Continuing the engine house theme, My little house just finished too.
Ken.
Went to a train show today, these are from the local Sn3.5 scale club modular layout, it’s all my local area trains.
Ken.
Ok, I have the basic grade built on the layout now. Here are some pics. Sorry about the mess. There are 2 large gaps in the foam, one by the river and the other is crossing another track. There will be two tressells spaning these gaps.
Karl, those look fantastic!
Here are some random pics
A CSX GP40-2 I saw a few weeks ago
[url][http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aat?full=1/url]
A Lego Trackmobile I built
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aaw
My Lego Green Goat switcher in a fictitious Massachusetts Central paintschemehttp://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aax
My new Kato F40PH which I might outfit with a sound decoder
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aav
And finally, an N scale station I built, complete with yellow line on platform
[url][http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aau?full=1/url]
Hope you all like the pics[8D]
LOOKING GOOD ADAM!
UK Guy, Great autos. It was a week of tall trees for me. I started with Aggro’s ideas
Tore out more filter and got better.
Started the small forrest. 95 to go.
Then tried a White Pine
I hope practice improves all this.
Back to rocks next week.
Here’s what I’ve been working on over the past few days - a Dapol Presflow kit. The real thing was a covered hopper designed for cement transport and built in the late '50s. The model actually dates from around the same time, as it was originally tooled by Airfix, Dapol obtaining the moulds a few years ago. It’s a good kit though the tooling is showing its age now - there’s a fair bit of moulding flash. Tricky part is keeping it square as there’s no single floor moulding - it has the two “floor” sections either side of the hopper but that’s all. The hopper body has a good quantity of lead fishing shot inside, fixed in place with PVA glue before the hatch covers were added - no derailment problems with this one!
Hey everyone, great pictures! Here some pics of my Shasta Central Railroad. These were taken at about 8:30 this morning and it was already getting close to 100 degrees in my garage. It has been about 100-113 here this past week.
The Central Valley Express stopped by a lazy cow. Luckily, the train was 2 minutes ahead of schedule so the passengers were not late to there destinations.
The new locomotive display at the Juniata depot. It is UP #3179, an 0-4-0
Here is the Athrean Southern Pacific SW1500 #2638 I bought last weekend at Railroad Days 2005 in Dunsmuir, CA. The best $26 I ever spent! It runs great and has a lot of power. As you can see, many of the detail parts have not been added and it does need to be weathered.
#2638 shunting cars at the Stevenson Coal Mine.
My Bowser Challenger with the boiler on the mechanism
The Challenger’s Tender
One of the Challenger’s modified valve gears
Hello, have not posted in a while, so here goes!
Karl:
Great job on those vehicles!! Any chance of putting on a clinic explaining how you did it?
Tom
Thanks, I’ll get to it this week for you as their is some interest, looks like you have several great candidates in your sigpic Tom.
Have fun & be safe
Karl.
Retaining Wall i built today.
Karl–I’m with the other Tom–those vehicles look fantastic!
Ken–those New Zealand trains are fascinating–the RFDTV channel here in the states had an hour-long special on New Zealand steam about a month ago on South Island–wowser!
Art–ONLY 95 trees to go? Wish I could say that, LOL! Looking good!
Craig–you need to post more–that’s some really fine modeling, there.
Here’s one more, shot today. It’s the South Yuba Canyon where the fishing is good and the trains are frequent:
Tom
Hi folks,
Some N scale this week since I’m multi-scale offender:
Nice pictures everyone!
Midniteflyer–thats awesome!
Cheese–congrats on the progress.
Darth–that thing should be quite the hauler when finished. How does it run?
Matt 284–who says Athearns suck? enjoy that switcher.
Sporktong-- Welcome to the forum.
I see some good technique here, both in terms of execution in modeling and in photography. Big change, Tom! [tup]
Love that retaining wall. Nice effect.
Space Mouse- Nice kit! Who makes it? It looks like it’d fit perfext on my layout.
Well, no modeling pictures this week, either. I won a P2K Conrail SD60M on ebay yesterday, so I’ll post a pic of it next week when I get it. Did see a few real trains today. Here’s a CSX coal train and a CP mixed freight:
And here’s the CP mixed freight again:
That was just me being lazy. I was supposed to clean those windows after I weathered the body, I just never got around to it. There is no cab interior, so you’d just see weight and electronics.