Sunday Scenic Showcase 2-10-2013...

Good morning Alan,

Thanks for starting this off, I think we all really enjoy this thread every week. Great picture of your "cheezy" plant.

Added a grain building to layout and re-did the ground cover on mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also made a dirt path for the hobo's 

 

 

Alan Graziano has made more progress on our 6 track CN ABBA Shop.

The "Master" Alan Graziano and his loyal "HELPER" "Rocky" Graziano.  

 

Alex you have been replaced

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Here is a shot of my newly installed Grist Mill.

 

The water wheel was made by Alex Malliae.  I still have to get a DC powerpack to power it.  I spent last night putting the paster cloth on and creating the river.  I ran out of plaster cloth and will get some more to finish the project this week.  

 

This area also serves as my access hatch.  Here is a shot of it off the layout, before the mill is placed onto the hatch.  

 

Here is a shot of the mill on the layout.  With all the plaster being white there isn't enough contrast in the photo to really make out the details of the river and hill behind the mill.  I constructed the mill so it will partly hid the tracks of my wye that are only O48.  It is an area I will be turning my passenger trains and the scale cars look funny going though such a tight turn.  After all the trees are installed and the hill is sceniced you it should hide them very well.   

 

And lastly here is the overall scene.   The yellow building is my Union Station O Scale Model RR club.  I am not 100% pleased with its location so it most likely will find a new spot on the layout.  

 

WOW...already some great pictures!

 

Jim....Alex did a fantastic job on the mill....and I like the larger water wheel.  Your layout is very nice!

 

Alan

Televue,

I love how neat your scene is. It looks great. The MTH Grainery model is a great one to detail and kitbash. Alan, The Cheese factory is very neat. Bill, what can I say. Don't forget to show Rocky in the pictures. He is really a big help in the shop.

Here is a structure I built for one of my customers.

 

Alan Graziano

Alan that's a great looking building, would love to have something like that, but a building that size would overwhelm my small layout.

Great items you have been doing Al!

Looks cool, wish I had some extra space.

 

Making coal loads for all the Weaver 3 bay hoppers this week.

Cut up some scrap paneling and foam taking up space.

Another series of Weaver C&O’s with new numbers will be available soon.

 

I gave up searching trying to find O scale coal. Seems only HO size coal is everywhere.

So I found and crushed black carbon filter pellets from the pet stores fish tank section.

 

Weathered a batch of cars from OGR Joey (posted on my link below) for auction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello all, here is a scene I just "finished."  This is the first scene that I've been able to get finished at least to the point of being satisfied with the photos.  It is in a remote corner of my layout and I had to crawl under and twist myself to access it.  There is a removable section in the middle for this access.

 

Now that I have this difficult area done, other more easily accessible areas of the layout should scenic at a quicker pace, though I am not in a hurry.

 

 

 

Hi Steve,

 

The activated carbon coal loads look great.  I bought some coal hoppers from a member here and he had put the carbon on top of the stock plastic loads.  So I did that as well.  But you have to cut them down or they are too high.  Your flat base will take care of that problem.

 

I've found that if you give them a very light quick shot of gloss black spray paint here and there, you can get the look of the reflective shiny coal a bit too.

Jeff, like everyone else, I love that scene!

No clutter just using one track says so much.

It's a common area I'm sure we all drove through in our travels.

Very nice!

Good morning all,

I woke up a little late today and I see such beautiful structures and craftsmanship already. Alan, I love your cheezy factory.  Televue, love the scene and the grain building.  Pops, awesome shop and Alan G, great work as always. I wish I would have met your dog Rocky when I was there.  I am a dog lover myself and I have two dogs of my own, one of them is also named Rocky.  Jim, fabulous work so far and I love the spot you put the Mill in, keep the photo's coming. Steve, awesome work. The coal and anything you create always looks so realistic. Jeff, this scene is one of the nicest scene's I've ever put my eye's on. Your work is masterful.

 

I'm sure a lot of you have seen my Grain and motorized water wheel, but here it is anyway.

