Good Morning Everyone,
I will start with some various models that I constructed in the past. Lets see what you are working on.
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Excellent work on all of them Alan. What's the industry in the last photo? It looks like it may be a grain handling facility but the tanks in the foreground have me doubting that.
I really like the selection of smaller models for those with smaller layouts.
Awesome models Alan! Every time I look at your work it gives me inspiration for a new industrial scene or project.
This week I have been working on some stone-covered embankments for dike walls.
The last photo shows my progress on the rear porch or my house. Once I finish the porch railing, the roof will sit on top of the white columns.
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@LT1Poncho posted:@Anthony K, the elevation changes on your layout are fascinating. Are the tracks raised or are the dikes lowered below the level of the rest of benchwork? I would like to incorporate this visual with my petroleum area. Also, about how deep are the dikes?
Mike, nice work on your Johnstown-inspired bridge, it looks terrific!
To answer your question, the dikes are below grade by about 2”, and the tracks change in elevation. I built the layout on open grid framework with much of the trackage on risers specifically so I could vary the track elevation and terrain. Here’s a “before” photo of the area I’m working on. The two holes in the framework just looked to me like they ought to be dikes to contain large storage tanks.
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@Anthony K posted:Mike, nice work on your Johnstown-inspired bridge, it looks terrific!
To answer your question, the dikes are below grade by about 2”, and the tracks change in elevation. I built the layout on open grid framework with much of the trackage on risers specifically so I could vary the track elevation and terrain. Here’s a “before” photo of the area I’m working on. The two holes in the framework just looked to me like they ought to be dikes to contain large storage tanks.
Great idea. My bench work is similar but I put a sheet of mdf on top. Should be easy enough to cut out holes etc. I have a yard on the lower level but I have left enough room that 1.5-2 inches of dike depth will work. Thanks for the info. And thanks for the kind words on the stone bridge.
Mike
Wonderful bridge, Mike. As a Pennsylvanian I appreciate it and would love to have it!
This O-scale Bates house was made by my dear friend, Jim Wedhoff, last year. Jim is no longer an active model railroader, but he knows my love of scary haunted stories and structures and agreed to make this building for me. We didn't have the plans, only photographs from the movie and movie set. I hope to be able to incorporate this structure in a complete vignette including the Bates Motel and the surrounding grounds. Jim is 86 years old, and unfortunately, he fell in his workshop and broke his hip before Christmas of last year. After about a month in a rehab facility, that shall we say was less than what we could hope for in terms of cleanliness, he is back home. However, recovery is very slow, and painful. He asked for my prayers recently. Honestly, I don't know the value of prayer, but I said a prayer. And if you're reading this, and if you believe prayers help, please extend your prayers to Jim.
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Will include Jim in my prayers.
Paul,
Jim has got my prayers and will be in my thoughts. The house is awesome.
Coach,
The last picture is of a cement plant.
Nice work Mike and Anthony.
@Paul Kallus posted:Wonderful bridge, Mike. As a Pennsylvanian I appreciate it and would love to have it!
This O-scale Bates house was made by my dear friend, Jim Wedhoff, last year. Jim is no longer an active model railroader, but he knows my love of scary haunted stories and structures and agreed to make this building for me. We didn't have the plans, only photographs from the movie and movie set. I hope to be able to incorporate this structure in a complete vignette including the Bates Motel and the surrounding grounds. Jim is 86 years old, and unfortunately, he fell in his workshop and broke his hip before Christmas of last year. After about a month in a rehab facility, that shall we say was less than what we could hope for in terms of cleanliness, he is back home. However, recovery is very slow, and painful. He asked for my prayers recently. Honestly, I don't know the value of prayer, but I said a prayer. And if you're reading this, and if you believe prayers help, please extend your prayers to Jim.
Prayers for Jim! What a beautiful house. Very well done!
Mike
Prayers on the way, Paul.
I've been on both ends over the years and they seem to work.
@Paul Kallus
I pray for Your talented friend Jim Wedhoff this evening for his recovery from his fall and relief from pain as he attempts to set, walk, and sleep so he may rest comfortably. Jim is quite a visionary and my wife who loves mysteries thinks I should have a Bates Motel and dark mysterious mansion.
This week I completed a second Atlas Signal Tower, an ITLA scale Models mechanical building, and I’m attempting a scratch build of model of a warehouse for housing firebrick.
please have another good week in February guys…
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