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Nov 2015 Act II - Blue box handrail upgrade, part 2

Thu, 2015-11-12 12:35 — TMTV

Efram Ellenbogen continues work on his Athearn "blue box" SD40-2 with the installation of Smokey Valley stanchions and brass handrails. Watch it now on TrainMasters TV ....

Watch for more Notch 8 segments featuring Efram and other guest modellers in 2016.

Who's making this building?

Wed, 2015-11-11 06:14 — iDrive

Hi all,

I recently saw this building on a modular layout (HO scale) at the US RR Convention in Rodgau, Germany. I snapped a quick photo but I didn't have a chance to track down the person who built this module and ask: who makes this building?

I haven't been able to find it online (walthers, etc). It would be perfect for an empty lot on my layout.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Guido

4 comments

Backdrop colour

Wed, 2015-11-11 03:26 — aussiephil

Hi everybody, I'm building an industrial switching layout and have been putting some taught into backdrop colours. Instead of trying to replicate sky and background buildings using photos etc, I have been thinking about using black colour. One advantage to this is that it emphasizes the structures and groundwork. I have included some photos to show how it looks. Any thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Slowly, s l o w l y I'm making progress!

Mon, 2015-11-09 11:54 — rickwade

You know, I'd be further along on my railroad if I didn't have to go and visit Michael Rose and eat all that good food! (grin). Well, I can't really blame him - I'm just SLOW and spend a great deal of time detailing as I go along. So I am getting close to getting the landform completed for the cabin and in the picture below I've detailed the rocks and added a bunch of greenery. I'm hoping that I can finish this (just this scene!) before the end of the year.

Cleveland & Eastern RR - Dec 2015 update

Sun, 2015-11-08 13:29 — mike.h

I try to gather recent on going construction progress on my layout in this blog here.

While I was busy with other tasks on the railroad, I managed to get my focus on finishing the first section of the Cleveland & Eastern RR - Elizabeth Oaks.

There are several project waiting to be done. Among these I want to discard the "out-of-the-box" East-Grain Mill and replace the two Cornerstone buildings with one scratch built mill complex.

Photos below show the mock-up building

Nov 2015 Act I - Modeling better structure roofs

Sat, 2015-11-07 15:12 — TMTV

Roofs. Every building has one, and Miles Hale has lots of tips for making them unique in this month's Backshop Clinic. Watch it now on TrainMasters TV ....

Farm scenes

Sat, 2015-11-07 12:05 — bear creek

I hate making trees. That's either either funny or understandable given that my layout will probably require about 10,000 of the HO scale boogers by the time it's complete. Probably I should have modeled eastern instead of western Oregon - I'd need about 100 trees for an eastern Oregon layout.

Gap near a rock shed

Sat, 2015-11-07 05:32 — PAlldridge56

I built a rock shed (Timberline) for my HO mid-80's Canadian Pacific layout, then decided to move it. I have repositioned it but now have an un-prototypical gap between the tunnel portal and the shed.

Looking for ideas as to how to either bridge the gap or explain it away!! - Phil

(p,s, Trees still in the works!)

Phil's rock shed