Mini-shelf photos

[spitfire]

Built this little shelf for loco photos this evening. I got the idea when I tried to add a photo background in Photoshop and decided it would be too much work to crop around the entire train - far better to build a small place with an appropriate background. Because then you could change trains at will.
Anyway here it is - it's done on a scrap piece of 1 x 6.

Val

 

[spitfire]

Here is the same shot cropped. Even without having added the background yet I think this looks pretty good -- except for the dead white guy in the upper right of the shot -- how did he get there?

 

[aartwmich]

Cool Val, can't wait to see it with a background

....did that guy get too close to the glue bottles?

 

[Peirce]

Great idea. Easy to swap trains and easy to swap backgrounds.

 

[Vic]

Hi Val, Neat idea and that's really going to show off your models.

Obviously the little guy has "paled" in the presence of your models and has fainted "dead away"!!!

 

[Drew1125]

Great Idea, Val!
Not only is that good for photos, but is a good way to display your modeling work for others.
(great job scenicking that track, btw! )

 

[shamus]

Hi Val, nice idea that, display loco's on a fully scenic board, great.

Shamus

 

[rich maiorano]

DAMM THE GIRLS GOOD

VERY NICE VAL YOU ARE PUTTING SOME US TO SHAME LOVE IT RICH

 

[t. alexander]

Hi Val the scene looks great.

That could be Casper the freindly ghost..He was a dead white guy... I think.

t.

 

[RI541]

Looks like the guy's been dead for awhile. Does the local athorities have any clues????

I was going to get a 1"X4"X6' board for some HO track just to take pictures of the Jerk Water at my in laws house since he doesn't have a striaght section yet.But I never thought of scenicking it. Now it will be scenicked.

Is there a "K" in scenicking? I followed Charlies spelling

 

[spitfire]

Thanks all! I've found a photo of some track showing rust on the ballast all along the rails, and I'm going to try that look. Meanwhile, does anyone have any suggestions for little details I could add to make it look more like a switching yard?

cheers
Val

 

[60103]

Val: broken coupling knuckles, broken air hoses, spare springs.

 

[Vic]

Hi Val, Back in the steam era a switch yard was not the most beautiful place in the world, only to a modeler. There would be junk, cans, barrels, paper, boxes, spilled stuff, oil, grease, packing waste from car journals, weeds, hobos and who knows what all over the place. Not to say that it was a virtual junkyard or trash dump but they just weren't as concious about those things then as they are now. Anything that would give it sorta of a railroad/industrial flavor would imho be approiate.

If you can look back some older model mags for articles on George Sellios' Franklin and Manchester.....He is the absolute "master" at "trashing" railroad right of way. Just remember that the railroad always ran through the worst part of town....Betcha never saw one next door to the Country Club

 

[eightyeightfan1]

I saw that the "Box" has reared its ugly head again in the General section. Could be the white guy had some of Errols Spirits.

 

[Lighthorseman]

Thumbs Up!

Very nice job, Val! Looking forward to seeing more!

 

[spitfire]

Well, it looks like the authorities have arrived on the scene. The body has obviously been there for some time as it is completely stiff. As to the unnatural palor of the deceased, there is speculation that he may have drowned in a vat of sunscreen....very mysterious.

cheers
Val

 

[spitfire]

Ahh, the famous detective Hercule Poirot has arrived on the scene with startling news! The corpse is that of the Man from Glad, and he has been suffocated....but how? And why?

cheers
Val

 

[aartwmich]

hee hee hee hee Very Good!!

With the advent of ziplocks and quick-covers...he just couldn't handle the loss of fame, so he wrapped himself up for posterity.

Did you paint those figures Val?

 

[sumpter250]

The corpse is that of the Man from Glad, and he has been suffocated....but how? And why?

With the advent of ziplocks and quick-covers...he just couldn't handle the loss of fame, so he wrapped himself up for posterity.

Aahhhh, of course, wrapture.......

Then again, it could all be timing. You did say evening, perhaps you cropped the photo too close to the "twilight" zone.

 

[spitfire]

Originally posted by aartwmich

Did you paint those figures Val?

I painted the two workmen, but not "Poirot". The cops came with white shirts and white stripes on their pant legs so I painted the shirts light blue and used a red Sharpie pen on the stripes, which I bought specifically for that purpose. Most of my people are from unpainted Preiser sets - they're much cheaper that way, plus a lot of the colours they use on their painted figures are too bright for the 1950's so I often end up repainting them anyway.

cheers
Val