Scenery - Structures
New Scratch Built Building on CNW
My latest scratch built structure for my HO CNW Peninsula Div. RR. is a 2 stall Diesel House and is located in the Ashland Yard area on the layout.
Card board mock-up.
Typical wall construction - measure, scribe, snap and glue back together.
Video Experiments
Since Rick and others began posting their videos here It seemed a good idea to have a placeholder for using video in our models. My layout is far from complete and the scenery often varies from roughed in and painted to snow looking foam shapes or just plywood. Regardless, it is fun to see the railroad from a hum perspective.
Please join me and post your trials and tribulations, YouTube links and set up's for the camera(s), and how you "produced" and edited the video.
[Completed] Newport R.I. Post Office | Carolina Craftsman Kits
What is a Craftsman Kit? This is.
Christmas update, and prototype structure building
It's been forever, but I have finally updated my blog with a bunch of photos of recent structure work, and an operating session earlier this year.
I'll post a few of the photos in the first comment (below), but for details and lots more photos, go to my blog here:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2016/12/merry-christmas-and-some-quick-updates...
- Steven Haworth
RGS history - http://www.rgsrr.info/
Keller Shipyard aka Shipyard at Foss | Sierra West Scale Models
Now for some of my modeling.
I bought this kit a few months after a very close family member passed away. I knew that, someday this event was going to effect me a great deal. For years it sat on a shelf, waiting for its day to be built.
The things you can make out of the strangest things
I was unpacking my model railway stuff and came across this little tank I made years ago. I'm surprised it survived and wasn't crushed.
It is made from a Life Savers candy wrapper with old spare parts glued to the ends of it - tank ends that just happen to fit the wrapper perfectly, which brings to mind that most of my nicest models and scenery was made from inexpensive materials. I'm going to use it on my module near the coal dump track.
Herd of Cows?
This blog entry contains the most appalling pun ever - but here goes:
Of course I have heard of cows -the old ones are always the best!
Two packs of HO cows arrived the other day along with some fencing from York Modelmaking.
Campbell Scale Model Pine Trees
In keeping with the holiday spirit, I decided to sit down and create some trees for the layout, specifically some pine trees using several Campbell Scale Model trees that I acquired in a trade several years ago. I don't recall seeing these at any subsequent shows, and traded a surplus Athearn boxcar for several boxes, as I think the seller was trying to unload these kits and really wanted the car I was trying to sell.
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