Monster, it worked for me!! Like I said in a previous post "there are dreamers and there are doers" and you are "gettin'er done", no sh#t!!
I have never seen a layout of this quality and scale come together this quickly and "that is a roundhouse "to die for". I only have a classic Marklin tinplate shed. Keep it up. I am following your progress, here in
Seattle, WA, USA.
Good Jule!!!

Hi Monster
WOW! I,m impressed. Looking and seeing how and what you have achieved is very inspirational. I,m amazed at the speed at which you have attacked this plus the detailing to me is great. Truly look forward to seeing more.
Cheers

Hi Riekus,

Your scenery is spectacular! An inspiration to all of us.

Ray

Big job in little time, Monster.

Great Job, nice those pics, keep on...

Very brilliant.
N

I cannot believe this is a couple of month's work.... Incredible!

Superb job and love the roundhouse!

Great progress and great result.Congratulations.

Amazing...indeed words cannot do justice!
Keep us updated with your progress.

Excellent! This roundhouse is really impressive , with at least 45,000 hp of steam power [:0] inside. BTW this would be a nice quiz question.

Hans Martin

Impressive you layout. Have fun with it.

Very impressive!

There must be a team of highly skilled Elves working on this layout at night. Are they for rent or lease??

I expect you will be building this also


"Form huge excavator thread"

That's "Bagger 288", world's biggest bucket-wheel excavator. This thing is so huge even in H0 scale it'd be more than 3 feet high and 10 feet long....[:0]

Great work on the layout!

I would like to be the gent operting it...lol!

Are you sure that the operator is a male?
Can't be too sure nowadays

And then there is the stuff you have already seen.I finally got around to adding water to 1 side of the ravine and roughly built the bridge.This will get painted to look ropey and so forth.


Weathered a bit of the coal bunker.I will finish this off with the airbrush when i do final detail.


Tried my best to hide bad benchwork here.The walls are from Faller.3D sort of look to them.I like the finer 1 more,but as a trial this one didnt turn out too bad.


Some little extras like bushes and so forth


Something to keep the kids busy


And this side ive been detailing and coloring in.Nothing spectacular



Again,my initial benchwork sucked here.But im learning.With a couple of bits here and there i should pull this off.I love the look of that wall though.Pity the cow isnt straight though.


And lastly,an overview from the backside of the layout.


Thanx for looking nad next time will be better.Its going to be station time soon.Cant wait.

Come have a holiday in Brisbane . I cna use you.

Great.
Nev

Amazing progress, Riekus.

Thanks for sharing the pictures. [:p]

WOW! Love it.

Thanx guys.Did this little video a week or so ago.Youtube made sure that it came out very dark.But anyways,39050 and 37889 doing their bussiness hehehehehe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLk_5Gh1rVw

I also have a strange visitor to my layout.I never thought it would turn on my layout,but it flies around there.Little modifications here and there.....and the monster clears everywhere.Will post some action shots later,and maybe a little video.

Enjoy

Majik.
N

Very Impressive!

Hi Riekus,

Good progress on your layout. Texture and colour are the key words for any layout and yours has plenty

It looks as though you made your video at night, hence the dark pictures. I have found it best to film in daylight hours or if this isn't possible place some flood lights on either side of your video camera.
ross

I have the far left corner of the layout to do still,and this crusher building has to fit in here somewhere.Any ideas on how to make heaps of stone?


I then did the platforms for the station.Weathered here and there and so forth




And that is that.Thanx for watching.

Still amazed at the speed and quality at which you are building.

Could you consider doing some new photoes in a walk around fashion so we can see the entire layout as you see it?

Training....i will do that.As soon as im done with this part of the layout i will do an overview.Its still waaaaaaaay to filthy on and around it to brag.

Great work, Too big one.

Well done, It looks fantastic!

Your layout will be great when done!

Sorry the station extension

That is amazing!!!!!!

Very impressive cobber.

Those magic elves are going to go on strike one of these days

Excellent work.

Hallo Riekus.
Wanna' move to France for a couple of weeks?
I have a big layout to build...and I like your "monster-job"!!
Wanna' help?
I am not sure I could feed you enough, but wines here are ok too (Not as good as "Rust and Vrede" though!)
Wow! You should warn people: "Please fasten your seat beld before reading what follows!"
So you guys in SA also play trains??
Must be "ethnic": our friend Dale Schultz, another "Afrikaander" is just as prolific and creative.
Hats off!

