Let’s start the weekend a wee bit early! Georgia RR’s 1021 eases by Deep Step Station as a Southern passenger pulls away. All the commotion is over and the station will return to it’s sleepy little self.
Jarrell
Great Photo Jarrell Love the B&W
Looks like you used a little photo majic for the smoke
Here’s a video of my New C&O H-4 Double heading with an H-5 in the lead
Jarrell, very nicely done scene and B&W photo.
Terry, great video.
WB K4s with the local in Blackwood cut. DJ.
I’ve been putting together car kits I had purchased from someone that was cleaning their storage closet. Seems that some modelers now are dumping old kits for the new built up models nowadays. Just finished this latest, a McKeen Models, Southern Railway hopper car and weathered it up.
Thanks !
Love the water flow out of the pipe !
Did you do that before installing the pipe ?
As always your track work and ballast are meticulous
Not sure the real Pennsy ever looked that good
Here’s my entry on WPF this weekend. It’s a replica of SPMW snowplow 211 and the F-7B unit SPMW 8292 that was assigned to the plow for extra power. To my knowledge, this is still located in the Roseville Ca yard. (That’s were it was last located from the pictures I used to build it.) The snowplow was an Athearn snowplow in which I had to cut 15 ft. out of and convert it to the prorotype’s length. The intake portion of the plow is also scratch built with styrene strip and sheet. The light is a details west pyle light with a 1.5 v bulb and a 850 ohm resistor. I used kadee copper coupler springs to pick up power from the track that are screwed to the trucks …chuck
Awesome start to my favorite weekly thread! I gotta start reading my camera manual! But here is my humble snapshot…
Matt
Jarrell, I think your B&W ranks up there in the top three you have provided us over the years. Let me drop about 40 years in age and enthuse, “Totally awesome!!” [:D]
Terry, a fine layout, and two H models doubling along…it doesn’t get any better…does it? What would we do without them and the Tsunamis? [:(] Very nice video.
Grampy, yet another deeeep image with lots to feed the eyes. Thanks for posting another fine example of your hobby.
Matt, your scene is busy, involved, and shows a good eye…lots of detail and hard work in it., especially in the arrangements, so natural, of all those trees. And who could pass by a couple of NYC trains on the move? [8D]
Steamage and Chuck, you fellows do good work! I like the weathered hopper. A few darker streaks, maybe some very light rust, would be my next step if I could erect a model kit so nicely and get to where you are with the finishing. Chuck, bashing is something I should probably tackle, but right now I’ll leave you to that type of modelling…you turned out a very credible effort.
This time, I show a Pennsy Q2 departing the servicing complex at the roundhouse.
Here is a short video of the same process:
Here are some cars that I hve painted and decaled.
An old Ahm/Robbins Rails PS 2893, decaled with Herald King Decals.
An old Ahm/Robbins Rails PS 2893, decaled with Herald King Decals.
An Athearn ACF 5250 (We really nead an updated model of this car), decaled with Herald King Decals.
Thanks for looking.
Rick
Ah… The weekend! And my favorite thread has started. Jarrell and Selector , great photography of great modeling! Jarrell, what are you using to put the frame on the photo? I assume you are using Photoshop?
I haven’t posted anything in a couple of weeks, so here is what I have been up to.
The logging area at the top of Bare Mountain is no more. It has been removed and is now sitting in the back workshop waiting to be dissembled. Looks like this now:
Where it used to set, there is now a gaping hole.
Word has it that a limestone quarry will replace the logging operation…
There is a new horse in the stable…
It just needs a set of Kadees and the snow plows fitted, a light weathering job and it´ll be ready for the main!
Doing a little yard work… Adding some details to Elkins, W.Va.
Also finished up the plans to start working on a 3-D flat of the station…
It’ll go something like this…
Nice stuff as always, guys. Keep 'em coming.
Lee
Oooohhhhh…[:P] Carpe locomotiva. Do I get the justified sense that things are looking up for you, Ulrich? [:D]
-Crandell
Again…GREAT WORK EVERYBODY!!!
I thought I would post some progress shots of the layout, well my town. Kinda give the weathering a break from the WPF. Since the pictures I have added a few people. Does look kinda empty [:-^].
… not really, Crandell, but this beauty keeps me from losing my sanity!
Hi, Eric. I went into your post to look at the codes, and it looks as if you attempted to attach an image, possibly from another forum or from your own computer? To post images here, you must use a webhost that allows you a gallery of image files. You must post the URL for the full-sized image (sized usually by the host server for display on monitors), and the URL must have the img tags surrounded by square brackets. I use photobucket, and also railimages.com. Register at either place for a free gallery and upload your images. Get the full-sized URL, with tags, and paste here. You can delete my text when you do the edit.
-Crandell
I thought I posted them right… I will have to try again.
Thanks, Terry. The water, a piece of mono with magic water dripped on, was added after the drainage pipe. DJ.
Lee, very nice shot man. I’ve seen this on Dave Vollmers layout too where he uses the switches like that to not only switch the track but route the power? Is this for like Peco switches or power routing switches?
Thanks for the kind words on the picture. Yes, I do use Photoshop to add the ‘frame’ to a picture. What was giving me a hard time for this shot was the locos headlight didn’t provide enough illumination to light up the track and station area, at least I wasn’t satified with it. The picture was shot at f/22 for around a 15 to 20 second time exposure. While the shutter was open I used a small led flashlight, held with my left hand above the locomotive shining down on the track for about 3 or 4 seconds during that time exposure. I used my right hand as a shield to keep the light from hitting the camera lens which introduced lens flare and degraded the image. I also let the light from the flashlight hit the front of the station for a couple of seconds. The exact timing for using the flashlight had to be worked out through trial and error… YEAaaaaa for digital! [:D]
But! The light from the engine and the station’s light is a nice warm yellowish light, while the light that the flashlight emits is a cold blue’ish light. The two didn’t jive well at all. In a color version of the picture I did manage to ‘color balance’ the two fairly well but not enough to suit me, thus this black and white version which befits the era anyway.
Anyway, that’s probably more information than anyone wanted! [#oops]
Jarrell
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P.S. Thanks to Bob (Rail Phototog) for getting me on the right track, no pun intended, for the best size image to post on this website. Thanks Bob!
Let’s start the weekend a wee bit early! Georgia RR’s 1021 eases by Deep Step Station as a Southern passenger pulls away. All the commotion is over and the station will return to it’s sleepy little self.
Jarrell, you’ve inspired me mess around with night photography again on my layout. It also helps that I watched October Skies today which includes a cameo appearance of O. Winston Link, which got me to take a look at his photos again, etc. The flashlight trick does work really well - I used it to light up the street sign in this photo (not a model, but my other hobby - photography)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainmanty/3811979102/in/set-72157622768557248/