Proud Kraut Posted January 11, 2020 Share #301 Posted January 11, 2020 What a nice surprise with the calendar, well deserved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share #302 Posted January 13, 2020 I'm still pondering where the Army unit sign will go but I think this works. Really, the sign should face completely away from the viewer but from this angle, the viewer can see it and it does make some sense why it would be placed like this: If it stays there, I'm going to make a pile of earth around the feet of the posts, to show where it'd been recently placed there. This is the graphic I used, though printed out you just can't see all the detail I put into it: This is the image I used, and I have decided that I will be making a small run of patches from this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share #303 Posted January 20, 2020 Over the weekend, I was busy with a bunch of detail stuff. I took a couple of coaches I bought it a show for next to nothing, Christmas patterns, and turn them both into Maintenance of Way cars. I didn't really need them, and I probably won't use them in any op sessions, but I just wanted to mess around with them because I had almost no money in them. Take a look at the soda bottles in the pallet, each was an individual piece. That took quite a while to get those together... I also added a LOT of new detail, including some tarps, tarped loads, damaged oil drums, and several other things... I also ran my trench locomotive: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted January 20, 2020 Share #304 Posted January 20, 2020 Excellent job, Lee! I would love to see some more close-ups of the details. Keep up your fantastic work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share #305 Posted January 21, 2020 Excellent job, Lee! I would love to see some more close-ups of the details. Keep up your fantastic work.I'll see what I can do about the detail photos. Meanwhile, I did a couple of new videos last night: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Story Posted February 2, 2022 Share #306 Posted February 2, 2022 I think I saw this at a recent GREENBERG Train Show and was impressed - particularly by the attention to detail on the flat car loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share #307 Posted February 2, 2022 No, it's not a traveling layout. That was someone else, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted March 20, 2023 Share #308 Posted March 20, 2023 I always enjoy this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted November 29, 2023 Author Share #309 Posted November 29, 2023 Not long ago, I uploaded these: https://youtube.com/shorts/dlz8xPvy1xs https://youtube.com/shorts/JcKgQkb6vMs I also completed a water tank made from a Bachmann On30 2-6-0 tender shell and a water plug set with some other detail parts. [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52697544925_c306c923df_z.jpg[/img] [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52697128236_9ac32d3733_z.jpg[/img] The nozzle for the locomotives on the far side, facing away from the people looking at the layout. I also got a couple of magazines covers this year. [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52827964661_a9f50ea9bd_c.jpg[/img] I had no idea this one was coming. This was one of two proposed cover shots I'd sent them last year with an article on my layout. The editor chose what I agreed was the best of the two but said he liked this one as well and would use it later. This issue has no layout article, so it makes sense and I'm glad it wasn't used instead of someone's layout photo from the inside of the issue! It's now framed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted December 1, 2023 Share #310 Posted December 1, 2023 Great video, thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted December 1, 2023 Share #311 Posted December 1, 2023 Congratulations on recognition well deserved. When I was in college one of my summer jobs was weighing outbound coal cars at a Western PA mine. Each hopper had to weigh the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 18 Author Share #312 Posted January 18 I made the BIG leagues, an article in a Model Railroader special edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72psb Posted January 18 Share #313 Posted January 18 You deserve the recognition. (bank tomorrow🙄) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72psb Posted January 18 Share #314 Posted January 18 Lee, Matter taken care of, crappy weather delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 18 Author Share #315 Posted January 18 Roger that, Bob... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted January 19 Share #316 Posted January 19 Amazing work, what did you do for the corn field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 19 Author Share #317 Posted January 19 12 hours ago, manayunkman said: Amazing work, what did you do for the corn field? Thanks. I used over 400 individual stalks from JTT Scenics. I call it the "hundred dollar corn field" for very good reasons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted January 19 Share #318 Posted January 19 48 minutes ago, willysmb44 said: Thanks. I used over 400 individual stalks from JTT Scenics. I call it the "hundred dollar corn field" for very good reasons! The corn field is beautiful. I once built a diorama 1/35 of camouflaged strafed and abandoned vehicles next to a destroyed green house in a patch of cabbages, reminiscent of the Corridor of Death. I scratch built all kinds of branches plants and flowers. The tree branches were 100 strands of very thin wire twisted together, covered with putty with miniature dried out leaves from outside glued all over. Wish I had pictures of it. My cat ended up sleeping on it when my mom took over my bedroom and stuck the diorama in the basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted January 20 Author Share #319 Posted January 20 I just found put they used photos from the planning annual for the trackside photos in the next Model Railroader, and my curve shot spans two pages again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-59A Posted January 24 Share #320 Posted January 24 Holly Mackerel!!!! Stunning! When I was a boy in the late 60's I had a tutor who was a retired teacher. Her late husband did his garage up much like this. She offered to give me the whole lay out to me and my parents politely thanked her for the offer, but said no thank you, I was allowed to keep one car from the diorama. I know we didn't have the room for it, but still!!! It's one of those things I never forgot or forgave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinutemanEMTer Posted January 24 Share #321 Posted January 24 That's really nice work. I don't read MM as I model European HO/HOm, but that is the big leagues in the States. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtyScout Posted January 26 Share #322 Posted January 26 Congratulations! You deserve this recognition. I remember following this post and love the videos. I understand how you feel since some of my work has made the 'Reader's Gallery' of FineScale Modeler magazine and their website. Again, great work and Congratulations. Semper Fi. Manny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gparlin Posted February 2 Share #323 Posted February 2 Congratulations, you are now published. I too have followed your thread, It's great to see your compassion for the hobby. Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysmb44 Posted February 17 Author Share #324 Posted February 17 I recently combined a few short layout videos into a shorty one for YouTube, just for the heck of it: https://youtube.com/shorts/nvxUwCglKvU?si=WUo2L_DBuanwKKkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHL Posted March 3 Share #325 Posted March 3 Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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