01-30-2011, 08:11 PM
Great looking scenery. Keep posting the pictures so newbies like me can learn
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Rob - Modeling the B&O & C&O into Chessie System in the Toledo, Ohio area in the late 60's - early 70's
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01-30-2011, 08:11 PM
Great looking scenery. Keep posting the pictures so newbies like me can learn
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Rob - Modeling the B&O & C&O into Chessie System in the Toledo, Ohio area in the late 60's - early 70's
12-28-2011, 08:41 PM
Well time to blow the dust off of this topic......
I have done some small work on the layout, although this year at work has kept me away from the family for most of it. Let alone the layout. So i have been think about the trackplan and am not entirely happy, so today I was bored at work and started to play. I have attached the Xtrackcad file, maybe someone can flip into a jpeg since i cant on this computer.
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12-28-2011, 09:29 PM
Plan in jpg - I have flipped it 90 degrees clockwise and am only showing 2/3rds of the room, to get a closer look on the track plan:
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12-28-2011, 09:40 PM
Thanks.
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12-31-2011, 12:56 PM
Well the bench work was assembled yesterday, Put the foam down temporarily so I can fit the track plan. It was weird though, Home Depot sells 24"x96"x1" foam sheets for 25$ each. But the 1/2" sheets of the same size are 7$. Even with the cost of glue it saves a bundle.
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12-31-2011, 04:57 PM
Outstanding...all of it!
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01-08-2012, 10:53 PM
Made a little more progress tonight,
Well, I got a little time in the basement tonight undisturbed so i mapped out the track on the peninsula. One side will be a small yard with the edge of town at one end. The other side of the peninsula will be another coal mine, Just a small two track tipple. The string you see running across the foam is where roughly the scenic divider will be, I think I might just make a tall ridge so you can't see over it. Will have to see what I come up with. The track is all just placed on the layout to get an idea of where everything will line up. And so far i like how its coming along. Overall Shot of the town/Yard ![]() Roughly where the mine will go. ![]() Some Town industries, with the planned roadway. ![]() I'm curving the town and making it look more like the edge of a larger town. ![]()
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01-09-2012, 11:50 PM
Well I had a few hours tonight with nothing to do, and I wasn't up to working on the benchwork. So I started working on a freight house. I received a number of Walther's modular kits a while back, I must say I am impressed with how well they go together. Here is the outer walls and foundation after a couple of hours.
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01-14-2012, 06:48 PM
Well I got the 2" foam cut and glued in place. On top of this will be the 1" foam that I laid out the track plan on. So I may even be able to have some track down by next weekend. Tomorrow I plan to attach the pink foam and seal up the joints.
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01-14-2012, 07:20 PM
Great work so far! Looks pretty neat! Waht your theme/era?
Matt
Proudly modelling Quebec Railway Light & Power Company since 1997.
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01-15-2012, 07:45 AM
Very nice! Always good to see someone working in the "CORRECT" scale!
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Mike
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01-15-2012, 10:07 PM
sailormatlac Wrote:Great work so far! Looks pretty neat! Waht your theme/era? Coal Hauling Mainly, Era is 66-70.
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04-05-2012, 11:24 PM
Well, its been a while since i did anything train related so here is an update. Last week i went to Artists Emporium here in Winnipeg. On sale they had an Aztek 470 kit for $79.99 instead of $169.00, Ok I can splurge for that price. And WOW what a difference it makes of the Badger I was using.
So i started re doing some of the U25's that were posted about below. While painting the noses on the units, I had one U25 masked for the usual Reading Green. And while changing paints to the Reading Green from the black, I looked up and saw the unit below. ![]() Now this was the first iteration of the EH&S back in my teen years. That is a Tyco GP-20 sitting on a Athearn GP-9 frame. Fairly basic black & yellow paint, All done with Rattle Can. Upon seeing this I looked back at the one U25 awaiting another coat of green paint, looked at my current cup of black paint in the airbrush and you get the following. ![]() So this units frame isn't quite finished yet, it only has the yellow applied for the battery boxes. But mounted on the frame I think it looks sharp. ![]() Now I am not sure which one I like better......
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04-07-2012, 09:18 AM
Don't know how I did it but I totally missed this thread.Layout is looking very nice. About the locos,I think the black makes the yellow POP! You could like I did and have some locos in both schemes (gives the railroad some history) just weather the green ans yellow locos a little heavier than the green and black.
Johnathan (Catt) Edwards
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04-07-2012, 02:46 PM
Tyson Rayles Wrote:Very nice! Always good to see someone working in the "CORRECT" scale! ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, that may be true, and I have done a bit in N scale, but -- I still like working in "Horribly Oversized", and "Oh my Gawd - n30" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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