Gidday All, once again a balmy Friday evening, it was a very humid 78 F with a sticky wind this afternoon, thank goodness for a cool breeze now.
I’ve been thinking that in my short time viewing WPF, I’ve never seen any stuff that has disappointed me, inspirational more like, though sometimes daunting especially when I see how fast some can finish projects.
Now to be fair not all offerings are finished items, there are some work in progress photos, though that statement could reopen the “Are layouts ever actually finished” debate, which is not my intention.
A work in progress that I’ve been following and quietly admiring is howmus Rays blacksmiths shop, from the planning , making of the moulds, making the castings, assembling the walls and roof, and this is where I don’t know whether to think that he’s crazy , or applaud him, or perhaps applaud his craziness, [*-)] [;)] individually apply each shingle.[bow] All in all it does prove that Rome and marvellous scratch built black shops weren’t built in a day.
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Hi, Bear,
That looks like a pretty good work in progress, all scratch built?
I’ve been doing what I can, with my shoulder acting up the past few months.
Did You ever finish Your ‘‘fairy’’[oops] I mean, ‘‘Ferry’’? My Bad! [bow]
Cheers, To Yah!
Frank
Bear,
Ray is an inspiration. I like to hang out with fellows like him when I have time in some of the narrower regions of the interwebz. Haven’t had much time for that lately, so it is great to see the advanced, as wellas every sort of skill level short of that, every time in WPF. The encouragement and support we all find here is energizing.
Got a good start on the last big industry in the main layout room, the Anasazi Bean Co/Dove Creek Ag Co-op. It’s a bashed Walthers Clayton County Lumber. Just the basic structures and a loading platform for now. Doors, details, maybe some bins, etc, to follow.
Finished up one of my Railway Engineering Carter Car ventilated box cars.
And there was a major loco class modification program. My Bachmann 70-tonners, converted to HOn3, had their cabs chopped. The Hauff brothers conversion (July 2008 RMC) included this, but I omitted it when I narrowed the mechanisms, etc. I liked the high cab, but finally decided to get the saw out and have at it. I also finished converting a third loco, which is till undergoing tuning and hope to finish another one some time soon.
This is one of the two originals with the high cab
Here it is after conversion to a low cab for the down in the dirt narrowgauge look.
Here are the other two I finished in the slightly older color scheme. The chop simply involve cutting a scale foot off
Weathered a Gondola
installed some windshield wipers
sorry for the blur but I weathered my RS1
Weathered a Hart Ballast hopper(5 more to go)
And Weathered the 34’ caboose(as well as the engine shop in the background)
Awesome work as usual. Spring has definitely sprung here in the Palmetto State. That means there trails to hike, rivers to canoe and work on the layout is slowing down. But it hasn’t stopped completely.
I started building the Altoona staging yard yesterday.
A pair of SW7’s switching in the yard. DJ.
Been doing a little yard work before the real yard work begins
Bob
Todays the big weekend, the Novi MI train show. Really really excited. I’ll post pics of what I got when I get back from the show tomorrow.
Bear … Feel free to tell more about your project.
MikeL … More great DRGW photos from you.
Gary BN24 … Nice NP and SP&S locos and cars.
GP9 … You are making good progress.
DJ (Grampy) … Another outstanding photo of the Pennsy!
Bob … Looks like fun switching on your layout.
Alex … I recall the Novi show was a big one each year. Used to live in MI.
Any Alco fans out there? … Here are some NP RS3’s serving the oil company and also interchanging with the CB&Q
well, ive finally laid the rest of my yard tracks. so the yard is done, at least track.
so this is looking west at foyt yard. now you can see my mainline tracks, the three a/d tracks and then my 6 classification tracks
looking east
Awesome work everyone. This is always my favorite thread of the week. Today after laying track last week for my coal mine, I thought why don’t I have a through track instead of another stub track. Took me 2 weeks to think of that![D)]
Original mine. Note the straight tracks.
New Mine
Ahhhhhhhh… The weekend is here! And with it my fabvorite thread too.
First off, [color=red]Bear[/color] and [color=red]Mike[/color], aw garsh, yer 'barasin me… [:$] [swg] Every once in a while I like to get into a project like the Blacksmith’s Shop just to see if I can actually bring it fruition. It is now getting close and I am quite please with how it is coming along…
[color=red]Garry[/color] nice work on the RS3s. They be my favorite diseasally thingies actually. My favorite loco out at the museum is old LV 211, an RS3m (Hammerhead, Dewitt Geep). I hope she will be repaired and back in service this year.
In fact wonderful work from everyone!
Progress… I think??? The roof is now on the shop. I estimate 3344 hand cut shingles now grace the roof. Here it is before I put the ridge caps on:
With the ridge caps but before staining:
And after I stained it (I don’t like the color I ended up with. Needs more gray to it. The brown is too reddish for the way old cedar would look… Oh well need to figure out how to correct it…):
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Ray,
That building just keeps getting better.
Not sure the exact dye or stain you’re using , but going over it with a dark to medium gray wash will take out most of the red highlights, then lighter gray over that will add contrast and blending.
Gidday Frank, no I haven’t done anything further on the ferry itself but I consider that ferry, apron and associated counterweight mechanism (and lifeboats) as One Project, so am slowly making progress. Yes it is all scratch built from Evergreen and Plastruct styrene sheet and shapes, though unfortunately neither local LHS, (an hours drive in opposite directions ) had scale 6”x1” so am cutting it from .010” sheet.[banghead] In the partially assembled counterweight in my photo I worked out that I have made 102 parts for just that one so far, and I have the cheek of wondering if Ray is crazy.[:^)][%-)]
Aaaarrrggh, the aches and pains of getting older, you have my sympathies, I’m dreading it, having collected a few over the years, and I’m still a relative whippersnapper.
Mike, tempting me with this narrow gauge stuff!![sigh] I don’t know what I’m going to do, ignore your posts perhaps ??[:-^] [swg]
Heartland Garry,
Just finished this super detailing and weathering of an Athearn Genesis SD70M
Awesome stuff gang! [bow]
Ray, what can I saw, the blacksmith shop is amazing
Mike, love them little critters!
Grampy, good to see you again
Curt, I didn’t see any sinage, could that be the Ursnot Mine?[*-)]
Past me bedtime,later gang!
Spent too much time on this Walthers Caboose
The posts for the railing on top of the cupola are so weak they break just cutting them off the sprue
These really should be metal not plastic
I’ve written to them about this problem but have yet to hear back
Meantime I gave it a light weathering using Pan Pastels
and continue to wait
I ran out of flex track to finish my industral tracks…so i decided to do some work on my lumber yard and this is my progress keep in mind i dont have any detail parts yet ie lumber’ people or a fence and back drop yet
Two weekends ago (2-8-2014) we had a division meet of the Susquehanna Division NMRA in Mechanicsburg PA…one of the 3 layouts open for the day was Bob Charles…former NMRA president (1994-2000).
It’s always great to see what other folks are up to. Great work as usual.
I have a work in progress photo for this week. I’ve been gradually piecing together this whimsical 0-4-0 for years. I’m making progress on it again. I have the mechanism running smoothly and the superstructure fits around the mechanicals (major accomplishments). Now it’s a matter of adding the peripheral details and figuring out a tender. Anyway, this is progress to date:
If things continue to go well, I’ll post more pictures.