Looks great. Maybe you can help me with the steel mill painting.
Buzz
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Looks great. Maybe you can help me with the steel mill painting.
Buzz
Great work Mike, the crane, like the rest of your layout, is fabulous. Thanks for taking us along on your layout journey. Keep up the good work. Rich
Amazing Progress mike!!!
All I can say is WOW!
Incredible work!
Keep the pics coming!
Peter
I agree with everyone else, Beautiful work. Nick
Still lots left on the harbor scene. I have not decided between making my own barge from scratch or buying a kit. I also wanted to have a building to house a boiler for the crane, but do not have a clear direction on it. For now, harbor is done enough and moving onto the next project.
Here is a project my wife and I have been working on. I am running out of real estate, but still have a corner to use for a barn scene. We designed the barn from scratch based on a real picture from the internet. My wife cut, stained, assembled, and painted it from bass wood. With its proximity to the track, these animals will not be sleeping much. Hope to have some more progress of this area in coming weeks.
Mike
Excellent job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow Mike, more great railroad modeling, I think from my view of your expertise the shadowy background is starting to reveal your able assistant, er girl Friday, no, master designer, no, acclaimed architect, no, Chief engineer, and tour de force wonder woman of the layout! Excellent work! You guys make quite the team. Great job and well done to both of you. Rich
Mike,
The crane makes an excellent addition to your layout. Great scene!
Andy
Sooooooo nice! Love it.
Looks just great! Did your wife use leather dye and isopropyl alcohol for the stain?
Just beautiful !
Very Nice! I have to make one too!
Great work Mike, just beautiful. Rich
Its been a while since I have been able to show some progress, with the holidays and other house items that needed to be taken care. Last weekend, my wife and I had sometime to work on her barn scene some more and this weekend I cleaned up a few other areas on the layout.
Here is the barn scene, we decided to hold off on the roof and framing the window for now, to instead complete the scenery.
Here is a picture of the barge I was working on. I have so much more I would like to do with this scene in the future, including an additional dredge, more detailed tie on's for the barge and steam house for supply the crane
I weathered up my oil pumper with chalks and added some additional scenery around it to hide the base of the unit. I think it came it out really nice.
I also had a gas station area I was working on. I combined this with a track maintenance crew, who needed to remove a crossing to complete their work. I still need to find some cross bucks for it.
Wow..
Sorry, I was late barging into this thread
Great job, Mike!
Peter
Very nice scenery.
I think the fantastic work you do in the US, I go crazy here in Brazil!
Thank you for posting these pictures!
Great looking layout. Wonderful scenery.
Mike, it is looking very good! I like the barn a lot!
Great shots
Mike,
I had missed some of your expert work - everything is looking great! That crane is quite an accomplishment and looks fantastic. Hope to see more updates soon. Thank you for sharing.
Alex
Impressive!
Hump Yard Mike posted:I decided on building the barge myself instead of buying a kit.
I completed it for less than $15 dollars total (wood and spray primer/scratch filler). Already had the ballast and paint colors on hand from other projects. Plenty of wood left over for the future service barge used for the dragline.
1st barge, made from scratch out of MDF and basswood.
looks like the flood of Pittsburgh, 1936!
I have not had a layout update in a long while. I have been working on signalizing my layout. Just about complete with building the signals, where the signal bridges were kitbashed and modified with scratch built heads and the single mast signals and cants were all built from scratch.
If interested in the construction process, the link is referenced below:
https://ogrforum.com/...search-light-signals
Fantastic work!
Peter
Thanks Peter!
Mike, what an outstanding layout you have going. Your work is tremendous, slow and easy is always a good thing. Thank you so much for sharing with us. I'm glad I had a few spare minutes to check the forum this morning. : ))
Mike
super nice work!
JEM and Rich,
thanks for nice comments.
Still slow progress being made on the signal system. I built 18 of the 30 lamp drivers I need and mounted the little LED’s in one of my control points (only 9 heads). The picture showing the surface mount LEDs, the white grid lines are 1/2” for reference.
The cantilevers are toughest signals to wire and hide wires (16 wires in the mast of the 4 head cant ) but they are both done now. I really like how they look. Hopefully they will function as they should before spring time as there is a lot of work left on the signal logic.
MIke,
Excellent work! Your layout continues to come along just fine. We enjoy your updates.
Alex
I want to learn how to build boards like that. I am always impressed as to what people do to make signals work. How did you acquire your knowledge to build boards? Looks great. I also like the simplicity of the around the room double main, with large switches.
Mike first off I want to tell you your work is outstanding. Next I have a question how close to the original track plan that you showed us on page one did you stay? Were there any changes? Because I remember you saying originally that you wanted one level Loop but from the pictures I don't see any. did you just go with grades or is there a loop in there that I'm missing? And again outstanding work!!!!!
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