Sunday Scenic Showcase January 1, 2012

Michael,

She's gonna be a beauty!

Dave

I finally finished installing the trestle that I started last summer.

HNY!

Modified RK Bunk car.
Custom painted,decaled and weathered.

Mike, great start on the tipple. It's very recognizable now.

Very nice trestle, Pete.

Steve, Great job on the bunkcar. Adds a lot of interest to the scene.

First new project of the new year (looks a lot like the one I finished with last year )

Added the front door.





And a staircase leading to the second floor (which is pretty much invisible).



Also, started the flooring.




"Looking out my backdoor".

A vintage Plasticville house and trees with Woodland Scenics figures that I got for Christmas.

Thanks Fred.
Here’s a nice sound file to use with that screen door –

Go here, click on audio file and turn up the sound!

http://www.sounddogs.com/exten...=125515&ddCategory=1

I used this site for rail & station sounds on the new MTH RS-1 LIRR sound file.

Happy New Year everyone!!Your work is looking good everyone!!! Here are a few scenes from around the Bellevue and Schenectady RR.adding things and moving scenes here and there. Hope you enjoy and Happy Railroading!!!!-Don Klose

Check us out
www.bellevueandschenectadyrr.com

Wow. You guys have started the new year right!

Mike, work on that coal tipple is fantastic. Can't wait to follow the progress.
Avanti, trestle looks great. What was the finishing technique on the supports?
SIRT, what a great bunk car! Weathering, lettering, everything is perfect.
Vulcan, I love that building, but the one detail that I particularly like is the roll-up on the door shade. Maybe you should keep that door open so visitors can see that detail as well as the stairs to the second floor.
dk122, that's one busy railroad. Scenes around the REA building look wonderful.

Thanks for posting.

Jerrman

Happy New Year !!

Little more on the woodsash company, its been a battle over the dining table where i like to sit. So i had to put it away many times this month.

Very nice work everyone.

Happy New Year everyone!

There's some nice work in this showcase.

He's my contribution, a work-in-progress shot of a hilltop camp:

Thanks for the sound byte, Steve. Pretty cool.

Don, haven't seen you post in a while. The layout looks good.

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Maybe you should keep that door open so visitors can see that detail as well as the stairs to the second floor.

Not a problem. I can open the door, I can close the door. Open the door, close the door.....

Patrick, the woodsash co. is coming along very nicely. Very nice interior shot.

Interesting structure, Stephen.

Thanks Jerrman, not many bunk cars or work trains modeled in O.

DK, I see my dumpster has a good home. Taking a break as I am finishing 20 more due out soon.

Vulcan....

The spring on the screen door is superb!

Jack

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Originally posted by dk122trains:
Happy New Year everyone!!Your work is looking good everyone!!! Here are a few scenes from around the Bellevue and Schenectady RR.adding things and moving scenes here and there. Hope you enjoy and Happy Railroading!!!!-Don Klose

Check us out
www.bellevueandschenectadyrr.com

Great layout and excellent pictures Don. I'm happy to see a couple of contributions from a modeler that I know.

Jack

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Originally posted by Vulcan:



Roll up blinds? Spring on the door? And banaster upstairs.Pocket door on and on.....

Very very Nice !!




"Looking out my backdoor".

A lot of really good detail this week, Thanks all I'm always fascinated, while I'm working with an excellent kit, you can see better work from scratch. You have to admire that kind of work. I often find myself looking at a window or front door and counting the number of pieces.

The more I work at this fine detail the more I appreciated some of the fascinating pieces I see here. Truely remarkable.

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Originally posted by Patrick H:

Roll up blinds?

No big deal. If I could get them to stay down they would be. They keep rolling up when I don't expect it and scaring the crap out of me!

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Originally posted by Jerrman:
Avanti, trestle looks great. What was the finishing technique on the supports?
Jerrman

Thanks, Jerrman. The trestle bents are wood covered with drywall compound, black paint, and then dusted with Rustoleum Desert Bisque. Details here:

http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve...662927417#9662927417

(scroll up for pics)

And thanks, everybody, for posting. I especially appreciate the folks who take the time to take "in progress" pictures. That's how we all learn. And, I'm lovin' the growing enthusiasm for scratchbuilding. Its the gold standard of the hobby, IMO.

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Originally posted by Jack C. Smith:
Vulcan....

The spring on the screen door is superb!

Jack

Thanks, Jack.

Anybody care to guess what the spring is made from?

I also really appreciate the "in progress" photos. It's great to see the steps involved in creating the artwork. The coal tipple and trestle look awesome. The details are just amazing. Great work!

Anybody care to guess what the spring is made from?[/QUOTE]

Twisted wire?

Jack

My first entry into a concentrated kitbash using the techniques I've been learning from the experts here on the Scenic Showcase. This is still a work in progress, but is meant to approximate Tower 1 in South Station Boston. It's a kitbash of two Atlas O towers to create one long tower.



I'm pretty happy with how using the accessory details has covered up the seams between the two kits, though still needs some work.

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Originally posted by Vulcan:

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Originally posted by Jack C. Smith:
Vulcan....

The spring on the screen door is superb!

Jack

Thanks, Jack.

Anybody care to guess what the spring is made from?

Ok...I'm thinking a Kadee coupler spring perhaps from HO scale...although it might take a O scale ....what do I win if I guessed it right?

BTW...your stuff is still spot on excellent!

Bob

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Anybody care to guess what the spring is made from?[/QUOTE]

a woodpeckers ******


a drill bit woodshaving

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Originally posted by Vulcan:

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Originally posted by Jack C. Smith:
Vulcan....

The spring on the screen door is superb!

Jack

Thanks, Jack.

Anybody care to guess what the spring is made from?

How about one of those springs inside of a ballpoint pen?

Jerrman

Ok, Jim M got it. A used piece of wound guitar string. Since it is what it says it is, small wire wound around a larger solid wire, I was able to un-wind a small bit of each end to form hooks to hook into the eyebolts.

Jim, contact Johnboy to select your prize.

Nice kitbash on the towers, Dave.

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Originally posted by Patrick H:

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Originally posted by Vulcan:



Roll up blinds? Spring on the door? And banaster upstairs.Pocket door on and on.....

Very very Nice !!

"Looking out my backdoor".

...and...an iron doorknob that looks like what it says it is; dimples where the nails were hammered-in, some of which were filled in, and some where it has worn out; plus, that screendoor is so COOL you can hear it "clap" shut; PLUS, a broad-plank floor which is actually worn in the right places precisely where folks would have walked, down through the years.
"Very, very nice," yes, Patrick, you are right, indeed, and I would add: breath-taking. Gorgeous. Inspiring. Awesome.
I bow in your master-craftsman direction, Vulcan. I smile ear-t-ear in your honor, your work is such a pleasure to see.
Frank

Well, thanks, Frank!

Vulcan,
What do you use for the actual screen on the doors? Beautiful, remarkable work (as usual).

I was hoping no one would ask, because I didn't know. What I did know was that my Mother-in-law gave it to my wife years ago, she gave it to me a few months ago.

It was rolled up in some waxed-paper and I just cut off a small piece of it for the door.

But, since you did ask, I decided to unroll the thing, sure enough, there it was... it's called "Trans-Web". It has something to do with iron-on decals ( don't ask what, I don't know).

I'm sure the Mother-in-law found it at some fabric/craft store, she was heavily in to that at one time.

BTW, it's white, but took an I/A stain really well.

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"Trans-Web"

It's a fusible web that you iron between two layers of fabric. It glues them together.

Thanks, Mark. That makes sense.

When my wife gave it to me, it looked like a screen door.