Hi Riekus,
Good progress on your layout. Nice paint job on your station.

I think your secret is steady work, colour and texture and be prepared to give new techniques a try.
Ross

Awesome work Riekus!

Ohhhh,im having fun ok hehehehe.Sooo,it was easter week-end.I had 4 days of working on the lay-out.

I made the most of it.I painted the first mountain last week already,and just scattered trees onto it for now...for a bit of color.


It does make for interesting views from the factory side.


Last weekend i carved some texture into the lastest mountain.Took me ages.This was easily the hardest job this far.I tried the moulds.But it just doesnt give the texture i wanted.These moulds make the mountain look ummm....uuuuuhh....well...moulded.

I wanted a rougher look,which i think i got right.Im still painting the thing,but the bit with the mine entrance is nearly there.Wad of orange here and there...bit of ochre and it should be right.


Went to visit Koert.He changed his mind yet again,and he is now going American steam.So he had this mine standing there that he built last year.Looks like a pimple on a blonds bum on his layout,so i took it.


A bit rough around the edges,but i will sort it.

Right on to the easter update.Man,ive put in quality time.Coupled up all the lights at the station


That was fairly quick to do,but this little building standing opposite the station had no interior.So i put some life into it.


That took a while.I was burning to lay my curved track on the pass.And when that was down it was Sunday hehehhe.And with 3 tracks in midair....whats to do??????I added my third board and all i can say is WHOW!


Its unbelievable what a bit of runtime does for a layout.I had the third board running half past 3 this morning.It added over 2 minutes to my travel time.Awesome.It came out better than i thought.Everything is obviously still loose on there.I will start glueing stuff down later.





Monsterville is now growing into a decent shape and size.



This third board is going to be my town area.8 blocks is the plan.I cant wait to start with it.

Best part is that i fitted this board higher than the other 2,so it adds a nice dimension to the overall look of the layout.

Thanx for watching...

Very nice, Too big.

Congratulations Riekus.
Very impressive job.
¡Bravo¡ from a South American construction amateur for a South African professional lay out constructor.
I am looking to develop some of your ideas in my starting layout.
I have a question for you:
¿Where did you buy the double track girder bridge that appears in photo N° 8, of your 2008/03/25 post.
Thanks.
Julio

Hehehehe,when im out of space.This was my original idea for the layout.I wanted to do 3 modules.First one was supposed to be the roundhouse and trainyard.Second one was supposed to be the industrial area and station.

Third one is going to be my town.At the back of the layout you will see an alley going down.This alley gives me another 6.8m by 2.4m room space.This will be my coast line.I want to do a harbour area as well.How i dont know yet.But it will run along the wall of this alley.Nice long 6.4m straights and i want the trains to go down,back up and down again and back to the current lay-out.

In total i should have a 80m main line.I have another idea for where my workbench is now.But this is far in the future.

Hi Riekus:
Thanks for your information.
Waiting for your next "working" long weekend, ¡to admire your layout progress¡.
Julio

ooh! double cuckoo clocks....
nice progress !
now I know the car paintings on the walls may bring fond memories, but this is now a train room, what I am looking for now is some sky and distant mountains painted on the walls... it will add tremendous depth to the train layout.....

Weird question (from me [:0] ?):

In the picture looking up the mountain from the Bell Foundry - you have a bell on a flat car - where did you get a bell like that? I am also planning to do the bell foundry on my layout .

Thanks and keep it up! You are getting us all in the Spirit!!

Jim (In the Spirits!)

p.s. Is the dart board still regulation distance over the layout?

Too big and tall!

Finally gave some color to the whole thing.Needs touching up here and there,but i am humming along nicely.


Started detailing the mine.Added some dieseltanks up there,and the start of a heap of coal.Ive got a little Kibri dragline that i want to put up here.


Also fitted a fence.I will do the rest of it tomorrow.



Also started covering the bits ive finished painting


Sort of an overview of the start of the mine


It makes for some interesting photos.I think when im done here and all the dust is worked in,it can be quite nice




And as usual,an overview from up top in the house


Thanx for watching

Hi Riekus, Good to see some paint being applied to the new mountain area, white isn't a good look for too long. I like your mine detail.
Ross

Looking good! You have the gift! Did you also draw rhe Alfa Romeo and Lancia on the wall?