Gidday All, don’t know where the time goes but once again it’s that time here in Aoteraroa, ( " the Land of the Long White Cloud").
Baldwin Sharknose Demonstrator on the Club Mountain layout.
Have a Great One Folks, [:D]
Cheers, the Bear.
I normally don’t do pictures between paint and final model, but here is the progress on the U25B as of last night. Still have to do some small detail decals and the NH on the other side and the rear number boards. Also have to finish up the bell and speed recorder on the power unit. Will have to add the non-slip devices whenever I finally get some.
This is and old Stewart U25B that I built 20 years ago, I managed to find a junker KATO U25B chasssis that I will replace the Athearn BB chassis. Added the same details as the NH Unit along with some specific Wabash details, lettered with some Walthers Decals, all that were available at the time.
That all for now folks!
Rick J [2c]
Spent the week installing a KA2 Keep Alive capacitor in my Rivarossi F-19 Pacific
and adding weight for better rail / electrical contact
i added weight to the roof of the cab to balance the weight added to the front of the boiler
then covered it with electrical tape
The Wiring of the KA2 is simple
Here’s a Video of it in action
Made a junk load:
And a lumber load:
Still need to tie the lumber to the car.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
My latest “weathered car” is a CNW 50’ boxcar. Faded, rust, rust pits, grime, real wood tack boards, etc…
Before:
After:
A good beginning guys.
I’ve been working on signs. Here are a series of photos of my Farmers Union grain elevator, kinda before and after:
Before:
Northeast & Southeast::
Southeast:
Sorry about the computer screen and desk lamp lurking in the background.
Northwest:
All of the signs came from tomkat-13 and his many posts on the Layout building section. Thanks man. I’ve had cause to use many of them on the layout.
All of these photos and more are on my updated website. A link is in my signature.
Keep up the good work guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Nice work, everyone! Allan is right, tomkat-13 is da man!
I worked some more on illuminating buildings, so have added a lot of pics to my Night Scene thread:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/213765.aspx
The biggest lighting project this week was my Durango roundhouse. It got 21 LEDs and now I can see inside, so it’ll eventually get more of an interior.
I also added some lighting to my Mountain Packing plant. There’s no production night shift, so limited lighting in the main part of the plant, but the shipping department does load reefers overnight.
Here are two of my scratch built bridges. The one in the rear is a Walters kit.
Sam
All the photos look great so far. Nice work, everybody.
Terry in Wisconsin posted some loaded freight cars here are more. These a CHEAP, LOW BUDGET loads.
First photo shows inexpensive utility poles. They are inexpensive skewers from the grocery store. A pack of a hundred may cost as much as $2 or $3 which is cheap enough. I got one pack on sale for 50 cents. I cut each one to a scale 40’ length. (Cut-offs can be used for making uncoupler tools). Then I stained them oak color. FInally I weathered with heavy black.
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Second photo is shows scrap metal in the B&O car and in the WM car partially visible in the left foreground. I made the scrap sheet metal out of pieces of paper from my paper shredder. I chopped it into smaller pieces, and then stained it a rust color. FInally I added random silver color with paint. The car coupled to the locomotive has a commercially made load.
Good morning all! Once again a lot of fine contributions for the weekend.
Spring Mills Depot has recently issued a great set of B&O I 12 cabooses, and even though the real ones didn’t arrive on the Buffalo division until 1966, I wanted to get a couple anyway. Here are the two I bought and weathered, out on the mainline:
Have a great weekend!
-Stan
Very nice work …I assumed you used decal paper in your printer?
A Baldwin shark ready to be scrapped. DJ.
I love this thread every week.
Garry- Nice gondola loads.
Stan- Great looking caboose.
DJ- Nice weathering job.
Mike- The lighting looks great.
Sam- Nice bridges. The middle one is my favorite, it has character.
I just plastered 3 hills around the track work I finished.
Curt,
Thanks for your comments!
I like the way those hills are shaping up. They’re gonna make a nice viewblock and help the layout seem larger. It doesn’t take much to fool the eyes and brain if you’re not looking directly at something. Every time I add trees, structures, or terrain (mostly past that last one now [;)]), I am always amazed and reminded at how much breaking the line of vision helps things seem paradoxically farther away or bigger, depending on the perspective.
Got any plans for trees or other foliage on them? That will add even more oomph to the perspective-shifting effects of the viewblock.
A few of the new industries
Mike- I have rock faces, trees, shrubs and ground cover ready to go[:)]
Old projects but new photos. For a discussion of early N scale, I hunted up locomotives I repainted 35 to 40 years ago. I believe an Arnold Rapido GP-7 was the earliest.
I remember 1976 was the year I did a Trix Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 switcher because I entrered it in a
contest.
Not long afterwards, I did an AHM Alco RSD-15 high hood.
leighant,
Nice work, I’ll bet those really bring back the memories, even if they’re not in the same place where you left them all.[;)] Those look great, especially compared to my HO scale efforts from that era.[:$]
Early stage of the LED test fixture…resistor grid on the left…will use I/C sockets for LED testing…the meter will be used in conjunction with a variable transformer.
Resistance is useful.
DJ, I’ll see your Shark to be scrapped, and raise you two that won’t! [:D]
At least they haven’t yet! [;)]