Sorry, I really couldnt wait[
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Here are some pics from the 'yard" which is in progress, majorly.
DM&IR SD40-3 (SD45T-2) #413 on the point of an executive train.
DM&IR #413 poses alongside the trailing unit, BNSF GP60M #145 for the photographers. You can see GN SD45 #418 in the background.
Close up of the #145 and #413.
DM&IR #413 idles in the yard prior to hookig up to the train.
Executive train departing for Thunder Bay
Progress is sweet. I didn’t do anything this week. Maybe next, but I love seeing your pics.
Not know you, is that O guage [?] Nice looking loco’s.[:D]
Nice pics, coborn35!
Here’s a couple of our latest.
I just finished the detailing on F9 # 5774. It’s one of my little guy’s Christmas presents. Here, it awaits a clear signal in Sedalia, Colo.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Stewart Boys. [:D]
Nope they are HO.
Nice F9s grande man. I need to get one of those I guess. They did overlap the steam era some, though I wonder how much they left the main lines for the logging spurs.
Finaly I have some new photos to put here. I have been working on the backdrops for the layout. Now I know why everyone says to do them first. Took 4 people to get them into the room over the scenery and installed. Still have some blending to do to hide the seam - actually worked on that after I took the pictures. It is early August on the Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western RR and a thunderstorm is brewing up on a hot summer’s day.
The befores:
The afters:
Nice pix everyone!
Ray, Great job on the backdrop[tup][bow]
Great pictures everyone. I’ll post some of mine later.
Ray,
Great backdrop photos, I really like the last one. Please explain how you did them, Paint, photo, $$$?
nice clouds!
Thanks! The clouds are a mix of the New London Industries stencils and some freehand use of spraycans. I used three colors of spray paint, flat white, light gray, and a darker gray (actually a gray primer). The base color is Murralo paint tint called “Anchors Aweigh”. I took a photo of the sky over Seneca lake and had it matched at the paint shop. After I create the basic cloud shape in white with the stencils, I added the grays freehand. Then to lighten up the blue, I overspray a fine mist of white (and some light gray) to fill the scene. I will probably have my sister, the artist come over and do some detail painting of buildings and such. The backdrop itself is 1/8th inch tempered Masonite that has been primed with a white primer on both sides.
It has been a while since I have posted any pictures. Here are my latest efforts.
This is the good old Walthers New River Mine in HO. It is my first effort with the airbrush and I am quite happy with the result. The structure is being used to model the White City, IL mine that had a similar building but with a mine head structure on the outside. The mine head gear is scratch built. The wheel at the top was a real challenge and cut out of sheet styrene with nylon thread as the spokes. I was never able to find anything ready made that did the job.
This second building is an old time bar made from a JL Innovative kit. It is basically stock with a few details added like a brass wire antenna and lighting wired and ready to go. I really like the JL Innovative kits as they have a lot of character and are great value for craftsman style kits. They take time to build but yield satisfying results.
Grande Man, what make are your F-units and how much did they cost? I need some GN F or E units.
They’re Stewart Hobbies. They have smooth, quiet drives but need add on detailing. A set with a powered A, dummy B go for $129. Here’s the guy to get them from http://stores.ebay.com/Susquehanna-Hobbies.