Gidday All, it’s a pleasantly cool clear Friday evening. Well I had great intentions on the model railroading front this week, unfortunately it had to take a back seat.
So from the Easter Show archive, Sn3½ NZR G class Garrett 4-6-2-2-6-4.
Bear,
Tiny stuff and huge! Amazing.
I’ve not got much to show this week. I’m remodeling downstairs so I have a crew lounge. It’s only about big enough for a love seat, won’t hold a regular sofa. Maybe picks in a day or so showing my unique color scheme.
Oh, and I did finish my diss and will graduate in May…at long last. No small accomplishment.
Here a couple of shots from last week’s batch in the meanwhile.
Extending the 3rd rail a litttle
Nighttime at the Sunnyside boarding house…
Greetings Bear and Mike…
I’m glad you don’t have to sit in your tiny “time-out” chair, Bear! [:-^]
Every time I see one of those Garratts I’m reminded of the Doctor Doolittle’s pushmi-pullyu animal. I would have loved to see one of those beasts in action. As I understand the story behind them, they were short-lived and didn’t quite meet expectations… Six cylinders! Wow.
Nice progress, Mike! I only wish I had enough room for a crew lounge [8D] ! Congratulations on your upcoming graduation [bow]
I had a little time this week to finish up some roof details on the background building I featured here two weekends ago.
The fire escape was a bit of a bugger due to the floor distance being wider at the top. Tichy stairways to the rescue!
Pete Ruminski was my Millwright boss back in the day and he recently passed away at age 92 so I dedicated the building to him.
And for a “fill-in” project I put together a pair of State Tool & Die ingot mold cars.
These are very rudimentary kits but they DO fill a need for the steel mill modelers.
Maybe the SNOW is finished for now in northeast Ohio? More time for yard work, less time for model railroading [:'(]
So, on to more Good Stuff!!
Regards, Ed
Good morning from mostly sunny and cool Northeast Ohio, going to be in the 70’s later today!
Bear, thanks for opening up, I know what you mean about work, it is tax season and I have been a little busy without much time for modeling.
Mike, first off congradulations on the dissertation, it is a lot of hard work, I remember my wife defending her Master’s Thesis by phone in Ohio with her professors up in Alaska.
Ed, nice work with those ingot molds and cars, I got some ingot molds as loads in gons as the D&H had a number of cars dedicated to that service.
As I stated nothing done this week, so a couple of pictures from the club layout!
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Bear … Looks like a chiar for small bottoms. … I like the Garret locomotive… You may be interested the news here is tellong us about an octopus that escaped in New Zeeland.
Mike L Congratulations about graduating in May. Feel free to tell us more. … Your layout photos are great.
Ed … The backdrop building is very impressive.
Rick … It is always good to see the club layout photos you post.
Below is a photo of train activity in my fictional town of Blackhawk.
This week I finished repainting and adding a decoder in a Minitrains 0-4-4T Forney. SHown here on the Boothbay Railway Village layout pulling a short passenger train
Hi everybody,
Nice work and photos.
Here is what I did on the last two weeks : painting the Cornerstone Merchants Row I.
Still have to install signs and to add cars & figures. It is a slow process but it is coming to a certain state of completion.
The view from the top of the mountain.
This week I have completed refinishing several cars and started on a few more. Once the warm weather sets in, I am sure work will slow 
My offering this week is a shot from Buckeye Creek wye on the south end of my layout.
Thank you all for your pictures this week as well. This is prob the best part of the forums. I have gained many ideas from the pictures here. Have a great weekend one and all!!
Hey guys. My grandma passed away on Wednesday night, so my modeling has been keeping my mind occupied.
Still need to add “coke loading only” on the sides.
The coke extended sides are scratchbuilt from styrene. Completely from scratch.
The Decal work is hand applied.
How big is Ginormas scale? This is the same SRRL boxcar in HOn30 and G 1/20.3 scale
Thanks to everyone for the congratulations on finishing my PhD.
