Wow! You guys are doing some great stuff! Excellent work by all I see here. I am detailing on that creek I have been making for a month now. Those details on the shore take a lot of time. I have now made logs from the twigs in the back yard. They are about 1/2 inch long. Stumps are cut from twigs where they have a fork and make a wider bottom. Debris along the sand bars.
Flash- It is painstaking detail work but worth it after your pour, set and look at your accomplishment.
Hang on Flash,I may be over stepping my welcome here abit but shouldn't you air brush the "bottom of the river" colours first?And then place the debris along the the shore line etc,or are you hand brushing the bottom of the river colours?Was thinking if you air brush you may get over spray on the debris?
Jason: I am not sure about the debris area. I know I need to airbrush last where there is no debris along the shore line. That will give the illusion of the sandbar fading down into the water. I am not sure about the question you ask where the debris is along the shore line. I think I decided that I would airbrush right up to the edge of the debris...about 2 mm away. If it doesn't look right, I will just add more debris to make it go out into the "water." We will see, but I am glad you asked the question. [edit] OTOH, just thinking about your question...the items you see in the pictures are not in the water area. They are trash and refuse deposited there by higher water levels. I will have some family there on an outing while some guy on the other side of the bridge changes the oil in his pick up truck. Still, a good question because there are some places where the debris does go down to the edge of the water. [ September 11, 2005, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: sapacif ]
I converted the new Pennsy Z Scale MTL GP35 into a BN GP39-E as rebuilt from a GP30 this weekend. You have to scratch build everything, as there is no detail parts in Z yet: -Robert
As an exercise in patience I highly recommend building a Walthers refinery kit. This is the tall oil refinery for my Georgia-Pacific chemical plant. It still needs some light weathering.
Here are some of the first indoor pics I took with my new camera. I have been working on a 2 level extension of the layout. The upper track extension will run behind the trestle and will be out of sight for the most part until it emerges out of a tunnel portal leading to a coal fired electric power plant. Here is a view of some of the benchwork painting that has been done recently. Here is the beginnings of the large grain elevator complex I have started. It will consist of two Walthers kits along with extra silos made from grey PVC conduit. The engine facility is also in the foreground. Here is one of the two Alan Curtis reefer models that I have built recently.
Thanks everyone for the compliments. Paul Great locomotive shots! I really like the second one where the locos are coming from behind the tower. Mike Great looking scene! Chad Cool looking loco! Mark The scenery is looking awesome! Nice shot with the steamer and rolling stock! Loco1999 Great looking locomotives! The weathering on the Cotton Belt units looks sweet! Kris Awesome job on the loco! Flash Coming a long real nice! Robert Great looking loco! Tad Great job! Herman I am jealous, you have bench work! Looking good!
I'm late (but what else is new?) I spent a lot of time with friends and wife outside this weekend, doing social and maintenance things. But I did get to paint the deck of this new ship. There's lots of touchup still to come, and more details. I've held off on the rigging until most of it was painted. That's next. Reminder to self: paint the friggin' decks before adding details on the next ship! ZOOM for full size
Loco, I love the weathering on those SP's. Pray59, that is awesome, dobly so for being Z. Are there decals available for Z or do you have to mix and match to get what you need? Here's my contribution: This first shot is Santa Fe power at the head of a military special, crossing a rather large bridge on the Kentuckiana Society of NScalers (KSONS) modular layout. The steel bridge is HO, used as a double track deck bridge. And here we see the same train further around the layout. BTW, the power isn't mine, it's borrowed (leased? pool power?) from a friend for the exhibition. On a side note, anyone in the area should go by the New Albany (IN) public library this week and see the KSONS layout (it should be open through Saturday the 17th). Good people, a great layout and as a bonus, it features the Louisville Union Station scrathbuilt by Paul Downs and featured in N Scale magazine. An award winning structure, and really something to see! Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't all that good, so the photos I took of the station turned out very poorly.
