Oops! Years ago our N-Trak group had a golf scene. The fellow who built it was a retired and played a lot. It was quite a conversation piece.
if Rory McIlroy can toss his 3 iron into the Doral lake on national tv, when I did it in my youth, all is forgiven. I feel vindicated.
Short staff last night, apparently several of my guys celebrate St. Paddy by going out to dinner in style. As a result, we only had two of us at the RGW; myself and Rey. While Rey worked on two more of our Boeing fleet cars, I began doing some foam work to create a disappearing road in the SE corner. I also spent the early part of the evening using a Woodland Scenics paint pen to color some rail with rail brown. In an earlier post, we show a picture of Wain's ballast work. It was very clear which section of rail did not get painted by the airbrush. So I wanted to get the paint pen out and even that look out. Here is the before: And the after: A pretty big improvement. That's all for this week. Thanks for checking in. M
It's hard to get good help. OTOH you must have some good help because this scenery looks wonderful as it grows and grows.
Usually there are a few folks over in Butte, Montana, who get too carried away, and start shooting or stabbing each other.... Dinner sounds rather tame by comparison!
Here's a recap of Tuesday's work party. Wain was back in town after a week's vacation and set out to paint rail on all non-ballasted track. He had the airbrush humming all evening before turning to the floquil paint Pen to address the concrete tie sections. Doug took up the road I started last week, getting the base down and gluing the sections together. Scott completed laying ties for the transfer table and tacked in the first piece of n-scale track. Rey finished up two more Boeing cars, we now have 6 complete. As for me, I spent a great deal of time assisting where needed, got under the table to reinforce some exposed areas, dismantled a swap meet building for future restoration and use as a cafe and added scenery on the lower helix tunnel. It was a great night on the RGW.
Ken, you asked a while back about Henrys Jct. Here is what I have from the White River Museum Collection. One of my favorite pics. M
Last night was a fun get together with the guys. We had yet another red letter day, the latest shipment of LEDs arrived and we began install along the south wall. Here is how the golf course scene looks, pretty spectacular frankly, with the lights temporarily in place and on full intensity. One of the key design elements in this area was the concept of "drawing one's eye". Many moons ago architect and modeler Paul Rising said not to worry about the scene being under the shelf, as once it's lighted, the light will draw your eye away from the upper fascia. Based on this shot, I'd say he was spot on. Meanwhile Doug was adding more foam along the south wall, in this section we will have only a hillside and a service road. Scott continued with the lumber mill transfer table, this time adding real dirt ballast for the ties. We also painted the underdeck our sky blue, which will assist the lighting down the road. Lots done, fun times. Thanks for checking in. M
Agree Alan, can't wait for the players, golf carts, OB stakes and fence to go in. Might make me get out the clubs.
Nice. Looking east up Stampede Pass. I can see the a little of the roadway bridge beyond. Any idea what year this was captured? I wonder what they were doing? Was that loco, with it's own train, actually shoving another train?
It's that time of year again, where the superintendent is away on vacation and the crew takes over the railroad. So let's see their progress. Scott used some time last week to measure up the abutment and shoes for one of our bridges. We believe we just forgot about it at time of install, but it had to get put in or it would just look wrong. Here is what he came up with: Later in the evening he put down the second track on the transfer table.
Wain spent the evening adding a service road and sculpting proper road approaches: Ed got the lights installed and Doug continued work on the disappearing road. Lastly, Rey worked on more hoppers and a box car. Maybe I'll just stay here in Palm Springs. Hmm.....Thx for checking in.
Short staffed this week, but some progress none-the-less. While Wain spent the entire evening hitting scenery gaps with caulk, Doug made more progress on the SE corner. He started to add roads and contoured some of the foam to better suit our intended "look". As he was busy there, I began the process of fitting, then gluing the styrene face to the foamcore backing for our Boeing plant. Evergreen Styrene recommended Loctite PL30 for the job and I must say it was an excellent choice. Time enough to make some corrections, dries solid in under 30 minutes. Once the glue dried, we removed the tape: Next step is to finish the trim, add a concrete base and paint. I want to mechanize the doors so that will take a bit of work for this project to be complete. Also need photo backdrop for the interior. That's it for this week, thanks for checking in. M