N Scale OK, I scanned in some images off of my film scanner to add to the topic. The first one I did above was off of my flat bed and it looks kind of fuzzy to me. Here is "Down Town" Sugar Land with the General Merchantile and the Drug Store. This is the cotton gin. If you look real close on the power pole behind the gin building you can find two line men working. [ 15. September 2004, 21:25: Message edited by: r_i_straw ]
Well modelers, I have made major head way in adding a new section to my DHVM Web Site that is dedicated to Scale Models of the D&H. This section is dedicated to all scales and so far contains 165 models. Some are still in kit form that I hope to some day get back to while others are ready for a layout yet to be built. Delaware and Hudson in Miniature
Russell, your depiction of Sugarland is fabulous, especially for N guage. You capture the look and feel of the place perfectly as far as I can recall and I have not seen it since 1962. Makes me homesick! Bryant
Russell, Is this modul still working? Do you have an overall shot of your layout? Scott, Love the tunnel motor is this the one you heavily modified and repainted?
Great photos by all that could post - - Thanks for sharing. BTW-Bryant where does that backdrop start? Nice.
They were still working when I set them up at the N Scale convention in Chantilly, Virginia last month. I only took the 20 feet depicting Sugar Land with me to that show. There are a lot of shots on my Rail Images pages.Russ's Rail Images However I don't think there is a good overall shot. The best one for that would have to be in the article that Keith Thompson wrote about our club layout for the May/June 2003 issue of N Scale Railroading. He pieced together three or four photos of my modules to run as a banner across the top of the article.
Bryant, Thanks for your kind words. I have no memories of the place from before I moved to Texas in 1967. It is always nice to spark memories in those who do. The great thing about portable modules, is we can set them up in public places and have folks who have no connection with model railroading see them. It is always fun to have someone walk up to the display, who grew up in the area, that recognizes it and starts reminiscing. It's a great research tool. I am always making changes based on new information I get in this way.
Thanks for that Martyn; I didn't know about that show. Nothing else planned then, so I'll try and get there. I saw Rock Springs at Ulverston the other month (there are a couple of pixs on my website) but was told you skipped that one.
We already had a bunch of guys going up there, and it's a long ol' way to Ulverston! I decided to skip it. Nice pics though.
My weekend begins on Tuesday this week, so... This is the original easy kitbash: An Atlas/Kato U25B mechanism with a Bachmann U36B shell to make a B30-7. This one is Espee Kodachrome and is about 10 years old. These engines were/are very smooth and run well with the new Atlas slow motors. You can see the coupler screw just above the fuel tank used to hold the shell on the mechanism; that was the only conversion part required. I need to weather that again! Scratchbuilt air conditioner, brass handrails, hoses, plow, etc. Now, back to seeing all the good work posted this weekend. I want to see all that good narrow guage scenery!
I’m probably a bit late for this, but I was very impressed with the shots with digitally added backgrounds (Bryant & Russ – assuming Russ’s are digitally done as I can’t tell) I thought I throw in some from my collection. Not exactly Texas though… I sort of like doing this (in case you couldn't tell).
Bruce-in-MA: Your pics are beautiful and you have done a masterful job on the foregrounds! I put this approach in the category of a new art form. And it certainly brightens up what could otherwise be an unrealistic scene. You are right; It is great fun! Bravo for sharing your pics. Bryant
I know this is a little (yeah, right! ) late, but since this is a multiscale thread, it may be helpful if we all denote which scale we're representing. Does that sound OK?
Sounds Ok. But is it fun trying to figure out what scale your looking at. I usually use the tracks but sometimes that doesn't work. Some pics are so well modeled you just can't tell.
I think the the Sugarland modules have real backboards. I have seen some of Russell's pics with the computer sky, but I think these are real. Like you say, I can't tell what is real and what isn't!! Much less what scale.
I went back and edited my photos with captions for N Scale. As for my backdrops, the ones this week were all Mother Nature's real deal. I am quite challenged by artificial lighting so I drag my modules outside and set them up to let the sun do the direct lighting and the blue sky to illuminate the shadows. I have dabbled with some computer backdrops but usually start out with an artificial one and just extend it up and out to fill in the frame. Here is a shot that Bob Schleicher of Rail Model Journal took at the National Train Show in St. Louis a few years ago. I brought the JPG up in Microsoft Paint (poor mans photo shop) and did a lot of cutting and pasting to continue the backdrop in the upper left hand corner. The next module down in the NTRAK layout had a totally different style of backdrop plus it was much lower than mine showing a lot of the train show beyond. I just digitally pasted mine over his to give it continuity. The back drops I use at shows are just nebulous fuzzy colors to suggest a horizon, trees, sky and clouds.
