Sunday Scenic Showcase 5-20-12

Dewey!! Good to see you kicking things off. The layout is looking great!

 

  (Wow, we've got a bunch of new graemlins). 

My first attempt at this type of car.

It was fun!

No air brush Mr.M, just some cans of .99 spray paint and a blasted baking soda application...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A very Industrial look!

My little playground module has a bunch of first's for me.

The trees are the rope trees. A stick from the backyard. Rope for

the branches with a little spackle and paint. The main foliage is

steel wool.

 

The schoolhouse is actually a church. A laser kit.

 

You probably reconise the Lionel playground set.

The dad is chasing the kids around the tree.

( a DVD with a motor under it. )

 

Yes homework is spelled wrong. ( on purpose )

Guess those 2 kids need to stay in school.

 

finally at the push of a button the whole scene is animated

for 20 seconds and then shuts off...

 

comments criticisms suggestions all welcome...

 

Bruce..

 

 

 

Wow, Steve! 

 

Bruce, very well done scene.

Just spent the last 3 weeks driving around observing real scenery (6014 miles worth):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realized that my versions should be a little more unbelievable-looking to be believable!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do need a higher ceiling in my basement though.  Royal Gorge in Colorado - those are railroad tracks and the Arkansas River at the bottom.

 

 

Jim

Outstanding scenery everyone! Here is the latest on the projects I've been working on.

 

 

GEF;

What/ whose are the buildings in the last 3 pictures? They look great! I'd like to do something very similiar on my layout.

 

GEF...wow you are really going to town. Your row houses have come a long way since the other day!

 

Steve.....Just as amazing as the rest of your work. I believe it's time to move on. We can all agree that you have the freight car weathering mastered! I would like to see you do a steam engine and a diesel. In fact how about a "how to" series on wethering some die cast vehicles?

 

Dewey.....Don't make so much of only having a 9' x 16' layout. I have 4' x 8' to work with. The important thing is that you are enjoying yourself and you obviously are. My space is mainly for the 19 month old granddaughter so it is just fine in her eyes.

 

Vulcan......another "no show" for you this week. Man those basements will never get finished at this rate. You OK pal?

 

I have been learning "ballasting" and grade crossing skills. Using Brennan's Ballast and like others have said in the past, this stuff if great looking. As for the Jag in the picture it has a special place in another forum members heart and it was a gift from him to me so I had to get it into the picture.

 

Don't count me out yet, Ken.

 

I had to fight off a migraine, started taking pics, the low battery icon started flashing so I put it on the charger. Ran into town to get some new blades for the riding mower, 'cause I bent the heck out of one of them yesterday.

 

But I'm OK.

 

Nice looking crossing and row houses and switch tower.

SIRT, the car looks great! what do you mean by " a blasting baking soda application?"

 

GEF, that finished scene with the signal tower is first-rate.

 

jerrman

Ok, some progress on the basements.

 

Added the grate to the drain in the barbershop basement.

 

 

 

Finished an unfinished room in the bar basement. (We'll have to wait and see what that room is for).  And what you can't see, there's a stairwell beyond the exterior door.

 

 

 

 

 

The beginnings of the laundry room in the apartments basement.

 

 

 

The door to nowhere.

 

 

A couple of Captain's trunks and newspaper bundles (these may relocate).

 

 

 

And the very early beginnings of the steam boiler (furnace).

 

 

 

 

Gotta run, gotta mower to fix.

Hey Jim...

Those first three pictures of your layout look fantastic!!!....no point in you trying to convince us that you were on a trip....we all know those are of your layout!!

 

Alan

 

SIRT, thanks for the
link on the blaster. can u elaborate a little
on the process with the baking soda
and the spray paint? thanks

jerrman

The three houses are Weaver company row houses. I got the idea from an HO scale modular group layout that comes to the Great Scale show in Timonium, MD.

 

Norm Charbonneau has used these buildings in his masterpiece of a layout. His work has inspired me to attempt to model anthracite coal region railroading.

 

The other buildings are kitbashed using a variety of HO scale buildings and an old Lionel engine shed. I wanted a scene similar to the picture below of buildings in Pottsville, PA.

 

George

Jim....your second picture looks like a monument of the "back" side of a cowboy that has been on his horse for way to long!

The greatest thread of the week!! All of yinz work is fantastic. Thanks and keep posting!!

Another great Sunday Show folks.. So many structure and scenery ideas to steal from and so little time. And, ain't no telling what we will eventually see in those intriguing basement rooms?