BNSF - Ponderosa Subdivision

[chuck geiger]

[nkalanaga]

Looks like a lot of older elevators I've seen.  Very nice!

Take out the palm trees and it could pass for parts of eastern Washington.  Some parts of eastern Montana look much like that as well, but the hills should be a little greener for there, most of the year.

[chuck geiger]

Didn't like the pastel look of hand painted mountains and the cartoon look. So went photo style.

[nuno81291]

Backdrop looks great, feels very natural to my eye.

[nkalanaga]

I assume that's a California scene on the backdrop?  It still looks like parts of Washington's Columbia Basin, but then, parts of eastern Washington look much like parts of California.

Until it was irrigated into submission, the Tri-Cities, where I grew up, also had sandstorms like southern California.

[chuck geiger]

Thanks - finally looking like So. Cal. desert.
https://www.facebook.com/ponderosasub/

[nkalanaga]

Yes, we didn't have palm trees in eastern Washington. 

There was a man in Kennewick, across the river from us, who had a producing orange tree.  He planted it on the southwest side of his house, to catch the maximum sun, right next to the dryer vent.  In the winter he'd put a plastic sheet over the tree, so that heat from the dryer, and leakage from the house, kept the tree from freezing.  I don't know how productive it was, but the local paper mentioned it at least once, and said he did get ripe oranges from it.

[chuck geiger]

Been working with the camera - Last new shot modified by Mark.





Some Samsung Galaxy shots from last night. Working on parking lot and grain elevator:

[Mark W]

Love the paint and weathering on this!  Lighting looks great too.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Looking good!

Now swap in something better for that Con-Cor truck. It definitely looks out of place given the quality of the rest of the scene.

[mu26aeh]

Looking good!

Now swap in something better for that Con-Cor truck. It definitely looks out of place given the quality of the rest of the scene.

I think Atlas did that same scheme in 45'

[chuck geiger]

Love the paint and weathering on this!  Lighting looks great too.

I got worried about rust streaks in the desert, but they exist.

[chuck geiger]

Yeah the PREFERRED POOL? This will have only grain trailers. Like the red one, they need to be detailed. Staging the scene...LOL

[unittrain]

Excellent work looks great 

[chuck geiger]

Thanks for all the kind words. I started this in May:



And we got to this point pretty fast: