SSWUPinSA Wrote:Any chance yopu could email me as many photos of your old layout as you can... good for my reference...? :oops:

I am sorry.I do not have any other photos than the photos on my home page on photobucket.http://www.rub-peters.de There are several folders you might want to browse.

faraway Wrote:Russ, that sounds interesting and should ensure a nice boarder between the color. Thank you!

ps. Did you got the street address? I would like to look at the prototype via streetview. I did find a building that is close to your description at W 99th street behind the YMCA building.

Reinhard, I've been busy working on building storage shelves in my garage and haven't been here for a couple of days. The YMCA building I'm talking about is in Long Beach. It faces Carson St. at Woodruff Ave. just west of the corner of Woodruff and Carson, on the north side of Carson.

Russ, thank you.

I am afraid it might be a somewhat monotone if the entire layout is populated with shining white boxes only (may be with stripes). I had a closer look on the area surrounding Vernon for some nice buildings that might fit on my layout as the neighborhood of the white boxes. However, I will do some "tune up" of white boxes with stripes etc. later. The bulding close to the YMCA is therefor still important to me.

This is what I discovered at E.24th St close to Santa Fe Ave via video posted at west coast rails forum. It is an assemble of four/fife run down buildings used by Angelus Mills Supply. It is about 35" long and consumes lots of styrene. A track is running in front and two old loading docks exist (long time out of order). It will replace the white box in the most right background.


This is the current status of the raw building, This time the "all white" is only intermediate. The left and right side have been swapped.

It looks good Reinhard. The nature of Vernon is that if a company doesn't need more space than they can get by adding on to an existing building, and they have the real estate to do it, they just add on. The result is some odd looking buildings with combinations of brick, cinder block, stucco, sheet metal, or any combination there of.

It is my understanding E.24th Str is not in Vernon but in the city of LA. Therefore the "very special" situation of Vernon does not apply and the industry and buildings look much more common for cramped areas like this all over the US. No more sidewalks etc.
My plan is to build that kind of common industrial area in in the right side of the south yard. Vernon (white, nice and clean) should end with the buildings right of the central street. That provides new alternatives to fill the triangle area and the "banana" area in the foreground.

Update: I was wrong. E.24th St is in Vernon. I did lookup the Angelus Mills Supply in the yellow pages and they have a Vernon address. Even better if I can stay within the Vernon boundaries and model some not so well maintained buildings.

Sunday is layout work day
I love evergreen's metal roofing sheets. They are are great opportunity to spend some hours gluing little styrene strips in groves. And yes it was my choice to use them for the largest roof of the buildings :evil:
Last steps will be some signs and gluing it in place.

A really eye catching scene
Everything fits nice together

Reinhard,
Whose chainlink fence product are you using? I've been doing the scratchbuilt fence as shown by CNW 1961 with good success,but would like a little variety. Your work has been a catalyst for my layout as I've gotten away from the Walthers and Pikestuff kits to do something more original.

Mark

wow great work Reinhard !!!!

Mark S Wrote:Reinhard,
Whose chainlink fence product are you using? I've been doing the scratchbuilt fence as shown by CNW 1961 with good success,but would like a little variety. Your work has been a catalyst for my layout as I've gotten away from the Walthers and Pikestuff kits to do something more original.

Mark

I am using the fence from Micron Art. Got them from Walthers http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/462-93405. I did decide to use them after I failed to get reasonable results with more cost effective solution. Micron Art's fence is extreme simple to install. You may not need the steep spending for Micron Art if you mastered Kurt's fence.

Reinhard,
Thanks for the quick reply and the info for Micron Art. On all of my chain link eat fence I've been using concertina wire on the top of it instead of barbed wire. Again,Kurt's method makes this an easy project to finish off the fencing. I checked out your link to your layout and was quite impressed with your efforts. I think this style of layout is great especially if space is an issue. Work like yours,Kurt's,Lance Mindheim's and others is a nice change from the usual layout ideas. Keep the great work coming,it's pushing me to do things I never had tried before. Thanks..

Mark

This low profile business inspired me to fill the triangle area at the west end of the south yard. It is a collection of low cost structures following the curve of the track without the extra cost of any round walls.


This is the heavy modified outcome. It is put in place only because it spans the removable segment in front of the door.

wow

Reinhard, you did great and I like it well.

Rather like the stark "white box" backdrops Reinhard. The recent trend in Floridian themes is really interesting. There's a lot to be said for well done minimal scenery. You're executing the trackage and scenes very nicely. -Bill

I've been in Joliet visiting my daughter and son-in-law and newest grandson for the last week. Your layout is really looking great, Reinhard. I think I'm getting closer to being able to start my version of the LAJ.