07-25-2010, 12:54 AM
Thanks for the friendly words.
I knew I have forgotten something important. The black garbage backs! They are as American as Cadillac and steaks. The problem is their shape. They are very round and like a bowl. The model bags available are flat like wheat bags.
The sign of the diner is just "out of the box". I should really invent something more appropriate.
Yesterday was a bad day for the open house. It has been torn down... It was to bothersome to have a long building in the immediate foreground blocking the view to the left side of the layout sitting in my chair.
That gives another open area. Together with the open areas next to blue whale and the triangle area is the overall impression of the layout changing. All brick buildings have been gone. The backdrop has been updated to light and flat buildings too. It is much lighter and open. I did therefor a big move and call it "In the south" now. Located somewhere in southern TX or CA (Two state trooper patrol cars are TX). The CSX is no longer serving the rails. The engines are mainly SP and some ATSF.
The reason for SP and ATSF is purely my taste. I like the bloody nose and blue bonnet. UP yellow is somewhat boring to me and the new BNSF colors are simply ugly. UP and BNSF are so sloppy in repainting there is no need to run dedicated UP and BNSF engines. Even BNSF is not putting it's "BNSF" label on all cabs of ATSF painted engines. That provides also the loophole of a not so precise defined date of the layout. Pre merger, during merge or somewhat later.
May be I should open a new thread named "In the South" and close this thread "In the North East"?
Another area I am thinking about is the GERN facility. The elevator and the silos are fine. The problem are the gray industry buildings. When I look in Google etc for larger grain/food processing plants i find huge very plain concrete structures (e.g. this Cargill facility http://web.userinstinct.com/7602885-cargill-inc.htm ). They look massive and have close to no openings, windows etc. I am afraid a styrene wall 20" * 5" will not represent such a structure. It will be styrene and nothing else. Most of this structures are not painted. It is plain concrete. That concrete has a very special structure It got when it has been made. I have no idea how to do that in a model. I am uncertain if color like I did it on the silos is good enough to make a sheet of styrene into a wall of concrete.
lots to do!
I knew I have forgotten something important. The black garbage backs! They are as American as Cadillac and steaks. The problem is their shape. They are very round and like a bowl. The model bags available are flat like wheat bags.
The sign of the diner is just "out of the box". I should really invent something more appropriate.
Yesterday was a bad day for the open house. It has been torn down... It was to bothersome to have a long building in the immediate foreground blocking the view to the left side of the layout sitting in my chair.
That gives another open area. Together with the open areas next to blue whale and the triangle area is the overall impression of the layout changing. All brick buildings have been gone. The backdrop has been updated to light and flat buildings too. It is much lighter and open. I did therefor a big move and call it "In the south" now. Located somewhere in southern TX or CA (Two state trooper patrol cars are TX). The CSX is no longer serving the rails. The engines are mainly SP and some ATSF.
The reason for SP and ATSF is purely my taste. I like the bloody nose and blue bonnet. UP yellow is somewhat boring to me and the new BNSF colors are simply ugly. UP and BNSF are so sloppy in repainting there is no need to run dedicated UP and BNSF engines. Even BNSF is not putting it's "BNSF" label on all cabs of ATSF painted engines. That provides also the loophole of a not so precise defined date of the layout. Pre merger, during merge or somewhat later.
May be I should open a new thread named "In the South" and close this thread "In the North East"?
Another area I am thinking about is the GERN facility. The elevator and the silos are fine. The problem are the gray industry buildings. When I look in Google etc for larger grain/food processing plants i find huge very plain concrete structures (e.g. this Cargill facility http://web.userinstinct.com/7602885-cargill-inc.htm ). They look massive and have close to no openings, windows etc. I am afraid a styrene wall 20" * 5" will not represent such a structure. It will be styrene and nothing else. Most of this structures are not painted. It is plain concrete. That concrete has a very special structure It got when it has been made. I have no idea how to do that in a model. I am uncertain if color like I did it on the silos is good enough to make a sheet of styrene into a wall of concrete.
lots to do!
Reinhard