The "Encourage Others Challenge": Post a picture of your layout...how many will post???

Yet to be finished, this last section of the layout.   Structure models are BTS and Korber.

Good morning Fridge, I was away from he computer so sorry for the delay in the reply.

Most of the items are Woodland Scenic Products.

Flex Paste was used for the piled up snow along the side of the road.

Realistic water was poured into a cup and then brushed onto the road surface to look like ice.

Water effects is used to make the ice hanging from the guard rail cables, (Not sure how well you can see this from the photos)

In another area not shown here I painted the road an off white and then put the realistic water on and the outcome looks like packed snow.

The lower bush's are just pillow stuffing pulled apart and spray painted ( Dollar Store Spray Paint) with different colors, dark green brown, and some dark burgundy and then sprinkled with fine foliage again from woodland scenics and then sprayed with cheap hairspray. The short saplings are just trees branch from outside.

If you go on Woodland Scenics web site they have a presentation on making winter scenery.

Thank you everyone for the comments and encouragement !!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Labor Day!!  Thanks everyone for the continued great shots.  Here is another picture of Mickey Selligman's O-scale 2-rail layout.  In this scene, it shows how effect a backdrop can be.  First the backdrop, then some layout flats and then the full scale buildings....

Alan

MarkStrittmatter posted:

Good morning Fridge, I was away from he computer so sorry for the delay in the reply.

Most of the items are Woodland Scenic Products.

Flex Paste was used for the piled up snow along the side of the road.

Realistic water was poured into a cup and then brushed onto the road surface to look like ice.

Water effects is used to make the ice hanging from the guard rail cables, (Not sure how well you can see this from the photos)

In another area not shown here I painted the road an off white and then put the realistic water on and the outcome looks like packed snow.

The lower bush's are just pillow stuffing pulled apart and spray painted ( Dollar Store Spray Paint) with different colors, dark green brown, and some dark burgundy and then sprinkled with fine foliage again from woodland scenics and then sprayed with cheap hairspray. The short saplings are just trees branch from outside.

If you go on Woodland Scenics web site they have a presentation on making winter scenery.

 

Thank you everyone for the comments and encouragement !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks to Fridge for asking the question!

Mark, I think we talked a bit about the winter effects a bit when I was over, but not to a large extent.  Thank you for the references to the products.  Heidi is getting married this Saturday.  She has just about everything packed up from her art studio, and they have moved a lot of it and the shelf units and some bigger items over to her fiancé's house; her house too come Saturday.  Once the tables and desk are out, I will have the 11' 4" x 11' 6" room to start planning my layout.  Enough was out yesterday for me to get in and get measurements for the first time.

I say this to everyone to say that I want to put a snow scene on the upper level and moves some of Kim's buildings there for a more permanent winter application.

Here's a recent overview.

Wow, This thread has really been fun to watch. I wonder when Dr. Bill Bramlage will post pictures of his Tower City portion of his wonderful layout? Just Wondering?

This is a great thread with so many great layout pictures.

My home layout is still in the design stage but getting close. Hope to "break ground" in the spring.

Here are some pictures of the club layout (NLOE) some of which I have posted before but I guess the objective is to get them all in one place.

I'll start with bridges, trestles and tunnels.

My four-foot diameter layout.

Alex M posted:

Fantastic thread 

Here's my layout 

Alex, love what you have done with the upper level. Great work!

Lots of great stuff keeps coming in!  Happy Labor Day everyone.

MarkStrittmatter posted:

Good morning Fridge, I was away from he computer so sorry for the delay in the reply.

Most of the items are Woodland Scenic Products.

Flex Paste was used for the piled up snow along the side of the road.

Realistic water was poured into a cup and then brushed onto the road surface to look like ice.

Water effects is used to make the ice hanging from the guard rail cables, (Not sure how well you can see this from the photos)

In another area not shown here I painted the road an off white and then put the realistic water on and the outcome looks like packed snow.

