Sunday Scenic Showcase May(7) 5, 2013 Correction noted. Way too much sunshine today :)

Great shots, Mike. It is fun to picture the layout growing out from that fantastic structure.

 

 

I haven't done a building in a long time, so I took a break from scenery-work this week for a quicky build. I made a very simple trolly barn (partly underground), inspired loosely by this prototype:

 

Mockup:

 

The bones (foam core, hot glue and pink foam):

 

Pink foam masonry:

 

Wood planking cut from 100 lb. bristol board and random acrylics:

 

Tarpaper roof from masking tape:

 

Result--a modest bit of interest for the background:

 

 

 

Great shot, Mike. It is fun to picture the layout growing out from that great structure.

 pete,

Thank you  The roll-up door hardware on the trolley barn adds to your impressive diorama. 

Mike

Nice stone work!

I know this has been discussed before but what is Bristol board and please explain the 100 lb. designation. Great work guys! Mike, how long before some ground cover starts to take root in that area?

Very cool Pete. I always love the look of Super O track also.

 

De-toy-fied another Lionel Standard O car for the bay...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the jargon. 

 

Bristol board is a kind of heavy vellum paper/light cardstock used in the printing industry and by artists. It is acid free and very nice to work with for modeling purposes.  In this project, I used this:

 

Strathmore Bristol Board

 

You can find it at Michaels.  It's great.

 

The "100 lb" thing refers to the density of the paper.  The paper industry uses the weight of 500 sheets of some standard size as the standard way to talk about the density of paper.  Normal copy paper is something like 20 or 25 lb.  Card stock can be maybe 225 lb.

Just think of it as a relative measure of density.

First time to build craftsman kits.  It took me about two months to build these 6 kits, & I enjoyed these kits immensely.  This is my last as I will be putting everything away.  I have serious problems with the basement (where my layout is), and my back, so I have to put everything on hold for a long while.

The one on the left is BTS and the others are Bar Mills.  I set these up on a card table and sprinkled sawdust.  Enjoy the pictures.

Dennis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Sunday Morning to ALL!

 

 

Mike awesome project - very well done,just beautiful!Thanks for the kick off

 

 Pete - good idea with the foam

 

Steve - the best asusual.

 

 

Hartman-  wow cool structures, very very nice!

 

Not much "showcase" for me this week but wanted to participate-- made somes signs and installed a couple buildings  to put in the yard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking great, Mike !

 

Nice work, Pete !

 

Steve, you should take it a step further and do away with the "blt by LIONEL". Don't know why they still put it on there.

 

Dennis, well-done scenes.

 

The yard is looking good, Patrick.

 

Kudos to all!!

 

 

 

Been getting a little done. Mainly exterior stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did start laying the groundwork.

 

 

 

 

Been working on my diner, have a long way to go .

Thanks, Vulc.  Right back at ya!

 

Sorry, but I beg to differ.  In support of this position, I offer the following scholarly article:

 

Mad Magazine.

 

Now you sound like one of those crazy 2 railers...

Removing (Lionel) has crossed my mind.

Sirt. You gave me the incentive to redo 2 of these little Lionel engines.  Can you find the Lionel name?  Yep. Shaved off.

 

Dennis

 

 

Mike, I just realized something.... this is May 5, cinco de mayo, the 7th isn't until Tuesday. Oops.

 

I have not done much other than to putz around and add a detail or 2 to the flats that will go on the back side of my 4'x8' layout. Ted Mack got me going on cardstock over foamcore flats and the main structure was a kit, actually 2 lits, I purchased on line. I will post pictures when that one is done.

 

This one is about done as far as far as details. This is one side of a building that was modeled here on the Showcase several weeks ago. I contacted the member (memory lapse as to who it was, sorry!) and he sent me the dimemnsions and I just copied the shape based on his dimensions. I made the lights using Alan Graziano's method (Plastruct Parts and grain of wheat bulbs). The brick work is printed on heavy cardstock using a pattern I got off a DVD from Evan Designs called Brickyard. It has 9 different patterns and allows you to scale them to any size you wish.  Added a little bit of weathering chalks and I am really pleased with the results. That Wally from RMT moving the trash can back to where it belongs! (Knew I would eventually use one of them!)

 

 

Nice work everyone,

I just completed the last two vessels ( a reactor and a distillation tower) for a refinery in Toledo. The models are in G-scale.

 

Alan Graziano

Alan.....you never cease to amaze me with what you do with the items offered by Plastruct. I am so envious of your skills with the stuff. I have tried and tried again to use their products and it just never "makes the cut" and gets trashed...literally.

I cannot wait to get my flat finished and show off your water tower! I think Wally's twin brother Wally will be checking out the view from the walkway! (Least it is not "Daryl and his other brother Daryl")

G scale that explains it!    way to go Graz looks amazing. Maybe we ll see Saturn 5 soon. Fantastic work.

Alan another wonderful creation from your shop. Hope the people down at the refinery enjoy it as much as we do. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

Nice work guys!

 

Just some outstanding modeling here.

 

Thanks for sharing!

Rich

This is a fun section of the forum, I gotta check in here more often.

 

SIRT.....for some reason I have always liked MPC/LTI Era "Standard O" cars. Now , after seeing your work, I really do!

 

Avanti....nice job...the stone work and weathered boards are truely a "Craftsmans" work.

 

Alan....wow...BIG!

 

And everyone else...I'm in envy of the quality of work here.

 

Rick Bivins

Great posts fellas top notch work by all.Thanks for posting.