Here’s a first look at Tater Mountain. It has a LONG way to go, but at least you get the idea where it’s heading.
Sorry If I jumped the gun. Got to travel early tomorrow.
Looks Great Chip!! i love the color ,seems were both into mountains ,lately
heres a clip ,of the C&NW and the BNSF, going threw ,the side of of the mountain
carl…
Both Carl and Chip–your mountains are coming along nicely!
Here are some photos from my ‘back to the future’ sessions.
That gray wall is the back of my closet.
This panel was really build last weekend, but I installed it Wed. night. The size of this panel is 9 1/2" wide and 5 3/4" high
Here are the pictures.
This panel is made out of 1/4’ lexan, a bullitproof plastic. it is attached to the layout with a triangular piece of 1 X 4.
I put the track plan on the back with masking tape in reverse along with the printing, also in reverse. Then I painted the panel black on the back. After that, I peeled the masking tape and the word “run”, painted it yellow. I then peeled off “prog” and painted it red. I drilled it for the DPDT switches and then wired it up. It took 14 wires just for this small panel. The “run/prog” spur will be a caboose track when not doing any programming. it took almost all day to mask and paint this panel and an evening to install it.
It sure is nice to be able to program with the flick of a switch instead of having to “do and undo” wires to the track.
Ya’ll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
Bob
Chip–REALLY nice! How did you make the cliff-face? I like the strata.
Carl–great angle on the photo. I wish I could get my camera to focus in on close-ups like that (or maybe it’s the camera operator, LOL!)
Aggro–did you paint the backdrop yourself? It’s really SWEET!
Tom [:D]
Very nice, everybody. Aggro, does that “…on this railroad” sign address cats? [:D]
Crandell, this…
Tom–Yes painted the backdrop. Everything you see in my room was done by ME. No help or assistance. [^]
Aggro,EXCELENT JOB! i love the colors…tom i use a H.P digital ,camera sometimes it get blured, but ya just have to play with it,BTW tom i love the bridge with the mountain in the back great job,
carl…
OK SpaceMouse et al, here’s what I’ve been up to for the last couple of days. After clearing out enough room to get the new “storage room” (to store the new addition to the layout) built in the basement, I imediately hauled the mountain I have been working on sporadically over the winter into the space and started to do the scenery. I am about half done with the actual cliff face and will start adding trees weeds racoons, skunks, and other stuff next week.
The “mountain” made of plaster castings glued onto a wood frame with tile cement. This is the way it has looked most of the winter.
close up of some of the detail. The brown areas are from some WS stuff that I bought by accident. It will work for areas that will have a lot of vegitation. The castings were made using WS Hydrocal and was painted with various WS scenery paint. The slate gray was mixed about 1 part paint to 30 parts water. This allows me to use several coates to get the effect I want.
Another close up of the work.
Well, got to get back to work… Just got home from the paint store where I bought a quart of dirt colored paint. I told the clerk that I was going to paint some of my home this color so I wouldn’t have to spend so much time cleaning! LOL
Aggro, I love your backdrop. You did a great job blending them with the hardshell colors. That’s a problem area for me, I can paint the scenes ok, they just don’t match the hardshell well…[V] I’ll keep practicing. This is all Mike Danneman’s fault…[:D]
Ray, that is awesome!!! I can hardly wait to see the outcome.
Thanks, Aggro. It all falls into place, now…er, uh,…well, you know what I mean.
Hi guys! Went railfanning today. Here’s a few pics of what I saw…
A CSX mixed freight waiting in the Wyoming, MI Yard for…
…This! CP intermodel #507 cruises into the Wyoming Yard to make a quick crew change and then continue on to Chicago.
And here’s a buncha locomotives sitting outside the shop. Look! A Chessie GP40!
I shaped the blue foam to the shape I wanted and added about 1/8 inch drywall joint compound. I then sanded it smooth and and fine tunned the shape. Then, in the sections the railroad cut from the hillsides. I cut semi-parallel lines with a utility knife. Then I took a hooby pick with a 90 degree turned point and pushed the non pointed side into each of the sections until they broke forming the indivitual roacks and crumbles.
Then I painted the whole thing black with an airbrush making sure that I got piant down into all the crevices. The top coat was various reds and browns, but that ended up looking like paint by numbers so I dry brushed highlights with a lighter color.
finally finished the EMD GP50 in UP paint scheme tonight…took a week to paint , decal and weather everything…
and it finally goes on the layout after the dull coat dried…the fiber optic headlights came out nice…
chuck
You know what I like about this place. Every week I post my best stuff and every week there is stuff that outclasses what I do so badly that I have to go back and rethink what I am doing.
Good work guys. Thanks for keeping my ego in check.
Chip, by the way - Tater Mountain is “Lookin’ Good”!
Chip,
you’re doing great for a newbie in this hobby…it takes years to get good at it…I wish you could have seen some of my first work…it would have had most experienced modelers rolling on the floor laughing it was so bad …just take your time and enjoy it…you’re going to learn some really neat stuff sooner than you think that’s going to make you a better modeler and it’s going to eventually show up in your work…keep up the good work…it’s really not bad at all being a new guy to the hobby and all…Chuck
I agree with Chuck, Mouse. I know that you have encountered a few frustrations in the past few weeks, and Tater looms (ahem) over you at the moment. When I developed problems, I tried to tell myself that it was all part of the progress. I took it as a learning step that was part of my development. At one point I was getting fed up with gluing models together in my ru***o get the layout complete enough for me to want to sit back and enjoy it for a while. Then, soldering began and I found that I didn’t dislike it, but it didn’t seem to like me! I was getting ugly globs where I didn’t want them, little bits where I wanted big globs, and so on.
I never had any setbacks, per se, but lots of sweaty times when my investment and commitment seemed to be misplaced. Yes, I was sweating when I finished soldering because it was so difficult for me to get a reasonable weld. In fact, I have just today felt like going back with a Dremel and filing down some tricky sections where my Hudson bucks a bit.
I hope, if nothing else these days, that you get some measure of support and happiness from all of us who enjoy sharing your adventure. [:)][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup]
A few things…
SD45R in the works… The funny looking lettering is to simulate the tearing and chipping of the white letters.
Here’s 4404, awaiting its cab:
And Overland Models latest release:
mario id love to see it when its done ,please! keep us posted ,looking very nice
carl…