Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 3) Started 7/27/19

[bparrish]

John............

The barn is great.  Your mix of stone and wood is so typical of Midwestern style.  What else were they going to do with all the rock that came off of the fields?!?!?!

Great stuff

thanx

Bob

[S&S RR]

John............

The barn is great.  Your mix of stone and wood is so typical of Midwestern style.  What else were they going to do with all the rock that came off of the fields?!?!?!

Great stuff

thanx

Bob

Bob


Thank you for the kind words. Bye the way your smart pig is now swimming in his wallow.  I will take some pictures as soon as the mud dries.

[S&S RR]

Today, I moved some things around in the workshop for the next round of builds.  The G. Wilikers build has been moved to my detailing workbench - it's time for the final push on that build.  The Beach Farms diorama has been moved to my center workbench so I can work on detailing the back side without reaching over everything.  You will notice that the pigs have been moved into the pig pen and they just received some garden scraps for their evening feast. The Beach family is also busy loading the shipment of hay into the barn that just arrived by train. More to follow on the detail scene. My layout workbench is now home to the Tucker and Cook challenge build. You can find some progress pictures on my challenge thread.

[S&S RR]

I thought I would point out that I have really started paying attention to the back side of these scenes after my experience photographing the F&SM from the Engineers perspective.  It really gives the layout another dimension.

[Mark Dalrymple]

That aerial shot looks terrific, John!

Love the driveway and the pig in the wallow.  Do the pigs have a water trough?

Cheers, Mark.

[Janbouli]

Fantastic , that driveway came out beautiful, and the pigs in the mud . I hope you don't mind me saying , but I think the truck looks to new , a bit to bright , but maybe that's just the photo.

[S&S RR]

That aerial shot looks terrific, John!

Love the driveway and the pig in the wallow.  Do the pigs have a water trough?

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


Thank you, yes there are two troughs, one for water, and one for food.  I have two pumps to add one for the water trough and one for the wallow.  The setup for this area is from the picture in my brain of the pig pen at my Grandparents farm.  The square wallow is courtesy of the smart pig that the Beach's bought from Bob Parish. I will take some better pictures of this area where you can see the wallow better.

[S&S RR]

Fantastic , that driveway came out beautiful, and the pigs in the mud . I hope you don't mind me saying , but I think the truck looks to new , a bit to bright , but maybe that's just the photo.

Jan


Thank you for following along and your kind words. And please let me know when you see something that needs a little more work.  I will take another look at the truck and may add some chalk to dust it up a bit. Farm trucks are never clean.  It may just be the lighting - I need to do some adjustments - I have too much light in some places and not enough in others.

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful scenes.

[Bernd]

WOW John. Just beautiful looking dio. Love your techniques.

That's one reason I joined. I've admired your work as a lurker for a long time.

Bernd

[Opa George]

John, fantastic and wonderful farm scene. The silo on the barn is a thing of beauty.  Nice job.
--Opa George

[S&S RR]

Beautiful scenes.

Curt


Thank you so much for following along - your encouraging words keep me motivated to add just one more detail.

[S&S RR]

WOW John. Just beautiful looking dio. Love your techniques.

That's one reason I joined. I've admired your work as a lurker for a long time.

Bernd

Bernd


We are so glad you decided to join our forum. Thank you for the kind words.  We all learn from each other her on the forum - I'm looking forward to following your build thread.

[S&S RR]

John, fantastic and wonderful farm scene. The silo on the barn is a thing of beauty.  Nice job.
--Opa George

George


Thank you for the encouraging words - and especially for noticing the silo - I have a lot of hours in that thing.  I learned a great way to model copper oxide on that project.  I will take some detail pictures and explain.

[Zephyrus52246]

I smell pigs.   Kinda like Iowa.     Great work on the diorama.


Jeffr