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Ed Kapuscinski

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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #510 on: June 25, 2018, 04:56:56 PM »
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Oh man, what a novel approach!  :trollface:
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #511 on: June 25, 2018, 05:31:39 PM »
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Quote from: Ed Kapuscinski on June 25, 2018, 04:56:56 PM
Oh man, what a novel approach!  :trollface:

Clearly one never attempted by any N scale Conrail modelers I know...   :ashat:
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #512 on: June 28, 2018, 12:13:22 PM »
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Oh man, what a novel approach!  :trollface:
Clearly one never attempted by any N scale Conrail modelers I know...   :ashat:

There's a Conrail modelling novel?



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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #513 on: June 28, 2018, 01:12:47 PM »
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Quote from: Blazeman on June 28, 2018, 12:13:22 PM
There's a Conrail modelling novel?

AHahahahaha. This is really funny given Dave's feedback on my manuscript about my layout.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #514 on: June 28, 2018, 01:31:28 PM »
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Will there be a play?   :trollface: :trollface:
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #515 on: June 29, 2018, 12:40:50 AM »
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Quote from: Lemosteam on June 28, 2018, 01:31:28 PM
Will there be a play?   :trollface: :trollface:

Conrail...the musical.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #516 on: June 29, 2018, 05:29:52 PM »
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The fable of the blue can opener
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #517 on: June 30, 2018, 08:25:08 PM »
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Now back to your regularly scheduled RGS thread...

Working with the photo backdrops for Rico:



Notice the LED "hose" Christmas lights.  They're cool white...somewhat close to 5000K.  I'm going to hang them from the ceiling as straight as I can using plastic cable stables to even out those hot spots you see.  @Ed Kapuscinski asked me about whether I should just build a valence but...the ceilings are 9 feet above the floor which means that unless I build a ridiculously tall valence, you'd be able to see up behind it anyway.  Besides, the ceiling is so high it's not visible under normal layout viewing angles.



These scenes are actually from Rico, CO.  I had to GIMP out the surviving RGS Rico water tank on one of them since I'll be building it in 3 dimensions in the yard anyway.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #518 on: June 30, 2018, 11:31:43 PM »
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Quote from: Dave V on June 30, 2018, 08:25:08 PM
Notice the LED "hose" Christmas lights.  They're cool white...somewhat close to 5000K.  I'm going to hang them from the ceiling as straight as I can using plastic cable stables to even out those hot spots you see.
You could hang two strips/hoses parallel to one another, with one of them offset by half the spacing between the LEDs.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #519 on: July 01, 2018, 01:04:07 AM »
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Quote from: Point353 on June 30, 2018, 11:31:43 PM
You could hang two strips/hoses parallel to one another, with one of them offset by half the spacing between the LEDs.

I didn’t care for how the LED hose looked and it didn’t throw enough light.  Moving on... 
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #520 on: July 01, 2018, 08:43:58 AM »
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Did you try randomly hanging white Christmas light strings?   :trollface:
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #521 on: July 01, 2018, 10:59:22 AM »
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Quote from: davefoxx on July 01, 2018, 08:43:58 AM
Did you try randomly hanging white Christmas light strings?   :trollface:

Joking aside, lighting has been a challenge.  When it's dark out and there's no light coming onto the basement, the lighting over the layout looks plenty bright enough.  When there's daylight coming in, oddly that's when the hot spots and dark spots seem more intense.  I installed a black-out shade over the layout window that might help.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #522 on: July 01, 2018, 11:14:38 AM »
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Keep one thing in mind when lighting never let the light go directly at what you want lit, have it reflected and then diffused if possible first.

Love that backdrop Dave!!!!
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #523 on: July 01, 2018, 01:09:07 PM »
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The backdrop looks tremendous, Dave. I'm definitely checking out LARC. Are you attaching the images directly to your wall, or using a substrate?

Jim
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #524 on: July 01, 2018, 03:54:03 PM »
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Quote from: MVW on July 01, 2018, 01:09:07 PM
The backdrop looks tremendous, Dave. I'm definitely checking out LARC. Are you attaching the images directly to your wall, or using a substrate?

Jim

Eventually directly to the wall.  I'm not securing anything until I have a better idea of where everything's going to go and I'm farther along on the scenery.
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