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Very nice.....one of my wife's sons worked at the Lumberyard brewery/restaurant across the tracks for years. You have their paring lot and part of a building in your module . Going to be a great module. They did or do have a web cam at the station aimed at the tracks. Maybe have a small computer screen by the module with the cam showing on the screen.Sumner
That would be the VR camera, I do plan on 3d printing some tiny CCTV cameras to place on the building to represent it. I was thinking about trying to add a working camera to the roof and having a small screen built into the fascia to "simulate" the VR camera but I don't think there's a camera small enough that wouldn't be too distracting to fit on the roof to make it worth it.
I'm curious how you painted the gingerbread sections of the station. Did you cut masking for all the panels?
Can you striaghten the porch-like section on the station? It doesn't look like its quite square to the building, the sign is particularly distracting.
I started scratchbuilding mine back in 1976, building the station (shortened on the one baggage wing) purely by scaling photos. The Warbonnet put out actual drawings a couple years ago. Sure could have used those, because figuring out the geometry was a bear. It's all H&R brick and Vollmer roofing. This was my first major scratchbuild working from photos.My entire 'downtown Flagstaff' is 8 feet long, going from curve to curve. It's intended to be the way Flag looked in 1972, when the mill was still active, Joes Bar wasn't a crystal shop, and the Commercial Hotel hadn't yet burned down (1975). The color scheme in the 70's was the white trim on tan stucco, and the roof color was that tan, not the current gray, so it had a completely different look than today. Pretty much every building is either scratchbuilt from photos or modified from a kit that was 'darn awful close'. Mt. Eldon is a photo I took. The center platform was still there then, siding had both ends intact, and the circus ramp for piggyback truck loading was darn active, it's still there today though. Ballast was still the reddish volcanic basalt, wood ties. So many changes over the years.http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/flagstaff_old_1979_oct2.jpgA black and white of the N depot was published in RMC way back when.Doing this thing full scale size on Fre-Mo is a complete wow for sure, but I still prefer the 'nostalgic' 70's look, the pre-college Flagstaff, piggyback ramp and actual lumberyard. To say nothing of the ear-shattering racket of an uphill train clearing the two crossings before the quiet zone came in. Oh, and the 'old depot' was still a freight house receiving actual boxcars - LCL wasn't entirely dead, yet.link: http://www.randgust.com/Flagstaff_east_3.jpgOh, and just to prove it's always a moving target out there, you do know they are widening the bridge, putting the passing siding in as a connecting third track (main), etc.? I noticed they had lengthened the original siding when I was watching the Virtual Railfan cameras and started asking questions. This is a major project that will impact what you see today, I'm glad I'm stuck in 1972https://www.arizonafuture.org/media/hzodxlho/city-of-flagstaff-downtown-mile-fact-sheet.pdf
Whose end-of-module soldering strips are those? I don't recognize them.Dennis
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