Korm Kormsen said:
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(fighting with myself over the question, to add some browns, or not)…
If you add some light brown, the warm color will play off the greys and blacks and bring everything to life.
no pics.
i washed in the “black”. (a grey, a little less light, than the rest)
if it dries quick enough, i’ll wash the peaks and tops with light grey, before i am off to the firehouse.
then i have three, and in parts four different shades of grey.
tomorrow, or whenever i got time i’ll start on the brown washes.
there will be no greens. the patches of grass, i want to have will be either from dyed sawdust, or i will build me one of these static guizzmos for nylon grass.
No lichen on the sides of the rocks?(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
now you caught me in the exiting act to watch paint drying…
lichen?? - no, i think, i leave that for the 1:20 guys…
Ah, oh aah, ooh…Paint drying. That’s a subset of my hobby of model building. It isn’t terribly exciting. I would think watching someone who is watching paint dry would be even less exciting.
No lichen huh? I guess that also means no algae. So maybe that means you haven’t taken a lichen to shades of green on your gray rocks.
no algae in the rivers, no lichen on the rocks. this sort of detailing i leave to planners and thinkers like Devon.
btw. where is he? shellshocked, when the truckload of track arrived? or speechless awaiting his turnouts?
Korm, I dunno. But I hope that the next time Devon surfaces, he has some track-work down and maybe even running a locomotive back on forth on a small section.
i had forgotten this:
there i had used greys, browns, beige and greens.
but, if i look at my actual building site, i am not sure, if i should put in some browns. every new coat is a risk for me, because i can’t estimate how much colors are changing through drying.
and, as these rocks will not be any point of interest (the mountain and the trestle will catch visitor’s eyes)
brushes and grasspatches will give enough spots of greens and beige, to break up the greyish impression.
i’ll save the browns for the mesa type mountains at another part of the layout. (together with orange and red)
(somehow, while 3D printing lightly dressed native females, the idea to make a cave-pueblo slipped into the planning…)
in the following pics, the loco is in the middle of the 21 ft. stretch between two mountains (the second one to be built within the next decades)
Leave it alone!
The dust will add color!(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Wait a second, wait a second. Now I realize that Korm has built a mountain and I have only moved a mole hill. But his mountain is scale mountain and my mole hill is 1:1, (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif). And he hasn’t finished his mountain, but neither am I finished moving my mole hill.
Looks great Korm. I am watching with interest because some day I will build the indoor layout and you and Tye and Vic are inspiring on what can be done inside.
sorry, Devon, but you are wrong. and late… with your mole hill.
the mountain had been finished for a while now. (just a short 8 pages thread) here: http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/21819/protocoling-a-mountain
what i am doing now, is the valley between the completed mountain and the mountain to be built next.
so, stay tuned for the next half decade or so…
oh, and i think, that it is not recommendable to (re)move mole hills. much more eficient to remove the mole…
finally i put the trestle back into it’s place…
I Like It!!!(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
thank you, Sean.
now im nearly done there. i first controlled the continuity of the grade. (putting a laser level between the rails at one end, and sliding an L-shaped ruler on the rails away from the level.) (no pic)
then i spanned a fishing line over the whole length of the trestle, to control straightness of the trestle. it was a bow! on its 12ft length in the middle it was off 3mm/0.12inch. after i recovered from the nervous breakdown this gave me, under usage of most modern rocket science and a screwdriver to scrape off a blob of paint on a base, i could fix the trestle and restore my nerves with a cup of coffee.
so, now (this side of the next mountain) i just have to do about three yards of ballasting, a wall of treetrunks, where the trestle begins, and a tunnel portal.
well, and the underground station. (which will be “Men in Black” themed, with an additional Stargate plus a Tardis thrown in. - but that definitely needs some more months of qualified armchair-modelling, before i start building)
So that says you count the half rivets Korm.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
A variance of 3 mm in 12 feet. Gee, that’s within specs. I mean, in the copier world, I was allowed 1mm variance in 11 inches. So 3 mm in 12 feet is darn near perfect, in my world. In fact, having a bow like that would just add character, in my mind, and I would have left it.
how to explain…
i try to balance the effort needed with the effect achieved. five minutes measuring for a straight of 12 feet looks like a bargain to me.
on the other hand, to place about 300 clothes pins as rivets onto a tender is a hard chore. that is, why the straight got straightened, and the tender looks like this for the last 6 years or so…
(and, yes, my rivets are half as big as those on the big hauler tender)
I still need to find pins that will do that job for me. I found flat head pins, no good, and sequin pins that look like they are 2 heads smashed together, also no good.
As for dead straight track, that’s great, if that’s your thing. Its not my thing. The hand laid track on my HO.HOn30 trestle is close to, but not exactly straight. I think it gives it character, and I moved on. Also there is another flaw in my HO.HOn30 trestle that no one has commented on yet. So, I may never fix that “issue”. Unless the viewer calls it to my attention, then its an unnoticed feature and I can just leave it in place. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
a month and a half without progress…
… at least without visible progress.
the little time i can find for the layout, i use for electric installations.
the next mountain will be built over a strech of track, that will be spiced with more than half a dozen reed contacts. after the mountain is built, that track will be accessible only through a tiny duck under manhole.
being lazy and fat i decided to lay all these cables while i can do that with easy access.
the downturn of that idea is, that for installing the reeds as needed, and try them out, i have to cable the whole layout now.
as i don’t like installing electrics, it will take a good while.
so, gentlemen, don’t hold your breath. it will take months, before i will go on with building mountains and writing this thread.
So you telling us Devon is making better progress than you Korm … Noooo … Say it aint so …(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)
