I finished my scratch built Speeder Shed
but it still needs some landscaping and other details
I’ve been concentrating on scenery lately. This is RailFan Park in the town of Adobe Flat. Some fans are gathering to watch RI SW9 perform some switching chores.
I still need to add glazing to the windows and level the ground below the building but progress is being made.
Tom
Excellent, C&O! Have you described your techniques and materials elsewhere? I’d like to tackle a job like that myself, maybe this summer or fall.
You do good work.
Tom, that is a nicely composed and a nicely rendered photo. I like it…reminds me of being near the AT&SF 4-8-4 at Kingman in AZ…a nice effect. Lots of good perspective there.
-Crandell
Looks good. I am in the same boat with a new building; it is still just sitting on top of the ground where it, and future details, will go. Here is the new Ken Burns Coal and FireWood building in place on the layout.
Very nice Terry and Tom! I am finishing off some details on my shed (barn) project and will try and post later this evening.
Great Photo Tom [bow]
Wish my camera was that good
What kind are you using ?
Turned out pretty good Alan !
love the metal roof !
No i’m just an amature but there are plenty of great modelers on this forum
to learn from.
Thanks for the kind words everyone. The camera is a Canon S3 IS. The picture was shot in manual mode with GE Reveal lights, F8 at 1.6 sec. ISO 100. No additional lighting was used.
Tom
Still trying to improve my forest. Here is my first attempt to use Noch leaves for Elm and static grass for pine trees. And one Oak on Arizona weed. I will have some finished forest by the end of the storm headed our way.
I am in the middle of scenicking the next section of my layout and I don’t like to post pictures of works in progress. Having basically completed the longest wall of my layout with the major classification yard, I have now rounded the bend and am working on a little crossroads town with a commuter station with a large lumber yard. I have made great progress this past week putting up about 20 feet of backdrop and using foam board to create the basic shape of the gently sloping terrain. I’ve had a lot of fun laying out the roads and deciding where all the structures will go. I hope to have something worth showing in two or three weeks. In the meantime, seeing the work of others is inspiring me to press on. Good work, guys, keep it coming.
Couple three gents moved into the boardin’ house. Don’t know their names yet.
And out back of the Flattened Penny Saloon, Pappy pulls on his pipe while talking to the feller known only as “The Scout-Master.”
Here is another photo of my yard, taken from near the drop o’ doom…really an interchange, but I like the other idea better.
Nice Selector!
I have two drop-o-dooms to.
They actually are drops of doom, being about 35" from the floor. Their for the diesels.
(And for the hand of god (AKA the 0-5-0…)to pick up freight cars from the interchange.)
Great photo! I like the green doors on the double door boxcar.
Thanks, Hoople…it means a lot.
Chip, I like your theme, and I think you are doing very well at it. Some mules a la Oatman, AZ, pines and scrub oak, and you are in business.
Okay, since I told JaRRell I’d post a pic of my village…such as it is… here it is.
Life after Helix:
Still no scenery, but work is progressing.
Laurel engine terminal construction has begun. The turntable is in and I can at least turn locos now. The turntable will go some serious cosmetic changes, including weathering and changes to the arch (that’s why it isn’t installed):
Here the Glenrock subroadbed is being extended towards Casper. This is an awful lot of 1X2 just to support one track, isn’t it?
Boy, I wish I worked as fast as some of you guys!
ARTHILL-Those trees look great Art! I was wondering if anybody was using those Noch leaves. What’s that dark green cedar looking tree in the first pic made of?
Crandell, Nice work keep it up. How long have you been working on that layout? Tim