Sunday Scenic Showcase November 24, 2019

                                       LAST DAYS of NYC 77147 car #1769...

This is a background "flat" that I am just finishing - built at a 45 degree angle. Made from an old Cornerstone "City Litho" flat. I cut off the bottom so that the doors are at ground level and added a cinder block wall the to right side. Hopefully this week I will weather and add to my layout.

This view looks at the structures on the southeast corner of my 12’-by-8’ model railroad, completed in 2004. The large building at left is the section house at Vance Junction, Colorado (on the narrow-gauge Rio Grande Southern Railroad), built from a kit by Banta Modelworks. I built the tower-like structure at right from a craftsman kit (don’t recall manufacturer) and modified it by adding the third level and a shed at rear. At far left is a crossing shanty also built from a Banta kit. The elevated terrain on which the buildings sit was made from 1-inch-thick layers of extruded pink foam covered with Mold-a-Scene plaster.

MELGAR

Those Walthers O Cornerstone - Atlas O flats are great structures to model! Nice work Matthew.

I modified them a few years ago - 

SIRT posted:

 

                                       LAST DAYS of NYC 77147 car #1769...

Oh yeaaa!!!!

Alan, another great showcase this week! You station is work of art. All the details are amazing. Steve nobody does it better! The weathering is always inspiring and so realistic. Steve I had to look twice, your really did amazing modification of the Cornerstone structures. Melgar your buildings really look great. Mathew nice work on your Cornerstone buildings too. I have a couple sets of those Cornerstone buildings and now some ideas of how to make them different.

Thanks all for sharing these great ideas.

Tom

Thanks Tom. More ideas and close up's here ……. 

https://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/5808

Enter at your own risk....

Alan Graziano posted:

Good Morning Everyone,

I will start out with something I constructed in the past. Let's see what you have been working on.

very nice!

Matthew, nice work on that Cornerstone building - it really looks like a realistic city building in your version.

Below, town structures and rails starting to take shape...

SIRT posted:

Those Walthers O Cornerstone - Atlas O flats are great structures to model! Nice work Matthew.

I modified them a few years ago - 

 

 

Sirt,

What a great kit bash. I really like the crosswalk and want to eventually have a structure on my layout with one. Your attention to detail matches your weathering skills.  Is this piece on your layout?  Thanks for sharing.

Dave

luvindemtrains posted:

SIRT posted:

Those Walthers O Cornerstone - Atlas O flats are great structures to model! Nice work Matthew.

I modified them a few years ago - 

 

 

 

 

Sirt,

What a great kit bash. I really like the crosswalk and want to eventually have a structure on my layout with one. Your attention to detail matches your weathering skills.  Is this piece on your layout?  Thanks for sharing.

Dave

These will be on my new 2r - 3r hybrid switching layout in a few months.

Steve, looking forward to seeing that layout. Hope you post it.

Tom