since no one has started one this week, thought I would. Guess everyone else is on vacation…lol. This week I started working on a diorama since I dont have a layout yet. It is giving me a chance to practice some scenery. Still got a lot to do, but here’s whats done so far.
ok guys you turn…medic
looks good i will have some pics up later.
I like doing the rock work with tiles Medic. they look real nice when painted up. Should be a great Diarama !
Here is a pic of the canyon between my refinery area and the Coal Mine area. Some smoke and mirrors added… well at least some mirrors…hehehe
Medic and Midnite: Are those ceiling tiles? If so, I’ve got to run out and get me some!! I’ve got to put in some hydraulic mining ‘diggings’ on the Rio Grande Sub, and that looks like just the material to do it with. Great shots, guys–please keep the rest of us supplied with progress photos, OK?
Tom [:D]
Here’s Colorado & Southern 2-10-2 #900 with a caboose hop on Yuba Pass. The locomotive has been ‘borrowed’ by the Rio Grande due to a motive power shortage.
They’re looking great everyone!
Here’s a couple for the cause. [:D]
GP30’s waiting for go orders.
Wait’in on the train…
Great pics so far guys, I’ll put some up tomorrow!
Started Kimm’s Kanyon modeled after Yellowstone Canyon. Will all that foam ever be anything??
Still working on White Pine
Tried first cactus.Lots of work left here. I need 100 but not quite like this.
Keep the good pics coming. They do inspire me.
Those ceiling tile rocks look outstanding guys!! [tup] Excellent work! Can’t wait to see more! Here’s what I’ve been working on. It’s a plaster “mountain” where the trains enter a tunnel.
Here is a shot of the basic wood frame with newspaper added to form the shape of the hill. It is now ready for plaster.
Here is the result after the plaster was applied
In this shot I have added some rock faces. A pair of UP locos. is going by with my newest rolling stock - one of Walthers 6 car packs of coal hoppers. I just got them today! (Hobbytown had them on clearance for 50% off, so I couldn’t pass it up!) Now I just need loads for them.
Eventually, this hill will be covered with foliage just like the one to the left in these shots.
Neat, NEAT photos, everyone.
OMYGAW, Art–how high above the canyon is the Beichstahl going to BE when you get the canyon put in? That’s absolutely STUNNING! I’ve got Acrophobia just looking at the photo, LOL!
Nothing much this week, it’s been about 105 in the garage and the fan’s been on almost 24/7 out there. But here’s a couple of shots of my Rio Grande Mikado pulling a cattle train through Sierra City Junction. The loco’s a Key K-59, and like most Key locos, it’s a little Swiss watch.
Tom [:P][:P]
I tried a couple of Steve Blackledge’s ‘sunset’ shots.
Kevin, which company made your UP engine and which model is it?
I am going to have to echo twhite’s comments …
OH MY GODS ! ! !
[bow] [bow] [bow] [bow] [bow]
I hope your railroad crews are issued oxygen tanks. [swg] If not, they’ll black out from the lack of oxygen at those heights. [xx(]
By the way, that plaster cloth looks like lace curtains.
A lot of vertical surfaces featured this week.
Excellent pics as usual guys.
Art that bridge is breathtaking!! I cant wait to see it over the completed canyon, that white pine also looks awesome, I can see theres alot of work in that one tree alone!
As ceiling tiles seem to be the order of the day here is a shot of some of mine.
Engineers viewpoint - http://www.railimages.com/albums/karlallison/agk.mpg
Another effect you can achieve with these tiles is a more weathered rockface,
just paint the ‘cliff’ with some LATEX Kilz prior to colouring, use an old stiff 2-3" brush for the Kilz, this will smooth off some of the raggedness, the kilz will also fill in the cracks between the layers, the harder you paint the more weathered the rocks.
Use a softer bru***o just prime the tiles, I found once primed they took the colour MUCH better.
Keep 'em coming.
Karl.
Shaggy, the trailing unit (which is the only one that can be seen in the shot) is an EMD SD90/43MAC made by Kato.
Hi guys ,the photos look Great! ,im going to do ceiling ties,in the new section also
but for now heres a few
I will post more later ,
Carl…
Gkids came over and wanted to make rocks, so a little headway on Kimm’s Kanyon
We are having fun
Here’s more of my stuff:
The super detailed Athearn U30C. It was originally an Athearn made Cox C&O U30C, but I gave it a better shell and added the details.
The Bowser A-5 0-4-0 Shifter with the super detail kit. I got this one for christmas, and had it all built by February. Took 'till March or April before it was warm enough outside to paint it.
My IHC 2-8-2 Mikado. I took the original bell off and used one of the bells from the Bowser A-5. Then I replaced the front dummy coupler with a more realistic dummy and painted the railings.
I guess cieling tiles are the theme for this weekend so here are some old pics of my N scale.
karl–those rock-strata shots are BEAUTIFUL! Makes me wish we had the same kind of geology out here in the Sierra.
Great shots, everyone. I’ve just ordered the Con-Cor Pioneer Zephyr from my LHS (my FIRST diseasel, Yeah!) and it should be in this week. Maybe I’ll be able to post some shots of its debut run on the Yuba Sub next week.
For now, here’s another shot of my Mike at Sierra City Junction.
Great work everybody!
What I did is not exactly photogenic, but it will make my life a lot easier once the track has been laid and trains are running: a lift-out section to connect two peninsulas, with two tracks going in and three coming out. It’s a 1ft x 2ft x 1/2-inch piece of reconstituted wood, with brass strips and C-bar attached at the ends. These serve a dual purpose: (1) to maintain correct alignment, and (2) to provide electrical connections for the track.
It took many hours to drill all the holes, cut the brass to the correct shapes/sizes and solder the C-bar sections to the strip brass. But in the end, nobody will have to duck under to reach the ‘inside’ of my layout, and they won’t have to be Arnold Schwartznegger to lift it and realign it.
Here it is by itself, on my driveway:
A view of the benchwork with the liftout ON…
…and OFF:
Here’s a closeup of the connections:
