Gidday All from a frosty Friday evening, down under.
A photo of the Bears messy work bench may not seem much but, apart from assembling a pair of Kadee Hon3 trucks, due to w**k commitments, the bench has nothing on it for about 6 months.
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I had intended that fitting body mounted couplers, better trucks and a repaint of this AHM car would be a quick and easy task to get my hand back in, but as doctorwayne has put it, I’ve got on the “slippery slope”!!
It may yet take a month of Sundays to finish, [sigh] but it is fun.[(-D][(-D]
Looking forward to everyone’s really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Bear, thanks for starting us out and hope you get back to work on modeling soon!
Managed to finish a couple of cars I had been working on this week!
Branchline 50’ ACF 50’ Boxcar with Tabbed Sill, with 4-4 Dreadnought Ends I salvaged from a 40’ Boxcar kit to match the prototype, added A-Line Sill steps, then painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Speedwitch Media Decals, car was built in 1945 to replace worn out pre war equipemnt, repainted in 1958 at East Rochester.
Intermountain 4550 CF NSC Covered Hopper kit, substituted a Plano Roofwalk for the cast plastic one, painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in 1978 for hauling potash.
Bear … Thanks for starting Weekedn photo fun… Your off to a good start with the AHM car … Good luck with it and the slippery slope.
Rick … More great freight cars from you. I like the 50’ box car and the covered hopper.
Kevin … Your feight cars look great.
I’m working on scenery. I needed to include access to a long tunnel behind rock strata …
This photos illustrate what I have done so far …
The small piece of plywood slides up and down.
Pieces of foam board are fastened to the plywood and surounding rock strata with construction adhesive. The pieces on the plywood overlap the other pieces.
I lifted up the plywood and placed it above the opening to check if it raised up oaky. .
Next, I spread patching plaster over the foam board pieces, and I carved into it. Then I painted it as follows. First I brush on a layer of flat white latex to cover any blue foam that was exposed. Then, I applied various thin washes of acrylic paints waiting for each layer to dry before applying the next.
Open Seseme !
The removable piece of rock strata is leaning against the stone wall next to the bridge abutment. The mine bulding on top is removable along with a foam board base whic hcovers the top side access hole.
Hello everyone! I’ve recently been working on a 1’ x 6’ N scale switching layout. I am now starting to focus on improving the scenery since the track work is done, including a couple of roads and some trees. Everyone’s work is amazing, and thanks for the opportunity to share all of our work.
Normally you have to follow the directions, exactly as listed in Steve Otte’s sticky post.
However somebody posted a hack for google images. You right click and choose View the Image. Right click again and choose Copy Image. Then in your post you click Edit and Paste, or just hit the control and V buttons at the same time. The picture appears
I am pretty sure I picked that one up in Riverdale Station Hobbies in Atlanta, Georgia. The owner is a Pennsylvania RR fan and has a pretty good selection of anything PRR related.
Garry, Scenery looks great. Strong work with the access section.
Jimmy, Caboose looks great.
As for my contribution. Im working on a new N scale layout. It is 30"x48". It will include a divider down the center wtih plans for an urban/industrial side and a mountainous section. The plan came out of The Complete Book of Model Railroading by David Sutton. I redrew the plan in N scale with the Atlas software.
I am extremely limited on space but I think this will give me some operation potential and some good old roundy round action
JaBear… thanks for starting the thread [#offtopic][#offtopic] Inside joke you get it. I’m very proud of my new bridge. I do believe I am going to start manufacturing my pillars before the agony of making all those gusset plates.
I think I can speak for all when it comes to this. Us scratch Builders are a different breed. I went to Scale Model Supply in St Paul today to buy bridge shoes… Who does that?
If you brought that up in conversation with non model railroad people, they would look at you like you belong in an asylum. Well I got my bridge shoes and I’m going to start working on my pillars.
**Rick,**a pleasure, as always, to see your new cars.
“This is probably going to be the high point of my weekend!” I do hope your weekend hasn’t been that bad, Kevin!! [swg] My pleasure, though I do offer my apologies to the hard working ffolkes at the Garfield Central.
Good looking camouflage, Garry.
After what’s gone down for you lately, Jimmy, it’s good to see you modelling.
“…thanks for the opportunity to share all of our work*.*
A couple new photos from Bootbay Railway Village this week
The Portland Press Herald Newspaper office is the next building I completed in the buildings on the right side grade series. Shown next to the Burgess Forbes Paint Factory which has a Miller Engineering EL sign
One of our guests must be a Porsche fan; he took a half dozen pictures of this car and shared them with me
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