The lower bush's are just pillow stuffing pulled apart and spray painted ( Dollar Store Spray Paint) with different colors, dark green brown, and some dark burgundy and then sprinkled with fine foliage again from woodland scenics and then sprayed with cheap hairspray. The short saplings are just trees branch from outside.

If you go on Woodland Scenics web site they have a presentation on making winter scenery.

 

Thank you everyone for the comments and encouragement !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks!  Is the snow on top of the foliage also spray paint, then?

Fridge, no this is also Woodland Scenic snow that comes in a plastic shaker container.

After I sprayed the hair spray on the foliage I sprinkled the snow on next before the hair spray dried.

I have also used the real fine snow that some craft stores sell also. I did not have of this type of snow on hand so I used the Woodland Scenic product on this hillside.

Sorry for leaving this step out.

My club layout has pictures: www.njhirailers.com.

As some know, I have a UFO themed layout.....Heres a video I did of my layout with an app that came with my ipad.   Hope you enjoy.

-Pete

A couple of shots on my former IHMD engine terminal modules, now in service on the New York Central.  

Regards,

Jerry

Here is my contribution.

Joe B.

Here is my temporary O gauge layout.

HO layout

1 1/2" scale"

Great thread...nice to see layouts, big and small and In various stages , construction.

   Just finished my Atlas roundhouse and now have room to run trains again!

Al

Wow....same really fantastic talent here!

Peter

Currently and probably always under construction.......

Sandwiched in between the water heater and the furnace . . .

don'tcha just hate those water heaters and furnaces.....

Far behind in scheduled work. I was waiting to be farther along, but this is it today. Thanks for looking

Buzz

This area will be covered with large station and city above it.

Great job everyone!!  Thanks for sharing what you are doing through these pictures!  Here is another of my friend Mickey's 2-rail O-scale layout...

Alan

some city scenes

Some pics of my spare bedroom 9x6. Pay no attention to the dust... I mean "natural weathering".

Lots more to do.... crammed into a storage space above the garage. Working under the table 18 inches above the floor is a great test of dexterity.

MarkStrittmatter posted:

Fridge, no this is also Woodland Scenic snow that comes in a plastic shaker container.

After I sprayed the hair spray on the foliage I sprinkled the snow on next before the hair spray dried.

I have also used the real fine snow that some craft stores sell also. I did not have of this type of snow on hand so I used the Woodland Scenic product on this hillside.

Sorry for leaving this step out.

 

Perfect - thanks.  I'll probably be using quite a bit of that stuff when the time comes....

nice layout Southermike. It's good to see I'm not the only one with Mopar Muscle prowling the streets.

Wow - such great work here.... I am almost too intimidated to post!

I'm always shy to post too.  The layout has a long long way to go.  But the trains run, that's all that matters.

DJ Rocky posted:

I'm always shy to post too. 

Beats me why. What you have so far is quite impressive!

My work in progress, still wondering where my desk is going to go.  Now this is a messy workspace!

Some pictures of my layout

I havent taken a tone pf pics recently but heres soem of my one man show. Ive been building this without help for the last 5 years.

J Daddy posted:

Wow - such great work here.... I am almost too intimidated to post!

I find that hard to believe. They don't call you J Daddy for nothing.

Here is my layout that is about 4 x 10 feet.  I built it in sections so that it can be easily taken apart if necessary.

leavingtracks posted:

J Daddy posted:

Wow - such great work here.... I am almost too intimidated to post!

 

John.....absolutely no reason for you to be intimidated....your layout is top notch!!  The whole idea here is to inspire folks by seeing what others are doing and perhaps be able to get ideas for their layouts regardless of the size of the layout or the ability of the individual...

Thanks!

Alan

John,

I agree with Alan; I love your layout!  A little philosophizing here, but I think each layout is special in its own way!  Some are simpler in either track plan or scenery, but they serve their purpose to the builder as much as the most complicated and artistic layout.  I learned a lot from you going through how you built that great rock wall, for instance!!