Hey Dennis!
Nah - that’s way too clean and organized to call it occupied![swg][(-D][tup]
Give it a few months!!
Seriously, well done!
Dave
I’ve been working on some interior details for my scratch-built radio repair shop. Here’s a tube radio chassis to go on the workbench. The vacuum tubes were turned from acrylic rod, using a drill as a crude lathe:
Even in 1/24th scale, this is pretty tiny, as you can see by the penny next to it! I considered making the tubes light up, but decided it was more trouble than it was worth. As it is, this pretty over-the-top, since the only way it’ll ever been seen is in close up photos of the model. But the building’s windows are big enough that it needs at least some details inside, and I’m having fun with it. 
Ray:
Very well done!
How did you do the radio dial face?
Dave
Thanks Dave! The dial is a photo, printed on self-adhesive vinyl, which was then stuck to a thin sheet of styrene and cut to shape.
Lotta gooda stuff going on.
Ray, You’re a man after my own heart, with detail…the tubes lighting up would have been my vision also, but viable??
Peter, I like the way Your scene is coming along.
Sorry not to include everyone one else…but I’m lucky I can remember two.
A little progress on the Rail/Truck area:
New track put down and wired, test fitting parts, they are just sitting there, nothing fastened down yet. That three lane Rix bridge will be lowered 2’’ and go into the new backdrop, which will be Walthers merchants row kits, bashed for city scene, with tracks underneath.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Gidday All, My new contract was supposed to start tomorrow, I’m on call 24/7 for the next 3 months, but no one informed Mr. Murphy so I haven’t had the time today to even look at the videos or to individually acknowledge all the other Really Good Stuff, suffice it to say, hope to see more Joel, I’ll be wanting tips on how you did your water Peter, Her-in-doors thought that your Horseshoe Curve photo was the real thing GP-9man, do we get another photo in a months’ time **Dennis ?,**and what is the diameter of a US penny?
Thanks everybody,[bow]
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Bear,
Just about to shut down and caught Your question.
US penny…3/4 inches…19.03 mm.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Just a little scene I’m working on - a very small section of coke oven ruins at Ansted, WV. The prototype went cold in 1938 and was a bank of 152 ovens. The model is 1951 - nature hadn’t completely destroyed thing yet. Not much remains today.
Thanks!
Charles
C&O Hawks Nest SD, 1951
Charles,
That would make a great scene, for one of my Military diorama’s.
One of my other passion’s.
Really great job! [Y]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Charles,
Nice scene of the dead Ansted coke ovens. On my 1949 C&O, I run a mine shifter to Ansted that originates from Thurmond. As it was done, 2 G-9s are in charge, one at the point and the other pushing just in front of the wooden cab. I do not model Ansted, but it is represented in my west staging area. I am however modeling a bank of coke ovens that were still in operation at Sewell, W. Va in 1949 that were operated by Babcock Coke and Coal. As you are probably aware, the coke ovens in this region of the C&O were historically significant because they supplied the coke needed to fire the iron foundaries in Virginia that made armaments and munitions for the south during the Civil War.
Anyway, nice modeling during a neat time of C&O history.
Joel
Found a Santa Fe telephone directory to add to the HO layout desk.
Also working on a CTC inspired box for turnout and other various on/off controls that will go on the left area of the desk.
I added two tank cars to my collection this week!
I also got my Contour camera this week. It works great in the belly of a well car and I’m hoping to film an operating session soon in “first person”.
Here’s to the week ahead! [Y]
Acela
Hi, Acela
I found that I could get a lower point of view by rotating the lens 180° and stuffing a little foam in the belly of the well car BUT you have to check clearances overhead.
This was my original setup which was a bit more stable but gave more of a “dome car” view.
Have fun with your new toy! Ed
AND here is the poor man’s camera giving the passenger’s eye view [%-)]
Bob
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