Wartime traffic on the PRR

Spotted caboose

Nice start

Sun is out here today. Got a few pics in even though it was windy. 
 

Two new stores for Santa Amba

Finished another couple of structures for West Broadway, Santa Amba, California.

"Shorty's Back-N-Sides" from the DPM Pam's Pet Shop

& "Santa Amba Army & Navy Store" from DPM Carr's Parts.

Still to be weathered and add some basic interior detailing.

Painting rocks in my worn

Painting rocks in my worn down quarry scene 

phil

Santa Amba Army & Navy Store

Are you going to have any surplus M1 Garand, M1 carbine, or 1911 pistols for sale in your Army & Navy surplus store? How about some 1903 Springfields?

Jim   

Lyndon...

LOVE the signage!

Andre

great detail Lyndon S

Those are some very nice detailed building. Color, period signs and all.

I some times really don't want to weather some projects cause of the finished results.

Light weathering took me some time,  but our cities look so real.

Boudreaux,  B.C.E.  R.R.

Nice rust job on top of rolling stock....

Surplus

Great shots, all!

Any cold war era surplus store has to have practice 100-pound bombs hanging in the window, camo nets and one of those oversized rifle training aids that every surplus store always wound up with. You also need a couple of mannequins with mismatched uniforms.

But as a lifetime visitor of surplus stores (not so much now as the good WW2 stuff vanished from all of them several years ago), I'm dying to see what the front windows will look like!

Army-Navy Store

Memories! I also used to trawled through the old military surplus stores. You never knew what you might find. Thank you for the kind words guys.

James Six: if you can steer me in the right direction for any of those items in HO scale, please let me know.

Lee: Some great ideas. I have some old HO army types and probably some left over bombs etc from 1/72 kits. Not so sure about doing a camo net. Any suggestions?

Thanks again everyone.

Camo netting

Tuille (the wedding veil stuff) spray painted green, with a light dusting of fine ground foam glued to it. 

Poetry in Motion

Look, my friends, and you shall see
Of the daytime run of the Centuries;
I'm modeling the summer of 'sixty-nine,
Hardly a person remembers that time;
Of that wonderful period in history.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(as re-interpreted by me)

NP F units riverside

Two shots made this evening on a small photo diorama off of my front porch. Had some nice light tonight! Minor detail modifications and weathering of the lead F unit, an excellent Athearn Genesis model in HO, was my weekend project. 

One more NP Effs shot...

Just because the clouds in this one are so "Big Sky."

@Chris Frissell

Love these shots, especially the first one. The lighting was magnificent.

Great shots

The first captures that sunset look, the second looks like you’re in the creek.

Thanks for the kind

Thanks for the kind comments.  There are considerable challenges with shooting dioramas at low sun angles (not the least of which is keeping your and your camera's shadow out of the frame), but I have found the way the filtered  light can help blend foreground and background makes it well worth the effort. 

Just a shot of layout in the

Just a shot of layout in the dark for fun checking out my track.

@Deemi

You used a laser to lay that track, didn't you. I only hope mine will look half that good.

Great shots

Great shots everyone. I love the F units.

Arizona Gary

Arizona Gary,

It wasn't easy. It is stiff ME code 70 weathered rail track that I cut and re-spaced the ties to depict a branch line. I did it by eye. I lay my face on the track.

out of scale

For the oversize rifles, a 1/48 scale rifle from any kit should be close enough.

As for bombs, I know one rl place (I think it was "Bombs Away Pizza" had a couple of very large bombs embedded in the concrete, nose down; it had been an army-navy surplus place.  You could use an out of scale bomb as a larger/smaller one.  (Putting something heavy and immovable like that in front of a different business, like the sub place, also can show a passage of time and an implied history of the building.)

There is a LOT that can be done with out of scale items.  A giant shoe, or craft items from Michaels, from bicycles to crosses. can be made into store signs.

  The turbine load on this

The turbine load on this flat car is a combination of "out of scale" items....    wooden miniatures of a flower pot and a C7 Christmas Tree bulb. If you look in the background just above the load you'll see several other "turbines".

The outer ring is the rim of the flowerpot, and the bulb was shave down a bit in diameter to fit inside as the rotor. The cribbing was built around the "turbine" and glued in place, then thread was used for cabling, and a bit of tissue paper soaked with matte medium and gently prodded into place with a soft paintbrush made the tarp.