Weekly Photo Fun 8-27/9-2
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Trees in photo
Hi Jack from Star, Idaho. Just wondering if you made your trees from dried Rock Crest flower. I grow them and harvest the dry flowers each fall. They make great trees. Spray them white and add some black to the trunks and you have Aspen trees. Make your folage green or yellow...
Jack Strong
Hi Jack from Star, Idaho. Just wondering if you made your trees from dried Rock Crest flower. I grow them and harvest the dry flowers each fall. They make great trees. Spray them white and add some black to the trunks and you have Aspen trees. Make your folage green or yellow...
Jack Strong
Selector
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Jack, I don't really know what they are. They grow here on Vancouver Island in the Pacific NW, and develop into a bush about knee high at most, most of them quite a bit shorter, and there are many small yellow florets that turn brown as the summer ends. I just trimmed them a bit and sprayed the brown florets with green paint. and then sprinkled with fine ground foam. I have been told that combining two or more, interweaving the branches, and wrapping the stems with florist's tape, and then painting the tape to look like bark, is a better product.
-Crandell
-Crandell
Trees
Crandell, Sounds like rockcrest to me. I think they are about the best thing to make trees from. I like the idea about combining two of them together. You can also cover a large area with these and use poly fiber, spray with hair spray and then cover with your favorite foliage. Rock Crest has several different colors of blooms
Jack Strong Star, Idaho
Question, I like the weathering on your tracks, what do you use to get the rusted effect?
Crandell, Sounds like rockcrest to me. I think they are about the best thing to make trees from. I like the idea about combining two of them together. You can also cover a large area with these and use poly fiber, spray with hair spray and then cover with your favorite foliage. Rock Crest has several different colors of blooms
Jack Strong Star, Idaho
Question, I like the weathering on your tracks, what do you use to get the rusted effect?
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Secondhandmodeler
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I'm guessing the plant you are referring to is sedum. If not, then it is a close cousin. Nice picture Crandell, by the way.
I'll spare you the boredom of sharing pictures of my ballasting efforts.
I'll spare you the boredom of sharing pictures of my ballasting efforts.
Selector
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Jack and Corey, thanks for the kind remarks.
Yes, I would think Sedum might just be it.
Jack, I used Floquil's "Rust", an oil-based paint. In case you are interested, it really needs two coats, and the bottle needs a really determined stirring and shaking to get the paint to a uniform density. In fact, this paint could almost do well painted over a brown undercoat. I found it thin and metallic, showing the nickel silver rails readily underneath it, but a second coat being more careful about the mixing really helped.
Out on my mains, and in the yard, I used PolyScale "Railroad Tie Brown". I have heard, and feel with my own experience, that it too often comes out greenish, and not at all brown. Some guys prefer "Roof Brown", and I intend to try that at some point.
-Crandell
Yes, I would think Sedum might just be it.
Jack, I used Floquil's "Rust", an oil-based paint. In case you are interested, it really needs two coats, and the bottle needs a really determined stirring and shaking to get the paint to a uniform density. In fact, this paint could almost do well painted over a brown undercoat. I found it thin and metallic, showing the nickel silver rails readily underneath it, but a second coat being more careful about the mixing really helped.
Out on my mains, and in the yard, I used PolyScale "Railroad Tie Brown". I have heard, and feel with my own experience, that it too often comes out greenish, and not at all brown. Some guys prefer "Roof Brown", and I intend to try that at some point.
-Crandell
Selector
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I did some research and found that the plant is Yellow Yarrow.
http://ca.images.search.yahoo.com/i...8s&sigi=14uje7h9g&sigb=11janut30&fr=yfp-t-715
-Crandell
http://ca.images.search.yahoo.com/i...8s&sigi=14uje7h9g&sigb=11janut30&fr=yfp-t-715
-Crandell
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I never get any fake credit cards that nice. The ones I get just have the company logo, if that.I'm playing around with one of those fake credit cards you get in the mail, the ones that change pictures when viewed from diferent angles.
It doesn't really fit where it is but if I like it I'll make another billboard for it, or wait for another card from a company I like...
enjineerbill
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Just when you think you've seen all the best this forums members have to offer....You raise the bar! Nice work and creativity.
Current project is for a carnival generator from the 50's-60's. Starting point is a small Athearn trailer.
Although it follows most of the look of one of the prototypes, lots of freelancing involved to get the look I wanted. Still a ton of work to do including; struts for the open doors, undercarriage storage, generator and assoc. electrical conduits....etc..,
Johnny
Current project is for a carnival generator from the 50's-60's. Starting point is a small Athearn trailer.
Although it follows most of the look of one of the prototypes, lots of freelancing involved to get the look I wanted. Still a ton of work to do including; struts for the open doors, undercarriage storage, generator and assoc. electrical conduits....etc..,
Johnny
SavageHunter
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Here is a shot of a Reading T1 4-8-4 I just picked up.
hamltnblue
Active Member
I had posted on the wrong thread so here's another copy
Consisted 2 of my Steamers this weekend
Here's my MTH Berk with new MTH Light Mikado
Consisted 2 of my Steamers this weekend
Here's my MTH Berk with new MTH Light Mikado
hamltnblue
Active Member
A couple of the Mikado
hamltnblue
Active Member
And one of Berk Approaching. The top light is a flashing mars light that looks solid because of long exposure.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
lmackattack
old school
I had posted on the wrong thread so here's another copy
Consisted 2 of my Steamers this weekend
Here's my MTH Berk with new MTH Light Mikado
Paint those loco wheels grimy black and it will add a nice touch to an already great pic!...
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Secondhandmodeler
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I took this picture to test the forum function across the street. One of these days I'll take a good picture of this area.
