The Oakland Industrial: A Street running layout.

[Miles]

Beginning the mock-ups for the Produce distribution warehouses that will take up 3 of 4 corner lots. They all have very wide doors with generous overhangs leaning over the sidewalk.

[Baronjutter]

Awesome scenes,  and looks like that car on the left has one of those suspension kits that let it jump!

[Miles]

Moving some special cargo. I found this enormous carrot at an Asian market down the street, and I was reminded of the old turn of the century post cardsshowing huge vegetables loaded on freight cars.



Thought I'd start off the new year with some levity!

More posts to come. I also began painting the backdrop too.

[Miles]

You guys even want me to post any more updates? I post stuff, but don't hear a peep out of you guys, not looking for accolades, but curious if I'm wasting my time. Cheers!

[Philip H]

The FRA inspector will be by shortly to talk about the lack if restraints for you special loads. Looks like they both need clearance cars too.

[JSL]

Don't know how I miss your thread! I like it. I just looked at all 3 pages. Look like the giant veggies from Alaska State Fair in Palmer AK.

[Dave Schneider]

You guys even want me to post any more updates? I post stuff, but don't hear a peep out of you guys, not looking for accolades, but curious if I'm wasting my time. Cheers!

This is a great thread and I look forward to seeing more updates. Sorry that I haven't commented much before but I think we all prefer these types of posts much more than complaints about new products/hobby shops/etc…..

Best wishes, Dave

[packers#1]

I for one have really enjoyed following along, but I don't really have any criticisms etc to share...and agreed, these posts are so much better than multiple pages where everyone complains and then argues and argues about complaining about new products

[nuno81291]

Love the street running - one of my favorite topics in modeling... Looks great, lets see some more progress! Lots of vitamin D there, see if the FRA has a beef with your loads

One thing that sticks out to me is how nicely weathered your buildings/locos and rolling stock are yet the extremely fresh looking cars make quite the juxtaposition..Im sure you just haven't got to it yet but the brightness/sheen in a lot of them look fresh out of the box to me...Interested in watching your backdrop progress as well.

Keep up the cool work!

edit: planning any striping down that main road?

[Miles]

Thanks everybody! I'll continue posting new updates then.

Nuno81291: I've weathered about 40% of my vehicles so far, doing them on a whim whenever the mood strikes. Since I'm modeling the mid-late 1960's there's quite a few vehicles on the layout that are only a year or two old, while others are decades old. Some are impeccably cared for (most of the convertibles and foreign makes) , some are everyday work vehicles and some are junkers.



On the right, the stock models out of the box. On the left, vehicles carefully weathered to reflect the kind of life they'd lead in a west coast port city in the mid-60's. Also, some of my weathering is based on real cars I see here in Oakland with some regularity.



I'm also working on a salvage yard. Most of the yard is filled with 20+ year old 1940's vehicles. ALL of them are yet to be weathered properly to reflect neglect, abuse and abandonment.
 

[nuno81291]

AWESOME! I knew it must have been a thing you had not had a chance with yet, but the comparison of the weathered to out of the box is fantastic...Really dig the beginnings of the salvage yard as well, gonna need a tetanus shot just for looking at that! Also really dig the cracks in the road you showed earlier in the thread...Keep us posted!!

Mike

[unittrain]

Just noticed this thread myself dont know how I missed it that is some incredible modeling the buildings and detail are over the top and the cars are the best I've ever seen will definatley be following now this is what TRW should be more of this and less complaining and more modeling.

[Kentuckian]

Enjoy seeing the layout.  I like urban modeling; it is different than what I am trying to do.

[Miles]

Inspired by nuno (Mike) I weathered another vehicle last night.  It’s a salvage yard special, with a replaced bed, fenders and passenger side door. The vermillion red, black, seamist green and Barcelona blue are all accurate 49 Ford truck colors. The model is a CMW HO scale offering.





Also did some graffiti on a car for a modern era modeling client of mine who does graffiti in real life.

[garethashenden]

I love that slice of carrot. It looks like some of those 19th century pictures of redwood logging, just needs more people posing with it and to be black and white, no one would know!