Scenery - Structures
Gorre & Daphetid Viaduct
As previously posted, I am modeling John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid. I will not try to reproduce every blade of grass or even every structure. But I think that it is important to duplicate the two viaducts as close as possible. I have many pictures, but I'm not that good at estimating dimensions. Here is a good picture. I was first going to measure the track width, but realized that it is at an angle, so that would not work. Then I took a small freight car and measured from the ground to the top and it got about two inches. Comparing
Just announced: Atlas acquires WKW/Life-Like N scale product lines
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Mike in CO
Miniature Action Kayaking in White water
Hi! :) I was playing around with kit of figures from Noch and ended up with a nice action kayaking scene. Guess what? I made a video tutorial showing how the scene was set up. Enjoy!
Longmont Sugar mill is getting closer to finshed
Sean brought by part two to the Great western sugar mill in Longont, Colorado. While to bones of both the Mill main building and the warehouse are made from acrylic the brick is paper the door are from Tichy Train Group, The window are cut by me on the laser. You can see this is a vary large model that is over 7 feet long. Last part with be the Boiler house and Steffens house this have a foot print of 8.25" x 30".
Railserve Beverage Bottling Facility, Update #2
Well I am back at it again. I had a few supplies waiting for me when I returned for my trip and was able to make some progress. As I said previously, I really want to try and scratch build my primary structures. With that being said I didn't want to dive right into my complex manufacturing facility to the far left of the layout. To learn the ways of styrere I have been working on a simple concrete warehouse. I still have to work on the building specific details.
Has anyone ever played with "tree flats"?
Over the years I've seen many folks use structure flats applied to backdrops where you want to add a building with a bit of depth but are limited by a short distance to your backdrop. Has anyone ever done a similar thing with trees? I have an area where I want to conceal a seam with conifer trees but I don't really have room for a fully rounded tree.
Scratchbuilt suburban station shelter
For my Philadelphia-oriented St Martins suburban layout, I had to scratchbuild both the main station building and the shelter on the parking lot side. The shelter was a pretty small project compared to some of the awesome modelling I've seen on here, but I thought it might be worth sharing some details.
The shelter is the red roofed structure in the below pic. It's front and centre on the layout - about six inches from your face when looking at the station, so I wanted to try to make a decent job of it.
NEW VEGETATION AND LANDSCAPING AT CONSOLIDATED NICKEL
Dear model railroading friends.
We are doing some maintenance to our Consolidated Nickel Mines layout. We also did some repairs and improvement to our landscape, adding some plants. This latter operation went in line with our “zero cost” philosophy.
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