Barsol Chemical Company Bettendorf

Slice of pie!

"Slice of pie" meaning these shots are from a slice of pie shaped connector section that I made to incorporate my mini layout at a 45 degree angle into the other sections. The structures are complete and scenery is down on this small section. Yet to do it add the detail items. As always, my favorite backdrop is used throughout.

Very creditable modelling,

Very creditable modelling, both of you.  Nice lighting and good composition.

For this week, I show a Y6b drifting into Seneca Yard from the east under the weight of the trailing tonnage, much of it still on Seneca Hill out of the image to the right.  The yard hands are fine tuning a double slip switch.

just a test

Visalia Northeastern: N scale 4'x8'... Track work complete, one of the first train climbing to the summit.

Ciao,

Rock on!

Joey: nice ivy / kudzu!
(It really "grows" on you )

Here's some sunlit stacked shots of the Sierra Nevada rock wall section of our Wye Knot Free-moN module:

Thanks for sharing and happy weekend!

Good stuff

Very nice everyone. Great pics. Thanks for sharing. I'll have somehting later.

Excellent Modelling

I nominate the following for "yes it's a model" Outstanding work!!

My first contribution to weekly photo fun

 There's some more great modeling here that puts my feeble efforts to shame.  But, here's my contribution to photo fun, an HO scale boxing ring, and notes on building it.

I'm slowly unpacking, and the pic is before my the big move.  (New Hampshire to Florida) This will be part of the interior of an HO scale gym, honoring Manchester, New Hampshire's Murphy's Gym, the place I learned to box.  I'll be redoing the ring floor shortly with a dried, used t-bag for a nice canvas look, and putting gloves on the boxer.  I'll also be completing her fallen opponent.

The ring was made mostly with Evergreen sheet styrene and rods, structural bits, and such.  The inner ring poles--actually pads--are aluminum rods for strength, and the ropes are my mom's knit crosheen (sp?) yarn.  I may redo the ring completely at some point; the inner pads shouldn't reach the ring floor.  Everything is to perfect scale from measurements I made at the gym--including the ropes.  The white horizontal rods represent padding on the supports for the ring--they are not supposed to blend smoothly into the cornerposts.

The punching bag was also made with Evergreen rods and tubes and such, with a little bit of putty to get the rounded ends of the bag.

The boxer is a Preiser nude sunbather figure with some painting; her opponent is another one from the same set--I'll post when I get her unpacked and done up.

The dime and the 16 ounce Everlast boxing glove are for scale.

(The helper is Felicia--very vigorous for a 17 year old cat.)

Depressing photos above, the

Depressing photos above, the workmanship is so very good; makes me want to stop modeling....lol.  Seriously, incredible photos, doesn't put pressure on us or anything!

working on my breakwater at the harbour

Driline - nice to see you

Driline - nice to see you leading off with an entry this week!  Really good shots from all!

-bill

Remember those traveling salesmen....

No Drug Activity

...in this park.

That scene brings back memories!

WAY back, in Junior High School, I got that exact same Police Station as a department store was going out of business.  It was in the center of my first layout, along with an abundance of homes, a KFC, and a few other things.  The town wasn't bad, though most all the buildings are long gone.  (Most of the houses were cardboard, from a nice book, "An Early New England Village you can make.)

It vanished with the rest of the buildings, but the trains are mostly still with me--some rolling stock even still rolling, with knuckle couplers.

Thanks for reminding me of my early days of railroading

Gettin' sand...

Great stuff!

Great stuff so far, and the weekend has hardly begun!

Joey, you really have that lush foliage and vine look down cold...very impressive scenes.

MC Fujiwara, I immediately thought of the Sierra Nevada when seeing the landforms and rock coloration in your two great scenes. Very realistic.

Irish Rover, I like the boxing ring...looks realistic to me! The cat-cam shot brought a smile. Will be following your Climax blog, good for you to jump in on a new challenge!

I recently completed two stock cars for my On30 layout, here they are on a stock special leaving my little Arizona town of San Lorenzo:

This is part of an Easter-themed 'Tall Tale' on my blog, check it out if you are ready for a laugh or two!

Pasco Yard at sunset

Nice pics so far everyone!  I make sure to hit this thread every weekend and see what everyone is doing.  Here's my contribution:

Early morning preparation

 Getting ready to ice up a reefer. Whiteground made an S scale kit based on John Allen's Atsan Ice Co.

 The reefers are destined for the Bova Produce Co. for loading.

Let it snow! I've picket up

Let it snow! I've picket up my new snow Diorama from Stefan. Next week I'll update my blog with the step  by step pictures of the Diorama.

Nice cars

From a previous life.

This is a scratch-built S scale version of a Plymouth gas-mechanical loco used by the Pacific Coast Railway in the early nineteen hundreds.  The prototype is three foot gauge but I modeled it in 2009 as standard gauge.

Re: Pasco Yard

Incredible weathering and photography, K- Pack- I really thought it was a prototype photo. It took me a bit of time to find the one detail that gives it away- and I could only find one, So unless you photo-shopped that detail into a prototype photo, that's some really, really fine work.

Tom Patterson

Here's a little diorama I

Here's a little diorama I built in about 24 hours with some scrap parts from a friend. Added the dwarf signal for some visual interest, even if it isn't prototypical

My contribution