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Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Tyson Rayles - 02-27-2013
Very nice!
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Ralph - 02-27-2013
Looking good Don!
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ezdays - 03-03-2013
The next giant step, I thought the small, flat hill in the corner would make a good grazing pasture.
This is the area I'm talking about:
I changed the background by adding a run-down farmhouse and barn. I made the backdrop from several separate pictures, then added the trees. I printed the picture on thin paper, then cut away the sky.
Here's the overall view. I decided that the grass should be brown since the farm is neglected. There are a few cows hanging around since the land is leased from the government and it stipulates that they have to have cows grazing otherwise they'll loose the one-dollar per acre land lease.
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Catt - 03-03-2013
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - doctorwayne - 03-03-2013
Big improvement, Don.Wayne
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ngauger - 03-03-2013
Nice!!!
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Tyson Rayles - 03-03-2013
It's a perfect fit for that space, very nicely done!
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ezdays - 03-06-2013
I had many a sleepless night concerned about taking those walls out,
even though I agreed that things turned out better the way it is, but something inside of me said that I needed a wall there somewhere. I had the right end of the hill tapering down to ground level but I didn't like the way it looked and figured I needed more real estate for whatever I plan on putting in that area, so I had a lightbulb moment.... 
Cut the hill down and hold it back with.... a wall. I made the wall out of scraps of what I found in my "wall" bin and the rockwork seemed to match OK. The big thing is that I recovered about 36 square inches of level space, or around 6,400 square feet in N scale, enough for a good sized building. Oh, I did add some neatly trimmed bushes along the bottom of the wall until I figure what to do there as well as to keep the city from complaining about a half-finished project. Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Tyson Rayles - 03-06-2013
Oh no ! Not the wall again !!!
Just kidding, the wall does make sense there and is looking good.
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ezdays - 03-06-2013
Tyson Rayles Wrote:Oh no ! Not the wall again !!!
Just kidding, the wall does make sense there and is looking good.
Wasn't that an episode of the Twilight Zone a few years ago?????
hock: Something about the wall that wouldn't go away........
Oh, and thanks, I appreciate that... Ahh, no more sleepless nights.
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ngauger - 03-06-2013
ezdays Wrote:Wasn't that an episode of the Twilight Zone a few years ago?????
That was: Night of the living wall.. --- I think :evil:
ezdays Wrote:Oh, and thanks, I appreciate that... Ahh, no more sleepless nights........... until the next major catastrophy
It does look like it belongs there!!!
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Sumpter250 - 03-06-2013
Any "wall" that makes room for another "industry" for the Railroad to service.......is a good wall !And - - -that one even "looks" good ! Waiting to see what you put into the available real estate.
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ezdays - 03-06-2013
Sumpter250 Wrote:
And - - -that one even "looks" good ! Waiting to see what you put into the available real estate.
I was thinking that for now, a FOR SALE sign (ie: "available real estate") would be appropriate to put there....
:mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - Sumpter250 - 03-07-2013
Re: Ez's 2013 duff challenge - ezdays - 03-09-2013
Okey dokey, I'm to the point that I'm going to declare this challenge finished. There's a lot more to work on as far as the rest of the layout, but I think I've accomplished what I said I would. Here are some of the results:
I added details to the hill below the pasture and roadbed:
I extended the area between the hills and added trees and other greenery:
I added talus and other details to the bottom of the hill:
More details added as well as finishing off the roadbed:
And one overall shot: