It’s Friday morning and I think it’s time to start WPF off! (I feel like that proverbial kid getting up at 1 AM on Saturday and yelling “It’s the weekend!” [swg])
This week I’ll start off with a new video from the WRS. Yesterday I chased Extra LECD (a Lebanon - Concord extra train) from Lebanon to West Canaan, NH, though the towns of Mascoma and Enfield filming at several locations along the way. You will notice however that no HO scale figure could get from scene to scene fast enough and if you are really paying attention, you’ll notice that the scale videographer should be visible in one of the scenes filming the previous one! The video is available in HD format - although the quality difference isn’t so noticeable due to quite a bit of video compression in the production process. Bear with me on the shallow depth of field in some shots…it was a while until I realized I could shoot video in Aperture Priority mode and set it to F/8! [:-,]
Now I’m going to stop nitpicking my own work and let you decide what you think!
Here are some pics from the layout we built to raffle off for a charity here on the Air Force base. The design was by our own Dave Vollmer who also led the effort.
I have my website up and running. http://www.kreepykritters4kids.com/Johns_Model_Railroad/Movie.html No live link yet, because with the last one there were a few problems. This link will take you directly to my new movie, "My cross country trip in 48 seconds"Please tell me how you like it. BTW nice photos so far.
Christmas is coming, and so it is time for lots of mail and express. The train below was photographed by a railfan in Hinterland on my layout. It has ten head-end cars and two modernized heavyweight passenger cars (coach and diner/parlor).
This week I decided to bite the bullet. When I installed the curve in upper Sheepscot some time ago, I knew the curve was tight. At the time I was thinking about freight, and the tight curve would be no problem for 40’ and 50’ boxcars and 4 axle diesels (DUH). Since them I have become interested in running passernger trains as well, and my Walthers heavyweight always derailed on that curve. [banghead] I also have a building and details almost ready to go into lower Sheepscot near the retaining wall that could be damaged with trackwork nearby. So out came about 3 feet of track and back in on a better curve.
Now all I have to do is to revise my street and building plans in upper Sheepscot.[%-)][sigh]
Tyler, always like your audio matching to the scene. Dave, very nice bridge and the string of Fs is done well. Grampy, your photo’s depth of field always blows me away.
Over the past week, I stripped “BNSF” from 3 GP60s and decaled with Santa Fe adding mu cable and hoses, windshield wipers, and weathering along the way. I found a photo of a really dirty 60M via Google so I used MIG pigment to get the depth of grunge needed on top of a still damp gouache layer. The Dullcote diminished it a bit but it still conveys the point.
George, I feel your pain. I had not tested all the curves with any Walther’s or BLI passenger cars. Like you, I figured if an 89 ft flat, 86 ft HC box or autorack had no problems, an 85 ft passenger car would be a no-brainer. Wrong - the diaphrams bind badly on one curve and put the cars on the ballast. Looking down on the curve from a ladder revealed the ever tightening curve radius. The 36-inch radius objective had executed badly - more like a V.
So, long butcher knife in hand, its time to remove and relay some track…
Hi everyone, There are fantastic works over here and i will not miss every weekend . I think this is a highlight of the forum as well. Good job everyone. I’ll be adding some pix later on. I’ve visit your video link . I would say that it is outstanding work, also your video setting. And one more thing is how is your sound system? Well done…TrainManTy. Back to the pictures.
