Sunday Scenic Showcase April 22,2018

Great looking buildings, Alan!  I did some more work on my photography diorama this past week, ballasting the elevated mainline.  Here are a few cellphone pics.  I still have to clean up all of the misplaced ballast, do some weathering work...and of course remove the paint off the top of the rails.

Excellent Work as usual Allan...

I noticed that ACE logo surely is POPULAR!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKH2tqoFJ8

Must be one of those Conglomerate Corporations as in the 1970's

Nice work this week guys.

I completed a new building on the layout.  This is a right on track Models kit, Tanner tool and die.  I made this into a version of a well known hardware store that I used to visit in Schenectady NY named Wallace Armer.  While the actual building was brick, the sign I made is a version that was on the side of their building.

Alan the buildings are wonderful. Your thread showcases some of the best work on the forum. What an inspiration!

Dave

Alan and Rich Great looking buildings.

It’s really great to be inspired by all of what you do!!!! We 

I’m working in two areas during this week, a small coal yard and a waterfront factory.  Photos are “in progress” renditions.  Eventually I’ll post a series on the large factory environs.  

Yes, I know there are no safety railings anywhere as yet.  Union officials and ambulance chasers are not permitted on my railroad, in in order to reaffirm the Darwin Principle Corollary:  “Can’t Fix Stupid.”

Don

OH WOW! Look what one can do with the Lionel Single Stall Enginehouse/ Factory Kits!

Marvelous! Just Marvelous! BRAVO!

Don can you please elaborate this Brick factory structure for us? Do you have an interior made for it too?

Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

It’s really great to be inspired by all of what you do!!!! We 

I’m working in two areas during this week, a small coal yard and a waterfront factory.  Photos are “in progress” renditions.  Eventually I’ll post a series on the large factory environs.  

Yes, I know there are no safety railings anywhere as yet.  Union officials and ambulance chasers are not permitted on my railroad, in in order to reaffirm the Darwin Principle Corollary:  “Can’t Fix Stupid.”

Don

Don,

I can tell already this will be a winner.

Dave

wbg pete posted:

What a scene Pete! Is the O scale?

Mark/PRR  and Luvin,

Thanks for the support!    The factory will

eventally be the Springfield US Army Arsenal, but I haven’t done the signs yet.    The building is two stories at the waterfront with water and street delivery ( which you can’t yet see because it’s not done😂 

The upper floor is rail-served by a siding in the rear also not yet done.  Shipping /receiving is on the lower floor; manufacturing on the upper  .

There will be partial interiors in the office area as well as shipping.   The four kits both partial and completely lets were bashed and arranged to suit the need/location  

I’ll try to post a few photos after removing the structure so you can see the lower area.  The factory had to fit the space which as you can see in the third photo, is fairly complex.  I tend to like customizing and kitbashing.... which becomes easier the more you make “mistakes” and learn from them😳.  The green mill building is an adaptation of an IHC Victorian house kit, doubled in length.  Also partially done, like the whole railroad... and life in general🤔

Rich 883:

I was born & raised in Schenectady & spent the first 35 years of my life.  I have fond memories of shopping at Wallace Armer. It was an old time hardware store with everything you needed and more. Located on a busy downtown street, it had a unique air driven tube system which sent cash from sales points to a central point and returned any change & paid receipt to the sales points. Yes, the building was an urban multi-story brick structure, but I appreciate you bring back fond memories of my early life. Thank you so much.

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

LUVINDEMTRAINS,

The layout is O scale with ON3 locos and rolling stock modified to run on ON30 track.  Also Bachmann ON30 locos and a few cars - however, IMO most Bachmann rolling stock just looks too small.

In at the buzzer.... last week’s building is this week’s block (all glued together as a single unit). The end buildings are 4 walls, the center is just a front and a back wall. Need to do lighting and window treatments, the slot in the tan one is for a Miller animated sign. 

Boilermaker,

Great job creating a great block of stores with "period appropriate" color.  There's nothing like a little paint to move out of the "plastic building repeat" and into the "railroad model"  area.   Post more photos😉

Don