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Showing posts with label MODEL TRAIN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MODEL TRAIN. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

T-GUAGE IN MACRO VIEW

im STILL amazed at the details on this small itty-bitty model train i own.

i was goofballing down at the club and took these shots of soe of the buildings and scenic stuff in MACRO, which is a higher quality shot when your taking something close up. which in order to see clearly, has to be done in order to see ANYTHING in these tiny little things.

as a note, the buildings have actual floors, and the floors themselves house a variety of differnt things depending on the building itself.
the office building had desks, and file cabinets, and a staircase.
the home has a 1st floor with a couch and tv, stairs to the second floor, which it has a bedroom with a bed and dresser in it.

unfortunately you can t see that, even in the macro shot. ill have to disasemble them and take more macros of just the interiors.
my question has always been...WHY? with even the naked eye you cant discern the details to any great degree, would you even think to do that?
my husbands answer to that question is: "because they can."
i suppose.

hers the pics. ENJOY!
MICHELLE

me holding my yellow t-gauge

look how small this thing actually is!

my t-gauge next to a standard sized stick of gum.

ON the gum itself.

T-Gauge House. if you look closely in that top window you can see theres somthing 'dark' in there, thats some peice of furniture on that floor.

another shot, "dark object" still there.

same house, now you can almost make out the bed and dresser in this shot.

i lost the bottom floor somewhere, apparently. it has a couch and TV set on it.  wouldnt know that by looking at these few pics tho, very empty in there without at least a floor.

Building, shot of the stairwell

sorry about the tape. the parts done all go together and fit perfectly. the bottoms like to fall off and out, so i taped them.

front of the same building, and you can barely see the floors have objects on them.

different building


again, each floor has something placed on it for depth. great in a macro shot, but to the naked eye, almost impossible to even see that detail.

Z Scale house (chewed lovingly by one of my dogs) and my T-Gauge House. pretty big size differential.

Z Scale Caboose, and my T-Gauge Train Car.

T-Gauge in the front, Z scale caboose right behind, and an N-scale brass caboose furthest back.

sorry about the quality. my T-Gauge against the N-Scale caboose.

t-gauge people and animals. Horses, and cows, and other things i cant exactly make out due to their size. i think its all livestock, or barn animals. by the way..ALL PAINTED!


my husbands fingers to show how very small these items are. i dont think youd see them actually On a display. youd certainly never miss them, and could possibly never find them if they fell off...smaller than a grain of rice these are.


Monday, January 10, 2011

1-10-2011 THE MAKING OF A RED 'BLINGY' MODEL TRAIN CAR

so, i made the engine, and needed some cars to go along with it.

theres a story to set up how i got this GREEN box car.

we have an annual Christmas party for our train club. and its a common thing for each person whos interested in playing DIRTY SANTA (and  no, its not THAT kind of 'Dirty") Game, to bring a gift to exchange.
rules go something like this: 1st 5 players pic a gift thats not theirs from under the tree, and can opt to swap out with anyone of the next person or, wait to pick the gift they want till the end. if they havnt had 3 turns on one item. after one item has exchanged hands 3 times it is officially owned.

anyway, i got my chance to go under the tree, picked out a gift, and opened it up, and it was scenic trees. man! i liked those, so it became a running joke that everyone would come and tease me about getting them, but then would go get the thing they wanted more...just to make fun of he fact i REALLY liked MY gift. it wasnt a dud to me. i had plans.
you read that right, i HAD plans.

well, par the rules, one of the people who was one of the 1st 5, took my trees, and handed me his ugly green box car. i was nearly in tears.
looked at that thing, and was thinking what in the world would i do with THAT?!?!?!
mostly feeling hurt that those trees i really liked got taken from me.
im not lying when i think you could have heard a pin drop...my face, im sure said it all for the room.
i was CRUSHED.
and here i was, sitting there, with this ugly green box car and no idea what i was ever gong to do with it.

i had purchased the engine just a few weeks before, and already had the idea to "bling" it up. i hadnt officially started it yet, byt the club christmas party, but i had the idea set indie me, to do it.

so, after i gathered my injured and crushed pride, and my husband came over to me to console my grief...i decided id make this the 1st BLING box car!
when life hand you lemons you make a BLING BOX CAR!

so, i started work on her at the start of the year. by the 10th of january, i was finished. and...quite proud of what i had accomplished. i think she came out BEAUTIFULLY!

heres the pics as i worked on her..start to finish:
ENJOY
MICHELLE

the GREEN car, BEFORE i made changes to her
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doors move and come off
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base coat of..SILVER (thats the color of the glitter glue i used-SILVER GLITTER GLUE)
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side 1
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one end
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end and side 1
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side 2, wanted to have something INSIDE the car, to show dimension
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1st end and side 2
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other end
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other end and side 2
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other end and side 1
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inside-this is some heavy plastic coated in some gold and crystal stuff, very weighty. im hoping this works when the engine has too pull it, because its quite heavy.
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the open car door with the glitter stuff inside
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a complete RED BLING BOX CAR!
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