Gidday All, as I posted my solitary modelling achievement for the week on the RR Car Ferry Project thread, here’s an Easter Show archive photo of a Heritage Unit running on the clubs modular layout.
Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,
Have a Great One Ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Thanks for starting again Bear, always appreciate your pictures!
Was not all interested in modeling this last week so I am going to the way back machine to some of my favorite style cars as a DT&I modeler!
Athearn 86’ High Cube that I made look more like a Thrall by removing the grabs and installing ladders at the end of the car, also installed Details West Coupler pockets before painting with a 50-50 mixture of Floquil Signal Red and Reefer Yellow, then lettered with Herald King Decals.
Athearn car, painted with Flopaque Magenta from the old Dungeons and Dragons line, lettered with Herald King Decals.
Walthers Pullman Standard Car, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and Floquil Platinum Mist, then lettered with Oddballs Decals.
Walthers Car, painted with Floquil PC Green and Platinum Mist then lettered with Microscale Decals.
Athearn car, replaced the cast on grabs with wire grabs, painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and Floquil Platinum Mist, then lettered with Oddball Decals.
Walthers car, painted with Scalecoat II Armour Yellow and Floquil Platinum Mist, then lettered with Herald King Decals.
One thing I did for all the cars except the KOG was use the BRO or WSP car code which indicates the cars are to be returned to the Brownstone Stamping Plant or the Woodhaven Stamping plant on the DT&I. The KOG car was for GM use a
Bear … The Easter show looks like a fun event.
Rick … The high cube box cars look very good. Reminds me of my many years when I was living in Michigan.
Here is an older photo of a GN passenger train. The F3’s are freight units without steam generators, and therefore they are followed with a heater car.
Here we go again. Thanks Bear for starting things off.
Rick good looking cars. Too big for my layout though. I learned something from you today. I didn’t know Scalecoat made decals.
NYC RS-32 #8038 at the head of a short local freight approaching Black River Station.
Keep the photos and ideas coming. WPF is always the best thread of the week thanks to you.
Thanks for ctaching my brain fart, shoud have been Microscale Decals. I use decals from so many manufacturers I sometimes screw up on remembering which ones I used.
Rick J
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Home-made decals for me. I downloaded a “stencil” font for this MOW tank car. It started as a Life-Like model of a Texaco tanker. I got it for a few dollars at a train show, complete with plastic wheels, Talgo trucks and horn-hooks.
It still needs some weathering and a coat of flat paint, but right now it’s in the middle of my MOW train for some operational testing.
Good stuff from everyone, so far. A pair of Alco’s lead a freight across Hammer Creek in the morning mist.
Nice stuff folks, great way to start off a friday.
I built a few kits this week and started weathering them.
Great stuff, everyone![tup]
Mr B,
I’ve been wanting to experiemnt with making decals for some time. My last inkjet printer died, so that messsed up a provious attempt. Need to research laser printer option.
Very atmospheric shot, Grampy. Really moody, but in a good way, like film noir.[~]
Hobbez,
That’s some impressive weathering.[:D]
Hmmm, where do it start to distill the various things I di this week? Been getting past a lull in building due to the demands of w**k, as Bear would say. But things picked up after a few small projects earlier in the week.
I redid the location of the Crater lake quarry’s rock bins, pushing them back farther to make room for what you’ll see at the end here. Had to shorten the conveyor a little, which then left the supporting cribbing too low. The solution? More cribbing! I built and attached it to the bottom of the conveyor, which sets on the previous tower. Looks a little crude in this zoom shot, but doesn’t matter. It’s over 3’ away from the fascia. Can’t reach it, so had to do everything back there with one of those grabbem sticks us old folks keep around. Like I told the wife, it’s a little like building a ship in a bottle[:)]
Another project had a less “reach too far” aspect, adding a platform so that the passenger shelter at Camp 10 can serve to receive freight and express, too. I still needed another technique I use for things I can’t quite get to on the layout, the digicam. There was limited clearance at the new location, so I needed to check to see if it would clarea a train passing in fron of it. So I peered over with the camera and took this shot, which incidentally shows the “parts is parts” origin better than the second shot, which is what the operator sees.
T
I was not sure if I should post this video as a similar one was posted sometime ago. However since it is my very first Edited Video here goes.
