It is lunch time and two yard hands are playing checkers in the noon sun. It’s turbo-generator whining noisily, a J hisses and rhythmically soughs past their shelter as it goes to meet its assignment.
Crandell
Nice. Great use of that kit. It was the first one I built.
Nice scene Selector. I’ll continue the N&W theme a bit into the diesel future.
Storm clouds close in:
Nice shot Selector, always look forward to your photos!
I replaced passenger pilot with a freight pilot on an Ath Genesis FP7, using approiate Highliners parts. Paint matching was tricky but I got sort of close. I need to take it apart again to lower the nose just a bit, as my added in engineer figure is too tall & is pulling up the front of the shell slightly.
The 101A is in a park in my hometown.
“Mud Tunnel” at Silver Valley RR
Wolfgang
Nice early start to the best thread of the week!
Crandell, great scene! Chad, good work on the F. Wolfgang, nice Caboose…
All I got to show off is a clean workbench:
73
Crandell, that’s a classy shot.
Great shot, Bruce.
Nice job on the pilot, Chad.
Wolfgang, very realistic tunnel.
Ray, if it would only stay that way.
Late afternoon WB freight at Stoney Creek. DJ.
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I modeled this 1940 For pickup from Fresh Cherries as a 12 to 14 year old, hard working truck that has never seen the inside of a garage
GPaine,
Please share the technique you used on this truck. Great job! Here in my neck of the woods I see quite a number of prototype cars and trucks from the 1940s-50s in this type of condition. Owners usually tell me that they are setting money aside to partially or fully restore them.
Excellent photos by everyone. Some really great work.
While in Denver area on vacation and visiting Caboose Hobbies I picked up this cool pipe load made by JWD Products.
Wow great work everbody, well Im still tinkering building my running repair shop, havent wired it yet and will wait untill more compleat before the crew gets the walls up, they seem to take too toooo long with coffeee and lunch breaks…kina think the quit eary tooo.LOL…They also need to get on the trolly for the overhead crain,
Sand and fuel servicing end shop
another view of the wheel profiler from a different angl then last week, shot it from directly above and it looked like a greassssy work bench.LOL
This was my third scrach build project, its so enjoyable to create and build, I doubt if I will ever purchase another building kit.
Older pic of my M1A and Y6B
A W E S O M E work this week!!! Excellent!!!
(& thanks for the compliments too!)
This is another shot of the Ath Genesis FP7 with the road pilot. I also added the vertical hatch on the side of the unit under the A-pillar. Although the Highliners instructions are excellent, modeling this one after the MILW Shops worked-over unit in Cresco seems real confusing, as it has a lot! of FP9 & late details. However, Cresco 101A does have a numberplate that indicates it ‘was’ an FP7 build. I did disassemble the unit & reworked the interior & folks inside. I filed a few burrs of the chassis under the interior pan, removed much my Eng & conductor’s bottom sides, & gave them flat top haircuts… - & they are still almost too tall, that is one shallow interior!! If I do one of these again I will cut down the seats & consider plane-ing down the (bottom side) base of the interior floor. I also added PSC interior Visors (although not the 1/3rd & 2/3rds version I intended). I then added the wind deflectors & gave it a quick & light weathering dusting around the running gear.
The 50 ft box car is a Kaydee cushion car, that was repainted & decaled to the inspiration of the documentation included with the Microscale MILW decal set. I added the standard accessories.
Nice stuff this week.
New and old, a Chevy half ton pickup sits as a ex-military Willy’s Jeep takes on fuel.
A rusting and abandoned John Deere B sits and awaits the scrapman or a savior in an old tractor collector to resurrect it.
Doing some photography while my ballast dries
teen steam,
man…focus focus focus.
HI Antonio, it’s been a while!
The truck comes in a glossy black. First I dis-assembled the truck; it has 6 pieces: cab& hood, pickup body, fenders with running boards, bottom, interior, and windows . Just 2 screws hold it together.
I brush painted the drivers door tan and the other side front fender light green to represent replacement parts from other junkyard vehicles. Then I dry brushed and dabbed Floquil Roof Brown here and there for some old body rot, and a bit of Model Master Rust on the edges of the roof brown for some more active rust. I finished by puting the pieces together and lightly spraying some more Roof Brown all over the body to give it a rusty patina. I also lightly sprayed the wheels with Roof Brown. I scratched a crack in the passenger side windshield with an X-Acto knife.
Have not posted in a while but here is what I am working on. IHC 2 stall engine house with a progressing interior and a roundhouse box cab for giggles.
More pics on my thread about putting an interior in help please.
Mike