GeoffinOz Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 This is a few firsts for me, first comp entry, first white metal kit, first HO Scale, First Australian scene. The idea is a curve of track going over a dry creek bed, past a windmill dead tree and Kangaroos, with a dirt road crossing. This may take some time as I have three layouts on the go and many card kits to build. also first have to build a cake box to those sizes, the only cake box I have is a cheesecake shop box which is to big. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 Time to put the idea into practice. As this is also the first time I have joined a blog site, is this how I add to my post? I think I will have to add a few small dead trees, this is what we see in Oz 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) Have not done any work on the diorama as I have been spending my time watching some people playing with 12"to1' railways outside, they are relaying the track and now loading two diesels, two carriages and ten hoppers on the track with a giant crane to do the ballasting. Lots of fun, and I thought ballasting was a tedious job, Edited November 21, 2017 by GeoffinOz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 (edited) Groundwork started, glue not dry yet, and Ballasting started, have to paint it a dirty grey colour also need to add more dry grass around. also the windmill, which keeps loosing its top, superglue is not so super. Edited November 23, 2017 by GeoffinOz 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marly51 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 How's your model coming along? Looking good so far Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 Been a busy Christmas with plenty of visitors, the holiday here is six weeks (middle of Summer) and the temps have been in the high 30's, to hot for the shed. will start again now, but indoors, just to finish this one. will start another one soon, maybe a Christmas theme. Santa's workshop or similar.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Small amount of progress happened this week, Managed to get the windmill to stay together and the Kangaroos have moved in. Still got the trees to do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
col_kilgore Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I was just wondering if you could get a HO scale V8 Interceptor , and a certain leather clad policeman to go with it ? Love the colours on the groundwork. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
outcastjack Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 The dried riverbed is excellent! Great modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 The dried riverbed is excellent! Great modelling. I only do dry stream beds because I have not mastered the water thing yet, might try in another project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 I was just wondering if you could get a HO scale V8 Interceptor , and a certain leather clad policeman to go with it ? Love the colours on the groundwork. Shapeways do one but it is 2012 - 16 model, to late for the diesel I am thinking of using, then again there is a mad max version and leave the diesel off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Nearly finished, just the power lines to do now, and a final weathering. Can't find a railway crossing in my spares, only railroad(American, we use English here) whistle sign to close to track, have to move it. Still not sure about the Diesel, is it to dominating? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marly51 Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Great scenery modelling with all the little details, on its own, and also with the locomotive, which does dominate, but love the contrast between powerful modern technology and the bare landscape it is passing through. How about a photo of the locomotive head-on from a similar view to image 2? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Great scenery modelling with all the little details, on its own, and also with the locomotive, which does dominate, but love the contrast between powerful modern technology and the bare landscape it is passing through. How about a photo of the locomotive head-on from a similar view to image 2? Like this? Still got to get the hot glue gun out to make the power lines. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marly51 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Great! Just need a backscene with Ayers Rock! Only kidding Geoff. I have virtually no knowledge of the Australian railway network I have seen some lovely narrow gauge layouts online. Progress on my Cake Box is a bit slow at the moment - making a start on the Dapol kit of Stephenson’sRocket at the weekend. All the best, Marlyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted January 31, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2018 Geoff, great to see another take on the railways. Excellent. As to the locomotive dominating the scene too much, I think the angle of your last photo proves otherwise. From that viewpoint, the quartet of windmill, telegraph poles, group of trees and whistle sign perfectly frame the locomotive and the locomotive becomes the centre of attention in a balanced and most delightful way. That has to be the way to present it! Thanks for posting. I enjoyed that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Geoff, great to see another take on the railways. Excellent. As to the locomotive dominating the scene too much, I think the angle of your last photo proves otherwise. From that viewpoint, the quartet of windmill, telegraph poles, group of trees and whistle sign perfectly frame the locomotive and the locomotive becomes the centre of attention in a balanced and most delightful way. That has to be the way to present it! Thanks for posting. I enjoyed that. Thanks, I have enjoyed doing this, a bit different from my N Gauge stuff, now for something completely different. Probably On18 (O gauge on N Gauge track) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) Nearly there, had the hot glue gun out to make the power lines. couple of blobs on the outer line. now have to get my graphic artist daughter to work her magic with her posh camera. all my photos were all taken with an IPhone 5 Have just viewed and would like to rotate second and third picture but can't work out how to in the post. Edited February 4, 2018 by GeoffinOz 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted February 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 4, 2018 I have only just found this, and am quite taken with the atmosphere, it's really convincing. Great stuff. If you're still unsure about the loco, I would personally leave it off as I do feel it dominates a bit too much. I liked the idea of an empty crossing in the middle of nowhere, which is how it would look 99% of the time . But that's subjective. Maybe with weathering the loco would blend in more? But that's a big decision of course. To get the photos right way up, I believe they need to be manually turned first with a photo editing software, eg the RMweb image editor (under "apps & content", you may need to install Flash). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 I also use the 5s for quick pictures and had the same problem. Not being a technophobe my simple understanding of it is that it is to do with a program in the phone itself not being able to rotate the picture when used on certain sites - something like this website, (others might be able to use the correct technical speak here as I haven't a clue). The easiest way is always ensure the picture comes out the right way up is to ensure the volume button is pointing down.....worked for me - when I remember to do it!!! I have turned the pictures for you. To do this in my case I run them through my photo editing suite, in this case Serif PhotoPlus X7 as it was already on but my main program Affinity will do the same, then rotate the pictures the correct way up, export them in jpeg to whether you save yours - in this case I just dumped them on my desktop and hey presto attached to the page as normal. I agree that the loco is distracting from this lovely model as it is overpowering the scene, do you have anything smaller like say a track inspection vehicle? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 I thought I can do better that say I don't understand why so I went and searched out the answer and here it is in plain English the iPhone writes the orientation info to the EXIF data of the image. The reason why the images flip when you email them or transfer them to certain operating systems is because not all environments acknowledge EXIF data. This means that the orientation tags aren't being acknowledged. EXIF - Exchangeable image file format. There you go, all nice and clear now........... Now I need to go for a lie down! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffinOz Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 I thought I can do better that say I don't understand why so I went and searched out the answer and here it is in plain English the iPhone writes the orientation info to the EXIF data of the image. The reason why the images flip when you email them or transfer them to certain operating systems is because not all environments acknowledge EXIF data. This means that the orientation tags aren't being acknowledged. EXIF - Exchangeable image file format. There you go, all nice and clear now........... Now I need to go for a lie down! Thanks Kevin, I think I need a lie down as well, that sounds too technical for me, that is why I have a graphic artist daughter, to understand these things. Thank you also for turning the pictures for me. I don't have anything smaller so might just leave it off. Or I might put the tail end of a passenger carriage disappearing off the back edge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 That's OK. How about flipping it around and have a battered old vehicle driving cross the track? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium southern42 Posted February 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2018 (edited) There is always the triptych: No train. Front of train. End of train. Movie in three stills! Edited February 4, 2018 by southern42 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6775 Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Anything Aussie usually draws my attention, I rather like this, maybe a smaller loco? a T or Y so it doesn't dominate quite so much, I have wondered if I could do something with a Haskell Na in O:16.5. Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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