Sunday Scenic Showcase April 14,2019

Alan, THX for getting this started each week. This week I made some more progress on my Pipe company and placed the finished building on the layout. Still need to finish the wiring and the scenery ground cover.  I was also able to pick up some additional pipe loads at York this week from Ralph's Trains.

I decided to add a 6-inch (24-foot full scale) extension at the left end of Bridgeport Scrap Metals so that the model would cover the entire length of the white rear wall between the Idaho hotel and the truss bridge. I also did this to create a project for myself so that I had a bit more work to do on my virtually complete model railroad.

The two brick walls of the extension were cut from the remnants of an Ameritowne plastic model kit. The "foundation" was cut from a sheet of urethane stone walls.

Now working on the roof.

MELGAR

Alan Graziano posted:

Alan,

Beautiful. I'm hesitant to post my work compared to this. Please give some details of this model? When built? Scale? How many hours to complete? Materials used? Garage doors scratch-built or purchased? Roof shingle material? Source of chairs and bench? Thanks.

MELGAR

I made a few additions to the area near the lift up section. I disguised the hinges by covering them with some clump foliage. But per CSX Al’s suggestion, I added some variety to each area so they don’t all look alike. Below are some before and after pictures. 

Andy

Alan, outstanding structures, as always.

Steve, I like the Plainview Pipe Company.

Mel, your extension matches the quality of the existing building.

Andy

Mel,

Post everything you build. That is what this thread is about. It does not matter what skill level anyone has as long as they are having fun creating.

As far as the house model goes, it is o scale. It was constructed over the course of six to eight months. I built it for my wife’s cousin as a gift. The house is located in North Carolina. It is pretty exact. Because of that fact, I worked on it while constructing other models.

The model is constructed of styrene. Some of the windows were purchased. The doors including the garage are scratch built. Chairs and bench were scratch built. Roof shingles are styrene from plastruct sold in 7” x 12” sheets. I constructed it in 2017 and 2018.

I got a lot of joy out of constructing this model.

Andy - STEAMFAN77,

As a former Long Islander, I follow with interest your posts and progress on the Oyster Bay Branch. I think you've done well with the difficult problem of concealing the hinges on the liftout section of your layout. Although it looks fine as is, it may be possible to introduce other scenic effects to conceal the hinges and add variety in this area. First, you could scratch-build some kind of a railroad building (say a maintenance-of-way shed) that fits over the center hinge and that can be removed when you need to open the liftout. Another thought would be to add some outcroppings of rock next to the foliage areas on the other two hinges. Photo below shows a similar area on one of my layouts - but I had no hinges to conceal.

MELGAR

Steamfan77 posted:

I made a few additions to the area near the lift up section. I disguised the hinges by covering them with some clump foliage. But per CSX Al’s suggestion, I added some variety to each area so they don’t all look alike. Below are some before and after pictures. 

Andy

Andy

Fantastic job concealing those hinges  -Steve

Alan, as always thanks for starting this post each week. Any chance I could get that beautiful house Full Scale with train room  !! Just amazing workmanship. Melgar nice work on the addition. Stone foundation is awesome. Painting and weathering makes it look natural. L.I.Train, pipe company came out really nice. Steamfan 77 I think I might use your idea for a lift up section for my layout. Very nice work. Sirt that looks so real. Looks like it really derailed.

-Tom

Mel, great idea, I might do something like that. 

Thank you Steve. 

Tom, I hope that method works for you too.

Andy

Guys,

Nice work this week!

I have been working on a shallow building near the back of my layout.  Here is a few shots of it in process.

Rich, that building looks interesting. Hope you keep us updated. Where did you get the section with the long windows or did you combine pieces to get that?

-Tom

Tom,

Thanks for the comments.  These are the walls from a Korber 304 roundhouse kit.