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Addressing a couple of questions, I build from scaling model/ad photos but sometimes also adjust the dimension to what seems pleasing to my eye. And while I don't have any running commentary on construction methods for this particular building, I do have a couple of basic in-progress shots that...

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys. I find these structures fun to build (guess I've always been kinda a frustrated architect at heart) and they do look nice on the layout eventually. Fun story associated with one of my other scratch efforts. I had a proxy entered a nicely staged B&W photo...

"Highballin' " CNJ999

Here's a scratch model I completed over the spring. It's after the fashion of FSM's Seafood Emporium but slightly reduced in extent so as to fit into a space I have for it on the layout. The spot isn't quite ready for it yet, so I photographed the building out-of-doors one sunny day a week ago...

Looking into the matter a bit further (by checking Mantua, Bowser, Varney, AHM and Rivarossi catalogs), I believe the closest match for that boiler is a vintage AHM 0-6-0 switcher. That boiler/superstructure had a fairly large overhang on the original model and might well fit tightly over a...

Whatever it is, only the chassis is by Mantua. Mantua never made a boiler that looked like the one in your photos. So....the model is some sort of one-off, hy-breed, which probably explains its lack of power pick-up. Probably someone's never completed project. CNJ999

Ok, here's one of a small, rural yard... CNJ999

Quite honestly, Trucklover, large, piled, boulders and rip-rap are typically found at the bottom of an fill embankment, not the top. Track ballast would likely be the largest stone, or stone fill, found atop such a location. Placing really big rocks at the top would usually create an unstable...

In all honesty, except for the immediate southern California area, Speilberg's movie American Graffiti pretty much selectively compresses two differing, albeit rather closely-spaced eras, into one. The days of the true "street rod" craze (the chopped, channelled, re-motored, older-bodied cars)...

I will typically start out airbushing the entire structure a "brick color", which I vary in hue from one occasion to the next. Once dry, I give the building a wash of highly diluted and "wet" Polly Scale Antique White, or perhaps a light grey, depending on the brick color. This fills in the...

Mike, nice start on that layout. If I may, however, just a suggestion to improve the scenes. Tone down/blend the bricks and motar lines on some of your buildings with several dark washes, so that the mortar lines are much less obvious. In the real world, on older brick structures, mortar lines...

Steve, are you absolutely sure about the model being by Olympia? A check of John Glaab's Brown Book, 3rd ed., does not cite them as the builder of any 2-8-4 C&O K-4 locos. According to Glaab, the cited builders have been United, Samhogsa and Atlas/Asahi. Importers are listed as United, Key, LMB...

Don't think I've posted this one here before (if I have, cut me some slack...the memory aint what it used to be!). CNJ999

I'm having great difficulty keeping track what images I've posted where, so if the one below has already appeared on this forum previously, please forgive me. CNJ999

To be very frank, I suspect more than a few folks pass on the monthly contests, yet participate in the weekly exhibitions, simply because the monthly themes are often either quirky, the subject too vague, or the premise downright silly. I know I've taken one look at some of the recent contest...

Here's my offering for the weekend. It's a shot of Hudson Highlands RR #900, this day assigned to a Hot Shot run. Highballin' through the country side, we see it here garnering salutations from the crew of a slidelined peddler freight. CNJ999

Here's my contribution for this weekend. It's an early color photo of Putney, NY, in the autumn of 1941. CNJ999

Indeed, in some of the close-up pictures you can see evidence of nail holes. However, they are mainly at the very end of each board, certainly not in a multitude of long vertical rows covering the sides of the structure, as so often depicted on models. Quite honestly, if viewed from the same...

That's one of the new Athearn Model A's and the red car in the foreground is the latest offering from Classic Model Works. CNJ999

Hmmm...it seems, out of ignorance of how contests are conducted here, I've placed myself at something of a disadvantage. Until last week, after it was pointed ot to me to do so, it hadn't occurred to me to look at all those other builder's-related posts that chronicled their individual progress...