Nice model, Russell, with excellent lighting. Though your background is a good example of the flat terrain between there and the North Pole. Nothing but a few trees, three barbed wire fences, and one scraggly old Longhorn.
Candy got some run showing her laundry photo last week so here is mine this week! The year is 1936 in the company town of Dead Tree. Then you could say a women's work was never done for sure. Jim
Managed to finsish a couple of models this week! Second KCS 50' PS1 Boxcar I have done, (decal sheet has enough decals for two cars, so I did two). Robbins Rails 50' PS1 Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar red and lettered with Mask Island Decals. Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar Kit, with Moloco FMC Draftgear added, car was painted with Floquil Platinum Mist and Reefer Orange Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car is in as delivered lettering, later the SSI lettering was removed as it was in non-conformance with ICC rules on lessor lettering on cars. Picture of Athearn DT&I GP38-2's with a coil car train on the Strongsville, OH railroad club layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
This scene is so well put together !!!!! Composition is balanced and with great depth. It draws your eye in every direction. GOOD STUFF !!!
I second that! The level of detail is so intricate it's mesmerizing... after some time examining the scene, it has a way of drawing you into it... Absolutely stunning! A nice small village scene right up there with Candy's urban scenes.
Candy, Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. Mike, Thanks to you as well. I'm winding down layout work these days. After 7 bedroom sized layouts in 10 years I'm running on empty now. The Pinnacle Creek Mining & Timber Company trilogy is now complete. What you see in this photo is Part III. The Dead Tree Mine Subdivision in On30 scale. The PCM&T Co. started out in HO representing SE Alaska, Part II was representing in On30/HO, the Colorado/New Mexico border area. This layout is in Northern California.....I think?! What may be interesting to some is this Dead Tree layout is only 4'x6'. Jim
SO, I had built the Heljan kit and modified it about four years ago. Well, last night, the shelf it was on decided that it liked gravity more than the brackets holding it up. It fell, and fell on this building. The othe photos show the pieces that it was broken into. There were eight in total, and I am now putting it back together.
When that happens I just consider it a new kit. Now you can highlight the cracks across the brick wall and have a unique structure like no one else has.
Like that scene as well Russell. Great detail reminds me of where I was born in cotton country. Has anyone ever found a HO scale cotton bales? Regular size or after compressed? I have a loading dock that could sure use some cotton bales.
I made my own in N scale with cotton cord bound up with sewing thread. They kind of puffed up a little in the wrong direction but no body has ever complained.
It's a Heljan appliance warehouse kit. I didn't like the sky lights, so I modified the roof. The good news is IT WENT BACK TOGETHER!!! I'll post some pictures later!
Thanks...I just got done putting it back together. YEAH! it's all there, and R.I. Straw says, it's unique! Candy, it sits REALLY low. So I gave it a foundation from the Walthers Modulars...That's where the side roll up door came from too. I had thought last night when it got smashed, that it was a goner...I got to put new handrails on the steps, and I'll add new down spouts to cover the corners. I will reinstall the roll up door too.
