Scenery - Structures
Another new building in Ashland Ind. Dist.
The Sanborn Lumber Co. is built and positioned on the layout. It is located in my Ashland Ind. Area. I still need to do the signage, add the details, do the entry driveway & parking lot. It is a Walthers "Walton & Sons Lumber Co." kit. The first three photos are shown below.
Transfer Terminal Kitbash: Beginning to come together
The walls are together, and mostly detailed -- there are still some signs to compose and print, and some delicate pipes that will have to wait almost until final assembly. Also, the east-end dock and canopy has to be built. I set it up with tape to determine the final position on the baseboard:
November 4, 2014 update on the Colorado Front Range Railroad
Well we have over 512 feet of track laid 37 turnouts build. I also give a tour of my Denver Union Station and my scratch build Grain Elevator that is over 51 inches long.
I hope this video inspires some of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFjPXHv520
Mike Deverell
IAIS's West End - Action at Walnut Creek
I finished the water and foliage at Walnut Creek today, so I thought I'd get a few action shots there. I still need to return to touch up the backdrop seams and add trees, but I plan to complete those tasks in bulk once I finish all the backdrop pics throughout the layout.
Happy Halloween from Thunder Mesa!
Happy Halloween all! The spooky, scratch-built Never Mine is now complete and installed on the layout.
How do you achieve a realistic look for cinders?
I am in need of a good method or product for representing cinders in and around the steam loco shops areas on my HO layout.
The Woodland Scenics product is too black, I glued it in place, and found it so dark that I came back and hit it with my airbrush and, if I recall, Polly Scale UP dark gray paint. The dark gray is about the right color, but now the cinders just look exactly like what they are... spray-painted dark cinders. Ugh.
I am looking for what I would call a dark gray with some hint of brown.
Thanks for your ideas!
Milt
Looking for recent magazine article
Sometime in the past year there ws an article on kitbashing a Walthers McGraw Oil business. Maybe a conversion to an ethanol company? The McGraw kit is 4 vertical tanks with a concrete catch basin around it. The article halved it to two tanks and bashed the concrete basin to hold just the two tanks.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I don't need the article, just the issue/date. I was thinking MR. Thanks.
Charles
CAD for structures
Currently, my layout is in the planning stages and I have completed the track plan using XTrackCAD 4.0.3a
I am looking for a CAD program for a MAC running OSX 10.10 so that I can produce designs of all the structures for my layout. Ultimately, the stored designs will help generate a parts list and 2D drawings for when I get the time to build the models.
What CAD programs are currently being used?
IAIS's West End - New power, new bridge
Over the 14 years I've been following the IAIS, I've gone to great effort to confine my modeling strictly to my chosen era, both to focus my efforts as well as to limit my hobby spending. A friend has even jokingly (?) referred to me as "heartless" due to choices I've made to part with equipment that doesn't fit my timeframe.
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