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Nahant
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 Posted - 08/19/2012 : 09:45:21 AM
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desertdrover
Engineer
USA
11275 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 10:47:50 AM
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We don't have to wait for Ray to wake up. You started this thing.
Here is my attempt at makeing it look like people inside a structure.
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Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast |
Edited by - desertdrover on 08/19/2012 10:55:36 AM |
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Mike Hamer
Engineer
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Posted - 08/19/2012 : 11:02:55 AM
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Hi Louis, that's clever interior modelling. Are the guitars in the window cutouts of pictures? I like it!
Speaking of adding interiors, here is a barn on a club layout in Montreal with cattle inside.
Again, clever modelling, I say!
The barn from another perspective.
Louis's music shop/dental office building had a poster of a motorcycle on its side wall. Well, here's the real McCoy modelled in HO scale. The bikes not "in" something, but it's "on" something - the back of a pick-up truck! Ah yes, I love the creativity this fine hobby offers! [:-apple][:-apple] |
All the best, Mike Hamer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://craftsmanstructures.blogspot.com
http://bostonandmaine.blogspot.com
http://fridaynightgroup.blogspot.com |
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Ray Schofield
Engine Wiper
USA
493 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 11:05:10 AM
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Frank One little mistake and I am branded forever. And Lou I am awake. Missed you yesterday though.
Actually didn't have anything to post so I was waiting for someone to start. I searched my archives and found a photo of Dick Elwell's Hoosac Valley to share
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desertdrover
Engineer
USA
11275 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 11:26:52 AM
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Hi Mike, and thanks. Yes, all the music instrinstruments are from the computer and re-sized and cut out then glued to the inner window, with a store interior glued to the inside structure.
Ray gald to see you up this morning. Those late nights have to stop :-) |
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Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast |
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Ray Schofield
Engine Wiper
USA
493 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 11:42:58 AM
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Lou and Mike both great modeling both. Thanks for waking me up Lou. Mike I took a ride through Vermont and New York upstate on Thursday and saw and smelled a lot of farms so I won't tell you what the farm scenes remind me of LOL
Frank (Nahant) no more excuses lets see some more of the Soo line |
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Nahant
Section Hand
USA
98 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 12:04:45 PM
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Ok, here's what I've been doing lately. I've added a 7 inch by 5' addition to the Bettendorf yard so I can display my scratchbuilt yard office.
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amocoman
New Hire
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Posted - 08/19/2012 : 12:35:19 PM
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Mike Hamer
Engineer
9345 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 2:26:02 PM
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Frank, looks like you've produced an avid model railroader there! I bet she handles the trains really well. My two daughters enjoy dad's trains even though they are now grown up.
Ray, that's a real beauty from Dick's layout. Yeah, I'm glad they don't have decoders for "smell" out on the market or nobody would enter the train room when rural scenes are a-plenty.
Louis, I really like the idea of resizing images. I may develop your concept further and print out some guitars and glue them on this styrene to give them some depth and hang them on the interior wall when I go to build a music store in the future. In fact, when I am not frequenting a hobby shop, you'll find me in any guitar store within 100 miles! |
All the best, Mike Hamer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://craftsmanstructures.blogspot.com
http://bostonandmaine.blogspot.com
http://fridaynightgroup.blogspot.com |
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Ray Schofield
Engine Wiper
USA
493 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 2:58:38 PM
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Another photo of the Hoosac Valley. Dick was kind enoough to let me run one of my homeroad 2-6-6-2s on his layout. For those that do not know Dick and his layout the only thing better than the Layout is the man hmself
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desertdrover
Engineer
USA
11275 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 3:06:52 PM
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Originally posted by Mike Hamer
Louis, I really like the idea of resizing images. I may develop your concept further and print out some guitars and glue them on this styrene to give them some depth and hang them on the interior wall when I go to build a music store in the future. In fact, when I am not frequenting a hobby shop, you'll find me in any guitar store within 100 miles!
Mike and Crew, here is a park, on country day, where I had to scratchbuild the steel guitar, and used a picture of a steel guitar glued ontop of stripwood. Also, the guitar player in front of the steel player, to the right, was a guitar picture on styrene, glued on top of a bango player.
Banjo player before changing to a guitar player.
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Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast |
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yellowcab
New Hire
USA
18 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2012 : 8:53:19 PM
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Whow! Really nice work! Kind of intimidating as well, I better dumb it down so the world can see that at least one of us is just a mediocre modeler and still enjoys the hobby:
Doesn't look like much, but these two SD70s are from the original batch of Genesis units from the 1990s. They came "ready to run" that is, if you don't have any details on them. You had to drill every little hole for every little ladder step. But these units have run well now for over 15 years. I'd like to buy new engines and go to DCC but my old units just won't die.
Here is one of Atlas' relatively new centerbeams. It is an absolutely beautiful model, with the one exception being its tendency to derail frequently. If anyone has experience with the specific operational challenges of this model please let me know. |
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IAISfan
Engine Wiper
USA
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Posted - 08/20/2012 : 2:17:54 PM
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Originally posted by yellowcab
Here is one of Atlas' relatively new centerbeams. It is an absolutely beautiful model, with the one exception being its tendency to derail frequently. If anyone has experience with the specific operational challenges of this model please let me know.
Are they derailing on curves, at turnouts, or otherwise? If on curves, what radius? I've had no problems with mine on 30" minimums. A couple of things that come to mind that you might check are:
1. Make sure both trucks are loose enough to swivel freely, and that one is loose enough to allow some vertical movement as well.
2. Use an NMRA gauge to ensure that all four axles are in gauge. I standardized on Intermountain metal wheels years ago, and I think they make all the difference. I later relaxed that a bit and tried keeping the factory metal wheels on some cars to see how they'd work, but IMs are still the most reliable. I even had a couple high-end Tangent and ExactRail cars that tended to derail with their factory wheels, but were fine once I swapped in IMs.
No SPF submissions for me this week, but hopefully next Sunday.
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Modeling Iowa Interstate's West End, May 2005
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