Sunday Scenic Showcase 12-16-2012

Good Morning!  Here is two scratch built houses that I got at the Arbutus,MD train show yesterday.  Thought it was a steal at 25.00 for both. I also been working on making some white pine trees. 

I've been stockpiling these old Atlas ore jennys for some time now.  They have cheap plastic couplers.  My friend John Penca turned me on to the Kadees.  So I am replacing all of them.  The loads in the second photo are still wet.

Dave

Well since were thinking black light and nightime, here is a shot of the bus terminal area in Center City on the Bellevue and Schenectady RR. The late great John Allen and his Gorre and Dapehtid RR used the technique. The key is to not only light the buildings but add fluorescent paint to light windows(randomly), signs and with a blue fluorescent paint add stars that when the room lights are on will disappear into your backdrop. Alan your on your way!!!

Great stuff again this week.

Alan, I really like the black light effect.

GEF, those houses were a steal!

Dave, I have always liked those old cars and have a stash myself.

Mike, beautiful station.

Below is a building that I got in 1978! I had a guy build it for me as back then I did not think I had the skills or tools, or time...  Anyway he did an OK job but the building really needed an inside. So a few weeks ago I cut the top off and built a three sided "unit" to drop in. Built the flour / grain bin and the rest of the fixtures and now it's bit more presentable.

Happy Railroading!

Awesome photo's everyone.

Here's the warehouses I just finished for the NJHirailers awesome layout.Also a big thank you to fellow forum member Chris Lord for taking these beautiful photo's.

Thanks, Alex

I just completed a model of an actual storage tank that the company I work for recently repaired. I am giving this to the maintenance manager. This was a real challenge necause I had to match all the details of the exisitng tank.

Alan Graziano

Great work, Guys !!!  

I managed to get the roofing done, more or less.

Very nice everyone. Great additions to the layouts.

Great work and photos guys!! 

Don...love the shot using black light.  You are correct about your reference to John Allen using the technique.  I had posted some time back that while reading the book done on his work, I saw that he used black light to simulate neon signs, etc.  Thus....my experiment.  As you can see, since this is a backdrop and the building's interiors can't be lighted, I have begun coloring some of the windows with black light crayons that when exposed to the light, the windows look illuminated.  I have a lot to go for sure!!  Below is another area where I am using blacklight along the harbor area....

Thanks,

Alan

The late John Allen also painted the ground/sidewalks under street lights and had the light from auto headlights painted on the ground in front of the autos.  PLEASE excuse my poor artwork but here is KINDA what I mean.  Russ

Wow - that is a great building Dan.  

Alan - No time to rest on OGR there is always something to learn - blacklight paint 

Thanks everybody, mighty impressive work posted today.

Alan

Are you using a camera that you can adjust the exposure manually?

If so, try to do a longer exposure, around 10 seconds, but only keep the black light on during 1 second of the exposure.  You might have to toy around with how long of exposure you have vs how long to keep the black lights on but you should be able to get the look your going for.

Dave,

I really like how the Kadee couplers look on your ore jennys.  I have a number of jennys and would like to do the same after seeing how they look.  Do you have any hints or suggestions for putting them on based on your experience?

Thanks,

Dan

Dan,

They are so easy to install.  It is pretty straight forward with the new KaDees.  Get the 2-56 x 3/8 screws and hex nuts.  The Atlas cars just pop apart and have mounting holes already drilled with recessed pockets for the nuts.

Dave

I just completed these apartment buildings for a customer who wanted to recreate the buildings where both he and his best friend from kindergarten lived in NYC. the buildings are a little uneven since they are sitting on wire.The windows and cornices should line up once installed on the layout.

Faced with cutting all those holes for the windows and trying to line them up I tried a new technique for me. Instead of the solid piece of plastic and a bunch of holes I cut the walls into vertical and horizontal strips and glued them together. This was more time consuming but it made the windows line up beautifully and with very little clean out for fit. The stairs for the fire escapes are not shown.

Joe 

Nice work Joe.