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#16
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 15, 2024, 04:42:03 PM
Thanks for watching Curt and Greg.  I've been moving stuff around for a couple of days.  Curving the siding and eliminating the flop house made for some interesting possibilities.  First I made "Mount Towel" as a straight on view block, moving the silos and large building a bit to the right.  This isn't perfect, but not bad.  Flipping the silos and main structure looked a bit worse.

Jeff
#17
Layout Tours / Re: Shadowlands and Tellynott
March 15, 2024, 02:09:05 PM
Tinfoil on the cap.  I'm stealing that idea.   8)

Jeff
#18
Dioramas / Re: Justice City Dioramish
March 15, 2024, 02:05:31 PM
The garage scene is really neat.  Especially with the interior lighting.

Jeff
#19
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Friday 15 March 2024
March 15, 2024, 09:13:07 AM
Morning all.

Ah, the Ides of March, almost spring.  The weather here has been spring like for weeks.  I have a lazy day planned as work yesterday was exhausting.  I'm still tired after 9 plus hours of sleep.  Will probably do some layout stuff today, however.  Still need to figure out building placement. 

Nice looking little buildings, Craig.  I certainly don't need anymore kits, but...

Jeff
#20
Morning, all.

Another nice day here today. I've already been poked for blood, seen the urologist, and been to Home Depot.  Will shuffle some structures around today on the layout.

Jeff
#21
Layout Tours / Re: Cypress Creek Railroad
March 12, 2024, 03:53:02 PM
Nice waterfront scene.  Good job on the water color.

Jeff
#22
Clever to paint the room the sky color.  Sturdy appearing benchwork as well.  Looking forward to your progress on the layout.

Jeff 
#23
Nice weathering on the background structures.  

Jeff
#24
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 12, 2024, 09:47:30 AM
Thanks for looking in, Jerry.  I originally thought about extending the hill as you suggested, and may go back to that thinking.  Curving the track was something I never considered.  I will try that out tomorrow as I'm at work today.  Maybe a not so huge structure at the end of the siding where the flop house is now would work, with a hill behind it. 

Thanks for the input and ideas, guys, I'll play with this over the next couple of days. 

Jeff
#25
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 12, 2024, 09:44:05 AM
Hi, Mark.  Thanks for commenting.  This morning looking at it, I realized it does look too big for the total scene.  The road to the flop house was to go between the silos and the low building on the right.  The town connects to the road in the picture 1785 above where the white gatorfoam passes the little blue building.  this will go straight off the layout.  

Jeff
#26
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 11, 2024, 04:07:53 PM
The building even blocks the hole from eye level if you're right up against the layout.  I suspect I'll add a angled back wall to fill some of the void.  I'll leave this for a few days and see if I still like it before ordering the ITLA modules.  I have another spot on the layout I thought of using these as well.  I'll go study that spot while this sits. 

Jeff
#27
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 11, 2024, 04:05:02 PM
So I think I need something taller and wider.  I have some DPM modules, but I think they look better as background buildings.  I've been interested in using the ITLA scale models modules as well.  So I downloaded their module sizes (each section is 3" x 9")  and started measuring.  A 3 x 12 building does a good job of blocking, again from the front, but needs a bit of an extension to work.   So I cut a single 3x9 piece and it works pretty well here.  I added a couple of trees at the edge of the town street, and this helps even a bit more.  I'll probably just add some dirt and a small rise here and plant a couple of trees, making sure they clear the long passenger cars. 

Jeff
#28
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 11, 2024, 03:56:40 PM
Yes, Jerry, she does sleep a lot.  

While working on the road into the scene, I need to place the track for the siding.  I got out the buildings to test fit this again.  The flop house is used to block the hole in the wall that the trains pass thru.  It looks OK from the front, but the side is not really working here.  Also, to get it high enough, the road reaching it will be too steep. 

Jeff
#29
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 11, 2024, 09:40:37 AM
Yes, Greg, she's a tough one.  

Jeff
#30
Layout Tours / Re: The Empire
March 11, 2024, 09:40:02 AM
Yes, Dave.  I think the parking lot and street don't need to match, but I wanted the intersection, which will be barely visible, and the lead in road  to be close.  

Jeff
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