 

Thanks, Alex

 

 

 

Steve, as I've said many a time before, I am a big fan of your work and a compliment from you is very encouraging for me.  Thanks!  By the way, I enjoyed your article in CTT.  It was nice to see the whole layout like that.

 

Alex, wow!  I instantly envisioned that building in a winter scene with snow on the roof and all around, and ice building along the edges of the stream.  Very cool.  You have me rethinking my Christmas layout now.

Thanks Jeff for the tips but I copied the height of the stock Atlas O Trainman loads.

Also, I beveled the wood blocks on the grinder to match the angle inside the hopper bin making a lower profile.

Gloss paints didn't work out because it tends to highlight the pellets that I missed during the crushing process.

So anyone else doing this, make sure every pellet is crushed otherwise it looks like shinny cans in the coal, LOL!

 

 

 

Alex, what more can I say?

You continue to amaze!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Jeff,

If that scene is just the beginning, we all have a lot to look forward to!   My hat is off to you.

 

SIRT,

Thanks for the tutorial.  Perfect!

 

 

Great work, everyone.

Jeff,

I love that scene. It is just great.

Steve,

You are a true artist.

Alex,

I will make sure Rocky has a scheduled shift the next time you visit. I was out of Milk bones the day you came over, so I could not get him into work.

Alan Graziano

Wow, great work and scenes illustrated today. Truly some outstanding artists among our fellow O-gaugers.

 

Steve[SIRT]

I also just recently enjoyed reading and viewing your CTT article. Very,very nice job.

I'll join the lovefest for that scene you created, Jeff!

 

Great work by the others here, as well.  This is always a VERY inspirational thread...one I look forward to every Sunday.

Very funny Jeff!

Oh yeah and a great scene! Looked like the sun relecting off the chrome.

 

No time this week on the factory, long week at work.

Heres a contribution of a previous project to fill in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pops.............who weathered the dog?

Redjimmy, Ohh it was Mother Nature, She has a habit of weathering a lot of things! Has she paid a visit to you? If not she will .

Rocky said only the groomrt knows for sure

Another super showcase, All !!  

 

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

 

A few hurried shots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got nothin'.... :-) Really great work everyone!

Hey guys another awesome showcase, thanks to all for the nice comments.

 

SIRT you're amazing

Patrick H beautiful beautiful scene

Alan looking forward to my next visit and seeing Rocky

Vulcan, a true artist and craftsman

 

Alex

 

 

A few shots from the Mohawk Valley RR Project Jim P and I did together not in the mag where East meets west and fun meets real. Enjoy and nice projects everyone!!

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing new for me but Marne next week. I have started on Clever models card stock American Steel Pipe company. For those who have not checked out their offering, give them a look. Neat kits that come with extra parts so that the builder can add some "depth" to the features. I am glueing to black foamcore. As Ten M. Indicates this creates a great building without the large price tag.

Great photos fella - beautiful work...

 

Hey Alex, that mill is really sharp!

Must have missed an explanation sometime back but what does 'JADA' RR mean please?

Thanks Sam,

 

The JADA is the first letters in each of my families names. MY two daughters my wife and me.

 

Alex

Great photos...the realism is fantastic. Thanks!

Very nice work by all!

Really great work!  Graz dont know where you find the time. Spectacular guys

 

Again lots of great work out there in this group.  I spent Thrusday and Friday messing around with Smoke units and then my wife and I took off for the weekend.  No Trains LOL.  Except we were near the Los Angeles restored Red Car line and my wife wanted to know why my trolley did not have a catenary - I just laughed and said "should I add one to my layout?"  We looked for the Angels Gate club building since we were down there and I will not elaborate on that experience this time. 

Jeff,

 

Bravo on that scene!  I think you nailed it.

 

Dave

Got to agree....some great pictures guys!  Don....love those pics of the project you and Jim worked on together.

 

Alan

Sirt, Let me add my thanks for the tutorial. I am in the process of making a coal load and have cut the wood. I will use your method to finish it!