Re: Union Pacific in Oldham
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iploffy
OC Blue Brigade
Union Pacific in Oldham
Ian
Watch it it's a progressive illness sneakes up on you then wham!!!CME & Bottlewasher said:Nice work :wave:
Great Storm Drains BTW ...... reminds me of Starsky and Hutch, Terminator et al. COOL
I could get into the american scene, whoops, wash my mouth out - I'll get me coat!
CME :scratch:
Ian
Union Pacific in Oldham
I have to say I don't really like the "as it comes" colour of peco track, made worse by using recycled point work that has a different colour. So having soldered all the wire links in place I let loose with the Railmatch "Frame dirt"
Track wired and painted called for a bit of running, with a couple of shots...
Caught this train leaving town
It had to slow to cross the street at the end of town
With a crewman stopping traffic, it proceeded slowly across the road
Then off
I know, lots of scenery to add to finish the illusion but I can see it in my mind
John
I have to say I don't really like the "as it comes" colour of peco track, made worse by using recycled point work that has a different colour. So having soldered all the wire links in place I let loose with the Railmatch "Frame dirt"
Track wired and painted called for a bit of running, with a couple of shots...
Caught this train leaving town
It had to slow to cross the street at the end of town
With a crewman stopping traffic, it proceeded slowly across the road
Then off
I know, lots of scenery to add to finish the illusion but I can see it in my mind
John
lancer1027
Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
Nice work John 
but those workmen travel a bit scotland and now somewhere in the states 
Rob :wave:
Nice work John
but those workmen travel a bit scotland and now somewhere in the states Rob :wave:
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
http://www.modelzone.co.uk/media/catalo ... 1.main.jpg
1:18 Scale Ertl Diecast. About as close as I've got to owning a Starsky & Hutch-mobile.... :scratch:
Cue gratuitous Ford Gran Torino picture link...CME & Bottlewasher said:Great Storm Drains BTW ...... reminds me of Starsky and Hutch, Terminator et al. COOL
http://www.modelzone.co.uk/media/catalo ... 1.main.jpg
1:18 Scale Ertl Diecast. About as close as I've got to owning a Starsky & Hutch-mobile.... :scratch:
S
Simon Dunkley
Guest
Union Pacific in Oldham
Very large ants.
Them's what you need...
No, no, no, nonononono no.rjr said:
Very large ants.
Them's what you need...
Union Pacific in Oldham
My layout seems to be a game of two halves, to borrow a metaphor from other peoples hobby. Work has mainly concentrated on the industrial town side or the right hand side of the shed. Last night I set to with some more vinyl tiles and some ballast.
How the evening started
Having read Octobers Railroad Modeller there is and interesting article at the back about freight yards that have roadways between every other track, so I thought that would make a nice contrast to the team track on the "other side" of the shed.
This next shot shows how the underside of the tile is pared away to clear the rail chairs
Ballast added but not glued
PVA / Water added along with some weeds..
I'm not sure about the building, its recycled from a previous On30 layout on which it looked small, it may look to big / tall here?
John
My layout seems to be a game of two halves, to borrow a metaphor from other peoples hobby. Work has mainly concentrated on the industrial town side or the right hand side of the shed. Last night I set to with some more vinyl tiles and some ballast.
How the evening started
Having read Octobers Railroad Modeller there is and interesting article at the back about freight yards that have roadways between every other track, so I thought that would make a nice contrast to the team track on the "other side" of the shed.
This next shot shows how the underside of the tile is pared away to clear the rail chairs
Ballast added but not glued
PVA / Water added along with some weeds..
I'm not sure about the building, its recycled from a previous On30 layout on which it looked small, it may look to big / tall here?
John
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
It's not too tall. It just needs the billboard changing/removing, and more importantly, making the cladding sheets look smaller (i.e. more joints), as they are each sheet looks taller than a boxcar; that is what's throwing out the proportions.rjr said:
Union Pacific in Oldham
Every now and again something unexpected goes wrong !!! In this case the PVA / Water for the ballast had found a joint in the MDF. Which caused the edges on both sides of the joint to swell.
