Author: frogpipe
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Xmas Garden Route Promo
A silly “advertisement” for my Christmas Toy Train Route made using vintage Marx commercial audio.
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A Christmas Gift
As a small diversion for this holiday season, I decided to throw together a recreation of the first trains I ever played with. This very small route is a recreation of the 0 gauge layout my late grandfather built to go under (well actually to hold up) the Christmas tree. The buildings are not identical, […]
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AI Colorization to The Rescue
Former colors for my billboard model were a total guess. Then I got the bright idea to use an online AI Colorizer to try and recreate the scene. These colors are the results (along with some other tweaks).
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New Asset – 1930s Roadside Billboard
I don’t roll my own unless there just isn’t anything close, but I happened on a photo from 1938 showing this roadside billboard right across the street from the Reedsville station… Sometimes you have to say close is close enough – I made the skin and model, including the advertisement. As you can see, the […]
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Screenshots, 14 Dec 22
Screenshots taken around the route on December 14, 2022. Belleville to Hooley.
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3 Miles in Big Valley
Cab ride over the first 3 miles, well actually last 3 miles, of my proto-freelanced route of the Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad (KVRR), based on the history of the line as chronicled in “The Ol’ Hook and Eye” by John G. Hartzler. This is the 1st Draft of the scenery and there’s definitely some places the […]