Water, water...everywhere!...pictures..

Alan

Just terrific modeling, everything is so real.

These photos leave me speechless, It is hard to put in words my reaction to the photos.

I grew up a few blocks from the Delaware River and across from the Philadelphia waterfront. It bring back many memories.

Alan,

 

You have proven that...either by land or sea...you can model it!!!

 

Outstanding work!!!

 

Frank

Double wow! Like riding a tour boat through the canal at Sault Stainte Marie! 

Awesome!  Thanks for the sharing these.

Great ripples and reflections. 

Alan, Very nicely done.  Beautiful work. 

 

I do have a question.  Are some of these locations static displays?  For example, I notice the automobile bridges butt into dead ends.  I understand that.  How about the railroad tracks.  Where you have the intermodal cranes, is that a continuous link to track through which you could load and unload other cars and/or equipment?   

 

It is a wonderful model which surely gives you great satisfaction in continuing its growth.... 

Most realistic water scenes I have ever seen

 

Great work

Very nice water scenes. From the title of the thread, at first I thought maybe you had a flood in the train room.

Charlie...wow!, thanks so much for the very generous comments!  Glad the water front pictures brought back pleasant memories...

 

Frank...good to hear from you my friend.  Hey..when are you Memphis guys going to pay me a visit.  Its your turn!!! 

 

Thank you "coloradohighrailer"..

 

Ken..thanks and you are certainly welcome..

 

John...thank you and thanks for being part of our MA3R group.  I sent the logo to you so I am looking forward to seeing it in your posts...

 

Thank you Wood...have enjoyed exchanging emails!

 

"tr18" John...thanks so much!

 

"Laidoff....." Had not thought about the title doing that...LOL!!  Thanks for the comment and I have been enjoying the progress on your layout.

 

Alan

 

 

Alan that is developing into a great scene it has the feel and look of a harbor.

Hi Alan,

 

  Absolutely fantastic water scene's, very realistic . It's always a pleasure to view pictures of your layout. Thanks for sharing, and keep them coming. Threads like this are my favorite.

 

Thanks,

Alex

Alan, love your pictures! You know how much I like "water".

 

 

Thanks very much Don!

 

Alex...thank you my friend.  I agree...pictures of layouts are my favorite!

 

Brian...Thanks so much.  I used to have a 32 footer like your boat with a 16 foot upper deck.  Do you have a model of your boat on your layout??

 

Alan

Alan, no, but that is a great idea. I will have to contact the manufacturer to see if they had a model done for their Offices. I put a good deal of research into this market before I bought it, and it turned out to be one of my best purchases.

 

This also might be a good modeling project as I certainly can always use more boats on the layout.

Oh very nice. At first I thought you had an unexpected pipe burst.

Awesome job Alan. Wish I had your talent to add that to my layout. I could never get my boat on my layout though.

Ah, yes, Captain John, but if you cut the bottom flat to "waterline" your boat, then

it would sink promptly when you put it back in the bay.

John...your boat is much more realistic than those in my harbor!! 

 

I am still trying to figure out how to "waterline" the passenger liner without destroying it.  I don't want to cut the bottom off so I am perplexed right now how to deal with it...

 

Alan

No sailboats.

Mike....look carefully at the pictures.  You will see a red sailboat and a blue one.  The blue one has its sail down so all you can see is the white mast pole.

 

Alan

leavingtracks (leaving wakes?):  I don't know what your water surface is, but I could

think what could have been done, but now hard with all the structures and scenery

around it, would have been to cut a hole in the water surface, in the exact shape

of that boat's hull, at the water line, so the boat could be set down in that hole just

that far... though that would, of course, defeat the possibility of moving it around, unless those panels are removeable and an uncut one could be substituted...speaking of wakes, I was looking for wakes and trying to think how they could be modeled, and I saw another small boat that needs "waterlined" or embedded, trivial and lost in the grand scheme of the first glance.

CHR...the water surface is glass thus would have been difficult to cut. 

 

Alan

I have a question and an idea: 

 

Question:  is the water surface a custom cut section of glass?  If so, what kind of glass? great example of thinking outside the box.  

 

Idea for your cruise ship:  i understand your reluctance to cut the model ship.  One thought would be to build a wood piling wall that rests on the surface of the water and  that travel down the side of the ship.  wouldn't have to be too high just enough to conceal the bottom hull.  

 

i have been struggling with a river scene on my layout and your pictures have inspired me.  Thanks for sharing. 

After my last post above, I was thinking maybe a foamy wake could be designed

to conceal the fact that not a flat hull is resting on the glass....

Carl...thanks so much and you already know that you are welcome anytime.  As a matter of fact how about thinking about the whole crew that was together at the Lionel open house coming together!!  I bet we can find room!!

 

OGD...great idea.  Perhaps something like a dry dock so it looks like the ship is being painted....??

 

Thanks,

Alan

Love it. Beautiful water seen.

Wow!!! that water looks so real- how did you do that? Very, very nice indeed!

Thanks so much Keith!!

 

Jeff...thanks and good to hear from you!  The water is the standard shower door glass which is sitting on top of masonite which has been painted.  I found that painting the masonite and leaving the glass clear makes it look a little deeper.

 

Alan

Incredible water scene!

Alan,

Thanks for the inspiration on the water scenes; they are awesome. I can't wait to get through the track phase so I can think about my drop down river in the aisle. Your layout and some others have given me ideas and a path forward for my meager river. Thank you!

Thanks SR....

 

Wow Bob....that was very nice.  Thanks so much.  The pictures that have the passenger liner is also a drop down....  I don't have it completed yet but it is mounted on hinges on one side and on the other is a nylon rope which is going to be attached to a hitch crank.  When I want to take pictures and not using the isle, then the canal/harbor is up.  When there are guest and we are running trains and using the isle, it is cranked down and out of the way.  Of course the boats that are on it are taken off and stored on the side opposite from the hinged side.

 

Alan

WOW!!! I didn't look at the post for a couple of days, my bad, they are great!!!

Thanks for posting.  I have a couple of spots on my layout that would be great boating areas.

 

Brent

  I must warn you, you're building one of those layouts that take a long time to visit and absorb everything.

You may not get guests to leave!

Don't let me in or you'll have a guest living in your train room!

 

Joe....space has been prepared in the train room.  Head on over as you can now be in charge of finishing the details, dusting, cleaning track, weathering, getting the rest of the ballast down ( only about a 1000 more feet ), building a few more structures, ....oh, while you are at it, cutting the grass ( about a half acre here in town ), cars need waxing, landscaping needs trimming, exterior needs painting....  See how fast a guest will probably leave!! LOL!!

 

Thanks Joe...you are welcome anytime!

Alan