The new Arrowhead township revamp at night

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A few shots of the recent Arrowhead township makeover at night (photos of the before and after are in another post..
All of the lighting is by LEDs (warm white and orangey-white to simulate the tungsten appearance.
The strange criss-cross and the speckled shadows in one or two of the photos are the house lights shining through the trellis gate and a bush.
Also it started to rain while I was taking the photos and some drops got onto the lens so there might be some 'burry' spots.

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beavercreek said:
A few shots of the recent Arrowhead township makeover at night (photos of the before and after are in another post..
All of the lighting is by LEDs (warm white and orangey-white to simulate the tungsten appearance.
The strange criss-cross and the speckled shadows in one or two of the photos are the house lights shining through the trellis gate and a bush.
Also it started to rain while I was taking the photos and some drops got onto the lens so there might be some 'burry' spots.
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Truly amazing. I can't imagine how much work went into the lighting, let alone the whole township.
How do all the buildings stand up with your weather?
 
Hi Greg, many thanks for the kind comments mate.
All my buildings stay out all year around. most have been out for about 8 to 10 years now

Some are plastic (kit built or kit bashed), a lot are are wood and a few are resin.

I built most of the wood ones using western red cedar which has amazing anti-rot properties and 'greys' really nice if you want it to.
The wood ones have all been treated with 5 star preservative and sit on styroform foam-board bases.
The wooden buildings that I have acquired, that were not built from cedar, have been 'waterproofed' with 5 star and had new foam-board backs (if the back is never seen), new roofing (relief patterned plastic sheet or metal sheet) and sealed.

When the weather is going to be particularly inclement I do have plastic covers (sections of small hooped poly-tunnel lengths cut at about 60cms wide and 60cms high and 80cms long) which I will put over the most exposed ones.
 
One more shot...spot the cobwebs...... little varmints got in before I sprayed the whole area with spider repellent!

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Most exxxceeellleeent!

Your vignettes have an ambience which reminds me of Denver's old downtown warehouse district in the mid-latter sixties. Trains still shunted box cars in the streets. Skid row near the station area was largely uninhabited but for hobos and drunks bikers and prostitutes....and me and my friend on our english three speeds ( with dyna hub!) on a cool fall evening dusk turning to dark. And, docks lighted just like yours, with little in the way of street lamps. But, much more spread out. Very wide streets, like great low canyons of brick, with occasional breaks in the roofline allowing in the horizon.

Denver was still more turn of the century/thirties/forties architecture, low population and development/very low density, as was typical for western cities. I can recall regularly going to the U.P./c and s yards as a young teen rail nut and the yard crews invitingmy friend and i to ride along in the yards.

See how youve taken my mind back ( or what remains of it).
 
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Thanks Steve. I always take your words as praise indeed as you actually have lived in the area that I try to base my layout on.

The layout is a bit 'freelanced' using fictional places that might have had the D&RGW running through them or linked to them via a 'local' line.
My garden is not big enough to do even a scale representation of a section of a town (some layouts in the US have had fantastic goes at this).

So I have tried to do individual 'vignettes' as separate areas of one town that might have existed and I have spread these vignettes around to act as a separate 'townships'.
So each 'town' has different aspects of what one might have been all together. (that is why one of the saw mill towns, Arrowhead, is now a coal town..... as two saw mills were one too many.)
 
Hi Korm, lovely to hear from again.
I would love to have more space to do a really realistic expansive 'downtown' section of a town but I have run out of space as the garden, that we use for relaxing, planting etc, is very much out of bounds for expansion of the layout!
That is why nearly all of my 'townships are under or behind trees and bushes!
 
korm kormsen said:
oh, yeah, i understand you so well... i'm a husband too.

but, i think, the density of the settlement makes big part of its charme.
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Tee Hee.... for the 'husband' statement..... :oops: :)

But thanks for the encouraging comments Korm!
 
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