You must have spent a fortune

You must have spent a fortune on livestock!

Feedlot looks great. 

Very Cool

Really nice work, amazing detail in N!

The Animals

Mark,

The animals are a mix of three manufacturers but, yes it was not cheap but it would not have looked as good.

John

Thanks

Bob,

Thank you for your comments.  It took a while to do but it certainly was a lot of fun especially trying to keep the sheep from sticking to my fingers.

John

Did you create the 3D design

Did you create the 3D design yourself? If not, where did you get the stl file from. If you did, well done, and are you happy to share it? The feed lot looks fantastic, and well done for putting a large number of animals in the pens, rather than just a token few. I agree with you that a little more weathering would look good.

Empty space?

Very nice! Agreed that taking the time to place multiple figures in each pen paid off.

One possible change to consider after your wallet and fingers have recovered.  One thing that always struck me when I looked at 1:1 pictures is the size of the lots. Cow pen next to cow pen, next to cow pen, etc.  The pens dwarf the train yard.  For modeling purposes you condensed it down to a single row.  Could you also use the fenced-in areas between the ramps as pens?  This would give the impression of a larger feed lot without using any more space on the layout. Leave 2-3 pens empty waiting for the next load to arrive (and save your fingers). 

3D Design

Ron,

Yes I did create it myself.

I am already putting together a package of files for a YouTube subscriber/friend of mine in Australia.  You can either contact me thru MRH or by going to my YouTube channel & contacting me thru my email listed in my About section. Once we can connect, I will be glad to email them to you too. Please note that there will not be any instructions on how it goes together.

John

Modeling the ATSF Paradigm Division in N-Scale 

https://www.youtube.com/user/tanzj

Stock Pens

The wallet is okay since I budgeted the purchase of the animals over several months since the stock pens were built over a year ago. Sure, I could have used the area between the ramps to add more animals but that would have been a budget buster for sure even with a mix of Woodland Scenics & Model Power figures.  And yes, they could have been left as empty or some mixture of full and/or empty too. I had just decided not to add those as working pens.

I have a picture of the actual ATSF Morris feed lot and this one is heavily compressed and actually on the wrong side of the tracks but it gives me a place to simulate the servicing of the ATSF LSX stock train.  You can actually look at the area where it was using Google Earth and still see the outline of where some of the tracks were located.

John

Um, er, am I going blind, or

Um, er, am I going blind, or is the email address missing? There’s a reference to a business contact email, but no email address. I’ll PM you via MRH. I’d love you to send me the files. No instructions? Real men don’t need no stinkin’ instructions. 

Wow, nicely done.

You have captured the size and scope of a large feed lot very well. Lots of great details. This just plants your layout in the western states and a row of Santa Fe livestock cars will look amazing next to it. 

Really Nice

Your fencing is excellent.  

Will you say what filament material you used, and printer?  Did you have much problem with stringing?

bill

Already Sent them

Rob,

If you use a mobile connection to YT, for some reason the contact email never shows up.  Anyway, I sent a link to your email for the files.  They were too big to send via email so they were uploaded to mega.nz.

John

3D Printed Fencing

Hi Bill,

All of the parts were printed using PLA on an XYZ Printing daVinci mini.  There was a little bit of PLA stringing on a few pieces but nothing that an emory board could not take car of fairly quickly. There is a series of 4 videos on my YouTube channel in February (21, 26) and March (5, 6) of 2017 that show some of the planning, printing, & installation (along with a few errors that were made). 

John

Modeling the ATSF Paradigm Division in N-Scale 

https://www.youtube.com/user/tanzj

Update on the N-Scale Stock Feed Lot from last month

Just wondering if Ron Ventura in Melbourne, Australia ever got an answer about the 3D design for the Stock Feed Lot. I would love to have the .STL file as well.

Yes He Did

Tony,

I posted the files on mega.nz for him to download. You & I have also corresponded via email.

John