The joint runs back to just behind the points which resulted in them lifting, all the track work was on the same level, not any more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily every thing had risen evenly which means stock can no longer unexpectedly roll out of the spurs
everything runs well over it and its quite a gradual change.
So it staying as it is.
In general though the ballasting has gone well.
John
Every now and again something unexpected goes wrong !!! In this case the PVA / Water for the ballast had found a joint in the MDF. Which caused the edges on both sides of the joint to swell.
The joint runs back to just behind the points which resulted in them lifting, all the track work was on the same level, not any more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily every thing had risen evenly which means stock can no longer unexpectedly roll out of the spurs
everything runs well over it and its quite a gradual change. So it staying as it is.
In general though the ballasting has gone well.
John
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
Do I spy cunning use of a mirror in those pics ?!
Sounds just like real secondary American track to me !! Let us know when you can get your track looking like it does as discussed in this thread...rjr said:... all the track work was on the same level, not any more !!!
... stock can no longer unexpectedly roll out of the spurs
So it staying as it is.
Do I spy cunning use of a mirror in those pics ?!
Union Pacific in Oldham
Yes the mirror was a test for this...................
This afternoon I set to work on the building at the end of the downtown side of the layout. The plan was to make the straight track look like it carries on through the buildings, using a mirror. I will let you decide if it works ! I got a bit carried away a built more and more.
The mirror needed packing to get it square on to the rails.
Then I built the low relief building across the two forward tracks, with a corridor connection to hide the mirror top.
With the lines looking straight in the mirror, I can now pose a shot with one loco looking like a 2 loco pair.
Next job, reclad the end of the recycled building and start a truck loading bay
Then build the units to sit on the loading bay, I was on a roll by this point
Stuck in place
To give an overall view ...
Finally a staged shot ( I confess to use soem photo stacking software to get the depth of field in this last one)
John
Yes the mirror was a test for this...................
This afternoon I set to work on the building at the end of the downtown side of the layout. The plan was to make the straight track look like it carries on through the buildings, using a mirror. I will let you decide if it works ! I got a bit carried away a built more and more.
The mirror needed packing to get it square on to the rails.
Then I built the low relief building across the two forward tracks, with a corridor connection to hide the mirror top.
With the lines looking straight in the mirror, I can now pose a shot with one loco looking like a 2 loco pair.
Next job, reclad the end of the recycled building and start a truck loading bay
Then build the units to sit on the loading bay, I was on a roll by this point
Stuck in place
To give an overall view ...
Finally a staged shot ( I confess to use soem photo stacking software to get the depth of field in this last one)
John
westernfan
Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
hi John
your rail road is looking good and yes a nice touch with the mirror effect i used one on Dan Y Graig under the bridge it looked so realistic that friends thought that i had cut a hole into the next room also i had to remind them when running a train up the branch . i ve got an image but i blew it as one can see the camera in the reflection and the track looks like its DARK SIDE
hi John
your rail road is looking good and yes a nice touch with the mirror effect i used one on Dan Y Graig under the bridge it looked so realistic that friends thought that i had cut a hole into the next room also i had to remind them when running a train up the branch . i ve got an image but i blew it as one can see the camera in the reflection and the track looks like its DARK SIDE
westernfan
Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
uhh more images as i posted . yes i agree you are on a roll ,isnt placky card a great medium to work with, top work
uhh more images as i posted . yes i agree you are on a roll ,isnt placky card a great medium to work with, top work
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
You're nearly up to your usual modelling speed again, John!!
Just one teeny-weeny point, seen with my truck driver's head on...
Access to your loading bays was better here in this pic;
than it is in this pic, where you've given depth to the building, losing road space...
As things are now, put a truck on the left-hand bay, and trucks won't be able to get on or off the middle and right-hand bays... :scratch:
The fact that truckers will have to reverse onto them blind-side (being left-hand drive) will just be a test of their skill...
You're nearly up to your usual modelling speed again, John!!
Just one teeny-weeny point, seen with my truck driver's head on...
