Freelance 2018-1

[Brakie]

ratled,Lance Mindheim has help bring the popularity of Industrial Switching Layouts out of the closet and into the limelight.

A ISL doesn't cost a arm and leg to build and calls for tons of detailing.

The only down side is one must enjoy switching more then watching trains run endless loops..

[ratled]

Brakie I meant for Lance's work for making 3D building on foamboard

ratled

[Brakie]

Brakie I meant for Lance's work for making 3D building on foamboard

ratled

That's part of detailing a ISL that many overlook.

[faraway]

....The only down side is one must enjoy switching more then watching trains run endless loops..

Yes, that is the reason why I kept the staging yard on the other sie of the room with the connectors and the hatches. The pure switching operation on the ISL would be fine with a cassette system of manually putting four cars and an engine on a track and remove it after switching is done. But I enjoy it every daily for three minutes to have a train running around the room.

[faraway]

We got a roof for the building from yesterday


The first buildings got new wallpapers and roofs. Ballasting the industry tracks will start soon after the dimensions of the buildings are set.

[faraway]

One more background building with the luxury of a decent depth.



Some concrete ground at the none food hopper unloading area.



and a round one at the very west end



It is about time for some more ballasting.

[faraway]

The raw layout is done. All tracks layed and ballasted, all ground is coverred and all structures are base boxes. It may serve as some kind of a track plan too ;-)

[lajry]

Your new layout is looking very good Reinhard. Really like the curved building. And it looks like there will hours of fun switching it & building all those structures!

[faraway]

My first atempt to add 3D elements to an image wallpapered foamboard structure. The loading doors are recessed and door rails are made from styrene. One door is open and a section of brass emulated the grid.



Building #2, the recessed doors are the same as on building #1 but the horizontal gutter at the roof and the vertical downspouts are new. They are made from 1x2 and 1x1mm styrene strips.

[faraway]

The round building got a new texture more suiteable to 3D elements.

[lajry]

Reinhard
To make that curved industry more believable, there needs to be a reason for it to having been built that way. It could be anything like a river, gully, hillside. Now looking for an excuse to have one on my LAJ layout!

[faraway]

Andy, there are lot of buildings like this in Westgate. The curves are required because the tracks can not follow 90° street crossing. The reach their destination and some intermediate industries cutting through blocks with (mostly) 90° curves.
Take this as an example :

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ps. You find a similar situation in the LA warehouse district. The rails are abandoned but the curved building tell you where they have been.

[lajry]

"I see said the blind man." Tried to attach an image showing a couple of curved industries LAJ Horn Lead but no luck.

[ratled]

The industrial district coming east out of Reno NV. There are several of these in this area. Modesto, CA had the same thing on their short line, not all that uncommon.

ratled

[faraway]

The forth building on Freelance 2018-1 got some 3D elements




The technique of wall papering "shoe boxes" with photos is impressive. After doing some from Google Streetview with lousy resolution, very beginner Photoshop skill, my poor eye sight and clumsy hands do I understand why Lance has chosen that technique with high quality on site photos, at least good Photoshop skills, good eyes and a steady hand to do his contemporary buildings. The ration of effort (time, expense) vs. quality of model is excellent.

Some of the aspects are of value to me too. It was nice and easy to glue a new layer of wall paper (changing the entire building appearance) on the round building yesterday at close to zero cost (Laser printer tone for three sheets of paper). Scrapping a Cornerstone kit of that size and buy/build a new one is a very different story.