Show Me: Your Favorite Scene From Your Layout

Primavw Jan 1, 2013

  1. fifer

    fifer TrainBoard Supporter Advertiser

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    Ouch , that hurt my neck but it was worth it!

    Mike
     
  2. hoyden

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    Got a little enthusiastic with the green stuff.
     
  3. fifer

    fifer TrainBoard Supporter Advertiser

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    I like it , quite eastern.

    Mike
     
  4. JimJ

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    Aaah! The train escapes the blazing sun and slips into the relief of the cool forest. I like it!
     
  5. Flash Blackman

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    Me, too. Very Eastern.
     
  6. river_eagle

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    right now, I really like this shot, even though I still need to pull the pins out now that the track is ballasted.
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  7. TrCO

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    Favorite Scene from my old layout:

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    Favorite scene from my new layout:

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  8. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Chris,
    I love the colors in your autumn scene. How are your trees made?
     
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  10. SecretWeapon

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    :cool:Impressive scenes everyone!
     
  11. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Down at the old cotton gin.
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  12. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Material in trailers appears to be loose. By this date in history, were bales a thing of the past?
     
  13. Sirfoldalot

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    From my past as I remember, the trailers are bringing the picked cotton from the fields.
    After it is processed to remove the husk and seed, then it will be pressed into a bale.
     
  14. Sirfoldalot

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    That's a very nice scene with lots of activity going on.
    Just needs a few ginned bales on the loading dock with some workmen and a handcart loading same into a boxcar.
     
  15. TrCO

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    Those are some wonderful buildings, I presume scratchbuilt?
     
  16. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Yes, the buildings are all scratch built. After WWII, mechanically picked cotton became quite common replacing the hand picked product. Machines were not so discriminating as human hands so a lot of debris ended up in the wagons along with the cotton fibers attached to the cotton seeds. The dried husks that enclosed the cotton boll, sticks, leaves and rocks were common. After the loose cotton was sucked out of the wagon by a large rectangular nozzle, the cotton had to be cleaned of all the debris before it went to the gin to remove the seeds and then pressed into bales. The debris was blown into the cyclone bins that are shown in the model to be hauled away in a truck. Now days the cotton is pressed into huge 10 ton "modules" right in the field. The modules are trucked to the gin where they are dumped onto a rack, broken up and ginned.
     
  17. Hornwrecker

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    I guess it'd be this one, especially since this is one of the only areas that is almost finished.
     
  18. Flash Blackman

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    Wow! Almost like the real thing. Excellent rocks.
     
  19. fritch

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    I agree Hornwrecker, the trees, the rock strata, and the field (I believe static grass)....you really nailed that scene. It looks great.
     
  20. fifer

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    Plus 1

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