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« on: January 18, 2010, 07:56:52 PM » |
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I started working on my LA-themed layout recently, and I have a photo to share. Temporary track is in place. This is a famous scene, see if you can guess where? The wall is 35mm tall!!  I need to tone down the dark brick window fills on the right, it appears.
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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 10:39:40 PM » |
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I need to calibrate the colors, eh?!
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 06:29:43 AM » |
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I need to calibrate the colors, eh?!
Looks like the white balance got skewed. But it looks really good. I don't recognize the "famous scene" but it looks like photo-printed paper...? That's how I'd planned to make the brick-faced structures at Pine Creek. If I get some good shots, I can use actual images of the building. 
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2010, 08:57:07 AM » |
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It is a combination of the white balance and the color change from printing. This was an experiment to see if the textures from Clever Models could be scaled down to Z and still be realistic when printed. I was worried that the result would be just a bunch of printer dots! Considering how small everything is, I am surprised that it turned out as nice as it did.
Of course, if you can use images of the building, even better.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2010, 12:20:25 PM » |
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Pretty cool Tom.
Is this your first running project?
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2010, 12:53:06 PM » |
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Pretty cool Tom.
Is this your first running project?
I actually don't own a z scale engine yet! 
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2010, 07:01:46 PM » |
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yeah, I forgot to tell you guys something. hint on the location: " # ". 
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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2010, 07:22:10 PM » |
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I tried to improve the graphics today, but now I notice a repeating pattern in the darker brick.  It is actually pretty tough to get printed brick to look right. 
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« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2010, 07:34:12 PM » |
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yeah, I forgot to tell you guys something. hint on the location: " # ".  Is LA Los Angeles, Louisiana or something else?
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« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2010, 07:48:17 PM » |
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Sorry, Los Angeles.
Another hint: "the patch"
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« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2010, 08:00:13 PM » |
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The only paper brick sheets I have without a repeat pattern is the stuff from Papercreek.
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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2010, 06:26:45 PM » |
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So where will you find a Z scale CF-7? Actually the fugly cab would help hide the wide hood. Or you could start with a AZL GP7 and some fudge.
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2010, 06:33:03 PM » |
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More work on the other building and fancier lighting: 
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