Some updated photos of my steel mill and surrounding Pittsburgh sights.
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Nice layout DRC. I like the how the slag is glowing when it's being dumped from the cars.
Excellent model of your steel mill. The photos tell the story on this thread. Well done.
• Cheers from Michigan
Gary
love the model of "falling water". its great to see how guys put into play all the things that have influenced their memories.
i remember seeing lloyd wrights original architectural model of "falling water" in the museum of modern art in manhatten. i spent a good 25 min staring over that. im waiting to see somebody's take on the bethlehem blast furnaces. ive been there several times and am impressed every time.
Were some, at least, of those taken at the Carnegie Science Center layout? That's the only place that I've seen Falling Water modeled.
If that's your personal layout - WOWEEE!
- walt
Walt,
These photos are from my home layout. All buildings except a couple are scratch built. Scratch building Fallingwater gave me a new appreciation of the genius of Wright.
These photos are from my home layout. All buildings except a couple are scratch built. Scratch building Fallingwater gave me a new appreciation of the genius of Wright.
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Really nice special effects!
Andre.
Awesome work.
Really nice job on the mill and I also like that house on the hill.
Very nice work, there is a bunch of details there to soak in.
Nice steel mill model. You need some more dirt and dust, though. I hated to call on steel mills, at least, the old ones in western Pa. and upper W. Va.
Very nice.
Jim,
I agree with your comment that I need more dirt and dust. I’ll be adding that in the near future.
I agree with your comment that I need more dirt and dust. I’ll be adding that in the near future.
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Outstanding workmanship!
Big Ken, Spence and others who responded – thanks for the positive feedback. It is appreciated when it comes from Forum members.
As an overview, there are two 8 x 8 platforms separated by a 30 inch aisle and someday I may put a bridge or scenery between them. The more recent platform which I am currently working on with the steel mill complex is all O gauge sized buildings because I wanted to try and model the massiveness of a steel mill and its surrounding buildings in relation to the trains and to use the entire 8 x 8 platform to do so. The other platform, which I started about 10 years ago, was built with the intent of trying to convey miles of distance in an 8 x 8 foot platform by forcing perspective. So in photo 8 of 10, although the engine house and coal mine and all the other buildings on the first level are O gauge, as one starts to look at the hills behind the trestle, the scale of the buildings becomes S and then HO and finally some N scale apartment buildings stuck down in a hollow to the right of Fallingwater so that you can only see their tops. Under the bridge in the upper left corner of the platform is the upper floors of the University of Pittsburgh’s 42 story Cathedral of Learning, which would be about 3 miles as the crow flies from the J&L Southside works, so that is probably about Z scale.
Again, thanks for the kind words.
As an overview, there are two 8 x 8 platforms separated by a 30 inch aisle and someday I may put a bridge or scenery between them. The more recent platform which I am currently working on with the steel mill complex is all O gauge sized buildings because I wanted to try and model the massiveness of a steel mill and its surrounding buildings in relation to the trains and to use the entire 8 x 8 platform to do so. The other platform, which I started about 10 years ago, was built with the intent of trying to convey miles of distance in an 8 x 8 foot platform by forcing perspective. So in photo 8 of 10, although the engine house and coal mine and all the other buildings on the first level are O gauge, as one starts to look at the hills behind the trestle, the scale of the buildings becomes S and then HO and finally some N scale apartment buildings stuck down in a hollow to the right of Fallingwater so that you can only see their tops. Under the bridge in the upper left corner of the platform is the upper floors of the University of Pittsburgh’s 42 story Cathedral of Learning, which would be about 3 miles as the crow flies from the J&L Southside works, so that is probably about Z scale.
Again, thanks for the kind words.
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Very impressive work. I love the slag pouring out of the "pots". Nice effect. Please tell me how you did that. 
Fallingwater? That is superb! I recognized it immediately.
Well done!!! 
George
Super job, very impressive!
Art
Very impressive, I sure like this photo.
George,
Thanks for your kind thoughts.
I think the “pouring hot metal” really makes the photo. I had read an article a few years ago where the author put an LED behind a clear plastic bag which he had painted orange and yellow. I tried this but the paint basically blocked any light from coming through. I next tried a yellow plastic bag which was better in that it let the light through, but it still was not what I wanted. A couple days later as I was grocery shopping with my wife, I picked up a pack of 12 plastic Lipton iced tea bottles that were in a plastic shrink wrapped container. The shrink wrap had a painting of iced tea being poured out of a pitcher that contained all the right colors of orange, yellow and white. Even better, the shrink wrap had actual folds in it that add a 3 dimensional look that I was trying to get but was unsure how to do it. I tried a few variations from cutting different parts of the shrink wrap till I came up with the ones I liked best. They can also be seen in the background of pictures 1 and 2, pouring hot metal from the blast furnace casting floor into a hot metal car and slag being poured into another slag car on the other side of the steel mill. I tried to get the room lighting to make it appear as though it is dusk, which I think helps make the glow of the hot metal stand out. Hope this helps.
Thanks for your kind thoughts.
I think the “pouring hot metal” really makes the photo. I had read an article a few years ago where the author put an LED behind a clear plastic bag which he had painted orange and yellow. I tried this but the paint basically blocked any light from coming through. I next tried a yellow plastic bag which was better in that it let the light through, but it still was not what I wanted. A couple days later as I was grocery shopping with my wife, I picked up a pack of 12 plastic Lipton iced tea bottles that were in a plastic shrink wrapped container. The shrink wrap had a painting of iced tea being poured out of a pitcher that contained all the right colors of orange, yellow and white. Even better, the shrink wrap had actual folds in it that add a 3 dimensional look that I was trying to get but was unsure how to do it. I tried a few variations from cutting different parts of the shrink wrap till I came up with the ones I liked best. They can also be seen in the background of pictures 1 and 2, pouring hot metal from the blast furnace casting floor into a hot metal car and slag being poured into another slag car on the other side of the steel mill. I tried to get the room lighting to make it appear as though it is dusk, which I think helps make the glow of the hot metal stand out. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Brian. Appreciate your comments.
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Beautiful work, thank you for posting.
Originally Posted by DRC:
Some updated photos of my steel mill and surrounding Pittsburgh sights.
Nice steel mill. Like the night scenes
