Realizing some street running

Hello!

I still wish you all a happy new year with a lot of fun in O-Scale Railroading!

In the last days I have made some work at my Atlas Trainman Two-Story House. The first kit is now painted and the porch got some real mahogany ledges.

And there is still some work to do on the second house...

Regards vom Germany

Lars

Happy New Year Lars!

Hello everybody.

Since my last post in this topic some paint word could be done on my Atlas and Woodland buildings. At the time I am working on the Woodland buildings for the main street. And I enjoy it to see some progress at all....

Regards from Germany

Lars

Lars, very impressive!  You have definitely captured the look and feel.

Looks like it's progressing well!

Jeff C

Looking good, Lars.

It's really coming along nicely.

You are doing some very nice work...looks great!

Thanks for your replies. Today I made some work on the suburban part of the layout. I have shaped the stairs to the houses and plaster in the whole area. And I made two snapshots of the town with a better light...

Kind regards

Lars

Nice. I really like the trees in the sidewalk in front of the shops -- very nice touch.

Lars,

Speechless.......

Amazing work...

Looks real........

I must learn from the master......

Hi Lars!

Nice work! I like a lot.

Very good modeling....

Hello.

Finally back again after a nasty cold which kept me away from modeling... But now everything is fine and there is a small progress on my layout.

Some grass at the suburban homes made the layout green:

Kind regards

Lars

Lars - Too bad I can't be miniaturized, that's a neighborhood in which I'd like to live.  Excellent!

Waow! Very nice Lars!I love that ambiance.

It's really a good location to take photos of the running trains!

Just a question about your trees. Is it scratchbuilt trees or from a company?

Thank you

Jack

The trees are scratchbuilt. Yesterday I also received the Telephone Poles from Lionel. I will add them to the scene, too. I hope that I can show you the first pictures on Friday..

Best regards

Lars

Thank you Lars!

I like your trees.

I'm in a hurry to be on Friday evening to see the progress!

Lars, it really looks fantastic.  I hope when I get to the scenery point I am able to create scence as nice as these!

The Lionel Telephone Poles are in position now. But I am still a little bit frustrated because I have not the right idea what material to use for the wiring... I have to think about it... 

Kind regards

Lars

Great scene Lars!!!!

Looks great, Lars. For telephone wires, you can use black sewing thread. The catch is that it its time-consuming to thread and can create problems if not properly protexted when transporting a module.

Think it might be good to use the black stretchy cord so no accidental telephone poles are yanked out or broken? Sorry, know it exists but not sure what exactically that it is called, but someone here will fill in the info and where to get it!

Great Layout! Can't wait to start on mine this year!

Just amazing.

Some detail work done today and also the background is mounted now...

Regards from Germany

Lars

Lars just amazing workmanship. i especially like the overgrown lawn. must be a model railroader living there who doesn't have time to cut the lawn as he is too busy working on his layout.

great details who says you need a warehouse for a 2 rail layout!

Wunderbar Lars!

Very nice atmosphere and very fine work.

The mailbox is a good detail!

The wiring of the Lionel Telephone Poles is done. I am very happy that I could finish that work..

Impressive work.  Quite a bit of wire for a neighborhood.  What did you use for wire?

Ron

I have used spandex thread (I hope that's the right translation; in german it's called "Elasthan").

Lars

Excellent Lars!

These wires are fantastic.

That looks great, Lars.

Spandex is correct.

   You are seldom far from perfect English Lars.

  And understood even if you could have said it differently.

I'll have to keep in mind English is not your native language.

 Similar to your photo... You appear to be US/UK, unless you look very closely 

It took a few minutes of looking to even notice the corner in the sky.

 It is very similar to areas I grew up near, so my eyes kept habitually looking up, expecting to see clouds, or smoke that might be rising there. Steel? Plastic? Rubber? Glass? Diesel train? or storm?.

But there was no smoke, no clouds Why would I look there repeatedly

 Eventually, I noticed the very fine shadow... 

 That's one nice corner, in that nice corner.. 

 I know you like to show that off. I would, if it were mine.

  But if you crop the top, containing corner, out of the photo, I think you have a real winner with this shot. The block is a very realistic urban American scene. "You nailed it". Many more would mistake it as real life, for longer, if the sky was trimmed down.(or add a dark smoke trail for the corner shadows to hide in? 3d or real smoke to mask it the slightest bit more?...Looks great... I'm just full of too many ideas) 

Excellent Lars, you have real talent!  I like the way you did the trees: proper thickness trunks, the right coloring, and with a visible root structure

Fantastic looking wire - I've not seen the spandex wire with the catenary effect.  Too many times it is pulled taut between poles and it does not look real.  You've achieved a VERY realistic effect - and with so many wires.  Good job!

Can you share your technique?

WUNDERBAR!!!

I will try to explain. First of all, I had to increase the holes of the insulatators. There was some paint inside and the holes were to tight for the spandex thread. Then I thread the spandex through all poles of one line. I fixed it with superglue at he first pole and spun it to the next pole. After threading the spandes trough the hole I fixed it again with superglue. I repeated this step until the last pole. An every pole has 13 holes... It was a relaxing work...

Kind regards

Lars

An every pole has 13 holes...

Wow... 13 holes per pole?  I think my neighborhood will have underground utilities.

Looks Super!

Ron