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Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:28 am
by Lee Bishop
I moved the civil war memorial into some trees, and I think it looks way better there.
Adjacent to that, I just completed a cow field, complete with hay pen, water bucket and cow pies. All I need to do now is to finish painting the two cow figures I have for it:
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:09 pm
by Carolinamv
Amazing!
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:56 am
by Lee Bishop
It’s not exactly an update on the layout itself, but I consider the room as part of it, as the layout dominates the room instead of being a little part of it. For over a year after the layout took shape, the back wall in the room was totally bare. Before the layout was there, this room was mostly for housing/displaying my WW2 collection and looked like a small museum, so for me it was odd to have a bare wall for so long. With that in mind, I got some RR-related stuff (added to 1940s-related stuff as the layout takes place then) over the past few months and decorated the place to look more display-friendly.
The 'war job' poster is a reproduction, added to the wall yesterday. The number plate on the right of that was nabbed very inexpensively off eBay. It’s made from a plastic-covered foam substance. It's as light as a piece of like-sized cardboard and was easy to hang up and looks great on the wall (I assume it will fool a few people who see it without knowing the story ahead of time) and is a great replica of the ET&WNC's # 9 number plate. The reproduction 1939 poster to the right of that came from the Avery County Museum in NC. It dropped right into an inexpensive frame I bought on the following morning and it was up on the wall in a few minutes. Dir3ctly below that is an original 1880s ET&WNC stock certificate. The certificate to the right of that is an original stock certificate from the Linville River, an ET&WNC subsidiary. The painting above that is a Howard Fogg print. The 1943 builder's plate to the right of that is an inexpensive aluminum reproduction which I painted and weathered. And to the far right is a frame with various pins from railroads, museums and various places I've been (including unit insignia from my Army days on the bottom row).
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:22 pm
by Lee Bishop
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 7:22 am
by Lee Bishop
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:53 pm
by Lee Bishop
My layout has been in two magazines since I last posted:
Online
Trackside Model Railroading:
https://www.tracksidemodelrailroading.c ... /jan-2018/
They also did a DVD which looks
great:
In this month's
Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette (though I don't have my own copy yet, weeks after subscribers got
theirs and someone was nice enough to take these shots for me):
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:35 pm
by Joe Gopan
Beautiful. We should all be so talented.
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:06 am
by Lee Bishop
It's hard to believe...
Two magazines on hobby shop shelves at the same time with articles I have written; the March/April 2018 Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette and the 2018 On30 Annual (which just came out a few days ago)!
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:29 pm
by yd328
Incredible work! Do you post on the model train forum? I'm sure there would be quite a few interested in your work.
Gary
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:53 am
by Mark Jesic
Really ejoyed looking at this post. My compliments go to you and your Dad for the skills and patience you have shown here.
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:19 am
by Lee Bishop
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:12 pm
by Lee Bishop
What is essentially a staging area with scenery passes on front of a window. When the sub is just right, and I can get some decent shots if I open the blinds. Everything looked just right last night for my cell:
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 3:26 pm
by waayfast
Sheesh!!! What an incredible job!! Just amazing the degree of talent here. I have done a bit of model building and like to think I do OK but this is light years beyond just plain cool.
My hat is off to you sir.
Jim
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 3:46 am
by yd328
Lee,
I posted a link to your layout here
http://www.modeltrainforum.com/showthread.php?t=168161
great work.
Gary
Re: 1943 model train layout
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:03 pm
by Lee Bishop
Last night, I was standing on a stool on one side of the layout room to see something and then I realized I could see the entire layout. I managed to get this with my cell, the only photo ever showing pretty much the entire layout. Only the far wall to the left is missing, and that's just a backdrop and some trees. But for the most part, it's all here:
FYI, there's a photo from the layout in the current issue of O Gauge Railroading magazine...