Gidday All, from a cold damp Friday night, but the fire is burning well so therefore the Bears cave is comfy.
My offering this week is in the Work in Progress category, with the addition of a large dose of doctorwaynes “slippery slope syndrome” thrown in!!
Now I really admire those of you who go the extra mile and add all the underframe details, i.e., brake plumbing and activating rods, but the Bear is a lazy modeller and so I wasn’t really phased when the kit bashing article described the bottom doors as “Although they’re not exact copies of the prototype outlets, they look convincing”.
Great, a quick mod so I’ll be able to get on to the roofs and hatches which really matter because that’s what everyone can see! However, while carrying out the instructions, I was becoming not convinced and decided that I needed to do some research, and that’s where the “slippery slope” slide in!!!
The trials and tribulations of modeling. You will get there, Bear.
I know the feeling.
I wanted to have some ‘Challenger’ Tanks and I managed to buy a sort of representation.
I model a timeframe of late 1960s/early 1970s. Then I was reminded Challenger Tanks did not appear until after 1984.
As Bear says ‘Do your research first’
Here are the tanks repainted and in the guise of ‘Chieftain’ Tanks in their first coat of paint on their first trip around the layout ensuring they clear the loading gauge etc.
Good morning from cloudy, warm and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Bear, thanks for starting us out, doing your research first is a good idea, I thought I had done enough on one of the cars I did last week, but I misread the information.
David, thanks for you contribution, I have not kept up on tanks and wouldn’t know a Challenger from a Chieftan, but there are those modelers who would.
IMRC 40’ PS1 Boxcar w/8’ Door, A-Line sill steps, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. One of several hundred of these cars built, some with Superior and some with YSD Doors in general service on the N&W.
Athearn PS 2893CF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray paint and lettered with Microscale Decals. Car was in Soda Ash Service on the P&LE and this is a repaint of a 1957 built car in the times of the PC.
Eastern Car Works Depressed Center Flat where I finally got around to putting a load on. Load is an old Kibri Transformer that fits pretty well on the small deck that was designed to load small transformers from a GE plant on the New Haven who had 10 cars built for this work.
Started work on another Anderson’s covered hopper using the Tichy USRA Hopper kit with Panel sides as the starting paint. Will install the end and then add all the grab irons next.
Bear … Thank you for starting Weekend Photo Fun … Your hopper car project looks like fun. Nice work.
David NorthBrit. … Those tanks make interesting loads.
Rick … The N&W boxcar and P&LE hopper look great. I like the flat car with transformer load. Nice work on your next covered hopper and the plastics plant . The SD39’s look good. … You have been busy !
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#6303 (2-10-2) is continuing westward after picking up cars at the head end of the train. Here it is on the Mrs. Hippy River Bridge.
Glad to see another great WPF! Thanks for starting things off with your covered hopper project, Bear. Any time a “minor modification” requires a hack saw you’re in pretty deep! I know you’ll see your way through [Y]
Tanks are neat, David. I hope they cleared everything OK on their maiden voyage.
I see Rick has proper slope sheets on the P&LE 1768 [:)] Excellend work as usual!
Your bridge piers are a perfect shape and color, Garry. Very nice scene.
I like your Video, Harrison. Good Job!
I’m trying to finish up a few little projects before I move on to bigger things. I’ve had this Rivarossi RPO car kicking around for a while. I decided I needed one for the Nickel Plate Road. It is pretty close to three (830-832) that they inherited from the L.E. & W…
The only decals I had were from Microscale and they are a hideous lemon yellow and the lettering is too tall for the letterboard [8o|] If that don’t beat all, there wasn’t a single numeral “8” on the whole sheet! The numbers came from a different set and those were a nice Dulux Gold color.
Bear: Thank you for starting us out this week. I gave up accurately modeling brake system underfloor components a couple of years ago, and went to a simplified system that looks good from the side and is easier to install. Your modifications on the hopper car look good. I hope you can press through and complete the models.
David: I know of the modern “Challenger I” and “Challenger II” tanks, but was there an earlier tank also named Challenger?
Rick: I did not know the Eastern Car Work depressed center flat car was based on a design that was intended to haul a specific load. Thanks for that information. Your transformer load looks like it fits the model quite well.
