Weekend Update 11/12/23

[mplsjct]

I finished another SW1 in GN full builder colors, I switched out the roller bearing trucks for friction bearing, but didn’t take a newer pic. This will likely be the last full builder colors switcher I do, eyes can’t take it anymore.

[Jim Starbuck]

I finished another SW1 in GN full builder colors, I switched out the roller bearing trucks for friction bearing, but didn’t take a newer pic. This will likely be the last full builder colors switcher I do, eyes can’t take it anymore.

Absolutely beautiful!
Very nicely done.

Jim

[dougnelson]

This scene is amazing!  And I apologize for not asking a question that’s more relevant to the whole scene but….  Please share how you did such a nice job of the white wall tires on the wagon?

Craig

Regarding the white wall tires on the station wagon, no secret here, the HO Sylvan Scale Models kits come with peel and stick white wall rings. You know, those HO guys have it so easy, there really is no challenge. We work harder in N scale.

[Mike Madonna]

I had to google that, found this photo, that is the look I am going for.

EJN,

JACKPOT!!!! Where did you find that pic? I have never seen that one. This would have to be scratch built I'm sure. Although, what you did looks relatively close....

[tehachapifan]

GN SW1 is gorgeous!!!

[up1950s]

If we compare these two images, the thing I notice immediately is that the closer hill on the model is too blue. Things get bluer and hazier as they get further away, but that wasn't corrected for when the image was used as the backdrop. I assume that the backdrop image was taken across the loop. The contrast between the modeled grass and the grass on the backdrop is jarring. If the near hill and the far hill had been treated separately it might have come out differently.

Then there is other variables , time of day , season , fog , smog , smoke , haze , layout room lighting . I wonder if there is a self sucking vape thingy and how that would work with layout room photography .

[basementcalling]

I finished another SW1 in GN full builder colors, I switched out the roller bearing trucks for friction bearing, but didn’t take a newer pic. This will likely be the last full builder colors switcher I do, eyes can’t take it anymore.

Damn fine work. Definitely better than anything Rapido will likely offer in an N scale SW series. Oops, my snark overfloweth.

[nkalanaga]

"I wonder if there is a self sucking vape thingy and how that would work with layout room photography ."

Considering the stuff people use at work, it would probably gum up the tracks!

[EJN]

EJN,

JACKPOT!!!! Where did you find that pic? I have never seen that one.

Google search, someone is selling prints on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394297527001

I grabbed the images from above and using photoshop rotated it (it is crooked in the original) & converted to grayscale from sepia to post here.

Here is the other side:

[ednadolski]

Then there is other variables , time of day , season , fog , smog , smoke , haze , layout room lighting .

For a photo backdrop there is also the question of how good the image and print are.  For example on some commercially printed ones the image may be grainy, the contrast too low, or the colors have too much/little saturation. etc.  Lighting direction needs to be consistent too.  All of these can end up looking rather incongruent in front of a 3D model.

Ed

Edit: perhaps Free-moN has the right idea: no backdrop at all

[Olivani]

This scene is amazing!  And I apologize for not asking a question that’s more relevant to the whole scene but….  Please share how you did such a nice job of the white wall tires on the wagon?

Craig

Craig, who's printing all your decals ? Would it work with a white ring as a decal ? Get some printed in different sizes and give it a go. 

Oliver

[Olivani]

I wonder if there is a self sucking vape thingy and how that would work with layout room photography .

Hahaha, a self sucking vape thingy    Or one of those dry ice smoke machines we used in discos back in the good old 80s   

Oliver

[0303fxm]

Repainted Kato 20th Century Limited cars of post-war into pre-war scheme to match the Dreyfuss Hudson engine by using Circus City Decal.  I know some car types of pre-war are different from post-war, but that’s okay for me.
Thanks for watching.

[altohorn25]

Repainted Kato 20th Century Limited cars of post-war into pre-war scheme to match the Dreyfuss Hudson engine by using Circus City Decal.  I know some car types of pre-war are different from post-war, but that’s okay for me.
Thanks for watching.

The window tinting looks nice as well. 

[chuck geiger]