I made some headway on my town and got a new camera. The camera does so many things I can barely make it do anything at all. But here are some pics of progress on Sublime City.
I tried a funeral scene in the church’s cemetery. I don’t know who it is for, but NOT for the hobby. In spite of some comments on the forum, I don’t think it is ready for a funeral. There have been some notable deaths, but they deserve better than this. Maybe it is for the lady’s logger.
I then tried some night shots. I have four of the buildings wired.
I had the NCE decoders arrive and replaced the Botchman Cheapo with one that works better. Here she is testing out the decoder replacement:
She’s ready to use in revenue service and is going to be good competition for NYC 999 on those straightaways.
I also have been at work finishing the main building for Guy’s Gas. I didn’t want to use the paper metal roofing that came with the kit, so I tried making a cedar shake roof. That looked way to thick for scale and I couldn’t cut it much thiner, so I ripped it off ruining the cardboard roof on one side in the process. So I used scale lumber to put a “real” underlayment on it and made up some Tarpaper Roofing on the computer. Came out much better.
Lastly I added some big signs on the roof (they come with the kit). The sign is decaled with decals I made up with Micro-Mark paper.
I also scratch built a couple of crossbucks for the road into Cooley’s Ice House.
“I made some headway on my town and got a new camera. The camera does so many things I can barely make it do anything at all.”
Nice photographs of the grave site…& those stained glass windows in the church at night!
I have a new camera also, a Canon PowerShot A540, & as soon as I lean how to do one thing I seem to forget how something else works!
I still working on lighting and focus…I took these all without a tripod, just sat the camera on the layout or track, held the camera steady and took the picture. All at f8 to get the best dept-of-field…
Good pictures everyone! Wish I had something to contribute…But all I got is a question for Art.
ARTHILL: That’s a good lookin’ little town…But doesn’t that space between the buildings and track get a little narrow? Door-to-door train service, maybe? [:P]
I have been working on my layout also. I just replaced the lead to one of my largest terminals.
This one of the elevators that sits in this spot. A junction was puy into place to help out with trains leaving the grain terminal. I know that it’s plywood central in this spot but I have a couple more pics that don’t look so plywoody.
The first train to actually run on the new grain lead. The grain elevator is a scale 300 feet long and is 100 feet high. It’s really big.
ONe of the only UP trains that comes on to the Milwaukee division. UP extra
Milw-JunP415 comes through Dale with a load of grain on it’s way to junction point.
I’ve added a new SW-8, P2K with DCC and sound. That’s the Lackawanna switcher. The Erie unit is a P2K S1. I call them The Twins, (fraternal) but they could just as well be Jay and Silent Bob.
Nice work everyone. When I saw that Art had started the thread, I said to myself, “Well, Art figured out how to use his new camera!”
Art, that’s a nice little church there. Is it a kit, or a scratchbuild?
The horses are safe. When you shrink that 1" rawhide rein down to HO scale it is only .01" which does not show up in the photo. Besides, in 1910, a firecracker got your rear end “tanned”. The only problem that I have with the wagons is that a “seated” HO figure is too large to get in the seat of the Jordan delivery wagon ( wagons under scale maybe?).
This is just a small project. I been wanting to try my hand at scratch-building a fence for one of my structures:
The wood fence makes a nice border and cover for the automotive junk around the side of Dill’s Market & Gas Station. I’ll paint and weather it eventually.
Art Hill and others, you make me sick[xx(] But in a good way. It will take 2 years to get my board some what close to what I want but still doing baby steps.
But it is a start.
I did add 2 new DCC with sound engines to my roster. BLI Mikado and PK2 FA2 and B with sound.
I love that church–and that was before I saw the lights. I got a camera in February and learned some things about it the last couple weeks that have made a huge difference in the way I take pictures.
Ray, that gas station is really coming along. Love that green car.
The rest of you posted good stuff as well. I’m just getting sleepy. I’ll post a some stuff I’ve been working on on Sunday.
Careful with that IE7. IN the past couple of months, I have heard only a couple of people who have done a successful conversion against dozens who have had their computer sch… [#oops] messed up in one way or another. In my case, I could not get to the internet and had to do a restore back to what I have before. [banghead] A real hassle!!
So much talent here. It is nice to see the visions that you have, all of you, and some real challenges in terms of making things appear realistic, not only on the layout, or in little dioramas, (WOW…Karl!), but also in learning to render them the same way on my monitor…good job everyone.
I don’t have any pictures, just bumbling along on my cross-over bridge to the other side of the layout. It’s part of a reversing loop, and it is coming along nicely, just not nearly ready to boast about it.
Come on, some of you lurkers, we know you are out there. You don’t have to be timid, just put 'em up and let us enjoy them.
