Weak End Pfoto Pfun 10/13 - 10/15

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Here it is 10:30 at night (EDT) on Friday the 13th., and none of you have started this thread… You guys are falling down on the job, so I’ll start it [:D]

I’ve been too busy getting all the Fall stuff done around the house to spend much time on the layout. A couple days ago some Tortis arrived so I will be back getting the finishing touches on the trackwork in the new room soon. In the meantime, I have been doing some scenery building near the tunnels and Outlet (river) just outside of the City of Kanandaqua on the layout.

Still foam city but taking shape:

This is the other side of the mountain…(What the bear saw when he went over the mountain):

The stone and wooden bridge (built in the late 1800s) over the Kanandaqua Outlet:

A shot of it from under the RR Bridge over the Outlet:

Lets see what you have been doing!

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Howmus,

Although I don’t have pictures to share right now. I will let you in on what I’m building {should be done tomorrow }.

CMR make a resin & brass HO scale river tug kit for a mere $85.00. Seeing I don’t have that kind of clams laying around right now. I have to once again sratch build,thats pretty much it. I’m scratch building a three tiered river push/pull tugboat.

BTW very nice work you got there!!!

Photos to come…

Patrick

Beaufort,SC

Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

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I am still building my empire. I got the upper level backdrop in last week and took a break the first of this week for operations (as opposed to building).

Wednesday morning; this is what I looked at:

As of this afternoon; this is what I see:

Now for some more basic building and then detailing work.

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The Atlas S1 I bought a few weeks ago-

Atlas/Kato GP7 I just finished painting/decaling

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Dingoix, I like the switcher, I especially like the color sceme, But you really need to do something with those switch machines. Mike

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Here’s some of my CGW locomotives.

DS 4-4-1000

DS 4-4-1000 & RS 2

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Here is what I was working on lately. I need to get some PC ties to solder the rails to.

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Ray,

Nice work. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

Alan,

You are smokin through that layout. Have you got the next one planned yet.

Keep up the good work everyone. One of my goals for the week is do so something on my layout.

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AggroJones how do you do those rust spots? They look great.

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aggrojones must be a photoshop expert … how else could he make those photos of real railcars look like they’re sitting on his layout ?

[bow]

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Here is what I am doing, a HO scale Athabasca brass PSC van kit. This hit is a totally flat brass kit (you can see one of the four frets in behind) that you bend. Started it lastnight

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Hey Aggro, what would you charge to custom weather a few of my rolling stock? Great work!

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Aggro, that’s the best weathering I’ve ever seen, hands down. Awesome.

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They are dang good!

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Thanks. I be tryin’. [(-D]

RicHamilton-- that caboose seems like one helluva project. I’d never tackle somthing like that.

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This weekend was spent wiring Tortoises to the secondary control panel on my layout.

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jbinkley, makes me seasick just looking at all those wires, look good and neat though.
I have been working on Coleman Fuel & Oil Co. this weekend. I still have a lot to do, with the building, weathering, etc…

Hope you all had a good weekend and hope you all have a good week ahead. Mike

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Aggrojones that is hands down the best weathering I have ever seen! I had to check the couplers to be sure those weren’t pictures of real cars. The graphiti, rust spots, wheels, even the rails themselves are fantastic. You truley are a master.

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That is how I wanted to wire my layout. I was told that cat 5 was too thin a wire. Let me know how it works out. I have to redo my panel to put in a trestle.