Okay guys and gals…This is a really big deal. My first pictures posted to the forum and my weekend project.
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Okay guys and gals…This is a really big deal. My first pictures posted to the forum and my weekend project.
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Built some shacks out of styrene for the Company Town on our Wye Knot Free-moN module:
The outhouse does “double doody” as the knob for the slide switch turnout control (there’s a cross-support directly under the throwbar so no Bullfrog).
Also made a video on how to scratchbuild with styrene to try to help take the mystery out of it and get people to populate their layouts with unique structures instead of the Walthers catalogue.
Here’s the Abridged 5-minute version:
And the two-part step-by-tippy-toe-step tutorials are on my website in the “Tips & Tutorials” section.
Also started fleshing out the mine tipple scene with an office, tufts, and more trees:
Also made 30 more pines while watching the US win a World Cup qualifier in a blizzard.
Also just got Helicon focus stacking software, thus the going crazy with the photos
More photos on the Layout Construction thread.
Thanks for looking, and thanks for sharing all your nifty work.
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Good stuff again this week everyone!
Here is one from the BRVRR:
Invader! The loco is an Athearn Ready to Run I picked up at the Lakeland show. The cars are by Walthers and part of the consist usually run with our Challenger. I haven’t decided if I’m going to go whole hog with the loco yet. If I do, more details and sound are in its future. In any case, I’m going to have to put out the fire in the cab.
Keep the good stuff coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
“Excuse me driver, but does this bus stop at the railroad station?” [:P]
I made good progress today on the “West” switch detail work of my siding.
The radio tower is scratch built from styrene rod stock. 3 different sizes.
Some pics of the "East " switch details.
I get the distinct impression that the quality of modelling has gone up a great deal since I joined the forum eight years ago. Wow!!
I still have nuthin’ but oldies, so here’s one I probably first ran in 2010.
Norfolk & Western power.
Agreed. A lot very impressive photos this week.[:)]
Great photos and projects this week!
Nothing much new from me, been one of those weeks where I didn’t have much time for modeling. Here’s another shot of my Burlington Pioneer Zephyr on its 1935 tour of the west–on Bullard’s Bar viaduct.
Tom
I guess it’s time to bring the average down a bit!
After a several-years-long hiatus, construction finally began in earnest yesterday on my new version of the CB&Q in Wyoming.
This is what my construction crew accomplished yesterday - the benchwork for the Laurel, MT layout peninsula.
Doesn’t look like much right now, I know, but it’s a start. Trains will be rolling (back and forth, but rolling!) in the near future.
I don’t know Mark, I wouldn’t say your stuff brings down the average.
That looks like some nice looking benchwork and a great beginning. And look it’s even level.[:P]
I saw your saga about getting the layout going in another thread. But, from the looks of this it will not be long till you have some trains running now.
Keep posting photos of your progress
Derek
I’d have to agree.
Looking back over my pictures, I realized that I’ve been working on Mooseport, the carfloat terminal area of my layout, for over a year. It started as a group of cardstock mock-ups in November, 2011.
By July of 2012, the structures were pretty much done, but I still hadn’t begun work on the apron and carfloat themselves.
Last month, I was here:
Now, with some careful camera placement…
There’s still much to be done. The parts don’t quite line up yet, and the float is perched on pink foam and will need some dirty “water” around it. But, it’s almost there.
Mark, I dunno what happened, but your helix was a thing of beauty. Did you shoot the bolt over a few months and then “lose your mojo?” It seems like five or six years ago that you did that technical wonder, and then you dropped out of sight.
No matter any more. If you keep up like you are doing, you’ll be posting nice completed works in no time. When you do post images of your work, it is top class.
Crandell
This weekend I have been designing another building using Even Designs Model Builder. The Bell Telephone building is based on the telephone building on Park St hill in Bangor, Maine where I grew up. I have mostly completed the front, and printed it out on plain paper to see how it fit. It is correct size and fits onto the hill, but the upper floor windows are about 25% too large. This is easily corrected in the program.
I started research on the building using the Street View in Google Earth. I saved a few views for reference. I found a stone wall in Model Builder that was close to the prototype, but no windows or doors were close. I used Photoshop Elements to extract windows, doors and other details from the reference photos, and imported them into Model Builder.
Layout of LION:
The first shot is five frames stitched together, the second is three frames. See the red train on the helix: It moved between the second and third frame.
ROAR
Thanks for the kind words, Derek and Crandell! [:$]
Crandell, what happened was a bout of temporary insanity! I got hornswaggled into local politics! [xx(] I ran for, and unfortunately won, a seat on our town council. Three years of essentially no layout progress. The darned council ate up ALL my spare time! Even our home renovations ground to a near halt. [:(!]
Then, as my term on council was winding down, came the KO punch for the layout - my company transferred me from Philadelphia to Charleston, South Carolina! [W]
In late 2010, down came the layout, and the helix is no more. I’ve got quite a pile of threaded rods, and about a thousand 1/4" nuts and hundreds of washers to boot! I also managed to salvage most of the track, which, given the current track prices, was a very worthwhile thing to do.
That’s it in a nutshell. We’ll see what the future brings!
…nnnnooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo…!!! [:O][:(]
Not the helix. Not THAT helix. [:'(]