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George D
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Posted - 01/20/2013 : 6:19:13 PM
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Very nice engine facility, Håkan. I'm looking forward to that water tower.
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deemery
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railman28
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Posted - 01/20/2013 : 10:29:23 PM
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Yes, Håkan there's always room for improvement but in this case not much need. So good looking (yes, oil, grease, cinders and dust are need in small quantities will improve things)
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Posted - 01/21/2013 : 12:13:38 PM
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Many thanks, George, Dave and Bob! Thanks Dave also for the links. I looked at the picture links and there certainly are a lot of cinders in the ballast. This I have to ponder as my coal burners are fairly new or converted so not much could have accumulated. The Cumbres and Toltec yard has a lot of black in it but in the pictures from the other yards the ballast has a more dark grey color to it. As my rails are all ballasted and in place I think I go for using some black wash together with some weathering powder to represent cinders and oil deposits.
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Frederic Testard
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Posted - 01/22/2013 : 03:21:37 AM
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I love this RR facility, Håkan. It's really well done and the scene is charming. I had the same feeling as you about the grease and its lack, and am sure it has to be added, and yet I thought the overall cleanness gave the scene a kind of appeal we seldom find on real yards. The place where you would willingly spend some time. But it indeed needs it for realism...
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Rick
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Posted - 01/22/2013 : 07:43:58 AM
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Håkan, your engine house and yard scene is coming together nicely. I always enjoy seeing your progress pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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masonamerican
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Posted - 01/22/2013 : 5:07:22 PM
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Thank you Rick for the kind words!
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Posted - 02/05/2013 : 06:16:14 AM
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Håkan could you help me out please, thought the link to the custom decal site you're using was somewhere in this thread. Can't find or I overlook it...
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masonamerican
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Posted - 02/05/2013 : 08:07:00 AM
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Hello Martin, the adress is: http://www.decalprint.de
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Posted - 02/05/2013 : 09:06:53 AM
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Thanx Håkan
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LynnB
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Posted - 02/05/2013 : 11:07:49 AM
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Your engine service facility looks great.I find you method of benchwork construction very interesting and may be something I can try on my next layout.
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masonamerican
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Posted - 02/06/2013 : 01:03:27 AM
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Thanks Lynn, its coming together piece by piece. Currently I'm building a water tank for it and after that its a Sequia sanding facility. Then hopefully it has everything needed. The benchwork is the old trusty Linn Westcott T-girder.
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LynnB
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Posted - 02/06/2013 : 01:18:13 AM
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Thanks Håkan, I take it there is an advantage to using this type of construction for the track work but is there any disadvantage when it comes to needed flat to semi flat elevated ground for say setting up a hilly town with multiple elevations or say for a wharf scene?
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masonamerican
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Posted - 02/06/2013 : 5:05:27 PM
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Hi Lynn, Sorry it is L girder not T girder. I think the main advantage is that it is very flexible. It is easy to vary the height of the roadbed and also to add ravine etc. I have on parts of the layout the L girder quite low to be able to have large vertical differences in the scenery. To add a large flat area in plywood is relatively easy as it is only to add a lot of support columns 1x2 or 1x3 from the benchwork below. I think the disadvantage is that it is hard to add the foredrop.
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LynnB
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Posted - 02/06/2013 : 5:15:53 PM
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Thanks Håkan I will have to see if I can purchase Linn Westcotts book to do some more reading, I think this type of layout may suit my needs a bit more although I do have con erns with a couple of my diarammas being around 24" long by 18" wide and how they would fit it or should I say blend in with an elevated track but I guess that would all be in the design. My layout is all flat top with woodland scenic risers and I'm thing the westcott method may be the new ticket.
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