Wow it’s Sat morning and no Photo Fun Thread
Ok I’ll Start it
Here’s some photos of Buildings i’m doing for my friends Layout
He models the same area of the C&O
The little building is the East end yard office at Thurmond
It’s the first Hip roof i’ve done
It took 4 tries
First I have been talking about a RR I have been operating on. IT is owned by Roy Ward and has not missed a Weds. Night OP session in 29 years. That includes the week they switched from DC to DCC–although they were up late Tuesday night. The layout was featured in Model Railroad Planning 2006. Note the brass track.
This is a project I have been working on for the past several weeks. The model on the right is the current Train City Station. It is a Southern Pacific Station made by Suydan, and although I really like the way it looks check out the size of the doors and windows compared to the model on the left. The model on the left is a Muir Models of a DRGW station.
I’m beginning to think that the only reason to buy a craftsman kit is for the plans. The Muir kit is a wood kit that wanted you to make a lot of fancy cuts to imitate a particular station. Instead, I painted this one SP colors and left out the fancy work. Even so, the model had you piece together the wood in an impossible fashion. So I cut a piece of styrene the shape of the walls and glued the wood to it for support. At that point it would have been easier to build the whole thing out of styrene with board and baton styrene.
Anyway, there is a certain amount of bashing going on. I added the center ticket window and cupola. (Looks like the windows rotated a little while drying–darn camera.)
I also did a little painting on the backdrop. Last week it looked like this
Now it looks like this. I painted varying shades of blue up the wall. I will airbrush some white in this weekend, I hope.
Ya beat me by 7 minutes so I deleted mine thread.
Been working on a new yard in Fresno on my layout, didn’t like the last one. Enjoy!
Chuck,
Nice layout, but too bad the fog bank was rolling in for the pics.
[#ditto] I would like to see some more photos of your layout.
Chip nice kitbashing
I like the added cupola on the station
Curious though why are the windows so low on the side of the station ?
Chuck the yard looks great
I really like the painted backdrop
What is the purpose of the turnout in the second picture
that has no track leading off of it ?
Here’s my kitbashed H10s posed at East Mifflin, PA.
Not a train in sight, but an idea of the depth of field one can achieve in N scale on a hollow-core door. This is Lewisport, PA.
Here’s another view of Lewisport, PA.
I was curious too, but they match the door height on top and that is the way they came cut out.
I think they were made like that so shorties like me can see out of the window.
Otherwise, nice work everyone. It looks like my 2-8-0 will be in this thread next weekend…
Thanks for comments. The switch runs to a grain elevator that is being built on the workbench and being applied later. I posted a couple of pictures last week as well.
Dave has really captured th true feel of the Alleghany’s in Central PA in N scale.
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This is the Stockyarad & Meat Packing Plant on my (era 1930-1950) HO railroad layout
Dave, I’m in awe. Your work nearly puts me to shame.
The subject of the past week or so has been updating my Columbia Feed Mill by Walthers to appear more realistic. I need to go get some plastic to cover up a seam as weather stripping, as well as apply some sort of name to finish it off, following which I’ll post pics.
Yesterday was spent railfanning across Central and Western Massachusetts, for which a thanks goes to my mother for driving.
This is a model railroading thread, so i’ll just link the photo narrative.
http://yfcorp.googlepages.com/april20th%2C2007-anarrative
(19 pics)
It hasn’t yet been edited for grammar or clarity, so please bear with it. [:D]
It took me a while to connect the dots. That’s the lil guy you were fretting about on the other side.
Nice.
How did you finally work it out? I think I would have used cardboard and played with it.
Must be the new ADA regulations for the handicapped access.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i83/dwhitetop2/DSCN1396-3.jpg Hello all, some nice work out there today. here is some of what Ive been working on lately. Let me know what all of you think of the mirror illusion. Keep in mind my work is not in the same league as most of you. Thanks Dave
You “illusion” will have a lot to do with the height of the mirror. IF you can see any part of yourself, it will be a hard sell. IF it is low and the top makes sense in some way, running some trees will help, especially around the drive in.
And despite the animosity most people are showing toward brass today I’ll bet it works like a champ.
He says zero maintaince. He also added that it probably wouldn’t be that way if he didn’t run every week.
