Which is your favorite building or scene...

Nice building to everyone --I still like the DownTown Deco buildings . I wish they were easyer to find .

A quick word about talent: With the possible exception of sports at the professional level, where above average eyesight and reflexes come into play, there's no such thing as talent. Talent = hard work + dedication.

Pete

Looks like the boys at Whidbey MFG. are taking an after hours delivery of Guinness!!!

WOW!  some AMAZING  shots guys!

Hard to pick a favorite. Each project brings alot of satisfaction from the planning phase to the execution to the final result. Had my camera out yesterday taking some pics of my lastest build and snapped these shots off while in the train room.

Hi Willbacker, You have good reason to be "liking how it's turning out," because your rocky hillside (and certainly that mining facility!) and the flat ground look absolutely real, in my viewpoint. The vista looks natural, w/out any repeated shapes or features. Its features appear random. I've been studying that hill, trying to understand the details of how you crafted it. Would you post more photos of it or of other hillsides you have done like it?

Congratulations on your success at that scene.

Frank 

Patrick, those are beautiful shots and beautiful work. Not sure which I like better, but the middle one might just do it for me. 

Jackiejr, that Youngs Co. main st. building is really sweet. That is a scratch build I assume as I've never seen one like it. 

Vulcan, thanks for the tip on "mousing over" to see who started the thread. Wouldn't have figured that one out unless it was by accident. 

Jerrman

Yep scratch built; that's Young's Company office and ice facility located next door to the Farmers Market. Real convenient for shipping off those fresh veggies on those reefers. Across the street is Young's coal processing facility. Just finished that one up. You can see it the scenery and structures forum. Thank's for your interest.

Another small favorite of mine. The old farm shop.

I like the new roller coaster in the amusement park next to the tracks.

Latest addition to Maia's Corners

Eliot,
I like that you did a very nice Job!!!!!!

David

Really like this shot! I have seen some amazing things posted in this thread, but  something about these old stone buildings fronting the brick street just grabbed me. Your modeling is giving me deja vu: I could swear I have been here before...maybe St. Charles, MO, or S. Broadway in St. Louis in another lifetime....

Thanks, David

The center piece of my set up 4x8    with trains running  on the outside  benches in a U 22 ft long X 3 ft wide each side,   crossing at the bottom 10 ft x 4 ft 

What you have done with the brick streets is great. They really look good, nice job. And you're right which one do you chose they all look great! Terrific modeling at it's best.

Hey,
Who do guys get your windows from? I'm getting to the point where my junk bin is like mother Hubberds . I could make em but it'd be a lot easier to buy em

David

Any life left in this thread? I like it a lot.

Jack

The equipment shed.

And tractor.

I too really like this thread and don't want it to die.  The work being shared here is just outstanding! I think the colors have come together on my GS4 photo, so it too is a favorite.  Jim

When you have to look as carefully as I am looking, now, at those two shed photos, to discern if I am seeing real-life or modeling, you know a master-craftsman had been messin' w/ yo' mind. Cool, very, very cool stuff, Vulcan.

Frank M.

P.S. That refrigerator has blown my li'l mind. Check out the perfection of that rust, right where it would be. Wow. I mean, Wow! Fa' real.

Wow, Vulcan. Amazing scene. I too, have studied it carefully and it was the refrigerator that got my attention and made me stop to pour over the details. Not sure why, but there's something so real about it. 

Jerrman

I'm not sure, either, Jerrman; perhaps, there are certain "markers" that we all subliminally notice which suggest to us we are seeing something, at the very least, familiar, and likely, real. Maybe, in the case of the top photo of the shed w/out the tractor, we see the fence and landscape in the distance, and they suggest real-life, let alone every single other detail of color, tone, weathering, lighting, specific miniature, etc.

Or maybe, w/ the second photo, the scenery to the left of the shed plus details like the specific placement of the dirt at the center of the tractor under the seat.......awhh-phooey.... I don't know what I'm talkin' about! Everything about those two scenes is convincing. I can't take it apart and say, "Ah ha! Here's what did it!" Maybe, we all just know quality when we see it.

Frank

(But I'll bet Vulcan knows exactly what he did to convince us!)

Or, maybe Vulcan just posted a picture of some real building and details as he's prone to do just to mess with us. 

Jerrman

Jerrman figured it out. I travel all over the country photographing real buildings that look like they could be models.

Just to mess with you guys.

(After 10 minutes of waiting for Hoopla to respond to "post reply"    )

The last from me (for tonight).

"Hughes Welding Repair".

I thought it looked like a model because it looks like it's resting on blue foam.

My photos don't enlarge because I'm still using Photobucket, for 2 reasons.

1. That's where the photos are.

2. It's still easier.

Once I take new photos I'll probably give the new way a shot.

I have to say it would be a tie between my model of the Temple, Texas Santa Fe station (centerpiece of my layout) and the Alamo grounds.





TEX
Steve

That station model is beautiful. .....I was there during an afternoon in Spring 1965 and took a photo of a Santa Fe FT sitting nearby. Recently, I read about the R.R. museum nearby. ....I was stationed at Ft. Hood in the 1st. Armored Div. and received shipping orders for Korea shortly thereafter. I only wish I would've taken more photos. 

Really outstanding modeling and scenicking by all. My favorite thread.

Guys such as Vulcan, Mike CT and Murph have been repeatedly impressing us long enough now that we can call them "old masters" of the art.... and they truly are!

Here is a few more scenes I enjoy on my Bellevue and Schenectady RR. Enjoy!!! Love all of yours! Happy Railroading!!!!-Don Klose

This thread goes to page 3 in no time! Not good!

Jack

this has been the best thread I ever had the pleasure of participating in since I joined the forum.

David

These are currently my favorite scenes on my layout, although they still aren't finished yet (neither is the layout)

John, I can see why such a scene is a favorite of yours, and unfinished, no less! It'll be fun staying-tuned for the finished results, sir! I esp. like, which is why I have repeated these two shots in my reply, your use of a different gravel for the private roadway, in contrast and, yet, realistic co-ordination w/ the overall site. Even the sparse foliage, seemingly dry but hanging-on, adds poignantly to the story of this place.

I've saved these shots.

It's all story telling, isn't it.

Frank

P.S. The weathered VWvan is perfect for this homestead.

I agree. The selection of the VW van caught my eye as perfect for the trailer scene and the weathering is right-on as well. Nice job, John. 

Jerrman

More a favorite, quirky little technique of mine than a favorite scene (though I do like this place on the layout) is finding a place for my impulse-buys. My layout has, admittedly, a vague, mixed-circa time frame to begin with.

The stagecoach pictured here is a prime example. I had to have it. But why? I don't know, honestly. Where could it possibly go on the layout? I really had no idea about that at the time of purchase and didn't worry about it.

Later, it hit me - a parade, right down a main drag, with plenty of local inhabitants collecting along the curbs and street-sides, taking an interest. In a parade, we can see a huge variety of artifacts, animals, characters, and memorabilia brought out for show.

The parade changes to include Holiday-related features at Christmas, like Santa riding in the 'Benz limo w/a few fanciful friends.

Voila! Now, I have a place for those (most of 'em) odd-ball items and antique vehicles that are way too far out of time-sync with the rest of the layout to fit in properly. So, still being a kid at play, I configure them into the parade and feel they make some sense there. What do you say?

Frank