Sunday Scenic Showcase 8-26-2012

Two of my favorites!

 

Dave

Just amazing. You have the gifted touch. Thanks.

Amazing work and detail Fred as always!

Vulcan,you need to put an old chair in front of the blacksmith shop so i can come over and sit a spell and hang out. As Kingmouse just said---2 of my favorites.    Chet

Very inspiring work.  Thanks for sharing.

Always hate having to follow Vulc with his amazing projects... but here goes!

 

As you may remember last time, we left the citizens of my Poughkeepsie without a home for the sake of adding this scenic vista:

 

 

 

By coincidence, the same week, the residents of my Schenectady expressed some dissatisfaction with their town which consisted almost exclusively of background flats.

 

 

Some of the boys who appeared to be least suited for life in a flat world approached the management about the situation.

 

 

 

Since the CEO of their world could readily sympathize with their plight, a new city arose which combined the best of both old towns with plenty of full-size structures for "the boys" as well as some flats for the "skinnies" of that world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim

Thanks, Guys!!

 

Paul, haven't seen you in a while!

 

Chet, pull up a chair and sit a spell.

 

Great transformation and storyline, Jim.

Thats pretty awesome Vulcan. I have never gotten to that level of detail. Here is a small Dairy I constructed. I have since corrected the spelling error on the sign. I hope Frank Mullen dosent see this.

 

Alan Graziano

Nice work guys! I've been concentrating on finishing up the backdrop. On my last trip to PA I was able to take some pictures of scenes I want to include. This one of a coal breaker was moved to the back wall where it seems to make a little more sense.

Vulcan, your work is always awesome and a pleasure to look at.  Jim, your talents never cease to amaze - physics teacher, model builder, artist, and now storyteller.

Phil

 

My friend Sam is scratch building a killin' coal tipple.  I made some railings for it today.

 

Dave

Jim great sense of humor......  and great transformation too. 

An older kit that I assembled several years ago.

Cars for me, cars for customers and shooting the cover shot today for the FEB CTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vulcan, maybe you have talked about this before but how did you get that great look of old wood on your blacksmith shop. Best I've ever seen. Thanks Don

wow guys! Some oldies but goodies and some really nice new stuff!  Kids go back to school tomorrow. Started getting the bug again.

 

Just awesome Fred! Id like to borrow that bait shop ,got a good spot for it.

 

Jim,

Love the way you put giant ideas into small areas.Really came out spectacular.

Steve better and better  and better , dont know how you do it.

 

Mike and Gef  and Alan , more talented s stuff  .

 

Dave really really  sweet.

 

Heres the last thing i did in the spring to contirbute something this week & then something i just started.

 

 

 

Heres what i am working on now, i m plamming a boat house/restaurant/bait on the water with an outdoor deck.

 

If you have the ability to blow up the pic i have a white outline of where i plan to put it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don, the wood is colored with what goes by many names, "Sweet & sour mix", "Vulcan soup", etc. It's steel wool dissolved in white vinegar. Then a wash of ink/alcohol. I stained it first.  Thanks!

 

Beautiful, Steve!

 

Patrick, you may as well borrow the bait shop, I aint doing nothing with it.  Great work! (I see the white outline).

 

Great showcase, Guys!

Wow guys, amazing looking projects!! They all look fantastic. Dave, thanks again that ATSF steamer is on the Hi Iron hauling freight!!

 

Jeff

Here are some of the buildings in the town of Beawslaiw on the Brisbane & Bushong RR layout.  The town is located on the SP Coast Daylight mainline somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles.  The era is circa 1950.

MJB Grocery

Stough & Davis Dry Goods

Two views of Harrison's Hardware

Fred & Red's Cafe

Sarile Furniture Company

St. Matthew's Church

Beawslaiw Police Department

Beawslaiw Fire Department

Matt

Matt, great job. Looks wonderful. Don

Applause to everyone. I loved every picture. Being a newcomer (my layout started 18 months ago) I can only dream of reaching that level of detail. They are an inspiration.  

Jim,

Good use of real stone tile border strips as donord for your sidewalks.  It appears that the Orchard Printing Center sits atop the stone.  Did you use the stone on all four sides of the building to kepp it level?  Do the other buildinghs and the retaining wall sit atop the sidewalk also?

 

I always appreciate your posts as I learn so much and get ideas.

 

Joe

Thanks, Joe.

 

The tiles go under all sides of just about all of the buildings which created paved alleyways of different widths between them. I never try to cut the stone to sizes - too difficult.

 

I did use some smaller tiles butted up against the concrete barricade along the front, up against the cut stone retaining wall, and along the right hand side of the street leading to the "tunnel" into the backdrop.

 

I was torn between using cut and painted 1/8" thick masonite squares which would have given a lower and more realistic curb height. But, I had lots of tiles of various sizes on hand, and their texture adds a lot of interest. I did give them a light wash of the same gray color used on the painted "concrete" to tie it all together.

 

 

Jim

boin106 I remember fred and reds chilli in Joplin, mo.

Wow,

 

Outstanding work this week guys!

FANTASTIC MODELING , LOVE IT ALL.