Superb photos and videos, folks. I have to upload to photobucket, so you’ll be seeing me around here with photos tonight. Kato is your best freind, right, Jimmy?
Wow lots of great work and it’s early yet! Here is my contribution for the week…
Ah what the heck…One more fom a different angle…
It is.
A couple of Proto2000 switchers. HO scale
and trackside bank and puddle 
with a Preiser dog
Love the rocks, Don, and nscale1969 that looks nice a nice sunny area you’re modelling.
Mike
Mike, once again, amazing modeling!
I’m sure we’d all love a tutorial!
Thanks Alex. While I won’t presume to do a tutorial, I could post a few photos and text of what I did in the layouts section, if anyone’s interested.
Mike
Hmm… it seems I’m under pressure to get the op. session clips up…[;)]
Thanks for the compliments guys, it really is helping my happiness level. (I’m a bit depressed at the moment, my education workload is staggering and my parents aren’t too happy with me right now…)
Mike; it’s not nice to post prototype photos and pretend they’re models…
Great work!!![bow][bow][bow][tup]
Some great stuff and it’s been a pleasant few weekends of WPF.
Here’s a few:
Atleast you don’t have a 5 page History Essay due Monday! [:-^]
Great pix Bob!
Nothing from me yet. I do have news on my new room though! I am about one third of the way done with the remodel (in case you didnt know I am turning one side of my garage into a train room, which required extensive remodeling). The plumbing reroute is done for the apartment upstairs, the stairwell is now drywalled and the outer walls insulated. I now must build two walls, insulate, drywall and then put in a drop ceiling. At that point I start benchwork. I am getting excited as by the end of summer I may be laying track!!!
I will post pics of the progress sometime soon.
I always enjoy seeing everyone’s work. Thanks for putting it up here.
I spent my model railroading time building this pump house from a Campbell kit. It was a fun project:
I’m hoping you can give me advice about where to put it on my layout. I model 1935 and my railroad buys most of their equipment second-hand (lots of slide valves - I like slide valve steam the best [:)]). The pump house question is this: Does it make sense to place the pump house adjacent to a railroad water tank or should I put it somewhere else?
Other news: My railroad, the Blackwater and Butte Creek RR, got its first employee. Here he is, hard at work:
He’s my turntable polarity indicator - when he faces the front the polarity switch should be up; when he faces the other way…
…you get the idea.
Since I run DC with a solid state throttle, I have to have blocks, so I made this little panel for my turtable:
BTW, the crank is how the railroad’s president (namely me) powers the turntable.
We had 2 days of snow this week and one morning it was 19 degrees. If winter ever lets go, my model railroad will see little action (gotta do the summer chores). Until then, I’ll keep you all posted on p
[#ditto] It’s my favourite thread of the week. And what a thread it is so far…[:O] [8D]
Here’s an SP MW crane and flat car I just finished at the kitchen table. Relatives were visiting from Las Vegas all week so I had to stay in the house and entertain them with my train stuff.
I bought this crane car and flat car at a garage sale. The control cab and crane hoist pulleys are scratch build from styrene and the pulleys made from metal paper brads. The flat car is an old Western Maryland tractor hauler. I sawed off the tractor hauler part and replaced the deck with strip styrene. It’s as prototype as i could get it from pictures of SP MW 5595. The only thing that’s different is the boom style and the white instead of black lettering. ( Ran out of black SP decals.) And who said you can’t make tyco rolling stock look good?. I paid $3.00 for both cars. chuck
Again some great pics!
How about something different?
Overall layout shot of bay 2 of 4 bays on my layout:
And a progress shot of bay3 and 4:
I kinda like seeing overall shots of layouts.I’ve learned a lot about benchwork, backdrops etc from them. And it’s nice to see how a layout fits in a space.
Terry
Terry, loved those shots of your layout! Lighting job and layout look professional!
I’d post one of mine, except I’d accidently kill all of you that are bothered by messes…[:-^] The shelves under the layout (and lots of the actual layout that’s not completed) are covered in disorganized junk… I hope to put up black curtains to hide the shelves underneath.
Terry, I like what I see. Looks like you may ned some operators to complete the layout.[:D]
I haven’t been here in a while but I do know that you have been working for some time to capture this very fine look to your layout and specifically this photo angle. Hows the rest of it?
I went to Wal-Mart the other day and got a quart of flat latex the same color as the WS blended turf I use in my scenery. Today I put it to the test. I paint an area then sprinkle on some blended turf. What would have taken an hour or more now takes about ten minutes.
Looks good Jeff!
Tom; That looks amazing! Reminds me of pics I’ve seen of the Gorre & Daphited![tup]