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Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed!
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248521
This steel transport waggon is my second favorite looks so simple, but very
realistic:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248538
And all these open waggons look really cute:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248532
One question for your camera Huw:
these pictures are so brilliant: please let me know, what kind of camera are
you using. Do you have special lightning sets? Anything more than the cameras
flash?
Kind Regards,
Ben
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
>
> This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed!
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248521
I liked this one as well. It's an interesting twist on the bent arm approach
to drop center flats. You can see another approach here...
http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info_1004.html#MTW-1004-by
I had chosen to have end railings (simulating a car that has many more
wheels than the car actually does) rather than extending the ends as far as
Huw did.
Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though (unless he's
modeling very tight clearance even by European standards) :-)
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
> >
> > This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed!
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248521
>
> I liked this one as well. It's an interesting twist on the bent arm approach
> to drop center flats. You can see another approach here...
>
> http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info_1004.html#MTW-1004-by
Wow, I missed that one. Great idea with the Maerklin-like transformer as load!
I would beg you to post your MOC designs more often here (even if you sell
them...). Or have I just overread your announcement concerning that great
waggon?
Keep on Bricking!
Ben
> I had chosen to have end railings (simulating a car that has many more
> wheels than the car actually does) rather than extending the ends as far as
> Huw did.
> Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though (unless he's
> modeling very tight clearance even by European standards) :-)
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Wow, I missed that one. Great idea with the Maerklin-like transformer as load!
I freely admit inspiration from James Mathis on that one, he posted some
Maerklin stuff and had built a trafo car... I dug around at various sites
looking for real and toy drop center cars and trafos seem the most common
loads so that is what I went with. I like the design so much (it has working
tie down winches embedded in the ends) that I'll be using it again in
another set with a different load.
> I would beg you to post your MOC designs more often here (even if you sell
> them...). Or have I just overread your announcement concerning that great
> waggon?
Gotta be sensitive to the no flogging rule of course, but I do post here...
you probably missed it. This car was previewed at an NELUG show I attended,
it was mentioned here then, and then again when it launched there was info
on .auction and on .bst... maybe not here though, I forget.
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> I would beg you to post your MOC designs more often here (even if you sell
> them...).
Well, since you begged... :-)
Here's an announcement of a new design...
http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info_5001.html
I have some variants and doodles (for lots of other equipment) which I need
to get some pics of. I was lucky enough to be in Portland OR earlier this
week and visited the PNLTC mall location. Jeremy Rear and Matt Chiles had
some of their farm equipment in a nice apple orchard/plowed field setting
and I was able to put some of my new equipment and theirs together, good fun.
Jeremy got some pics of stuff like his BIG tractor pulling my hay wagon, my
tractor pulling Matt's seeder, another tractor of mine pulling Jeremy's
sprayer, stuff like that. It all looked great together.
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> Here's an announcement of a new design...
>
> http://www.miltontrainworks.com/item_info_5001.html
> I have some variants and doodles (for lots of other equipment) which I need
> to get some pics of. I was lucky enough to be in Portland OR earlier this
> week and visited the PNLTC mall location. Jeremy Rear and Matt Chiles had
> some of their farm equipment in a nice apple orchard/plowed field setting
> and I was able to put some of my new equipment and theirs together, good fun.
>
> Jeremy got some pics of stuff like his BIG tractor pulling my hay wagon, my
> tractor pulling Matt's seeder, another tractor of mine pulling Jeremy's
> sprayer, stuff like that. It all looked great together.
Hi Larry,
thanks for the link! Nice John Deere tractors, that remind me on the
old tractor used as load here... (sorry for bringing this link once more.) ;-)
http://www.fgltc.org/bwoabs/misc/pi421.jpg
(from this site: http://www.fgltc.org/bwoabs/misc/misc.phtml#fun)
As you may know, most of my models are somewhat related to rural sceeneries...
So I will try to find out now, if some of PNLTCs latest pictures may have
appeared at brickshelf.
Leg Godt!
Ben
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>
> Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though (unless he's
> modeling very tight clearance even by European standards) :-)
Probably is, Uk loading gauge is pretty tight and a big digger would require
a drop centre (well-wagon), mind you the engineering department (on BR
anyway) tend to use the vehicles they have aquired.
Tim
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:H2zsuv.Eov@lugnet.com...
> Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
Not with our measly loading gauge:
http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
:-)
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In lugnet.trains, Huw Millington writes:
>
> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
> news:H2zsuv.Eov@lugnet.com...
