Scenery - Structures
Fuel Pad or No Fuel Pad
It has been several months of life stuff and not working on my MEC and B&M Scenic RR. But I continue to plan. One of the photos of this week here on MRH led me to reexamine some photo evidence around the Dover NH yard I am modeling and question my earlier assumptions.
HO Scale UP Oregon Division update! Scenery, ballast.. etc.
Getting more and more completed on my railroad. (this is just one section of the railroad that is heavily sceniced) the other side is all industry and town.. Anyway, here's some of the latest work I've been doing:
Woodchip Loader
As the logical follow-up to my thread about woodchip service, I started having the interest to build a woodchip loader. As far as I know there are three commercial kits that were available at one time: one by Diamond Scale based on the Prineville, OR loader and one by TrainCat Models based on (I think) the Anderson, CA loader, and one by Walthers which I believe is freelance. The Walthers one is still kind of available by purchasing the "Sawmill Outbuildings" 4 structure set.
Single Stall Engine House Part 6
The same day I finished the last update, I received the Grandt Lines smoke jacks in the mail. So this part we'll deal with the base roof assembly and installing the smoke jacks.
So first off I have a question as to why they are called smoke Jacks? If anyone knows out there let me know.
So first image I set the two roof halves in place and tacked them with some CY glue. The roof can be removable so I just glued the ridge together. This way you can add interior detail later and retrieve that derailed loco too.
Single Stall Engine House Part 5
Yesterday I assembled window sashes & the glazing, and this morning I did some wall assembly.
First image showing parts for windows and doors. The long windows have two pieces, the upper sash with a small frame where the bottom sash mounts, and the bottom sash. the parts have adhesive backs so it's peel n stick. I suggest assembling the two sash parts first then add the glazing.
The entire block has gone bankrupt.
Single Stall Engine House Part 4
I've managed to finish up the painting and start some assembly now. I also found a solution to hide my paint creep problem on the two tone paint job.
First image painted window and door frames and trim pieces.
1 tree, 2 tree. Green tree, blue tree. Dealing with shadows on the backdrop
Been having some fun lately trying to deal with a particularly nasty shadow on the backdrop.
Here is my problem:
I like the effect of the lone Spruce next to the engine house but the shadow makes it blatantly obvious that the sky aint' real!
I tried painting some darker clouds around the shadow as seen on the right side here:
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