Dang Robby! Your weathering skills have really come a long ways in the last year or so![tup]
Definitely hard acts to follow this weekend.
Here is my entry, an HDR image with some Fresco artistic filter added.
Southern Crescent in the foreground with the track cleaning consist in the middle and then the yard switcher pulling a few cars around.
Great stuff once again everybody. [tup]
GAPPLEG- I have that same building, how come mine doesn’t look near that good? Oh yeah Talent. The white and blue boxcars in the back. They look suspiciously like the one that pulls up to the brewery on my layout to haul Pearl beer.
Stebbycentral- That road does look so realistic for it’s location. And many other locales for some of us rurals.
I hate to single out a few modelers and not acknowledge the others, but the list would be so long and I’m taking up photo space. You all are fantastic. Thanks for inspiring me to drive on![bow]
Todd
Karl, all I can say is it’s a beauty! Jarrell
Grampy, I now know the ‘cable’ is picture hanging wire, what are the ‘posts’ the wire is going through. First class as usual! Jarrell
You all just amaze me.
How was the fading of the paint done on the rusty rock hopper?
Oooops! Well, boss, it just sorta slipped out of my hands and kinda…
CNJ831
Karl, Grampy,
Great stuff. It gives us all something to strive for. Grampy, I really like your guard rail. I just finished a similar feature with a road rising along side a two track mainline. I just slapped my guardrails together with round toothpicks and strip styrene just to have something there. I intend to do something more elaborate later on and this gives me an idea.
Very nice!
Nothing new to show this week so here are some different views of the area I showed last week.
Lastly a look down the divided mainline toward the next area to be scenicked.
Both mainline tracks will tunnel through the mountain which will rise up into the corner. The houses you see up there are N scale and will be my first attempt at forced perspective. The trees will get gradually smaller the higher up they go. The mountain will not be flat topped. A small hill will be added behind the two houses.
NOTE TO SELF: Next time, pick the trash up off the floor before taking pictures.
Driline, its HO scale. I haven’t tried to weather a N scale car yet.
Loather, thanks. I try to tell people the more you practice the more you will see a improvement.
For the fade everybody, just plain white “testors” sprayed out of a airbrush.
Hi: Thanks Jarrell, jecorbett. Lots of great photos this week. As to guard rails, I used 5/32 dowels I found at AC Moore. I cut the tops at a 45 deg. angle, and made a jig to drill the holes, to keep them at a uniform distance apart and from the top. Then, I glued them in place, painted them white, and weathered them with alcohol/ink wash. Then, I strung the wires through all the holes. Then I weathered the wire with a rust colored wash. Here’s another shot of the guard rails.
Wow what a great bunch of photos and outstanding work
I spent the last week on a scratch building project
Its the Express building at Quinnimont WVA on the C&O
Here’s a COHS photo of the Proto Type
I used a stain pen to stain the 2x4s and interior walls
I placed them on 2 ft centers
as well as the roof rafters for the porch roof
The finished building had to be slectively compressed to fit in the space alowed
so i had to shorten and cut the width
Robby-excellent weathering!
DJ, great work as usual.
Well, I finally printed out the sign for my medman’s pharmacy.
The story: Over on another forum, one of our members was stricken w/ inoperable throat cancer. He did not survive. He was a pharmicist (had his own store), and so one of our members got the idea to create a medman’s pharmacy, and now we’ve decided to make it a franchise. Here’s mine:
Karl, I think you’ve missed the point of WPF - you’re supposed to post picture of models, not the real thing! [bow]
Excuse me while I pick my eyeballs back up off of the floor.
Yep Pearl Beer , Grew up in El Paso Texas drinking Pearl beer. Had to have those on the layout. FYI Born in Springfield Ill. though .
Driline you caught me , It’s the only one I have at the time that looks massive enough for the job at that site, Got lots of forklifts around the layout, just haven’t found a large one yet anywhere.
Grampy you shame me , everytime I look at your work , I just get depressed by my efforts.
“License and registration please… Do you know why I pulled you over sir?”
“No officer, but I bet you are going to be asking yourself that same question for the rest of the day…”
“!!!”
Elsewhere 4 BNSF units (3 SD40-2’s and a GP-60) were heading to Fred’s Locomotive Shop for an outsourced rebuild/relettering:
Disclamer:
These are my models on the club’s modular layout.
Hey Jerry: That Cat dealership is a great scene. I esp. like your chain link fence. And, I worked for Cat for 23 yrs.
Great stuff everyone…
I have been working on some structures for a club layout and have finally gotten to a point where I can take some pictures. The first little building will be the caboose supply building and will be in the forefront of the layout so I will be adding lots of little details to this building. The next structures is an ash pit and conveyor which I still need to weather and add all the details too. The last structure is a kitbashed coaling tower. I will have both sanding and coaling capabilites added to this tower and it is currently about 50% done.
Have a great Weekend Everbody!!!
I threw this together one night this week… I was in the process of setting up the waybills to get ready for an upcoming operating session, and I realized I needed to build a gondola load of rebar…
Rebar is textured steel rod used to reinforce poured concrete in foundations, structures and highways.
I used lengths of stranded wire, cut to scale 20’ and stripped of insulation. To simulate multiple layers, I put a layer of round toothpicks at the bottom, then laid strips of balsa wood to represent dunnage supporting the top layer. I painted the load with a blend of black and silver craft acrylics to get a dark gun metal color. A couple of washes of a brownish red rust color finish it off. Like all the loads I make, it is removable.
Lee