>
> > Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
>
> Not with our measly loading gauge:
>
> http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
Wow, you aren't kidding. I had no idea. Thanks for the cite
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> > Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
>
> Not with our measly loading gauge:
>
> http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
I think US loading gauge is quite a lot larger than Euro standard as well
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David writes:
> > > Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
> >
> > Not with our measly loading gauge:
> >
> > http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
>
> I think US loading gauge is quite a lot larger than Euro standard as well
Loads and loads bigger. (sorry! ... 'k, no I'm not).
I just had no idea that UK was so much smaller than the rest of Europe!
After all, the UK is the original home of Broad Gauge...
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Tim David writes:
> > > > Huw needs a bigger load to justify the drop center though
> > >
> > > Not with our measly loading gauge:
> > >
> > > http://www.crowsnest.co.uk/gauge.htm
> >
> > I think US loading gauge is quite a lot larger than Euro standard as well
>
> Loads and loads bigger. (sorry! ... 'k, no I'm not).
>
> I just had no idea that UK was so much smaller than the rest of Europe!
> After all, the UK is the original home of Broad Gauge...
Unfortunately Brunel was a lonely voice of over-engineering - pretty well
the whole of the rest of the country followed Stephenson into 4' 8.5" and
God's Wonderful Railway had no choice but to change. NR Loading gauge, the
size of Underground tunnels, low power to OHLE, the lack of lift access to
stations... in so many things we get to watch the rest of the world learn
from our mistakes. Interestingly fairly recent HMRI rules on platform
stepping distances make it near impossible to improve unless someone bites
the bullet and upgrades the entire network. Ah, well at least we will soon
have CTRL to see what a real modern railway should be.
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Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
news:H2zJ1z.Hv7@lugnet.com...
> Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
Thanks Ben, actually some are quite old, but I inadvertently deleted them
from Brickshelf a couple of months ago and couldn't find a backup copy
locally, so I photographed them all again at the weekend.
> This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed!
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248521
This was based on Larry's design, but I wanted to make it completely
studless (apart from the bogies of course). Making a receptor hole for the
bogie pin was the hardest part. Larry has hidden that detail from view on
his model, but you can see my solution quite clearly. UK versions of these
wagons, called flatrols, don't have end railings. Until recently, the only
wagons that did in the UK were those designed for travel to the continent.
> This steel transport waggon is my second favorite looks so simple, but
> very realistic:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248538
They are designed like that to carry steel sheet that is out of gauge.
Unfortunately the load is not secured on my model so it soon comes flying
off!
> And all these open waggons look really cute:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248532
the 4 wheelers are based on these
http://www.brickset.com/wagons/profile.asp?ID=5 and the bogie ones on these
http://www.brickset.com/wagons/profile.asp?ID=10
> these pictures are so brilliant: please let me know, what kind of camera • are
> you using. Do you have special lightning sets? Anything more than the
> cameras flash?
Lighting is certainly the key. I took these in my conservatory on a bright
day, so there was light hitting the subject from all sides. Some also have
fill-in flash from the built-in flash. Despite this, some still came out a
little dark so I simply upped the gamma a bit in Paint Shop Pro, which makes
some of them, like this one,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248518 look a little grainy.
It also helps shooting them against a mid-toned background.
They were taken using an Olympus C-2000 2 megapixel camera, using the close
focus setting. The 1600x1200 images were then resized 50%.
Huw
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In lugnet.trains, Huw Millington writes:
>
> Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
[snip]
> Lighting is certainly the key. I took these in my conservatory on a bright
> day, so there was light hitting the subject from all sides. Some also have
> fill-in flash from the built-in flash. Despite this, some still came out a
> little dark so I simply upped the gamma a bit in Paint Shop Pro, which makes
> some of them, like this one,
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=248518 look a little grainy.
> It also helps shooting them against a mid-toned background.
>
> They were taken using an Olympus C-2000 2 megapixel camera, using the close
> focus setting. The 1600x1200 images were then resized 50%.
Thanks for these infos, Huw!
My 4 years old Camedia 820L from Olympus has lots of problems with the
black undercarriages of my rolling stock. Even gammy correction does not help
there. But after nearlly 20000 pictures I might buy a newer one soon.
Leg Godt!
Ben
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In lugnet.trains, Huw Millington writes:
>
> Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
> news:H2zJ1z.Hv7@lugnet.com...
> > Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=25576
Agreed. Thanks for reposting these fine models to your gallery, Huw.
later,
James Mathis
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