WPF 4/22 - 4/24

Today was one of those days in SE Michigan when the weather was perfect for taking sky shots to 'shop into the backgrounds of layout pctures.

A Nickel Plate freight departing Lafayette Junction on the Operations Road Show layout.

LEGO modelrailroading… Inspired by the old Marunouchi Station in Tokyo, but diverged into something completely different because of the lack of bricks. Tomikawa, don’t laugh at me! Those old brick stations had style.

Build a styrene street for the switching layout. I used heavy visual illusion to make it looks longer (on the front, it’s 6", in the back 4").

Matt :wink:

Here are a few progress shots from my cornfield. I have about fifty percent more corn to add to the existing section. There are already 1600 stalks in this bit. The other side of the road will be soy beans. There will be a stand of tall trees on the far side to break up the view of the mill.
Obviously I have some work to do.[:)]

Prepare to be underwhelmed![:D]

Snake Eye Bennett’s Salvage Co is progressing along. Need more Scrap!

Jarrell

On the contrary. That’s an impressive amount of work, and the scene is one of the best of the weekend.

Excellent and inspiring work everyone. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the compliment MisterBeasley! It was a lot of work for sure. Each stalk gets twisted three times for a total of 4800 twists! I have 800 more to add and then hope to be done staring at 1/87 scale corn.[:D]

Awesome! A lot of work, but the result is stunning! Just don’t get yourself a tendinite with all that twisting! :wink:

Matt

Corey: Corns looking good. When’s the harvest?

Here’s the week’s progress…

Time to start wiring… fan tracks first, then about 100 LED’s.

Lee

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Re: Silver Valley RR
« Reply #46 on: April 23, 2011, 03:22:12 PM »

The box car (TOMALCO kit) is now weathered. There were no decals, so it became a Silver Valley RR car. Smiley

The reefer ( ALAMOSA CAR SHOPS kit ) needs still some weathering. Those decals are very thin and fragile !!!

And here’re prototype pics.

Wolfgang

Harvest? With the labor of love that’s been put into that stand of corn, by golly that field’s gonna be there forever!

Corey, coming frrom this old Hoosier who’s seen more than his fair share of cornfields over the years, I must say that’s the finest modeled field I believe I’ve ever seen. Very nicely done.

Jim

And a very Happy Easter to all!

That’s a beauty, Corey! Kinda reminds me of this,

A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon load of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise.

“Hey son!” the farmer yelled. “Forget your troubles. Come on in with and have dinner with us. Then I’ll help you get the wagon up.”

“That’s mighty nice of you, ” the boy answered, “but I don’t think Pa would like me to.”

“Aw, come on,” the farmer insisted.

“Well okay,” the boy finally agreed, and added, “But Pa won’t like it.”

After a hearty dinner, the farm boy thanked his host. “I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real upset.”

“Don’t be foolish !” the neighbor said with a smile. “By the way, where is he?”

“Under the wagon.”

[8-|]

Jarrell

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Here are a few progress shots from my cornfield. I have about fifty percent more corn to add to the existing section. There are already 1600 stalks in this bit. The other side of the road will be soy beans. There will be a stand of tall trees on the far side to break up the view of the mill.
Obviously I have some work to do.

Prepare to be underwhelmed!

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More progress on my backdrop, If I have some free time today I should be able to finish it up!!!

More photos on my website:

Oregon Trunk Website

I really, really want to see a couple of baseball players coming out of that cornfield.

and a video.

Wolfgang

I finally got around to working on the 2 bay hopper of Tyler’s that I had been converting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqHffNHq

The tunnel looks great Wolfgang!

Is that a Tsunami sound decoder in the locomotive?

Jarrell

The engine is from Blackstone, RTR!. Blackstone is close to SoundTraxx®. Therefore they use Tsunami decoders.

Wolfgang

those hoppers are awesome, guilford guy! are you going to post instructions?