Sunday Scenic Showcase November 4, 2018

Wow!! Amazing work

Jeff

Customer wanted some BNSF boxcars converted. My first time attempt at some modern unmarked cars of today….

                                                        Atlas O ACF Trainman

Alan and SIRT always exciting to see each Sunday Scenic Show Case. Your work is excellent and an inspiration. 

- Tom

Alan:

The satellite dishes are "out of this world"!

Always such a pleasure to see such beautiful and inspirational work here on Sundays.  I continue to make progress on my own scenic project and thank the showcase for the opportunity to share.

Nice work guys!

i have made some progress on the feed building and my replacement kroger supermarket.

Always cool stuff from you Rich.

I have a co-worker from New Hampshire. She’s always going to Krogg-are's to get sum beer'zzz. 

Great work Alan, Steve, and Rich. Always a pleasure.

Andy

I have made this week a lot scenery work around the brewery area. 

Johan,

i love your barb wire fence. Very nice scenes.

Rich I was going to post the pics for the Kroger but yours blew me away. I loved the interior it brings the scene to life.  Im glad it worked out also loved the color scheme on the Fruit Distributor kit. Thanks Again and always they will end up on my customer gallery page.  

Thanks Rich

Alan Graziano posted:

Johan,

i love your barb wire fence. Very nice scenes.

Alan: Thank you very much.

Johan

Alan, thank you for this post every week.  The Control building is excellent.  I love the way the windows on the upper floor cant outwards.

SIRT, once again "As real as can be" in our little world.

BFISHMA1, you're showing off some great scratch building skills there.  Drums appear a little big though.

Rich, Love the FEED & SEED, kit or did you laser etch it yourself?  I've never seen a real Kroger's before so at first glance I thought maybe the color was a bit drab but then I thought how would I know?  The interior detail is fantastic.

Johan, I saw the black sedan in photos you previously posted and thought it may be on a track, this photo from above it appears that it definitely is.  Is it motorized?  If so how does the mechanism work?  Again you demonstrate how talented you are.

Thanks Guys for the nice comments.  The Feed and Seed is a kit from Right on Track models, I left off one of the loading docks on the track side to make it fit my space.

The Kroger is based on some old photos of mid century actual Kroger's.

coach joe posted:

Alan, thank you for this post every week.  The Control building is excellent.  I love the way the windows on the upper floor cant outwards.

SIRT, once again "As real as can be" in our little world.

BFISHMA1, you're showing off some great scratch building skills there.  Drums appear a little big though.

Rich, Love the FEED & SEED, kit or did you laser etch it yourself?  I've never seen a real Kroger's before so at first glance I thought maybe the color was a bit drab but then I thought how would I know?  The interior detail is fantastic.

Johan, I saw the black sedan in photos you previously posted and thought it may be on a track, this photo from above it appears that it definitely is.  Is it motorized?  If so how does the mechanism work?  Again you demonstrate how talented you are.

Joe: Thanks. The black sedan is only a "toy", no motorized. The tramway line still waiting electric poles but they come sometimes later. 

Johan

I wanted to post these yesterday, but I was on a tree job with two of my sons. These are some scrap loads I made for a friend, for his Lionel mill gondolas.

"BFISHMA1, you're showing off some great scratch building skills there.  Drums appear a little big though."

Thanks Coach for the feedback.  You are correct, the beat down on the drums was a little heavy as they were from a Tamiya accent set in 1:35 scale I detailed awhile back.  Unfortunately they were not the only things a little on the hefty side ... the windows and the upper story billboard also suffered from the same error in scaling.

Below you can see the older window at the top with the frames and trim built in.  Much too bulky and way out of scale.  The lower two are my second and third attempts at more accurate ones that will eventually make their way into the build.

I was working off of old photographs from Shorpy (wonderful reference site btw) and inspiration from Chuck Doan (unreal work) so the upper story billboard ended up being off a bit ... too tall and too wide.  Couldn't do too much about the width but decided to cut about 3-5 scale feet off of the height.  Now I think her hat sits a little bit more comfortably.

As per the wisdom of the forum I spent some time this week reworking a few things and Coach, although I like my cans big I took one for the team