Here are some old ones. I was playing around lighting a scene using the headlight on a locomotive. Also stuck some LEDs inside the station and lighted the outdoor light that illuminates the station sign. Less ambient light for this shot.
I made it out to Milepost 7 for some railfanning yesterday. Boy what excitement as the InterMountain 4-8-8-2 AC-12 came rolling down the hill. Southern Pacific #4292 was working this hill all day long. Here she is powering back up with some freight on the return. I think many will agree, the InterMountain AC-12 is the most beautifully detailed N Scale steamer yet!!
And we're off to another great start. Nice work! I planted a new tree which helped give my SD7 a nice photo-op:
Russel, great night scenes. Mark, that's an impressive loco. Mopman, nice scrap yard. Bruce, very nice tree. Just a yard shot.
Excellent photos guys. She looks like a keeper, Grey One. A couple of my MEC locos and the grounded boxcar/workshop
you guys put me to shame lol some fantastic photography. Here is a photo just taken using HDR on my new camera, still have a lot to learn but enjoying the new Pentax K7
As always this thread rocks with excellent pictures. Great stuff everyone! Hey Steve, what scale is your girlfriend, HO or N? (Yes, you can slap me for that comment )
(caution, over extended use of metaphors) Matt < bemused grin > she is off the scale fantastic and definitely 1:G1, (1 for Grey One). That pic was taken 2 weeks ago on our way to visit my mother for her first time. We have just celebrated our 1st year together. Her core values and smile are something you can gauge her by. So far the biggest issue has been future land grants if after she moves in. Something about rezoning the living room as a "train free area". Hmmm. Still the last year has past like a bullet train at full speed. Our baggage cars are full but at our age if you don't have baggage you haven't lived. It's interesting but this is one of the very few relationships I've had in a long time that has not felt like it needed helpers up a couple of steep grade. The dynamic breaks I applied early on were futile and just over heated. Since then it has been nothin but, clear track, green lights and fair weather.
Thats a good looking station. You mention a loco headlight was used, but was that for interior lighting or to create a soft light effect on the outside. One could use an old decoder inside a structure and utilize the lighting effects to create differing levels of light to. Like a bright light in one room with a dim light in the other, or a flicker. Just a thought on something to do with an otherwise unused decoder.
A recent thread about Z scale fishing boats made me hungry to do something with my planned N scale shrimpboat harbor. I have intended to get one loop of track around the room, with the turnouts in that line, up and running before spending much time on scenery and structures. But I have an excuse- I want to get the background details painted and/or pasted up before I get much built in front of it, so it makes sense (I say to myself) at least to mock up enough of the shrimpboat harbor to see how the background pictures of shrimpboats will fit in. From the “mockup”, I discovered some modifications I will need and have started on some of the easier ones, before I go back to track laying. Here is a prototype diagram of the area I am modeling- And my layout plan for the area-
Thanks. The loco light illuminated the platform area on the outside of the building only. You can see a bit of the edge of the light on the left. The interior lights were a little bright, especially the one in the central room. Could have used the dimming effect of something like a decoder I suppose.
