Re-did the Paint on the Mountians or in the progress the of changing the colors I realized I was on the wrong track so hopefully these are closer to what I should be doing. It's only been 25 years since I painted a Picture of any size.

still not finished but headed in a better direction.

I'm No where near done yet!! Here are some photos of the first 12 feet of of my backdrop painting. I have never painted any kind of mural in my life and it's fun but not as easy as they make it look. I have about 5 books on painting Model Railroad Back drops but, just because we buy the books doesn't make us Rembrandt. The mountain on the far left just has to be changed I'm not sure why it came out looking the way it does but the rest in in the early stages and the lower half on the right does seem to be doing OK.

Hi,

I don't have pics, so I will keep this short..

I am a member of a round robin group called "The Seacoast N-Scalers" here in Southeast NH. It has proved to be a tremendously enjoyable group. Everyone is relatively local which has made travel easy. While we mostly visit the same large "operating" layout, we from time to time we visit one of the other member's layouts. In my case, we were visiting another member's mostly empty basement.

An extremely hectic work schedule for a couple of months has left very little time for the layout.  I finally got a couple of hours over the weekend to tinker.

I got a little color in the stream bed although it's a mixture I am still not happy with.  Using the tips from earlier posts, I have been trying to work out color combos from photographs. This is a little more difficult because I really don't have a true prototype but rather a mental image.

When you have a camera that doesn't actually have a manual focus, taking photos of couplers is diffcult - there are just so many other surfaces for the camera to focus on down there...

I got my couplers in the mail today (wow, that was quick!) and quickly installed the first pair on an Atlas Corn Syrup tank car:

I've got an Atlas Alco C-425 that I installed a Loksound 3.5 (with roughly the right sound files) in. The speaker I used was a double mini-speaker setup that fit inside the hood of the loco (unlike the large circular speaker that came with it).

This is what it sounded like then:

I finally got arond to getting the Hartford pictures out of the flash cards from my camera. Here's a shot of da Boss guy hard at work in the MRH booth on Thursday (after setup but before the ravening hordes of Friday arrived).

Cheers,

Charlie

I've Sketched using white pencil Hope you can see it, also the blurry lines are where I erased earlier attempts. also the 2 photos shown were the only 2 of 6 that would show up on camera the white lines I used for sketching the backdrop.