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Video: Allen Keller's "Bluff City Southern"
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| Great Model Railroads Volume 38 |
| Part # AKP-GMR-38 |
N Scale Supply Price: $33.99 |
| New: December 2004 |
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Allen Keller’s Bluff
City Southern is set in the area around Memphis of 1950 when cotton was king.
He models 5 railroads- Illinois Central, Frisco, L&N, Missouri Pacific and
Southern-that helped make the city a major distribution center for the Mid-South.
The HO scale BCS is filled with deep scenes that are highly detailed. Allen tries
to embellish the interesting qualities of a scene while de-emphasizing the dull
parts.
Layout construction began in 1997 and now the railroad runs from staging in Greenville,
Mississippi through Memphis to staging in Forrest City, Arkansas. Later a line
will be added to run to Jackson, Tennessee. The railroad and its scenes are a
way for Allen to re-capture his childhood in Memphis of the 1950s.
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| The BCS features
a seldom modeled area of the country, the Delta lands of the Mid-South. This relatively
flat scenery presents an artistic challenge that is much different than mountain
railroading. He’s captured the look of hot, vast fields, slower paced rural
living, poor but proud sharecroppers, and magnificent mansions of the antebellum
South. |
You will
learn how Allen uses styrofoam panels instead of plywood, plants fake fur weeds,
weathers with tempra paints, kitbashes buildings, and details track with paint.
The BCS is built on a few guiding principles: keep things simple, only detail
what can be seen, find the essence of a scene, and know that you can’t scratchbuild
everything. |
This picture is an actual video frame captured from this video!
©2001 Allen Keller Productions |
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