Since WPF shuts down on Tuesday, I thought I’d start a thread to showcase some of the winter scene modeling out there to help celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year. Hopefully it can stay close to the top between now and the end of December… I suppose that’ll be up to us! So post away. Bare plaster, sifted baking soda, that snow stuff from a spray can… Show us some snow from Z to G!
I’ll kick things off with a scene I made a couple of years ago…
I used an old chunk of layout that had been discarded, sifted some plaster dust over it, and shot it outside under a dreary December sky. I’m thinking about doing a new one now that I have a better camera…
Anyway, Merry Christmas from the Western Maryland Western Lines in N Scale!
Yes! Great thread. I don’t have any photos to post but I’m hoping others do; I’m just starting a small layout that will be winter-themed with lots of snow. Looking for ideas.
Great idea Lee, hopefully the thread will keep until after the holidays. Also, great work on that snow scene!
Here’s mine, I’m doing some reworking of the mountain right now, so this scene will look a little different when I’m done, I’ll post up more pics when I’m finished.
Merry Christmas from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad - The Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, Main Line Through the Rockies in HO Scale.
Here’s my Holiday card scene for 2010, I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now. The scene is a diorama set up just for the photo, and the models are in O scale, part of my collection of On30 items. Station and water tower are resin kits by Schomberg Scale Models. “Snow” is cooking flour I borrowed from my wife, scene is lighted with a blue photoflood light, and the station platform had some additional lighting with a small LED flashlight. The lights on the Xmas tree were added in my Paint Shop Pro imaging program. I added appropriate greetings to the scene for my actual card. I had a bunch printed, and sent many others out in an e-mail.
I have two photos, one recent and one dated. In each case, Jarrell (jacon12) has assisted me to improve the quality with a nice blue sky and a border in the recent one (the J Class), and he added the border and sharpened the one of the N&W Train Master emerging from the tunnel.
Geeeez, this thread reminds me of all the great winter scenes one used to see in the pages of MR. Some of them were even winners in the old Annual Photo Contests. In fact, the greatest shot I ever saw in 60 years of MRs was one!
