Gidday All, Labour Day on Monday, so three day weekend for us in New Zealand, Hooray!!! Unfortunately the spring equinoctial winds / gales are hanging around this year so not sure if it will be that good for those trying to get away for a break.
Thanks to the contributors to this recent thread, http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/210563.aspx , who gave me the inspiration to get cracking and have a go at making removable coal loads. The guys at the local club were impressed and asked me to conduct a “how to” soon.
Bear and Garry, nice work guys! DJ, are you posting 1/1 scale photos again? Wow! Lovely shot of great modeling sir!
I have had several “irons in the fire” going on over the past couple weeks. Finally have a few photos to share. The Lake Shores Limited is now occupying its staging space:
I have put together the roof for the water tower at the coal fired electric plant:
And I have been doing some background scenery for the area next to the staging tracks. Not by any means done, but I have a good start on it. Can you tell which “rocks” are plaster and which are the real limestone ones?
Nice pictures as always. I look forward to the weekend just to see them. Here are a few pictures of my layout taken the day before the layout tour arrived. Was still working until an hour or two before the appointed time.
There are many more in my Photobucket account albums.
I’ve been building & planting a vineyard on my Free-moN “Shoo-fly in Sonoma” module, using small stranded wire, ceramic stucco paste, polyfiber and AMSI ground foam:
That’s 182 individually made & planted vines.
At about 3 hours per batch of 40 vines, it was a bit laborious, but the end result is worth it.
Especially as this is a Free-moN module, and both sides are the “front” and close to the viewer, and people will be looking at this from inches away.
(No “3-foot rule” here!)
Great photos everyone! Garry, that is a nice shot. It makes me think of that classic Don Ball image in “America’s Colorful Railroads” of the Burlington E5 doing 90 mph. Here’s a view of a classic '41 Plymouth waiting for the Pennsy I1 4471 as it retrieves a bclassic B&O wagontop boxcar at the feed mill. The auto, loco boxcar, and mill are great examples of how far Model Railroading has come. The only thing I should have done is put the license plate on the car!
Great variety of neat stuff this week. It was a week of lots of little projects here. The major construction project was building another fuel loading rack for my refinery from parts of a Walthers 933-3114 Refinery Piping Kit, misc parts leftover from a Plastruct Refinery kit, and some scribed Evergreen sheet. This one primarily serves for loading narrowgauge tank cars, so is a little shorter than most loading racks.
Stan This is a great shot. I really like the look of the green building in the back could we see more of it please.
Howmus I thought all the rocks were real. I would like to know How you got that look. I am working a big rocky area and almost ready to have it look that great.
