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#16
The HO / HOn3 / HOn30 Line / Re: HOn30 Tribute Diesels
February 07, 2025, 07:34:06 AM
Love the look of the prototypes...I'll be watching as a fellow HOn30 guy
#17
Love this kind of modeling...

You had me at "Dave Meek"  ;D
#18
Finished Kits & Dioramas / Re: Fos Oyster Skiff Kitbash
February 07, 2025, 07:23:07 AM
very neat idea and execution...I do like the gator idea. The Aussie guys really captured that vibe with the Muskrat Ramble layout. 
#19
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Wednesday - Feb 5 2025
February 05, 2025, 08:27:47 AM
Morning All,

I don't eat breakfast, so you're on your own...among other things (like working for a living), I plan to pick up the small amount of lumber I need to put together one more module...then it's on!!

I look forward to sharing what I'm up to, but not much of interest yet...most of it's in my head!

Have a good Hump Day!
#20
Layout Tours / Re: Shadowlands and Tellynott
January 21, 2025, 02:49:45 PM
Quote from: Mark Dalrymple on January 20, 2025, 11:15:50 PMHi guys.

So one of the indoor things I have been working on is plotting my fictional journey on a geographical map of south Westland.  This journey joins together the towns of Jacksons bay (Tellynott) to Jamestown.  Of course, to fit the track plan along with the vertical discrepancy required to give me scope to create the mountain scenery I want along with towering rail bridges and deep gorges, my track doubles back on itself and crosses over itself several times.  To help me consider the various stops without the spaghetti getting in the way, I have been looking at them in isolation.  I also worked out a scale and plotted distances from Tellynott to Jamestown, and between water vats.  Here are three examples.

Photo 1 shows the Station at Ellery.
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Photo 2 shows the station of Malcolm.
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Photo 3 shows the water vat tucked in beside the bridge by the Gorge river.
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This process gives some advantages.  It is much easier to mentally map the actual journey, ignoring tracks that shouldn't really be in the scene, but need to be there to make the model work.  It is much easier to locate and plot various scenic features on the model.  Some of these can even be thought of as two different scenic locations (when tracks at different heights pass the same geographical feature, but are actually a number of scale miles apart).  It is easy to draw in different possibilities without messing up my old school entire layout plan.

I used John Allen's scale miles (Smiles), and found these worked pretty well for both the geographical terrain navigated and for the distance between water vats.  This works out to 5 actual feet = 1 scale mile (Smile).  The distance from Tellynott to Jamestown is 62.5 smiles, and the distance from the start of the Tellynott yard to where the return cutoff rejoins the main line is 68 smiles.  I also intend to us 12:1 scale time.

More soon, cheers, Mark.
Fantastic...I have found that having a "story" helps quite a bit in achieving realism and simulating a "functional" model railroad...even though I have no interest in operating, a plausible model is a good-looking model empire.

Nice work as always.

John
#21
The HO / HOn3 / HOn30 Line / Re: HOn30 Tribute Diesels
January 11, 2025, 04:40:22 PM
I love those HOn30 boxcabs!!!
#22
Morning All!

Wow...Greg's quite the blabbermouth today  ;D  but that Western Omelette sure sounds good

One more weekend of visitors and I promise I'll get rolling. I've decided to build one more module to make an L-shape and then I'll get serious about track planning & actually building a model railroad again. I've got great concepts, scenes, construction methods, and priorities in my head...so I'd like to think that once I 'break the seal', progress will come fast.

Stay warm and have a great day!
#23
Dioramas / Re: Wood Cutters Shack
January 08, 2025, 10:33:52 AM
Quote from: Larry C on January 08, 2025, 10:21:26 AMJim and John thank you both so much. I was actually pleasantly surprised just how well the kit finished off. Between the very detailed instruction booklet and the detail parts it was a really fun build.
Yes...opening a box of sticks was pretty daunting, but the instructions are great. 

There's no way I can build this...but I CAN do Step 1, and then Step 2.... ;D

very rewarding!!
#24
Dioramas / Re: Wood Cutters Shack
January 07, 2025, 08:35:47 PM
Very nice work...the HO version is the best thing I've ever built. Beautiful

John
#25
Hello All...

I booked my NNGC hotel in St. Louis in september...that's about all I have to report. Lots of holidays, visitors, and obligations getting in the way of the trains. But they're on my mind.

I already know what's next, just need to carve out a few hours to get the framing for the next module done...then I swear it'll start to look like a train thing again.
#26
Dioramas / Re: Hollis Pest Control [diorama]
December 28, 2024, 10:10:49 AM
Fantastic!!!
#27
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Saturday - Dec 28 2024
December 28, 2024, 10:09:40 AM
I'm quietly enjoying all of Doug's progress...on average, we are both pretty productive. Unfortunately, he's way above average and I've been stagnant. Maybe  today, I will relocate the location of the layout (in the same room) as my vision for it is being refined every day, in my head...so, theoretically, once I get my hands a little dirty - progress should come fast.

My wife's brother and his boys are coming tomorrow, so I just don't know...lots of hosting and entertaining this month, not to mention a trip to Costa Rica, and end-of-year work stuff are hopefully lightening up soon. Daylight ahead  ::)
#28
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Monday, December 23, 2024
December 23, 2024, 04:06:12 PM
Morning All,

The fact that I'm saying "Good Morning" at 4pm should show you where I'm at  ;D

Thinking about the trains, but nothing new to report...busy busy

Happy Holidays

John
#29
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Friday, December 13, 2024
December 13, 2024, 09:14:33 AM
Best Wishes Tom...piece of cake!

got back from Costa Rica late last night and off to work this am...

My favorite time of year to get organized, set goals, take stock, etc...trains will play a big part in my discussion with myself  ;D
#30
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Re: Friday, November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024, 01:07:00 PM
Quote from: ReadingBob on November 29, 2024, 09:01:42 AMMorning all,

In his recent YouTube video update of his layout Doug Foscale said he's going to take it down and explained what he's going to try and salvage and what he was unhappy about with it.  He'll be building two new layouts, one in HO and on in On30 (at least that's what I think I heard).  Both should be interesting.

I'm off to JoAnn's Fabric later this afternoon to pick up a new Ott Light for my workbench.  It's too hard to see the tiny stuff clearly without that extra light.

Have a great one!
I get it Doug. I feel your pain.   ;D
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