Sunday Scenic Showcase 1-20-2013...

I built a couple Clever Model Kits.  I am waiting for the exterior LEDs to come in the mail so I can put these on the layout.  I build these differently than the kit.  I use Foam Core backing and heavier type photo matte to construct these.  Also I use velum in the ink jet for the windows.

 

A very nice small kit. IMO

First I want to say thanks to Alan for starting us off every Sunday

Beautiful photo's everyone.

Here's some photo's of a water wheel I'm building for a fellow forum member, I must give thanks to Jim Policastro for helping me out with the materials and sizes for this project as well as some photo's he sent me. It's made with 1/8 inch masonite and 1/4 inch strip basswood. There will also be gear work and a motor hooked up to it.

Also I will be weathering it a bit more to give it a more rustic look

Thanks, Alex

 

 

Very nice Alex. It was nice to meet you at Trainstock yesterday.

 

Very nice shots everyone. Like those buildings.

Very nice work, Guys !!

 

Great present, Jim. Is there a machine shop in your future ?

 

It's even more fun when you make all those little parts that you can't see.

 

I'm still plugging away at the Burlington Coffin Co.

Great work everyone...  the talent on this forum never ceases to amaze me!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITqyMppPFxU

So, you go to the Burlington Coat factory when you're cold and when you're really cold, you end up at the Burlington Coffin Co.?

Here's the Atlas train station that I built.  Matt

Nice station.

 

Thanks, Jim. Those machines will work just fine in the roundhouse.

 

Martin.....

Nice work everyone. I will have to go to Trainstock next year and meet some of you guys. Here are some pictures of a project I completed a couple of years ago.

The back yard of one of my recently completed buildings...

 

Jim M,

 

Yeah, I have been putting 12 V LEDs in everything I can.  I am using 12v so at some point when I go out and get a malibu light power supply I have one less thing to deal with.  I also ordered 20 of those exterior lamp shade type fixtures (LED) that go on the outside of the buildings, they will probably be here Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

Thanks,

Ted

Jim M,

 

Thanks.

 

All the usual great work. Mike CT, the lumber yard shed looks terrific.

 

I finally got around to pasting up some backdrops, ballasting, planting trees and completing cliffs on one side of my layout. The scenes in the photos are 18 inches deep.

 

 

 

 

 

The cliffs were carved from styrofoam, the trees were from the dollar store (many had to be hand painted and sprinkled with fine turf) and the area around the plasticville switch tower has not yet been started.  

Alex, great job on the water wheel.  Is that going to be part of a mill?

 

Hi Jim thanks for the nice words, I'm pretty sure it is,  I'll tell the forum member that I'm doing it for to post photo's when it's all in place

 

Thanks, Alex

Alex, great construction on the water wheel and with the addition of it being motorized will only enhance the effect.

Alex

 

I will be happy to post photos when it is complete!

I Modded the Clever Models S19 Warehouse.  I got  the bulk of the busy work done tonight.

 

Was ballasting my yard after getting more ballast on Friday. Half way through, I remembered a fence kit that I bought from the same vender last summer.

 I got distracted and decided to do a trial section and repave my dirt road. Still needs paint and weathering. But progress is being made.

Looks great.  I have been using screen, but it does not look as good as those kits.

Fred,

That is a great looking layout! It has a classic Hi-rail look that I greatly admire.   Keep the pictures coming.

 

Alan G

here is photo of service facility in action.  Always nice setup when full yard is in operation

 

Bill D

Ffffred - what vendor did you get that chain long fence kit from? Lionel Grandpa

Chris D,

 

I get most of my electrical stuff from China, from Ebay.  Funny thing is that China Post delivers sometimes faster than stuff I buy from the east coast.  Usually 7 days and it is here.  I also got a bag of 1/48 figures that look great and are identical in size to Woodland Scenic figures.

 

These are the lights.  I got 20 at approx $1.15 each.  I just don't have the time to fool around trying to construct it.

 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/190724...id=p3984.m1439.l2649

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-Ted

Brennan's Model Railroading Products

Bill,

That looks 100 percent better than my garage pictures. It looks great on the layout. Thank you for sharing.

 

Alan Graziano