Scenery - Structures
Designing a Scene
I am about to plan/design my first module. It will be a town scene in Vermont. I have the track plan worked out, but would like a referral to an article or a blog or whatever, that can advise me on the planning process. It might advise me about first determining elevations, or structures or whatever. Any recommendations?
Making some progress
I'm making some progress in building a scratch build grain elevator. Here are some pictures. It's still a work in progress... More about the grain elevator on my website.
Picture size
I some what successfully made my first post with pictures, (My wife will not let me buy any more puzzles) thanks to those who read it. I have a question, does the picture insert platform automatically resize them, something popped up but was gone before I read it. The image I had loaded was in a little box which only showed part of the picture, so I kept making it smaller until I could see it all. Viewing it now the pictures are small. So I guess the programme resizes them to the right size, correct?
My wife will not let me buy any more puzzles
As I finished The Silver Bell puzzle, by Ted Blaylock I started to think, this would make a great scene on a model railroad. That's when the trouble started.
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Downtown Spur - N-Scale Micro Layout
Beside working on my room sized layout, I started a micro-layout project. The idea behind it is actually a contest entry more than having a second realm to play with.
Some of the progress photo made it to the WPF sections but here is a sum-up of some pictures :
CP West Toronto Junction: February layout update
Layout update
I've been away a while but on my blog West Toronto Junction I've posted a layout update for February including information about the addition of this new industry.
I've also added a new locomotive, some puffball trees and a new rock face.
Feb 2016-1 - Modeling rockwork, part 2
Modeling corrguated fiberglass sheets
I have working on a few structures for my Madras Switching module and I noticed that both of them had a similar element, fiberglass panels. I did a little research and discovered that Fiberglass had been around since the 1930's and was used in commercial products starting in the 1940's. I cannot find a specific date of when Corrugated Fiberglass sheets began to be used in construction, but I would think sometime post was to mid 50's? Since I model 1968 I figured I would be safe modeling these unique panels on my structures.
What is this tank for?
This is part of Weyerhaeuser in Washington state. In the background is a tilted gas tank. I've never seen this before and wondered why you would need to do this. Any ideas? Thanks.
Charles
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