Gidday All, that time again.
A Show-off [:P] turned up at the club with his latest acquisition, courtesy of Bachmann and M.B.Klein,
Have got all the track laid and bus and feeder wiring completed on the clubs corner modules and the guys started weathering the track and ballasting. We just hope that it when the white glue solution dries it will be a lighter colour.
Looking forward to the Good Stuff.
Have a Great One Folks.
Cheers, the Bear.
Bear, thanks for starting from down under!
Managed to build and complete a few more undecorated kits this past week.
Another Chicago Great Western 40’ PS1 Boxcar, this time with the SL markings for a Spartan Easy Loader equiped car. Painted with Floquil Maroon and lettered with Oddballs Decals.
An Athearn 11,000 Gallon Chemical Tank Car, where I removed the platform as per the decal diagram as I could not find a picture of this car. Car painted with Scalecoat II White, Roof Brown and Black and lettered with Champ Decals.
Atlas 14,000 Gal Kaolin Tank Car kit, painted with Scalecoat II White and Black and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
Sent from my Etch-A-Sketch - Mark I
Wow, everything looks so nice & neat and clean here! [:D]
Time for some dirt!![:-,]
Has this languishing around for a few months in primer, decided it was high time to give her a fresh coat of paint. Then like my old dog Sam, it went and rolled around in the dirt as soon as it got pretty! [:D]
Great work everyone. just a couple of photos of a Pennsy NW2 at the local coal mine.
Just built this old Roundhouse 3in1 rotary plow. More work than I thought but had fun with it. Still needs some weathering and decals.
-Bob
Bob,
Nice plow.
Everyone,
We’re off to a great start.
My luxury cruise train, the San Juan Zephyr, finally came together after more than a year of work. Here are some pics of it, leaving Durango, grinding uphill on the Silverton branch nearing Rockwood, and arriving in Silverton.
Good morning,
Some great looking stuff on here guys. I finished adding some details to the "East " switch on a siding. Hopefully I can get the “West” switch with details done this weekend.
Mike.
Making improvements on the signal systems on the layout.
Bear … That’s an impressive loco. .
Rick … You continue to do great work.
Karl … Your D&H Alco looks real.
Curt … I like the NW2
Bob … The plow looks very good.
Mike L … That’s an impressive train!
Other Mike … Nice line side details
Steam Age … Wow! … The detail is remarkable. What scale?
My photo shows freight train activity in Blackhawk .
“Steam Age … Wow! … The detail is remarkable. What scale?”
These are new detail parts from Showcase Minatures, Century Foundry, has US&S (Union Switch & Signal) lettering on the doors.
Hey guys, great start to the weekend. kbkchooch I love the weathering job on the engine which is a perfect segway into my latest weathering project. I love the old Santa Fe warbonnet’s and so I took this C44-9W and brought it into 2013.
This is the starting point.
After she got the full treatment.
Here’s a few more pics
Enjoy
Will
Steamage- Thanks for the info. I like those so much I just ordered some[Y]
Hey Fellas! more great photos! I might have to order some of those US&S boxes as well. The B&O only used GRS stuff on the Buffalo Division, but the Erie used a lot of US&S equipment. it’s been a rough week here, I’m just about over a bout of bronchitis thanks to antibiotics! I did manage to get another painting finished, this is the BR&P flyer at Bradford Pa in 1926:
Here’s a look at our MTH lineup of NYC steam under the new city scene:
And finally, here’s a couple of videos of the Pennsy K4 1546 on the layout in the fog. We used two fog machines and the new 8mm app for Iphones to get this effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OeI8TFBjC38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J3jlf5gSmu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wvEI2pmvqHs
Thanks again Curt for the comments on Youtube!
Everyone have a great weekend!
-Stan
I just bought “Detailing Projects For Freight Cars & Locomotives” by Pelle Soeborg published by Model Railroader and was inspired to detail these Exactrail Gondolas based upon Pelle’s project in the book.
I am switching to modeling Pan Am and am looking to up my level of detail.
Derek
Added an aerial tram (bucket tram) to get ore from a mine. Guys would ride in the buckets to and from.
Terry,
Nice work on the tram. Anvil Mountains Models, I presume? Got one myself. They’re are sweet models and build-up easy.
The third building for my N scale backlot western town might be called a a simulation of a simulation of a simulation of a simulation. I used thin basswood sheet as the main element of the walls, with scale lumber adding to look like framing. Of course, the stiff wood sheet actually supports the framing instead of the other way around. This simulates a Hollywood false front structure which would be made up of scaffolding and framing holding up lightweight plywood walls.
The front of this movie set building would have a little plaster painted to represent brick in the old days, or formed plastic or resin sheet nowaways with brick pattern. I used some old Walthers brick paper. The full-size Hollywood phony building would simulate a frontier bank, built of brick to project an image of stability above the rough wood other buildings of the town. The frontier bank might have some wooden columns or other wooden architectural elements as a frontier simulation of the carved stonework details found on the big city bank buildings back east in the 1870s and 80s.
But even those big city buildings were a simulation in a way-- commercial copies of styles from classic antiquity, the Greek temples and the Roman forum. Hence the model is a copy of a copy of etc…
Yes, from Anvil (think you recommended it to me - many thanks). Used leather dye for stain and wife’s elastic tread for cables. Attaching buckets was hardest part.
I like the look of those cables. I used the smallest Clover House stranded cable (#282) on mine. Strong, looks good and cable-y, but it’s not as delicate as what you used.
