Gidday All, Well this house husband carry-on is certainly not what it’s all cracked up to be!!! It’s gotta be one of lifes mysteries how “Her-in-doors To Do List” grows exponentially to the amount I achieve.[banghead] So much for my foolish thoughts of more modeling time.[sigh]
Any how got some of the house painting done before it got too hot, the bills paid, groceries done, and dinner prepared, so here’s my starter for this weekends fun.
Get that other list caught up enough to look good and then it’ll be time to play[:D]
Been a busy week. The Caboose Industries handthrows disappeared from most of Red Mountain.
Now our brakemen do it the new-fangled way.
Looks like Tipsy Emma has taken another fall. She mumbled something about the Hobby-Tac in her shoes giving way, but it was obvious she was throwing back a few cold ones at the miner’s holiday party before heading for the station with her now-embarassed friend, Maude.
I did some grading around the Rockwood station and made some alarming, passenger-swallowing gaps disappear.
Look like the vegetable stand is doing good business.
In the New Rolling Stock Dept, a couple of new rock cars arrived to serve the Haymarket Tram’s bins. You may be able to guess who has sunk so much money into Animas Forks recently, but I ain’t saying…[:#]
These were narrowgauged-builds of Westerfield’s resin PSC hopper kits, originally used in the Great Lakes copper and iron mining region. After the Yosemite Valley shut down in '45, these hoppers were available when the gov’t came knocking. As you can s
[2c]Nice start to the week everyone, here are some freight cars that I finished in the last week!
IMRC 40’ PS1 Boxcar Kit, used the modernized components of the kit and substituted A-Line Sill Steps for the ones in the kit. Painted with a mixture of Floquil Dark and Light Blue Paints, lettered with Microscale Decals.
IMRC 40’ PS1 Boxcar Kit, substitued a 10’ YSD from the scrap box for the 9’ Door in the kit, used A-line Sill Steps in place of the kit Sill Steps used the modernized version of the ladders, according to an article RMJ. Painted with Scalecoat II IC Orange Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals.
Atlas 4650CF Post 71 Covered Hopper, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray Paint and lettered with Microscale Decals.
Great start, gang! You’re all getting so much done. My own progress is much slower.
Yesterday, I added a thin strip of brick to the parapets around the roof of the Tan Yard building at my version of the Empire Leather Tanning Company. It’s not part of the kit, but I really like how it looks, especially on foreground structures because the roofs are such a big part of what you see.
In comparison, here’s the Beam House roof that hasn’t had that detail added yet:
I use Rustoleum textured speckled spray paint for most of my roofs.
The Empire Leather Tanning Company is no longer even on the Walthers web site. I found it at Trainworld. I think it was richhotrain who suggested it when I posted a picture of the big, empty space and asked for suggestions. Thanks again for that idea! I’ve gotten a lot of “play vlaue” out of putting this together, and adding details both inside and out.
Great tip on that RustO textured paint. A little goes a long way, because the speckles are kinda large for HO. But it’s perfect for roofs. I use it with roads and foundations that won’t be in the foreground, but a roof like that can be right up front.
That’s all static grass along the edge,Mike,with some tufts mixed in throughout the yard. I shouldn’t be allowed to use a static grass applicator without adult supervision. I’m going to go back and de-grass the yard a bit - got a little carried away.
Thanks for the tip from Emma…The next time I fall over,I’m blaming it on Hobby-Tac.
Great work everyone as usual. This week I started converting my rectangle shaped layout with two openings in the center to a U shape. I am also converting it from 2 main loops to one continuous loop. Both ends on the round house end will be extended out for loop arounds.
That’s a NY Central scheme I hadn’t seen before. Neat. Thanks!
Mike
I need to get me a gun…a static gun[:)]
No one seems to have one around here, so I may be the first to break the Static Barrier locally. I can see really having some fun with that thing.[Y]
It’s worth a try. So far, it’s kept Emma out of the Red Mountain Jail, but that’s mostly because I haven’t built it yet. It’s said she plays a pretty mean hand of bridge, but if she ends up in there, the best a drunken miner can usually do is a round of Texas Hold’em – and that’s only if they’re from Lake City.
In a pinch, it’s worth trying on a judge. Might get lucky if s/he’s a model railroader – or at least a laugh.[B]
Curt,
That aisle is going to make a whole lot of things easier. Going to be a mess getting there, but I think well worth the investment in time and energy.
Here is a passenger car I have just completed. It is the Happy Hollow Club. Burlington Route owned two of these cars which were purchased from Pullman Company in the late 1940’s. It is a sleepr/lounge car with the rear 1/3 being the lounge and the foreard 2/3 having sleeping accommodations. The model is made from a kit made by NKP Car Company which the ysell on their website along with numerous other prototypically correct passenger cars for several railroads. As you can see I have weathered the car.
The photos show each side and also a prototype photo (from RRPictureArchives .NET) .
Well, I took a break from scenery building and attacked the two refinery kits I had acquired. The smaller one is the Vollmer, which looks better I think when separated a bit from the compact 3x2 column arrangement as it comes. The larger one is the Walthers Cornerstone, which was fun to build. I have some nifty piping things, including a Faller track crossover, to add when I get the urge.
Hindsight: plan your backdrop height for the max height of structures. Also, I built some tanks beforehand and did not use the yellow color scheme on the handrails. I’m scared to try to paint the handrails on the tanks but also afraid to remove them to repaint them as I’m likely to break them when removing.
I’m always amazed at the excellent work I find on this thread! My contribution might not be as “sexy”, but it is the fruits of ~10 hours’ worth of work - and I’m greatly relieved that I’ve gotten this far with it. It’s made up entirely of Evergreen styrene shapes and strips.
When finished, this framework will support a conveyor junction house on my steel mill peninsula.
Maybe next week I’ll be able to share some pix of the finished project…[?]
