cave with Bat mobile exiting the cave.

Of course the police don’t like Hot Rods with loud exhaust so they are always pulling me over in my “Bone Crusher”.

The local diner that was made from a broken trolley car is a favorite hang out for the hot rodders,

This was a hard shot to get; it is the biker and a hobo enjoying a camp fire up on the cliffs of Dancing Willow Pass,

Don’t know if you can see the hobo on the log, the fire is made from tiny logs stacked on top of a red mini bulb.

This is a shot of the Native Warrior statue that stands in the center of town,

A lone woman waits for the late train at Abanaki Station,

[IMG]http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj162/jredhorse1960/Black%20Rock%20completed/C

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Great shots. The layout seems great for those closeups. Great imagination. Thanks for the pics.

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I love it. Your unique touch is just wonderful. We need more people like you on this forum and in this hobby.

Keep up the great work Jess.

Magnus

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Jess, your layout is wonderful…full of imagination and it looks really good. Well done!

-Crandell

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Great work Jess, love your layout [tup]

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Jess, you continue to improve by leaps and bounds! Outstanding my friend! Really well done!

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[:-^]

Jess; What more can I add. [wow][bow]

We all knew you had it in you, and you have shown us beyond doubt that we were right.

We all need at least 1/10 of your imagination and we would all be better modellers.

Here’s to a new creative genius and we are glad to call you a friend.

Keep up the inspiring work, the speed at which you re-created your layout makes me look like I am asleep.

Johnboy out…

Long live the “Wobbly”

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GREAT JOB JESS!!!

DITTO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE SAID!!!

NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO TOP THIS!!!

[tup][tup]

[8D]

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I love the layout!!! What era is our ATSF line?

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Are you joking?

LOL [;)]

Ask the pros- no layout is ever “finished”![:-^]

You will find other things to add or do to it. [:-^]

If it “is finished”…time to rip it out and start a new one! LOL

Great job!

Thanks for sharing!

Love the pics!

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Jess:

Very nicely built and the images are well composed.

As you have found out, it is very difficult to keep camera motion out of those long night exposures. The best way to shoot them is with a tripod. If you don’t have one, a bean bag works almost as well. Take a cloth bag and fill it half way with unpopped popcorn or something similar, squash it down and set the camera on it for those long shots. If the camera has a self timer on it, using that will help you keep from moving the camera when you push the shutter button.

Don’t ever lose your sense of humor.

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Let there be LIGHTS![tup]

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“I just have to have a touch of humor on my layout.”

Hmm - “A touch of humor” - are you sure you didn’t inherit a trait of Understatement from some ancestor?

And what is that yellow robot/statue by the trolley-diner anyway?

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Lets see there are a lot to reply to here so I’ll do my best,

Art, Thanks, I like to get as much detail so that my close ups look as good as the real thing, I even paint my pieces under a magnifing glass as to not do a poor job on the painting aspects of the hobby.

Magnus, t is easy to show my work here because of the respectful way people can give advice without being condesending, the feed back is always useful to me either way, I use it too either improve or blush, it’s all good!

Crandell, Some times I worry that I’m putting too much of my imagination into my work, I don’t want to cross the line and risk my work being labeled as silly or goofy, “Creative” is a good word.

Sawyer, Thanks for the compliment, it was been so much fun and I can only hope running the trains will bring as much joy as the build did.

Philip, I hope I can always find the inspiration to improve, some day I hope to be thought of as one of the ledgeneds in the hobby, until then, I’ll keep pushing the bounderies until I get thrown out of the hobby !!!

Johnboy, Never worry about the speed in which you work, it is the end result that matters, I just have a habit of obsessing about finishing a task when I get started, I’ve spent many “late nights” working on my layout when I should have been getting sleep to go to work the next day…LOL!

Lou V H, You asked at what I’m going too do to top this, hummmm, I don’t know, maybe I’ll use the layout and all this video and sound equipment laying around here to make a HO animated film using stop motion photography, I sure have enough different film “sets” I could have the trains as the charictures, kind of like an adult "Thomas the train " show, by adult I mean the target audiance , the content will always be -G- Rated of course…LOL!

(BNSF), Hummm, the era?, I was supposed to do an era, now you tell me, I don’t know, how does yesterday sound? I have some new and old cars in

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[(-D] That is supposed to be one of those inflateable puppet ballons that people use in front of their business’s to advertise a grand opening or what ever the occasion, He is the Master blaster cartoon robot with the baby on his head that gives him commands…gee, I thought everyone had one of those on their layout?, Guess I was wrong!

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Jess…lookin good! [^] A whole lot of progress in a short time!

One thing I noticed, and I guess you have also, is the lighting “glows” through some of the structures. You can alleviate that by painting the inside of the building with black paint. That will block the light from glowing through the building. If you wish, you can then repaint the inside a more realistic wall color after the black dries.

See…and you thought you were finished. [swg]

Rotor

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Red Horse:

This is not criticism, but is intended to help.

Buy a Tripod. When you shoot low light pictures. Anything hand held will not compare. Nothing in photography @ any price will give more improvement.

It makes a difference!

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Don:

He said he used a tripod.

Some of the cheap ones aren’t very steady. I think he just needs to be sure the camera is fastened very tightly to the tripod, and practice being very gentle when he releases the shutter.

Practice makes perfect. He’ll get it if he keeps trying.

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If the camera has a self timer, you can set that for the 10 second delay, that way after you push the button, you don’t have to be actually touching the camera when the shutter pops.

Lee

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Hi,

great job Jess. Now it is time to negotiate with the lady of the house for more space [8D], or add a spiral and go multilevel.[:)]

Frank