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a picture a day....

p51p51OGR Forum Member
gandydancer1950 posted:

it's all about the details!

It is, indeed. I've made no secret of the fact I'm not one of these, "build a layout, step back and look at it, then immediately break out the saw to start over" types. I've enjoyed many building aspects of the hobby, but I didn't really enjoy my layout all that much until it at least looked like something other than track nailed down to plywood.

I'm enjoying it a lot now that I am going over areas of the layout, wondering how I can improve the realism, then trying my best effort at doing exactly that. Tyler Whitcomb, an amazing N scale modeler in Tacoma, said it best when I showed him photos of my layout when I ran across him at the Monroe WA show. He looked and said, "So, you're at the super-detail phase, huh?" The man has built a few layouts so he knew the progression, I guess. But he called it exactly.

This is the part I'm enjoying now.

p51p51OGR Forum Member
coach joe posted:

Lee, that loco in the sunrise picture rivals Erik's photos for realism between the modelling and the lighting.

Thank you very much, I'm very flattered with any comparison's to Erik's amazing photo work (though I'm nowhere in his class). I just lucked up on that, as what is essentially a staging area with scenery on the layout straddles the one window in the room. Sometimes I can play with the lighting if the sun is in the right spot and I open the blinds.

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This afternoon, I got an odd feeling that i was about to see something cool out on the mainline, so I grabbed my camera and went to the nearest spot to catch the action. I can't say why, i just had a feeling and I'd been wrong before.

Anyway, less than 10 minutes goes by and the Coast Starlight heads north, with a private car on the back end!

Then, in less than half an hour, I see two running meets within sight of where I was!

Not bad for less than an hour, huh?

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p51 posted:

This afternoon, I got an odd feeling that i was about to see something cool out on the mainline, so I grabbed my camera and went to the nearest spot to catch the action. I can't say why, i just had a feeling and I'd been wrong before.

Anyway, less than 10 minutes goes by and the Coast Starlight heads north, with a private car on the back end!

Then, in less than half an hour, I see two running meets within sight of where I was!

Not bad for less than an hour, huh?

P51 - WOW!!  A private car on the tail of an Amtrak train!  Talk about a vanishing vista.  Lucky you!  

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