Garry, Careful what you wish for when you’re asking about a 500+ page monster[:-^]
It’s in history, Cold War history to be specific. It took way longer than expected, but sometimes that turns out to be just enough time when you’re working on a topic that depends on the vagaries of declassification. The title itself is a long one, “Nuisance to Nemesis: Nuclear Fallout and Intelligence as Secrets, Problems, and Limitations on the Arms Race, 1940-1964.” It’s got all kinds of cool stuff about spying, nuclear weapons, brave pilots flying into mushroom clouds, why Robert Oppenheimer was really kicked out of the AEC, and why nuclear war simply doesn’t work if you’re planning on being around afterwards. But we’d be getting really off-topic to go into details beyond, Yahoo! It’s done. Be happy to respond to further inquiries via PM, though, if you’re a history or Cold War fan.
It’s not done yet, as it still needs 4 black stripes which will go where? [;)], plus some nice trim to make it look tidy.
But the space formerly full of file cabinets will now offer a cozy spot for off-duty and on-call crews to gather. I’m sprucing up things a bit as the layout will be open for operations before and after the week of the NMRA Indy convention in July. The layout is listed about 2/3 the way down the page here: http://www.nmra2016.org/#!operations-layouts/chmr
If you’re coming to the convention, get signed up through the website under Operations and you, too, can get in on the fun.[:)]
Jimmy,
My condolences on your loss.
Guy:
Merchants’ Row I looks great. How did you get the paint lines so straight? Did you use a brush or spray?
I have a bunch of buildings to do including a couple of the Merchants’ Row series and a lot of City Classics. My brush painting skills are terrible so I have been avoiding the task.
Thanks
Dave
Hi Dave,
Thank you for the kind comment. I must admit that I am quite proud of this one as my painting skills are not so good either. In fact, I postponed the painting of this building for at least three years as I was afraid of what would result.
I used an airbrush for most of the job. This implies that I had to do a great deal of masquing.
There are the steps I followed:
1- As there is a lot of masquing tape involved, I primed the building first. If you omit that step, there is a risq that the masquing tape removes some spots of paint when you remove it.
2- I then began with the brick surfaces, one at a time, being sure that every other surfaces where masqued, either with masquing tape or paper. I also “filled” the interior with balls of paper so no paint could go through. I began with the surfaces that were farther back. Then I proceeded to the surfaces nearer to me.
3- After carefully masquing those brick surfaces, I painted the “wood” surfaces, including windows, one color at a time, with the airbrush. I can’t see how I can get a crisp line with a brush.
These first three steps where tedious as there is a lot of masquing but it is worth the effort as the painting is then easily done. Careful masquing is really the key to crisp lines.
4- I used a small angled brush to paint the window sills and tops using a headband binocular magnifier. At this step, some paint inevitably went on the brick surfaces.
5- With the same angled small brush and using the same paint used with the airbrush I painted over the spots that occured at step 4. As the brush is then following a ridge, it is easier to avoid going over the surfaced painted in step 4.
I hope my English writing is clear enough. Don’t hesitate to send me a PM if you have more questions.
Jist finished an install of a TCS wow 21 pin Diesel Decoder and Mother Board in my
Kato RS12
Here’s the video
Thanks Guy.
I’d better stock up on masking tape![swg]
Regards
Dave
Spruced up the President’s car for the locomotive works, reapplying the car name, some safety yellow and very light weathering. The car is used in test runs and special events and named after the President’s father, who unfortunaly never saw any projects roll out of the locomotive works.
Bear, I like the chair, so too the unusual NZR loco, and as always a big thanks for opening the WPF.
Jimmy, Sorry for your loss, good that you can find some sanctuary in your modeling.
Some recently acquired RTR lumber loads.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
Been several weeks since I put up anything in the thread, so here is a fairly new shot under the bridge. The two piece girder bridge in the photo is 100% scratch built.
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