River_eagle, that is one spectacular station! Very nicely done. Is it MOPAC-style? Flash, I love the MOPAC units you showed, too. The 'Deuce with battery box corrosion looks just right.
Jeffrey, how do you keep white mortar color separate from the red brick color? The effect is excellent.
Annual FREMO meeting in Braunlage I participated in the annual FREMO meeting, this year in Braunlage, Harz Mountains. We had a school together with gym! There were clinics in the class rooms and different layouts in the gym and assembly hall. And layouts from H0-USA, americaN , H0-Europa together with narrow gauges, H0-Europa modern, 0-scale with narrow gauge. This is Joevalley from my friend Peter: More pictures: Braunlage 2009 Our group had 7 op sessions, from Monday to Monday. Sunday was omitted. :angel: Wolfgang
Just beautiful, Wolfgang. I am going to check the link for the other pictures. These Fremo meeting must be great fun!
Yes, it's a lot of fun. And now my friend Lars is uploading videos to YouTube - hon3fan's Channel . You will see a lot with my 25-ton. :angel: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCABfcuflLs&feature=channel"]YouTube - Braunlage2[/ame] Wolfgang
The prototype is in Wausau, Wisconsin, but is very similar to several stations found all over the midwest, and almost identical to the Wahington, MO Mopac station.
Greeting Y'all! Been away from my home for an extended period and boy was there a layer of dust on the layout! Spiders were freely roaming from tree to tree. After a good vacuuming trains are running and the rail fans are back out.
Better late than never I suppose... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnh9LXBVGlM"]YouTube - The N scale central Virginia door layout Part 1[/ame]
The red brick color was already there as the wall was molded in that color. I simply smeared gray paint into the mortar lines then wiped it off. I've tried this on other models that had walls that were originally another color (brown, green, etc) and painted red afterwards. In this case the red color had been applied years ago so the gray didn't hurt it and the red was still there when I wiped the gray paint off so now I have red brick walls with great looking mortar lines.
Another way to do this is to used "watered down" gray paint and let it trickle into the mortar lines. Less wiping is involved, thus less chance of paint being left behind on the brick.
Jeffrey & John, thanks. I was envisioning a tiny N-Scale roller to apply the red onto the brick surfaces.....:tb-rolleyes:
Ahh, but having some of the paint left behind makes it look like the wall was hurriedly added or repaired with some of the mortar not quite washed off and left smeared on the brick face, thus giving the building a character it didn't have before.
I'll be darned....I looked at your photo again, and realized that this technique is what makes the building so interesting and effective.
