Author: Bobot
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Night shots around the layout
Updated this post with better night shots. I’m experimenting with my camera settings trying to take some night shots of the layout under minimal lighting. The only lighting used was from Lionel floodlights and yard lights and the lighted structure themselves.
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Concrete and asphalt lot for the transfer warehouse
I’ve been fighting with this one on and off for several months now. Last year I bought an MTH Ellicott Mills dry goods transfer warehouse and located it on the layout in a nice big spot between the rail lines and the highway. I scenicked the lots and roads around it but couldn’t decide how…
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You want weeds?
It’s mid-summer in Bobotville and the weeds around the Railtown General Store parking lot are just about to get out of control. I used a combination of Super Turf, Heki wildgrasses, dirt, fine turf, and small broken pieces of Super Trees.
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Scratch built picnic table on a budget (in 30 minutes)
24 hours later and I’m still waiting for my Scenic Express Concrete pads to dry. What to do? Build a picnic table for outside your ice cream shop, of course. You can buy a 1.5″ O-Scale picnic table online for $12, but why, I thought. I took some thin sheets of balsa wood and a straight…
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Yard lights and night shots
I installed and wired (3) Lionel 16-bulb floodlights on the layout today. I wanted to place them so at they lighted the yard and industrial areas as best they could without flooding the town and Main Street with extra light. These shots were taken only by the lights on the layout. They look ok on…
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Dead end street gets life
Last year I created Main Street in my town. At one end, there was an awkward space near the entrance to the yard where another full size building would not fit. Also, Main Street came to a dead end and looked silly. I thought for a long time on what to do with it. In…
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Mobile Home dude can now park!
Last year I created a mobile home scene, but never finished it. Well now the dude who lives there has a road to get to his home and a lot to park in. Finally He’s been parking along Main Street and walking across the grass in his yard for over a year. I put up…