St. John's Methodist Church in Richmond, Texas. Gasoline Alley. Texaco, Phillips 66, Gulf and Sinclair. Not shown to the lower right are the Humble and Mobile stations.
Great scenery. I like those angled streets. Here's my part, my finished LaBelle caboose. The stock car started also as LaBelle kit. Wolfgang
Caboose WOW Wolfgang, if you added a canyon or small hillside behind the photo, I WOULD question if it was a model or prototype. Very good job.
It may be 107 degrees outside, but it is nice in the shade at the Bloated Goat #2 in Mogollon. The beer is cold and poker is the game of choice.
I love this picture! I showed this to my friends in the graphic department and they thought it was outstanding. They took the liberty of enhancing it just a bit. Hope you don't mine.
Thanks Candy. I would have messed with the photo myself but my Photosuite program was lost when we redid my computer. As for the sun & shadows, blame Mother Nature...the Mogollon Railway is outside. Woodie
Here's my latest scratchbuilding attempt; a Linde liquid argon tank car (HO). The basic tank is from an Athearn 62-ft tank car that I've had for about 30 years; other than the trucks and couplers, the rest is scratched. Made the decals too since there aren't any commercially available sets.
Nice scene of the beer stop and Gas alley. I hope the tanker drivers are not in there playing poker and drinking. Bob thats a fine job on the tanker. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I can post a little bridge project so I can get the scenery done on my freemoN module.
Thanks. It still has some charm I guess, sixty years later. Many of the old buildings are still there. Here is what the old Gulf station looks like now. It is a coffee shop with a caboose added for a reading room. The Phillips station is a bail bondsman. The old Sinclair station is now a tire store.
A thicket made from twigs and roots [weeding finally has some purpose! :tb-biggrin:] on my winter layout. Love that tank car, BNbob! Mike
If you were a guy (I think it's guys-only) and you got in enough trouble in Texas, and then afterwards straightened out, you might eventually be living in the Jester Pre-Release Correctional Center just east of this town.
Mike - your artistry (modeling and photographic) never ceases to amaze! I may have missed in the past, but what lighting do use, lens, exposure, f-stop, etc?
Rick that's very kind of you. Thankyou. My camera is an old 4 megapixel Olympus C750-UZ set to its highest resolution, manual aperture setting to f 8, auto focus, auto white balance. Camera was sitting on a thin pad of white foam. The camera has on-board sharpening too, which I set at +5, and on-board saturation control which I set at -1. You can still buy them secondhand on ebay, which is where we bought our spare - in case this one ever breaks down. I might even get another! The scene was lit with a single triphosphor fluoro overhead, and from the side with a single 500W halogen floodlight - very hot and can also damage your eyes. Mike