It is a 4 minutes long video of the MFM club layout in Trois-Rivieres Quebec. Hope you like
Nice tour video, I have seen a lot of them, but don’t know why this one give me the feeling of something realistic; may be the sound of the cars…
Great work everybody!
Well, my experiment with using Alclad II to chrome the details on my launch didn’t go as well as expected. I did more damage than good but I have managed to repair most of it. Just don’t look too close.
Edit:
I forgot to add a couple of details before I posted the pics. Windshield braces:
Navigation light lenses:
Dave
Jack,
Very enjoyable video. Great job! Gotta give that a try myself. I’ll agree the sound effects worked for me. Also the location back in the train, with a flat car providing a fairly clear field of vision, was also a nice touch.
What camera did you use?
Youtube presented what looked like several more videos from you. Hoping I don’t spoil next week’s big reveal, but are those continuations of this excellent video?
Dave,
I think I want to take your boat for a spin. She’s a classic!
Wow its been way too long since I’ve posted in this thread.
The California Zephyr fighting the grades near Glennwood Springs, CO.
This past week I purchased some old train stuff from someone getting out of the hobby. Most of the stuff was just track, wires, balsa wood, odds and ends, and some locos/cars that need a lot of TLC. The locos are all steamers and they need lots of work. Me being mostly a diesel guy, taking on some steam restoration is going to be a huge challenge. Here’s what I got:
Mantua 4-4-0
Mantua 0-4-0
Varney 4-6-0 (ten wheeler according to the super old diagram)
And the “jewel”, a Ken Kidder 2-6-0 porter mogul
I’ve never tackled a steam loco restoration so I’d be very appreciative for any pointers in terms of locating parts, diagrams and the like. Thanks and I hope you guys enjoyed the pics.
EDIT: Ok I think it should work now. Tom, the 4-6-0 says “Casey Jones” on the instruction sheet, is that still a “little lady”?
Some really good stuff this week.
Tony: If you got the Varney 4-6-0 “Little Lady”, you’ve got yourself quite a little locomotive. They’re pretty indestructable, and they haul like crazy. I had one for years and years. Really loved her, but finally gave her to my nephew. For all I know, she’s still running.
Here’s my F-81 2-10-2 #1408, complete with her shorty vanderbuilt tender hauling a coal extra up the 2% grade out of Yuba Canyon. That white cliff in the background by the mine is actually the start of scenery from a daylighted tunnel that was giving me fits with the hidden trackage. The 2-10-2 is a Precision Scale import, smooth and powerful.
Tom
Always a pleasure to see the excellent work shown here! Bravo to everyone!
With the Capitol Limited cars trickling in from Walthers I thought I’d give my layout a little more B&O flavor—
I’ve always had a soft spot for those CPL signals! You can see where I had to chisel out some of the ballast to fit the base in place. I’ll get to that soon.
Even better at night!
Looks like maybe a bigger resistor is needed on that marker but in reality it’s not so bright, just the way the camera caught it.
On to more good stuff… Ed
Ed:
I love the signal lights. Looks like the rest of your layout lighting is pretty good too.
Dave
Jasper:
The Varney “Old Lady” was a 2-8-0 Consolidation. I know: Ageism AND sexism. What you have is Varney’s 4-6-0 “Casey Jones” Ten Wheeler, although it doesn’t resemble the engine that the real Casey Jones ran on the Illinois Central 115 years ago. The two Varney models are often confused with one another because they used the same boiler, tender, cylinders, pilot, etc. They have lines common to small 2-8-0’s and 4-6-0’s that were used on lots of railroads coast-to-coast. I’ve seen Seaboard 4-6-0’s and Southern 2-8-0’s with similar lines, for example. Bowser eventually got the patterns and continued to produce both models until just a few years ago, with gradual changes and improvements over the years. They are currently out of production, although Bowser may have parts. Getting parts may be a matter of finding another Casey Jones on ebay or at a meet, and swapping parts.
The 4-4-0 intrigues me. It appears to have a Mantua General or AHM Genoa/Reno/Inyo drive, with a new boiler, cab, etc. A very pretty little bugger. What is the boiler made of?
Tom
Your interest made me look at the 4-4-0 a bit closer and it’s not a Mantua, it says Pocher Italy on the bottom by the pilot. The boiler feels like some kind of metal, maybe die cast.