Access to your loading bays was better here in this pic;
than it is in this pic, where you've given depth to the building, losing road space...
As things are now, put a truck on the left-hand bay, and trucks won't be able to get on or off the middle and right-hand bays... :scratch:
The fact that truckers will have to reverse onto them blind-side (being left-hand drive) will just be a test of their skill...
Union Pacific in Oldham
you are of course right Jordan, as always life is a series of compromises though, I think there are more non truck drivers then otherwise so hopefully my thought that the building looks better with some depth at the expense of turning space will balance out the view?! The driver can always get stuck taking his front wheel onto the gravel ;D
John
you are of course right Jordan, as always life is a series of compromises though, I think there are more non truck drivers then otherwise so hopefully my thought that the building looks better with some depth at the expense of turning space will balance out the view?! The driver can always get stuck taking his front wheel onto the gravel ;D
John
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
Union Pacific in Oldham
Overall the impression of the whole yard is excellent, and once gain I am left feeling guilty at the slow progress I am making with my own projects..!!
:wave:
Oh of course... I confess it took me several squints at the pics to work out where the turning room had gone between the two - then it dawned on me that the building was deeper!! I do tend to look at how & where road vehicles are placed, and the places they're meant to get into, whereas most other modellers wouldn't notice!!rjr said:
Overall the impression of the whole yard is excellent, and once gain I am left feeling guilty at the slow progress I am making with my own projects..!!
:wave:
ditch lights
You may or may not have noticed that last nights weathering did not include any locos, thats because the plans include fitting ditch lights and i decided any mods would be easier to disguise with the weathering.
I ordered some Surface mount LEDs from Express models at the weekend and they arrived today. At first when i opened the packet, saw the resistors and then wondered were the LEDs were, all they had sent was a black plastic strip???
Then I realised that was the packing and it had six LEDs in it !!!!!!!! you may have missed the loose one in the last picture so I have circled it in red in the next picture
Solder that, "your having a giraffe!" But as you can see from the loco behind the story does have a "happy ending"
but I set to work, a tiny piece of PCB was found a cut made across the middle and the LED soldered on to to tinned blobs either side of the cut, at least I had somewhere to solder the wires now.
Resistor legs were used as LED connections and taken through the body to easier to handle wires behind.
Both were then connected to the common and the green decoder wires so they come on as function 1 (headlight is function 0)
As you can imagine its hard to decide which side of the LED is positive so it was a bit of trial and error.
Body back together and onto the track with some grey touch up paint
Some weathering and Hoses should hide the colour mismatch in the greys. Possibly some filler to square up the lamp housings.
The big moment, switch on, you would expect them to be a bit tame given the size...............
There must be a CV even on a Hornby decoder to get function output 1 to flash, but that's a job for another day
John
You may or may not have noticed that last nights weathering did not include any locos, thats because the plans include fitting ditch lights and i decided any mods would be easier to disguise with the weathering.
I ordered some Surface mount LEDs from Express models at the weekend and they arrived today. At first when i opened the packet, saw the resistors and then wondered were the LEDs were, all they had sent was a black plastic strip???
Then I realised that was the packing and it had six LEDs in it !!!!!!!! you may have missed the loose one in the last picture so I have circled it in red in the next picture
Solder that, "your having a giraffe!" But as you can see from the loco behind the story does have a "happy ending"
but I set to work, a tiny piece of PCB was found a cut made across the middle and the LED soldered on to to tinned blobs either side of the cut, at least I had somewhere to solder the wires now.
Resistor legs were used as LED connections and taken through the body to easier to handle wires behind.
Both were then connected to the common and the green decoder wires so they come on as function 1 (headlight is function 0)
As you can imagine its hard to decide which side of the LED is positive so it was a bit of trial and error.
Body back together and onto the track with some grey touch up paint
Some weathering and Hoses should hide the colour mismatch in the greys. Possibly some filler to square up the lamp housings.
The big moment, switch on, you would expect them to be a bit tame given the size...............
There must be a CV even on a Hornby decoder to get function output 1 to flash, but that's a job for another day
John