Once again I see that I have the honor of starting this thread....hope everyone made some progress this past week on their layout projects!! Have a great Sunday everyone!
Alan
Hope you like my "new ride"...(right click and then click "open link in new window" for a super sized picture)
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What a way start things off! Great pics Alan. This past week I was able to find some time to weather up my JLC Allegheny, CSX SD70, and attempt the water project that I posted last Sunday. The water project has been difficult. The first pour of the envirotex seeped through the floral foam which I used for the mountains. To remedy that situation I bought some Flex Seal and applied it to the base and underside of the benchwork. This morning I am on second attempt at the envirotex.
Mike,
With your macro lens, stop down as much as possible (smallest aperture), use lots of light, raise your ISO, make sure your exposure is "on" and then back in and out rather than re-focus if you have manual focus. No manual focus, you should back in and out slowly.
Eliot
Nice ride, Alan. Is that taken on your layout? I'm used to seeing the ultra urban stuff. I like it. 
Nice weathering, GEF. You'll get the water thing worked out, it's gonna look great.
Looks like you know how to use that lens to me, Mike.
I made a little progress on the basements.
I decided to skip the bar and go to the barber.
Nice shots, Eliot.
Thanks guys...
Fred...yep, believe it or not, that is on my layout. I have quite a few of these vignettes I am now working on. Slowly but surely if the Good Lord gives me enough time I will get more of them done! I am working on a few factory scenes right now and will post them over the next few weeks....
The basements are just unbelievable.....WOW!!
GEF....your weathering is very nice...not over done, I like it...
Mike, looks like you are doing just fine with your new lens, I could take some pointers from you and Eliot...
Eliot...beautiful shots indeed!
Alan
Mike,
With your macro lens, stop down as much as possible (smallest aperture) Not sure how to adjust aperature on my Cannon A520, all these years has been (A) for automatic. , use lots of light That is not a problem, my layout is well lit. , raise your ISO (???) , make sure your exposure is "on" (???) and then back in and out rather than re-focus if you have manual focus There are (4) different lens, in the set and I did note the positioning the camera close or away improved the image so the back in and out makes sense. . No manual focus, you should back in and out slowly.
Eliot:
Thanks for the camera 101. I find this stuff fascinating. I'm always looking for small detail pictures, so important to this section of the forum. Hopefully I can gain a bit with this addition, it seemed frustrating on occassion, this helps.
Eliot
Another great Sunday. Thanks to all who participated.
Alan: Always one of my favorite cars
GEF: Great scenery work.
Eliot: Great pictures and Thank you for the camera advice.
Fred: Fascinating. I often wonder if there is a ship in a bottle on your desk. Amazing patients.
Keep cool this week, the heat can be very dangerous.
Mike
I'm envious of all you guys with your talk of aperture and ISO's and so forth!! All I have at my disposal right now is my crappy first-generation iPhone (well, the phone's not crappy, the camera is!!) I'd like to think my scenes would look better with a real camera, but then again, maybe I'm kidding myself! 
- Mike
Not bad for a phone camera.
Heat, what heat? We just barely made it over 106 the last couple of days. 
Looking forward to the cool down this week. Low 80's.
Not bad for a phone camera.
Heat, what heat? We just barely made it over 106 the last couple of days.
Looking forward to the cool down this week. Low 80's.
The trip back from Philly yesterday saw a couple of 100+ as we rolled on the Turnpike. Cool off today with tomorrow morning seeing a 59 degrees. That is long sleeve shirt on the bike, tomorrow morning at least.
I found a piece of information on the NPS (National Park Service) Grand Canyon website that talked about dehydration at a rate of 1 liter per hr. 
love your new wheels, Alan (and the mini scene)
GEF, that scene is coming along very nicely and sounds like you've found a solution for the water pour.
vulcan, please tell me you didn't make that barbershop chair from scratch! if u did, please tell me how, before I kill myself
mike, sweet scene. If the early iPhone really isn't helping the look I can only imagine how good it would look otherwise.
jerrman
Vulcan, Outstanding work on the basement! The attention to the detail is amazing. The drain in floor and the barber chair WOW. Any plans for adding a coal furnace?? That would make it like just like the home I grew up in.
Mike, Excellent little scene. Hopefully that ice cream guy drives thru the neighborhood tonight.
vulcan, please tell me you didn't make that barbershop chair from scratch! if u did, please tell me how, before I kill myself
jerrman
Ok, I won't tell you that I made it from scratch. It's made from styrene and wire and covered with gin-u-wine naugahyde.
It's actually the third barber chair I've made. The two good ones are upstairs in the shop.
GEF, there's a coal fired steam furnace in the basement of the apartments. I don't know about adding one to the barber shop.
Needed a short bridge for a narrow rural road on our hobby shop layout restoration project. Just happened to have a G scale tunnel portal from the old layout, a few scraps of pink foam, and a hacksaw blade handy --- result: a quick and easy bridge:
Luckily only one side would be visible. Otherwise, I would have needed two portals. I just added a row of marble tile trim pieces along the rear side.
(Getting lazy in my old age - photo taken with my iPhone instead of dragging out the usual camera!)
Jim
Great projects everyone....boy those iPhone cameras are something else. Just a few short years ago that kind of quality picture would have required a pricey digital camera....
Alan
Somewhere on Chicago's Ravenswood branch ...
Thanks
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mike, sweet scene. If the early iPhone really isn't helping the look I can only imagine how good it would look otherwise.
jerrman
Thanks. The iPhone (at least the first generation one like mine) is okay for photos. It does do a nice job in natural light. Problem is it doesn't do well under artificial light, IMO, especially the flourescent kind tht my layout sits under out in the garage. Fortunately I'm able to bump up the quality a bit with the editing tools in iPhoto Just about every photo I post here on the Forum has had adjustments to exposure, contrast, highlights, definition, shadows, etc.
Jim P., your picture is nice and clear. What version/generation iPhone do you have, if you don't mind my asking??
- Mike
Very nice everyone. Terrific detailing. Thanks.
Jim P., your picture is nice and clear. What version/generation iPhone do you have, if you don't mind my asking??
- Mike
Mike,
I'm really not familiar with the various versions of the iPhone, but I got it last spring - just now discovering many of the features (besides making phone calls!).
Jim
vulcan, please tell me you didn't make that barbershop chair from scratch! if u did, please tell me how, before I kill myself
jerrman
Ok, I won't tell you that I made it from scratch. It's made from styrene and wire and covered with gin-u-wine naugahyde.
now, THAT is funny. whew, good thing the supply of scratch is so low these days and you had to use those other materials. besides, if I had to kill myself I might miss out on seeing the completion of the basement. just beautiful modeling.
jerrman
I've been working on a branchline extension this weekend. Its coming along pretty well so far I think.
Another excellent Sunday Scenic Showcase to inspire us novices--thanks to all!
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