Garry: I love the picture of the steam locomotive on the beautiful bridge.
Harrison: Thank you for sharing the layout visit you had. There sure is a lot of action going on! Did you make the video?
Ed: The brass model of the hot metal car certainly is a beauty.
Jimmy: Thank you for sgharing the short video on your Frog Juicer installation. I am glad it was a success.
I am travelling and have nothing new, but I can share an older picture from the files (just to join in the fun).
Kevin and everyone- Thanks for the comments, I did indeed make that video. Today we went south to the Capitol Region of NY and visited a live steam club there as well as got a couple of things at a hobby shop… I will share later this weekend if I have time.
David, as long as you’re not trying to pass those tanks off as Mk IV s, I don’t mind though what I think really has no bearing on the subject! [swg] A bit of paint goes a long way, they look good. It’s a in different era, but my dad mentioned the trains of new built tanks, Bren Gun carriers, and military equipment on the GWR line that ran through Acocks Green, Birmingham when he was a school boy.
I actually can’t imagine your research would come up short, Rick. I suspect that you’re the only person who I “know” that wouldn’t have a foobie freight car in his roster. Nice work as per usual.
Speaking of nice work, another great scene from the Heartland Division.
Excellent pictures (again) this week. Thanks for the comments on my tanks. I’ll stick to calling them ‘Chieftains’ [:)]
A family member was having a ‘clear out’ and amongst some of the things destined for the trash was his old collection of model railway items. He asked me if I wanted them.
I got them home and began sorting thru the collection. There was a lot of old, rusty track and the like. A few pieces of good track which I put to one side. I came across a few battered and broken trucks. In fact I thought there wasn’t going to be anything worth while.
Then; at the bottom, wrapped in paper there was three ‘blood and custard’ color carriages. They were in immaculate condition. Why they were in such good condition and the rest not so? I asked the family member why? Apparently they belonged to his brother and his brother took a ‘Flying Scotsman’ locomotive in exchange.
Kevin. Thank you for your kind comment. I am taken aback at being called the ‘master’.
I do not do anything ‘special’. I have the main things on the layout that interest me. Wyndham Farm, canal, railroad scrap yard, timber merchants etc… The little people all have a reason to be where they are. Just look at life. There are a million scenes of people going about their lives.
How many times do you follow someone out of a store and they stop in the doorway? The child looking in the toy store window? Is someone fumbling for change at a car parking payment area? I could go on and on. Just little scenes that I think would look good on the layout.
Where there is no scene, nature takes over. Fifty shades of green in the trees, bushes and grass. Nobody is looking after the grass, so it grows and is long or short, maybe in between.
Oh! Somewhere there is a train. Here in the UK most times we can hear it and not see it, or catch a glimpse somewhere.
Actually Bear I used the incorrect car for that SP car last week, but I will still use it in any SP consists that I run at the club.
And I do make an infrequent foobie!
I did this one some time ago to remember my time in Alaska, the Tananna Valley Model Railroad club had some decals make up for the Usibelli Coal Mine. The coal mine actually used cars from the Alaska Railroad and Alaska Basic Industries to haul their coal.
Garry, thanks for the picture that is a great looking bridge, I never tire looking at it and it looks better with steam.
Peter, I am with Bear, have never seen a clean looking garage like that one, nice modeling work.
Alan, thanks for dropping by I like the look of those big FP45’s.
Ed, good job on the NKP RPO, I need to make up some NKP passenger cars to go with my Topedo Tube GP9, wish Rapido would do one of the RS-36’s that were equipped for passenger service.
Loving everyone’s work! Great photos as always. I’ve been busy working on things but not taking a lot of photos. I’ll have to take photos and post some soon. I don’t think I posted these pics of the truck models I worked on. The windows are clear tape and Microscale Kristal Klear.
Here’s a disassembled gearbox for a Precision Scale B&M T1b 2-8-4 I got last month. I’ve since cleaned out all the old grease, put in new Labelle gear oil and grease, and still working on getting it running well. I replaced the rubber tube between the motor and gearbox with silicone tubing, and have new thrust-washers on order to reduce play with the worm gear and I hope reduce the gear noise. Additional pickups, LED lighting, sound and DCC, installed in the boiler are on the agenda for the model as well.
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