Sunday Scenic Showcase March 25, 2012

I watch this thread every Sunday and now I can actually add a post. I started my scenery this week with a "fall scene" backdrop and ground cover. As you can see I have very little room here between the track and backdrop. I have more ground cover to apply and some trees, then ballast. Maybe next week I will have that done.

Sirt, Looks great! I like the way you "sanded" the interior of the hopper. I love MOW equipment.

Malcolm

roughed in, this section is about 50"in length

with a gray-green and trunks

sponge applied fall colors I am am modeling a rural Mississippi shortline, "ain't much roll" down here.

a little more color

the fill for the distance rise

more of some October color

more layers

some flowering weeds added to the rise and some ground cover in the forefront

This the distance between track and backdrop. The brush is laying on the masked track.

More WS foam, it does not take long to use several bags of that stuff.

A close-up of semi-finished ground cover

Great work, Malcolm,

I especially like the "rise" you put in to transition from ground to backdrop. It fools the eye perfectly. 

Some modelers like to use photographically exact backdrops, but I'm a fan of artistically painted backdrops with the "vagueness" of sponged foliage to simulate trees and rolling hills.

In real life the eye sees in either closeup or far away. And in the case of modelling trains, it's always "closeup-time" on our motive power, rolling stock and buildings. So that's why I give

Mother Nature a well-deserved break and only make her be there in a "vague" way.

Send more pix when you can.

Paul

Picture's don't do this very well

But I connected  between what I call my fuel tower and the 2 fuel filter's

I have to get up on the layout to do anything,so everything has to be modular,so I can easily pick it up and remove it to work on anything.

Took me 2 weekend's to make that piping connection

Building thing's with Plastruc over the last 2 year's has really become a facet of the overall hobby that I have really been enjoying.

Over the year's I have molded my own rocks and painted them,wiring multiple block's,changing scenery around,and now doing a sort of fuel delivery system.

I also am building transformer's ,and will eventually kind of make it look's like it's all connected

I think sitting in the train room,(and having a saturday afternoon beer)and thinking of  what and how I'm going to do next has really made it enjoyable,and opened up so many door's to this hobby

Slowly developing this small bay side area to reflect a sandy embankment leading up to trackside. Seems worth a few pictices at this point.

Malcolm, your an artist too! Looks excellent and yes bags of scenic materials can go fast.

Bob

Looking great, Guys!

Good to see you kicking things off, Steve.

Bob, I can feel the Sand in my shoes.

I used OGR Ameritowne kits to put together this Meat packing Plant for a customer. The top conveyor house is supposed to represent a conveyor inside the plant that moves product from one end to the other. At the one end a window was 'bricked' in.

Joe

All the usual great work! The backdrops look really nice and impart a sense of distance. The LIRR MOW stuff SIRT does is terrific, but the real thing on the LIRR never looked that good. The industrial area transman is building has so much detail that you would have to enlarge the photo 10 times to see it all.

Following posts by Mayor Magoo and Cesar in early February, I ran off to Lowes and bought some ceramic wall tile consisting of small stones to make a retaining wall. They used the tile on outside curves and straight walls, where it looked great. I needed it for an inside curve and figured if it would flex around the outside it would flex around the inside. Nope! So, I had to remove every stone and hot glue each one individually to make the wall. There's a lot more to do, but the basic wall is in position. The backdrop, house and shrubbery are temporary.

Nice work everyone.  Malcolm I love the back drop it looks really good.

Hey!  I have seen that meat packing plant before...at least, it sure looks familiar.

The height and length of the structure was intended to be a view block down the middle of my 48 inch wide peninsula.  Works like a charm.  Benchwork is 53 inches high and the packing plant is just tall enough to block my view (5ft 9in) but might be a tad short for some taller guests.

And the opposite side is a different paint scheme and uses different Ameritowne wall panels to represent a different packing plant...since both sides of the structure cannot be viewed at the same time from any point on the layout, it pulls the ruse off quite nicely.

I'm cheap, and this was a good way to save limited modeling funds.  Eventually, I will get that section of the layout to a point where I post photos showing the tracks on both sides and the stockyards on the end of the peninsula.  Maybe someday.

wow alot of Layout shots this week!Talented backdrop painter and a huge building!Dont have a sand car yet Steve, but that one is sure a beauty.

Flanger, very nice water scene.

Thanks Guys, very cool stuff this week.

Awesome & amazing!! This is my favorite thread every week!! Sometimes I don't respond & sometimes I'm out of the country (no internet) but always always look at these great pics!! SIRT : you are gifted!! and Patrick, I know you're haulin black diamonds!! I lived in Plum Borough from '69 to '78-a GREAT place to grow-up!! Murrysville is where one went to the DRIVE-IN on 22 with the girlfriend!! I know its all gone now. Someday, when I visit the 'Burgh, I'll have to give yinz a call!!

As always, GREAT work everyone!!

Pete

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