HA! I’ve never gotten to start one of these so I’m pretty excited. I’m still working on section 1 of my 6 section layout. Here is some work I did last weekend. I’ve been waiting to do this tunnel for months. It’s a start eh?
One problem I ran into when buildng tunnels or hills like this is never having a good under base to stick trees into. Well, I thought ahead for once this time and set a piece of 1" foam on top of the tunnel. I figured it’ll give me a base and add extra contour to the mountain. I think it worked rather well.
Thanks Fireman. I’m not sure. I may just plaster cloth the inside of it and paint it black. I’ll have to block off the open back end and see what can be seen in there. Thanks for the tip, I didn’t even think about hiding the cardboard strips on the inside. [:)]
I’ve been working on this area for a while now and there are still some things I don’t like about it, like… I think I made the long grass in the edge of the water too tall and I don’t particularly care for the embossed paper wall. That’s gonna have to go for sure. Anyway, I tried not to to get the focus too sharp, I didn’t work at composition a lot and I shyed away from any computer enhancements such as smoke from the diesel… [;)]
I must admit though that a lot of the unsharpness is in trying to get the file size down to about 100K for those on dial up connections.
FWIW, Jarrell, I find the same thing. I just let photobucket resize as their software wants to, and I post that file as the link. It is a lot larger than 100Kb, but at least it provides a decent account of your work. And your work is excellent; it could easily withstand the better rendering IMO. And should.
I must say I envy you guys with the ‘natural’ backdrops. They add immensely to the realism of a layout photo. Nice work, Garry.
I have posted the following setting at least once in the past two or three WPF’s, noting that I had added a slick to the centerline on the main. Today I present my SD75M with warbonnet motif on modern tracks. I used 22 gauge wire to make cables, and I sort-of weathered the grills, sideframes, and the plow. The diesel has only been in revenue service for a couple of weeks at this point, so it isn’t looking well used.
Great start of the weekend already. Just fired the computer up after a 20 hour power outage, Yuk. Freak thunderstorm with 75mph winds tore us up yesterday.
Phase 2 of my layout is taking all my train time, but it’s still in the pink foam stage. I did manage to get in a bit of detail modeling one day when the trainroom / family room was otherwise occupied.
Top notch Robbie. You’re as good as any of the pro’s on modeltrainsweathered.com forum. I can say that because I have an artists’ eye and have judged thousands of contests.[:D]
