It is 1" and 2" foam with a hard shell of plaster cloth. The rocks are moulding plaster , one is a mold with the rest hand carved as the plaster is just about to set ( kinda crumbly and soft). Jason Paskvan
Still my favorite spot.... A McMillan calendar shot by Steve Patterson inspired the layout, as well as this view.
There are some really great photos here. I should make my own 2009 calendar from these! Great shots, you guys!
Calender. That might be a great idea for fundraising to support Trainboard! Get the members to release photos for free as long as correct photo credit is listed. Dave.
You have my permission to use any of the photos in my railimages gallery for personal/informational use, or to promote/raise funds for trainboard/railimages sites. b0b
It's nowhere near finished yet, but I suspect this will become a favorite railfan spot on my modules:
Backdrop to layout transition Excellent transition between the modeled hillside and the tree line on the mid-lower portion of the backdrop. Was imitation of the calender shot what decided the spacing intervals of your telegraph/telephone/power poles? What's the actual difference in elevation between the bottom right of the picture, and the base of the trees at upper left? .. distance from layout edge to backdrop? Being familiar with some of your modeling history, it's difficult to look at this scene without anticipating a 'critter' to come scooting along on the adjacent track. I've stared, waited, stared and waited some more but the critter never arrives! I'll have to wait until you release the video of this scene.
Here is my favorite spot on the Central CA RR/Southern Division. Cheers, Jim CCRR Oops. Sorry, I didn't notice this was for N scale. This is Z. Moderators can delete if you want.
Well, as long as I can run my Nn3 trains on it, we will let it slide. Wow, my Nn3 sure would look good running through that scene!!:thumbs_up:
ATSF had parallel signal lines on the north side of the main across Arizona; somewhat gone now but very noticeable in historic shots. I've since replace those poles with Verne Niners really nice wood ones. The spacing was rather arbitrary on what just looked good to me. The front-to-back on that scene is only like nine inches, and there's a 'dip' in the fascia right there that lets it go down about four inches below roadbed level. If you look really close in that picture, you can see a little black spot in the lower RH corner of the fascia edge. The hill line goes up about another four inches. The backdrop goes up to just over eye level for me. The secret to that scene, if there is one, is that the backdrop came first and I matched the final scenery colors to it. The distant peaks are from an Arizona Highways calendar shot; the intermediate backdrop is Instant Horizons printed elements. Sorry no critters in this one. I'm equally scatterbrained between ATSF '72 mainline, Pennsylvania steam logging, industrial critters, some PRR steam, local diesels.....
Russel, Thanks for the compliment. This layout, just finished two weeks ago will appear in Ztrack Magazine this September or so. It will be my third layout to appear in Ztrack in less than three years. I'm taking photos of this layout now for submission. If you want, mail me one or two of your Nn3 locos and I will take pictures with your stuff. Most of my boxcars are Nn3 and I have a gondola and a caboose laying around as well. How's that? Please figure out how to find my photos here on Trainboard, I have a tough time. You may like them to. I'm Socalz44. Also, CCRR/Southern Division may be use as a guideline I think. Cheers, Jim CCRR
Viewers don't get to fly over this part of the layout. Actually, since I've replaced the TT with the larger Walthers version, I'll have to re-take this fly-over.
