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Longmont Sugar Mill...... base scenery almost done!
It has been awhile since i have posted anything but I thought I would share how the layout is going. The Longmont Great Western sugar mill is just about done with base scenery. I took the prototype and design and condensed model and my friend Sean build the model it has a hard under structure but the outside is all paper! this has cause me to learn some new methods for doing scenery as the paper can not get soaked in water while everything is drying (making the process much slower). Still some detail that need to be 3D printed some in the photo need to be painted yet to come. Here are some photos of the work.
Happy Modeling
Mike
Weekly Photo Fun Nov 10th - 17th
It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em.
Shay # 8 Pulling logs to the mill...
Weekly Photo Fun - Nov 3-9, 2019
It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em. There was a late-comer in last week's post. Check it out, then come back here afterward.
Backdrop Image, string of coal cars
I'm looking for a good existing image, or a 'how to create' a good image of a string of coal cars fading off into the background. I'm locating my coal mine loading tipple very close to the backdrop, and I would wish for that backdrop to convey an image of 3 tracks of coal cars waiting to be loaded under the tipple, then exiting out into the layout space. I would like it to be a string of cars rather than dead end tracks.
I'm sure that there have been a number of other modelers that have sought the same, but I have yet to find such an image??
IAIS's West End - Locomotive wear & tear...and repairs
One thing that's apparent when you model a single railroad for nearly two decades is that the state of the equipment is always in flux. Damage and wear are inflicted, repairs are made...more wear, more repairs. In fact, that's one of the things I enjoy most about prototype modeling within a very tightly-defined era because, through the details you choose to model or ignore, you tell the story of where a particular locomotive or car was in its journey with the railroad.
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