Wow Ray:
That is amazing detail! Boggles my wee brain even though it is 1/24. How long have you been working on that?
Dave
Thanks Dave! I scribed some of the bricks for the front of the building back in August, then set it aside and didn’t get back on it until early November. Been working on it since then. I started doing the interior details in mid-December, with some time off from it during the holiday.
I really don’t know if “Really Good Stuff” is an apt phrase that adequately covers all the offerings to Weekend Photo Fun, but for me I guess it does.
Thanks ffolkes for the pleasure and inspiration.[bow]
Welcome aboard pt714, don’t be a stranger.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Ray:
Sheesh! You have done a lot of really good work in a very short time! I keep going back to your photo and every time I notice more details, like the power cords plugged into the wall outlets, and the extra outlets along the upper shelves.
By any chance, have you considered illuminating any of the radio faces? I have memories of my family listening to a floor model radio much like the ones you have modelled. I was very young, but I still remember being facinated by the glow from the dial face, and from the tubes inside when it was being repaired by my dad. IIRC, we went from one of the floor model radios to black and white TV when I was about three or four years old (1958?). The accuracy of your models brings back some fine childhood memories, which I guess is what most of us older types are getting from the whole hobby. When we emptied my parents home after they couldn’t keep it up any more we found a bunch of radio tubes in the basement.
Keep up the great work! It gives me goose bumps!
Dave
Everybody… Great photos with impressive work !
Here is a secondary passenger train with older equipment.
Ray,
I love those old time radios![Y][Y]
A really amazing great WPF, everyone!
Mike,
I have built or tried to build kits with the Cliff Notes version of instructions, they are still on the workbench and I pull them out and try to figure out what the instructions mean or intend and try to figure out of the exploded drawing (Athearn) or vague instructions (Sunshine - F&C) what they are trying to do.
Gene has a picture of each step, and pictures of each part sprue so you know what part goes where without guessing or the name of the part. Manufacturer’s need to follow Gene’s instruction format for building cars with multitude of parts and lots of piping. (Moloco and ExactRail do that with their kits).
Rick J
JaBear, thanks for kicking off WPF. I appreciate all of the nice work everyone has posted so far.
Took a picture of actual action during one of my “solo” operating sessions last week. C-15a #116 is about to tack the cab at the end of a string of empties headed west on a mine run. The power for the Southside run, H-5 2-6-6-2 #1528, can be seen just behind #116. Soon #1528 will couple to its’ train to make its’ westbound run to drop off empties and bring back loads to the Thurmond marshalling yard.
The train order signal next to the Thurmond station is displaying red, telling the crew of the mine run to pick up their Clearance Form A and any issued train orders. There sure are a lot of guys just hanging around in the scene!
The H-5 and C-15a are brass imports that I painted and lettered years ago. They hiss and snort thanks to Soundtraxx. The cab was offered by Division Point a while back.
Keep the great pictures/stories coming. [:)]
Joel
This week I started kitbashing some HOn30 critters for the Boothbay Railway Village layout. My first attempt is the one on the right. Although the proportions look right, it is too short and narrow for the N scale mechanism I am using; so I started a second larger one. The lengths are 17’ and 20’, just to give an idea of the size. I also tested the decoder to see if it would work with a small yellowglo LED; it has a couple of small surface mount LEDs that would light the interior, but would be no good for headlights. Now to see if I can solder the new LED wires to that tiny circuit board.
I just returned from the North Dallas Train Show, here is an image from the Sn3 Rock Ridge Layout that was on display.
More pictures of the show are located here
I’ve made several buildings out of DPM modulars, Walters modulars, and Pikestuff wall panels, which I count as scratchbuilding light. I’ve modified plenty of buildings (usually blanking out windows). But I’ve never gone whole hogand actually kitbashed something. Impulse bought a classic yesterday and I’m well on my way to making it into something vaguely B&O looking.
The other side has a roll-up door on the first floor. My goal is to be done with it by the end of my three day weekend. Its a hybrid of several B&O towers in the Pittsburgh area. The only one with a brick/block first story was VO in Butler and it had a big roll-up door in the first floor.