Sunday Scenic Showcase Oct 22, 2017

Craftsmanship at it's highest level. Thanks for posting.

Joe,

Thank you. Your tank mode looks very nice.  I just got back. I will be working on a couple of things this afternoon including the WitchDoctors' vacuum cleaner attachments. I just completed twenty pen tank and I am hoping to do some major work on this Korber structure along with the vacuum parts.

I  will be starting a steel mill soon for LUVINDEMTRAINS, so I am glad to see he popped in on the showcase.

Alan Graziano

Here is a shot from my culvert area on the Rio Grande switching layout. There are tracks above this area that connect two commercial zones. The culvert was actually an afterthought after cutting out the foam for another scene. So I had to build the mountain backup using foam and plaster. The culvert itself is a woodlandscenics HO scale culvert, weathered using black and burnt umber washes. I then printed out the inside of a real culvert and placed that into the culvert to create a 3d effect of depth into the culvert.  Enjoyed modeling this part of the layout not only due to the varied scenery material, but going from one idea to another midstream and be able to pull it off a nice scene...makes it worthwhile!

ChessieMD:

I did the same thing - using an HO scale culvert. I have elevations at one inch so the HO scale culverts work great.

Joe

Alan:

If you are in need , an old wood workers trick because we need to deal with machine dust collection ports that have no standard sizes. You can heat the ends of the vacuum attachments )or even use PVC pipe) and once soft either push them into or over the mating attachment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjLQo3GuvDo

Joe

Joe,

thanks for the tip. I will use it on the next one. I used a 1-1/2" diameter tube that worked perfectly on one end. On the other end, I ground the ID of one pipe and the OD of the other. Also, the Witchdoctor was very happy with the result.

alan graziano

Here is a partially completed shallow relief building.

I was hoping to get this building completed tonight but I do not want to rush the plastic silos. Here are a few pictures of the progress.

Mark,

I hope you like the name I came up with.

Alan Graziano