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General Category => Modellers At Work => Topic started by: lenelg on December 31, 2014, 12:16:32 PM

Title: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: lenelg on December 31, 2014, 12:16:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rDNUgIHPk&feature=em-upload_owner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6rDNUgIHPk&feature=em-upload_owner)

A neat little On3 layout, created by Swedish modelers Torbjörn Holmberg and Anders Bondesson. A glimpse of rural Sweden in the early 1950´s.
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Design-HSB on December 31, 2014, 12:51:20 PM
Very interesting video with interesting tricks video, where, for example, real smoke and people were employed in the appropriate size.
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: artizen on December 31, 2014, 03:35:13 PM
Despite the coarse track standards and lack of crew in the locos, this has a real atmosphere about it. A believable little place to get lost in. Thanks for posting this.
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Mr Potato Head on December 31, 2014, 04:12:25 PM
Very Clever
I've never seen anyone do that before
Bravo
MPH
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Hauk on December 31, 2014, 05:09:28 PM
Quote from: artizen on December 31, 2014, 03:35:13 PM
Despite the coarse track standards and lack of crew in the locos, this has a real atmosphere about it. A believable little place to get lost in. Thanks for posting this.

Very nice video. I agree that the ghost trains with no crew is a bit spooky, but there is nothing coarse about the track standard. The layout uses H0 scale Rp-25 wheels, me thinks, so while it is not exactly fine scale, it is far from coarse scale.
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Ray Dunakin on December 31, 2014, 06:28:52 PM
Very nice! It's a great looking layout. The live-action characters were subtle enough to add interest without being distracting. The smoke and steam was less effective, but of course it's a much more difficult thing to pull off successfully -- I applaud the effort.

I also got a kick out of the humorous ending.
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Hydrostat on January 01, 2015, 04:28:11 AM
I like the overall atmosphere of the layout - thanks for posting! The prototype sounds still work best of the different 'tricks' in my opinion (I'm sure the makers don't really think their steam and the inserted persons look deceptively realistic, too, and maybe less was more here ::)), but the track gives it away for me at the latest. It isn't so much the coarseness in it's detailing with the missing nails (I'm sure there were railways with nailed track - without plates), but there are so many unmotivated curves in opposite directions and changes of radius within one curve. In German we would call this "Verniedlichung" and I'm not quite sure if the translation 'minimization' boils it down to an essence. Anyway - it would be interesting to see some outside daylight pics of the layout.

Cheers,
Volker
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: mabloodhound on January 02, 2015, 08:50:16 AM
The added Photoshop animations were quite good except a number of the men had the same runny nose and bad cough.
Engineers missing from the cab is one of my pet peeves and really should be there in this high quality layout.
Nice ending with the animation added.
;D
Title: Re: A neat Swedish On3 layout
Post by: Mr Potato Head on January 02, 2015, 09:03:15 AM
comment and critique all you want ......
you watched to the end, it captivated you :o
It was intriguing to me
MPH