Peter, Pieter, and Anyone Else,
The article in question was in an MR. I'm not sure I remember any John
Armstrong writings in any other magazine, although he did do some books for Tab
and Atlas. Mr. Armstrong also had a place on his layout where you could crawl
under a hill and look out through the window of a small RR structure at the
moving trains. Rather reminds of some of the things Peter is proposing.
Similar views might be gained from some of his buildings. Whatever Peter
builds, I'm sure it will be interesting.
Jamie Bothwell
Bethlehem, PA
--- In [email protected], Peter Vanvliet <pavanvliet@...> wrote:
>
> I remember that article (can't remember which magazine it was in).
>
> Now that I can actually *see* the figures in my engines, it kind of
> annoys me that the engineer and brakeman are looking forward when the
> train is moving backwards. IIRC the article had the engineer hanging out
> of the window, and only his head turned.
>
> I have thought about maybe making the entire engineer's chair rotate.
> Has anybody ever experimented with that idea? Can we get our mechanicals
> small enough to fit under the cab of an engine, especially with DCC and
> sound incorporated?
>
> I, for one, intend to put as much *realistic* animation on my layout as
> possible. I am getting ready to start scratchbuilding structures for my
> layout. The ones in the back will have lights and possibly even sounds.
> The ones in the front will be built such that the internals of the
> structure are fully visible. The idea is that a giant circular saw came
> through and cut of my layout right at the front fascia, cutting
> buildings in half. I have seen a couple of layout photos of this idea,
> and it really requires detailing the interiors, which I like to do. I
> plan on having animation and lights in those structures so that people
> can see figures working. That YouTube link showing the fantastic work
> that this gentleman in Australia is doing in HO is tremendously
> inspirational. He has other videos on the subject, if you are not
> familiar with it.
>
> - Peter.
>
> On 03/01/2011 7:59 am, Pieter Roos wrote:
> > The late O scaler John Armstrong (The other John Armstrong) wrote up
> > building an engineer figure who turned his had when the locomtive reversed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Pieter E. Roos
> >
>
> --
> Peter Vanvliet (pavanvliet@..., or peter@...)
> Houston, Texas
>
> "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..."
>
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>
>
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