What!?! It is after 9:00PM on Friday and no one has started the Weekend Photo thread? Well I guess it’s up to me… This has been a good week. The painters finally arrived yesterday to seal and paint the basement of my house. Did it quickly and did not destroy anything on the layout. Now I can get to work building the new room for the layout addition. In the mean time I have been doing some scenicing in the area that is behind where the roundhouse will sit when assembled. I had an old dilapidated shed that has been sitting around for over 20 years (someone in the family gave it to me way back then, so it can’t be thrown out). I decided that it wouldmake an interesting old storage building near the roundhouse. So I cut off the plastic, icky, base, did some weathering and put it into service. The scrap pile is from WS. The track is hand laid code 70 freshly ballasted with cinders (the ballast was still wet when I took the photo and needs still to be cleaned up off the rail in places). The stacks of lumber (2" x 6" x 8’ and 12" x 12" x 16’) were cut on my Micro Mark table saw to scale, glued together and stained. Hope you like the scene!
Thanks, yes the two tracks you see are off the turntable so they can be used for loco storage or a car carrying supplies for the roundhouse. I haven’t shown many of my locos in my photos yet as I am waiting to have them decaled for the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western (which means I have to find time to fini***he logo and get them printed…).
Howmus, looks great, but without really knowing what I’m talking about, doesn’t the grass immediately to the side of the cinders look a little, well, vibrant and alive? Wouldn’t it be slightly more, well, dead?
Not the voice of experience today…
Matthew
Actually, I was thinking that myself. I need to get some of the other colors of the grass and work on a more “worn” appearance. It’s a work in progress…
ARTHILL, I love that Birch grove! The scene is coming along well. The hunting scene is so, so great! The furrows of the plowed field really stand out to this old farm boy. On the waterfall, try using a dampened paint bru***o flaten out the ribbons of caulking. I found on the waterfall I did that it was was of the most difficult things to get looking anything like real (still doesn’t). The “water” would be flater and have some “turbulance” in it… Still great work. I enjoy seeing progress you are making!
My HO scale 4 foot module. Turntable will go in the pit, and a scratchbuilt roundhouse will take up three of the four tracks at right. And where the yellow foam is, as scratchbuilt yard office will go there.
We took our granddaughter to her soccer tournament this morning and coming home we saw a NS and as locomotive still painted in Santa Fe colors stopped at a siding. I tried to snap a picture as we drove by but it did not turn out very well as you can see.
A half mile farther we were stopped at a crossing for a trainload of south bound FEMA trailers. There must have been 100 to 150 trailer, most loaded 2 to a flat car. As luck would have it the camera was out of memory so I had to quickly search for a soccer photo to delete then I had to hurry and shoot before the last car passed by.
Okay so I did a bit more than just inserting missing ties on the track joints. Here’s a little picture of a scene I threw together. Note the dog in the truck barking at the loco. This vehicle is one of the Woodland Scenic autoscenes called Hal and Duke.
Nice looking work, people! Art, as usual [bow]. Not much for me to post this time. I’ve just been doing some more ballasting. I might post some next time.
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