Flats New Pics 7/28/15

Nice view. looking good.

Looks great Dave keep the pictures coming!!! 

Whose flats?? Are they Walter's??, Korber?? 

Mike CT

Flats such as yours make such a great improvement to a layout's overall look.

IT looks like. from left to right, Pecos River Brass (now Korber). Walthers (now Atlas), and Korber modular.  I'm not really certain of the last as I've only seen them on the Korber website.

 

Jan

Great look Dave.

Excellent good blending of color!!!

David,

You can never post too many pictures of your work and layout. I really enjoy looking at them.

Excellent.

Thanks guys!

 

The cool thing about this location of the layout is that it is only 3' wide at the widest point.  2' at the narrow point.

 

The flats are left to right: Korber, Cornerstone, Norm Charboneau, Cornerstone.

 

The yard is 6 tracks wide.  There is a work track and the mainline.  8 tracks total.

 

Dave

I thought it had a bit of a"Normesque" look.  BTW, the sky also looks fantastic!

 

Doug

Very nice, I also agree with the sky too. Thanks for the idea. Nick

Hi Dave - The flats & sky are a big plus. They look like Korber Models, what did use and brief "How Too"?

Gary

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Very nice work on the flats, Dave!  Keep the photos coming.  I'd love to see an "aerial" view of your yard track arrangement!

Those look great Dave!  I had the same amount of space along one side of the layout and did the same thing.  Those flats go perfect along there.

They and they look really great. They blend in well with the yard in the foreground.

Looks awesome David.

 

Alan Graziano

Looks great Dave!  Terry

Dave,

I agree with everyone's stated "Looks Great!"

Especially like how you extended the side view lines to give the building flats the forced perspective or appearance of a full size building.  Plus the haziness of the sky & clouds looks dead on.

Excellent !

Here is a top view of the yard before the flats were picked.

 

 

 

 

The Engine facility is also very narrow and the layout edge is all curved.

 

 

 

Dave

 

Dave,great looking yard!

Dave,

 

The flats look great!

 

How did you do the building on the right?

 

I see the building on the left is one of the new

flats on the Korber site. I want to order that,

but am trying to figure out how you did the

building on right side. It makes a great factory.

 

Thanks for the inspiration!

 

Tom

Tom,

 

Norm Charboneau scratch built the big flat.

 

Dave

 

Dave,

 

Thanks. Norm did a great job.

 

Tom

Dave

 

Very Nice job on the industrial area, and super job on our background building!

 

I admire your craftsmanship.

 

 

     Any time I get A flat I call AAA! Sorry Dave just kidding it looks very nice! Choo Choo Kenny

I dressed up the Walthers Cornerstone building in the middle and added some transformers.

 

Dave

 

Dave I have the same Korber  flat I am going to build to put in a very similar scene as you have there.   What color paint did you use and how did you weather it.   

 

This will be my second kit I have built so any tips are appreciated. 

 

Michael 

Very nice Dave, I love these types of industrial buildings.

Maybe slide a paper background of other buildings behind the scene also?

Check out all the paper(O FLATS) industrial bldgs. on ebay that look real too.

 

I was able to make a building out of the Cornerstone flat - https://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/3133

 

The brick and stone work have the right look. I can feel the scene. Great job!

Very sharp looking, Dave!

 

Petyer

Dave,

The buildings look great and the other thing I did not notice here is the 3R track. The scene is so detailed, realistic and weathered that you do not see the 3rd rail unless you look for it. You are an artist sir!

Malcolm

Thanks guys!

 

Michael,

 

I don't really have any set colors that I use.  On this I used rustoleum Camo base highlighted with floquil aged concrete which has yellow in it.  A/I wash with some brown and black airbrushing to finish it off.

 

Good luck with yours!

 

Dave

Here is another Korber flat.  I've had it for a couple years but finally got around to it yesterday.

 

If anybody would like to see more photos, please check out the Mercer Junction Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages...=aymt_homepage_panel

 

Dave

 

 

Really nice work.

Dave can you tell us about the sky you used.

David,

 

The sky is just paint from the hardware store enhanced with white, brown and black acrylic.  

 

I took cloud/sky photos with my phone for a couple weeks then hit the train room with some various sized brushes.

 

I tend not to measure or write anything down....sorry.

 

Dave

 

Nice work Dave,

 

I like the weathering you have done.