Good morning everyone. I will start of with a few things I am currently working on. For all of you going to York this week I hope you have a great time. Let's see what you have been working on.
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Don, Nice pipe loads. I posted a Pipe plant last week that will be insatlled in next few days. Hopefully we can meet up in York and I can see this in person to get a perspective of scale.
Steve
Steve,
I'll package it separately in an easily open box. I'll be there on Friday morning. Shoot me an e mail so we can exchange numbers. don195657@yahoo.com
My background building - Bridgeport Scrap Metals - is complete. Before and after on the layout.
MELGAR
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this is the progress we have made on the scenery on the TJ&R RR narrator not so great and only have my smartphone to create videos! hope you enjoy watching the video my building skills not near the level of the more skilled that post here.
Alan, wonderful work, fueling facility looks so real. Love that fire house. Don, pipe loads are really nicely done. Melgar, the scrap metals looks great, good location for that building. STPAUL great scenery work on your layout. The video is nice way to see all the details.
-Tom
StPaul posted:this is the progress we have made on the scenery on the TJ&R RR narrator not so great and only have my smartphone to create videos! hope you enjoy watching the video my building skills not near the level of the more skilled that post here.
Very nice work. I'm glad to see someone posting scenes closer to my skill level posting. I have two "who made 'em and where can I get 'em" questions"
1. The brother station to the Plasticville rural station that shows up about 3:30 in your video.
2. The picnic tables at about 5:10.
Alan Graziano posted:Good morning everyone. I will start of with a few things I am currently working on. For all of you going to York this week I hope you have a great time. Let's see what you have been working on.
Alan,
I greatly admire your piping and tank models. They are very finely detailed pieces of design and construction. You certainly have perfected the technique. I also like the firehouse model and am thinking about ordering an NYFD kit, although I have no place for it on the layout at the present time.
MELGAR
Mel,
thank you. I am in the tank construction and mechanical business in real life. It is hard for me to build a model and leave out too much of a working system.
with regard to the firehouse twin whistle has a few different ones to choose from and they go together pretty good.
Alan Graziano thanks for starting this tread and motivating others to post their work. I always look forward to Sunday mornings to see what you and others are posting. The forum needs more posts like this
FORTY ROD
1. The brother station to the Plasticville rural station that shows up about 3:30 in your video.
this is an old one best place to seek one would be train shows and or York or train swap meets. I think lionel made these way back when then again someone else may have reproduced them I found some of the plasticville buildings in hobby shops back in the 1990's!
2. The picnic tables
I scratch built them, but scenic express sells some here is a link to them
http://www.sceneryexpress.com/.../productinfo/EX0591/
I wish I could take credit for the scenery but alas I cannot make a stick person look good! I place the buildings and get the lighting setup the rest is left to my talented artistic wife.
the red oxide girders I attached to the plywood roadbed you see in the video these are available from scenic express also.
as to the backdrop that is a 3 foot wide and 12 foot long backdrop printed on a form of vinyl backing we paid for the photo from an online source and had Fed-x business center flip the image back to back to create this backdrop.
Glad you enjoyed the video its not easy using a cell phone trying to keep it steady getting up off of floor from the passenger train area.
Allan I wish I had your talent you are truly a gifted scratch builder thanks for sharing all of your projects.
Alan the Ghost Busters flag is a nice touch. The train wash and fueling facility are awesome as usual.
Mel, the scrap metal building is a craftsman kit quality scratch build and fills that void nicely.
Allan/Mel how the heck do you both get rid of the seams when attaching all the building fronts together?
here are 2 pictures one is of a hill area using quilt batting instead of plaster and or plaster cloth and the other is my first attempt at making a 24 inch tall x 34 inch wide building using all ameri-town building fronts and rear wall with windows as well as side walls the building is 2 3/4 inches in depth. I had issues with 2 of the building fronts where they were almost a full 1/16 inch shorter in width I opted to fill the gaping seams using white caulk. the 2 staggered color effect was my artist wife's choice to vary the look of them. I did however find that sawing where the building fronts could be split apart worked rather well in getting a clean break with minimum sanding.
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St. Paul,
Thank you for the compliment.
Drain gutter pipes work wonders for hiding seams. A lot of sanding is a distant second. I would not worry on the fine details on buildings that will be back a couple of feet on the layout. The details really cont on things in the first foot. My point being is to take your time on things that are close and do not put too much effort on things that are not.
St. Paul,
Your multiple Ameritowne building fronts look fine to me. As Alan suggests, sanding the sides (of the building fronts) perfectly flat will eliminate any gaps. As I recall, Ameritowne building fronts have some features that extend beyond the edges.
MELGAR
Tom Q Fan posted:Alan, wonderful work, fueling facility looks so real. Love that fire house. . Melgar, the scrap metals looks great, good location for that building. STPAUL great scenery work on your layout. The video is nice way to see all the details.
-Tom
Don, pipe loads are really nicely done.
Thank you, this was a lot of fun, and I will be making some of these for my own gondolas.
What's the footprint on that? I'm guessing about 16" x 30".
Forty Rod posted:What's the footprint on that? I'm guessing about 16" x 30".
I had to get as close to 2 x 2 feet max as I could. I think I ended up at about 2 x 2.5 feet
Beautiful Joe. Your work is amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Joe. I have the room to try something like that. (ca 1957 or so.) Maybe I can find a bucket of ambition somewhere first.
