Originally posted by Ozarkwoods: Have you kept a journal or record on he amount of time you have spent on your project? Amazing work!
Thank you.
Haven't been punching a clock. I have, foolishly, kept loose track of expenses in order to ensure that portion of Visa and Amazon Visa payments come out of my "fun" money.
Good news is, SWMBO actually approves, understanding that I need something to keep me occupied. She even comes up with occasional suggestions.
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March 01, 2020, 08:54 PM
ugeesta
Just saw this picture on the AZL forum. This is a Z Gauge train where the track is only 1/4" wide
The detail of the grass in the concrete crcks is amazing.
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March 02, 2020, 03:01 AM
f2
saw this on the tube the other month...
March 02, 2020, 02:46 PM
PHPaul
@ugeesta - I can't even imagine. "N" scale would drive me up the wall and Z is even smaller. Amazing work there!
@f2 - I saw that a while back. Heck of an imagination and great use of perspective.
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March 10, 2020, 04:35 PM
PHPaul
Bought that 40 next door.
Got started converting some of that hard, pink clay into arable land. Still won't have the space (or the funds) to create "fields", but I'll have a place to put a garden for the house and set that corn crib:
and a couple of other structures I've built or had donated by a generous SigForum member.
There'll be a stream with a little waterfall coming off the hill and meandering around behind the house. Gives me an excuse to build a bridge over the stream so Maw can get to the garden. The hill will be pretty heavily "forested". Not sure what I'll do to fill the rest of the space.
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March 10, 2020, 04:44 PM
Ryanp225
Thought this was pretty cool.
March 10, 2020, 04:54 PM
PHPaul
That is wicked cool! Love the creativity of that sort of pose. Wouldn't have occurred to me.
Along the same lines:
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March 13, 2020, 06:21 PM
PHPaul
For xl_target: Recognize those trees?
With the additional real estate, I can expand my "Spare Inventory Pile". No farm junk yard is complete without a rusted out old pickup, so...
I started out with this cereal box toy. Drilled out the rivets, cut the box off the back of the cab and dumped the parts in a jar of brake fluid to strip the paint.
Once the paint was off, I attacked it with a pair of pliers and a vise and generally bent, twisted and crushed the cab and fenders. Plus I drilled a few bullet holes for effect. When I was happy with it, I super-glued it into a pile and then
backed WAY off and splattered it with some Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer and highlighted the bullet holes with a little flat black paint.
It'll get parked behind the shop with a tree growing up through the frame.
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March 13, 2020, 07:41 PM
.38supersig
Nice!
Your work is top notch! Thanks for letting us ride along.
March 15, 2020, 11:01 AM
triggertreat
Really interesting. After seeing your work it reminded me of a site I saw quite a while ago.I found the link this morning. A guy by the name of Michael Paul Smith. https://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/
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March 15, 2020, 11:46 AM
PHPaul
quote:
Originally posted by triggertreat: Really interesting. After seeing your work it reminded me of a site I saw quite a while ago.I found the link this morning. A guy by the name of Michael Paul Smith. https://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/
I saw some of his stuff somewhere, didn't realize he had a site. Thanks for the link. Amazing realism!
When (if...) the weather improves, I'm going to try that approach to photographing my diorama.
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March 15, 2020, 11:53 AM
triggertreat
quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul: When (if...) the weather improves, I'm going to try that approach to photographing my diorama.
I look forward to the pictures.
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March 15, 2020, 07:24 PM
PHPaul
Typical March weather today - cold and wind like a knife - so I spent the day in the basement making improvements to the Back 40.
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March 16, 2020, 03:55 PM
PHPaul
Got the wrecked pickup parked out behind the shed.
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March 16, 2020, 04:50 PM
flashguy
Wouldn't a true Redneck have it in the front yard?
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
March 16, 2020, 04:56 PM
PHPaul
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy: Wouldn't a true Redneck have it in the front yard?
flashguy
A fair point, but I'm out of cinder blocks at the moment...
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March 16, 2020, 05:06 PM
wreckdiver
Keep us updated, I find them fascinating! Thank You!
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March 16, 2020, 05:19 PM
PHPaul
As of "quitting time" today.
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March 16, 2020, 05:31 PM
Patrick-SP2022
That looks really good.
It would be neat to add some wisps of black smoke coming from the exhaust on the tractors.
Just an added touch of realism.
March 16, 2020, 05:39 PM
PHPaul
quote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022: That looks really good.
It would be neat to add some wisps of black smoke coming from the exhaust on the tractors.
Just an added touch of realism.
Dunno about the tractors (shouldn't smoke unless they're really pulling hard) but I do want to figure something out for the barbeque under the Elm tree.
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