--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> SNIP<
>
>
> Once your juices are really flowing, advance to scratchbuilding most anything
> you want. There is an HO layout in this area with a fully working logging
> operation complete with crane, overhead wires, tongs for the logs, loading
> onto flat cars, etc. It is an amazing creation out in the woods where the
> lumberjacks are hard at work. Logs are picked up off the ground, moved via
> overhead cables to a siding, and then lowered onto empty flat cars. If you
> model the 1940s era, why not have some background music from WWII to create
> some ambiance and establish the time frame? Nothing like good wartime
> marching music to get your blood flowing a bit faster.
>
> None of this is difficult to do and each adds some measure of enjoyment to a
> layout.
>
> Having fun? You bet....Ed L.
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Ed:
You could have also mentioned Dave Adam's wonderful On3 layout in your
"backyard" there in Los Gatos. His timetable operating sessions require water
stops at water tanks where the crew is required to lower the water spigot and
fill the tenders. The spigots raise and lower, and there is a nice tidy bowl
type flushing sound that accompanies the animation.
Likewise, the hostlers must coal the engines at the coal tower. I believe Dave
actually recorded coal being loaded on the one of the Silverton engines.
These sounds and animations are part of Dave's scale operations and really
enhance the operator's experiences.
Ed, you also forgot to mention the cool sound effects on your layout. However,
I not sure sound effects alone are "animation" and within the subject of this
topic, so I'll end here.
John Gibson
Rocklin, CA
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