Sunday Scenic Showcase January 14,2024

Very nice Alan.
here’s some scenery work I’ve been doing on the area around my petroleum terminal. I needed to relocate the entrance gate as-built to avoid the switch to plant’s the siding. Here’s the crossing installed and ballast and roadway work in progress.

Nice work, guys!!! I love any structures with oil and or steel

Some progress on my cafe. Printing some final details today and should get into final assembly soon:

Looks great Norm.

Anthony,

I am glad you have the ability to customize the gate entrance. It looks great.

Great work Norm.  It looks like the set of a TV show.

@Norm Charbonneau what program do you use to draw the items you print? And what kind of learning curve did it have?

@Alan Graziano posted:

Looks great Norm.

Anthony,

I am glad you have the ability to customize the gate entrance. It looks great.

Thanks Alan, I was nervous to modify your fence and sliding gate, but I was able to carefully remove it so I can relocate it.

Wow, Norm you knocked it out of the park once again.  Your level of detail and speed of cranking work out is incredible...

I've been making some progress in my office building interior using the laser cutter.  I found some nice 5mm plywood at Home Depot that cuts well and has good strength.  After I overthought the design to the nth degree, I finished the CAD for the building interior.  I have a three sided OGR Ameritowne building that I wanted to show full floors through so the design uses the elevator shaft to hold up the floors so you can see through on all three sides.  I plan to work through superdetailing these floors so I wanted to make sure the building was easily removable.   Everything is these photos is laser cut from various plywoods.

Thanks guys. @Andrew B. I use Tinkercad. Very easy to use and it’s set up for 3D printing. I’d suggest looking up a tutorial on YouTube to get started.

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Some progress on my cafe. Printing some final details today and should get into final assembly soon:

Now THATS IMPRESSIVE!

So Sorry I am late for I could not post my input via my iphone today.

Last week I added four Locomotive Joe hanging ceiling lamps to the interior of the Atlas Roundhouse.

This week I assembled four worker platforms from Trainworx Engineering for the workers in the roundhouse.  The kits were laser cut material and fit together in precision manner.

Carol says I obviously got more glue on me than onto the pieces to the platforms.

I ordered six train mechanics from Woodlands Scenic to add to the worker platforms scene inside the roundhouse.

And last week I spread gray gravel along the roadside edge throughout the layout. I have used black styrene as my roads.

I have certainly enjoyed the great display of talented hobbyists today.

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Some progress on my cafe. Printing some final details today and should get into final assembly soon:

First-rate work there, Norm!

Norm, thanks for the tip on Tinkercad. Got a 3D printer for Christmas and I’m looking forward to getting to work.

Once again you’ve done a fantastic job on the cafe.   Can’t wait for the YouTube video.

You guys do amazing work. I've just started modifying existing bldgs and trying my hand at assembly of kits. I took on the Atlas icing station. Had a few assembly issues but made it work. Looking to add some lighting next since it is not part of kit.

Great stuff, everyone!

Peter

Nice scenes Dale.

Seth,

Nice work on the platforms. They look good to me.

Ken

Your icing station looks like it came out fine. Keep building !