Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad Micro-Layout

[DKS]

My sense is that you have an aged snowpack, one that has sat on the ground a few days, maybe melted a bit, so that the edges are rounded and the piles smoothed.  Plowed up areas are not sharply defined, and some dirt is starting to melt out preferentially.

Well, if that is the sense you are getting, then I can claim success. That is exactly the type of snow I was after--whichever of the 23 that may be. I had thought about a blue tint, but I am a little leery of monkeying around much more with what I have; I fear losing the effect I've finally achieved.

[sirenwerks]

Well, if that is the sense you are getting, then I can claim success. That is exactly the type of snow I was after--whichever of the 23 that may be. I had thought about a blue tint, but I am a little leery of monkeying around much more with what I have; I fear losing the effect I've finally achieved.

If memory serves me, the blue tint is caused by reflection off of ice beneath packed wet snow. So limit that blue to the deep stuff.  Actually, there's a lot of deep stuff around here...

[pwnj]

Now that I know that school is open 2-hours late tomorrow (better than closed anyway), looking at your very realistic snow both makes me excited and simultaneously angry.  That must mean you nailed it!

[peteski]

With this nasty Winter sticking around for way too long (n New England), I think that I will appreciate this layout much more in the middle of the hazy, hot, and humid July! 

[eric220]

Is that why they have 23 words for it?

Any skier can come up with at least a dozen on demand

Powder
Packed powder
Hard pack
Slush
Sugar
Mashed potatoes
Lake effect
Corduroy (admittedly not naturally occurring)
Chattery
Choppy
Refrozen
Drift

I'm sure there are plenty more.

[Dave V]

Any skier can come up with at least a dozen on demand

Powder
Packed powder
Hard pack
Slush
Sugar
Mashed potatoes
Lake effect
Corduroy (admittedly not naturally occurring)
Chattery
Choppy
Refrozen
Drift

I'm sure there are plenty more.

You forgot corn and washboard.

[Jeff AKA St0rm]

I just looked out side at the 12 foot high snow banks along my driveway and i think yours looks great.

[Van Horne]

You forgot corn and washboard.

You both overlooked the infamous Cascade Concrete - the bane of Pacific Northwest skiiers.

Dave

[Noah Lane]

haha. Eric- you nailed most of them

Groomer(s) (groomed runs)
Pow (powder)
Pow Pow (powder)
Blower (powder)
Glue (sticky slush)
Bullet Proof (ice)

...I will bee shredding some Tahoe 'pow' tomorrow. We finally got snow out West!


David- the layout is looking incredible.

[VonRyan]

DKS, you sure you aren't secretly John Allen?

Your execution on your snow scenes is excellent, from looking at the photographs.
Of course, you seeing it in person all the time means that you're more likely to readily see flaws.

From where I sit, it looks Excellent!


-Cody F.

[Lemosteam]

Holy Crap-hat!  Friggin' amazing.  Can't wait to see the street scenes.

[Bsklarski]

That is pretty good. Been running a road job the past few days and it looks really, really good Dave. Thats about what it looks like.

[Baronjutter]

I had no idea this was going to be a snowy layout!

[basementcalling]

Y'all all left out yellow as a snow type.   

[DKS]

I had no idea this was going to be a snowy layout!

...the HMR will be 1930s in the winter... I thought that making the track snowbound would disguise the rail height and tie spacing issues.

Y'all all left out yellow as a snow type.   

And yet, nothing that describes yellow snow!