Well, it certainly works, John. I have only a few overhead curli-cue flourescents - that power-saving bulbs that fit a standard socket. My layout is pretty dark - permanently dusk or dawn.
Doug, I feel your pain!! In order to cut some costs on building my train house before the birth of my son, I purchased some inexpensive incandescent lighting fixtures from Home Depot and have regretted it ever since!!! It’s on my fix-up list though!!!
Jon,
Outstanding modeling! I always enjoy the little “wrong side of the tracks” scenes you put together.
By the way, whereabouts in Mississippi do you live? Most of my family came from Leflore county (Greenwood and Itta Bena) and I still have an aunt living outside of Jackson. An uncle used to be mayor of Winona (back in the 50’s) and also worked for the Columbus & Greenville RY.
Thanks, Dr. John. I live deep in the woods just south of Jackson!! I’ve made many a road trip to the delta and I’m amazed at how times or the land has’nt changed much in the last couple hundred years.
Great stuff, John! I definitely agree with the comments that your layout is certainly magazine-worthy! Could we by chance have a photo with an overall view of your layout to get a perspective of what you have in terms of size?
I’ll second that request, Sask. We’ve seen a good many detail shots of Jon’s layout, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen a photo that shows all or a large part of it at once. How bout it, Jon? Jim
That’s a good request!! I’ve never figured out how to do a panaramic scene with my camera without standinng on the layout!! Here’s a couple shots that might help. The overall layout is 14’ by 14 ’ with 3 main loops and 4 sidings. Here’s a shot of the Northside:
Here’s a shot of the southwest side:
Cool.
Appears to be partially around the wall with a donut. Do you have a liftout to get inside the donut or duckunder?
It goes around all four walls with the dreaded duckunder!!![B)][:D]
Seeing highrailjons nifty little scene with the old truck prompted me to get off my duff and try to do my first pictures with my new digital camera and my first post to this (or any) forum of photos. Bear with me while I see if I can make this work. [(http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6d628b3127cce8bed00de96bf00000016100AaMWbNu3csmNg[/img)]
Well, back to the drawing board. I guess I havent figured this out yet. I thought I followed spankybirds instructions to the letter, but I evidently missed something.
I’ll try again with a different set of instructions and see what happpens.
Success! It seems only one will fit at a time so I’ll post again. All this is on the living room floor.
As much fun as this is (Ain’t success grand?) I’ll quit after this one (for now)
Well Jon, at least you only have one breakdown, and it isn’t blocking traffic
Bob If you can’t fix it with a hammer, it ain’t broke.
Good to see, Jon! You have an extremely nice layout!
Nice stuff, dgraham and W4BAR! We certainly have a lot of great layouts among our members! dgraham, if that’s just a floor layout, I can only imagine what how incredible a permanent layout on benchwork created by you would be like!
Great looking layout Jon!!
Stan.
WOW!! Some great layout shots going on here!!! I’m liking it!!![:D][:D]
JON,
Always a pleasure checking out your stuff. Ya got the best CHICKs on you’re layout. Where did you get em?
laz57
Thanks, Laz, Here’s a link to some of the figures:
http://www.scalefigures.com/O/Oscale.htm
To look at the “good” babes follow the intructions under the “email request” to Allen in the O scale section. He’ll hook you up with the link.[;)]
The rest I purchase are by Preiser.