Jefferson progress report

[Jim Courtney]

Looking good, Jeff!

[Keith Hayes]

Sweet!

[Bill Uffelman]

A lovely scene!

Bill Uffelman 

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Jeff Young [via C&Sng Discussion Forum]

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I didn't have enough room to model both the Platte and Jefferson Creek, so one end of my Jefferson scene is bounded by the river instead of the creek.  The town of Jefferson also had to be mirror-imaged, and the siding extended over the "creek" along with the mainline.  I used that opportunity to imagine an upgraded mainline trestle with frame bents on stone foundations, while the siding soldiers on with its original pile bents.

Building the trestle stringers (the square bits are red construction paper stained with oak and ebony wood stains):



My modified Black Bear trestle jig, and a custom 2º wedge for my true sander:



The piles are carved from square stock, and then epoxy-bedded into oversized holes in the river bed:



This allowed me to remove the trestle deck to finish landscaping the river bed:



Cheers,
Jeff.

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[Todd A Ferguson]

Jeff,

Super looking scenery and structures too!!!
I think the one thing that makes your scenery look so good is the use of mostly earth tones.
That is a key to realistic looking scenes.  Keep the colors muted.
So much of the scenic materials are way too bright in color, and saturation of color.
A friend of mine who saw Allen McClelland's Virginia and Ohio layout in the late 1970s said that too things contributed to it looking
good in photos.  First the neon lighting he used was pretty dim and second there was a tank layer of dust on most of the scenery.
Keep up the great work...

Todd

[Jeff Young]

64 Main St., Jefferson under construction:

[Don Gustavson II]

The town is growing. Nice work.

[Jim Courtney]

Ah, a man with good taste in sharp tools!

Uses a #11 Bard-Parker scalpel blade in a surgical handle!

Beats X-ACTO blade hands down.

[Jeff Young]

They do indeed make a difference, Jim. :)

On another note, I have found my limit for re-creating historic detail:



I'm afraid my scratch-built door will have neither ionic columns on either side of the window, nor a spread-wing angel underneath it.

(Maybe if it faced the front of the layout....)

[Bill Uffelman]

I bet there is something similar to the angel in a costume jewelry department or Michael's type craft store.

Bill Uffelman 

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They do indeed make a difference, Jim. :)

On another note, I have found my limit for re-creating historic detail:



I'm afraid my scratch-built door will have neither ionic columns on either side of the window, nor a spread-wing angel underneath it.

(Maybe if it faced the front of the layout....)

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[Todd A Ferguson]

Could be done with 3D model and 3D printing… but a fair amount of work for only one piece .

Best,

Todd Ferguson

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I bet there is something similar to the angel in a costume jewelry department or Michael's type craft store.

Bill Uffelman 

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They do indeed make a difference, Jim. :)

On another note, I have found my limit for re-creating historic detail:



I'm afraid my scratch-built door will have neither ionic columns on either side of the window, nor a spread-wing angel underneath it.

(Maybe if it faced the front of the layout....)

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[South Park]

  I really expect more from you, Jeff.

  Why the defeatist attitude ?  



  Some things are just easier to model in full scale.

[Jeff Young]

He he… you guys are trying to goad me into this, aren’t you?

I’ll bet Bill’s jewellery suggestion would work in O scale, and possibly even in S.  Might be hard to find something small enough for HO.

3D printing would definitely work, but yeah, a lot of effort to generate the 3D model.

Might just call for a few layers of finely-cut paper….

[Jeff Young]

Windows in various states of construction:

[Chris Walker]

Is it even possible to render those details in HO?  What would they be, 12 thou high?

Nice chinking Jeff!

[Robert McFarland]

Maybe if you produced a kit for the cabin it would be worth the extra effort.

[Todd A Ferguson]

SHHHHHHHH Chris,  You are messing with his journey of discovery!!!

Best,

Todd Ferguson

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Is it even possible to render those details in HO?  What would they be, 12 thou high?

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[Ken Martin]

Jeff,

I gather this it the house you are building.
I shot the picture last summer.

Ken Martin

[Jeff Young]

Hi Ken,

> I gather this it the house you are building.

Actually, both of those. ;)

(The house in the background can be seen under construction in my June 28 post to this thread.)

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Keith Hayes]

Nice logwork, Jeff!

[Jeff Young]

> Nice logwork, Jeff!

Yeah, I was chuffed at how well they came out.  They were dead easy too: just cut the Monster Modelworks sheet to size, cut out all the little indents at the ends of the walls, stain with Oak wood-stain, and then paint the chinking with tinted gesso.

Cheers,
Jeff.