Gidday All, Well I’ve broken my own rule, I’ve gone and reused a previous offering to WPF.[:$] My excuse is that after a two year hiatus the guys and gal of the American Modular Group are getting back together and will be exhibiting at a Train Show at Easter and I’ve been asked to join in and run trains.[:D][:D] So I’ve pulled out a couple of my locos whose last run was at their last show and as the Bear is not photogenic even servicing those locos, here’s another look at “Into the Sunset on the AMG”.
Looking forward to the really Good Stuff.
Have a Great One ffolkes,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Bear,
That’s a great pic, lots of atmosphere.
I finished up the centerpiece of Crater Lake just in time for WPF. Had the memory card jammed full, so had to start deleting old stuff until I finally had the computer and camera talking again. Time to buy another SD card. But it was worth the wait. Starting out…
The bins have ends.
The conveyer shed is up on top.
Finally, the convyer that brings in the stone from the crusher is added.
Adding the loading bins for aggregate add crushed stone to the product line at Crater Lake Stone. The limestone is also used as flux at the smelter.
Good morning Bear and Mike, nice pictures, and Mike how do you get so much work done every week?
As for me I did almost nothing this last week what with our normal club meeting on Saturday and operating at the West Shore club on Sunday, bowling a couple of nights and working on income tax returns.
So all you get are some favorites of mine from the past!
Penn Central SD45 and SD40 leading a mixed freight.
Pennsy Centipedes on a test run.
Pennsy Alco C628 & C630 leading an ore drag, similar to the drags out of Whiskey Island in Cleveland heading to the steel mills of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Looking forward to more pictures from our fellow modelers.
Rick J
No work this week, but these two came in last week. Got a good deal on them as well. I’m planning to oīrder a SW1500 for my freelanced road in the next two weeks. As well as an air brush setup
A good start to WPF guys.
Unfortunately not much new at the BRVRR. Domestic duties interfered with the trains this week. I did finish updating my website though. Link below.
Here is one from two years ago:
Union Pacific Challenger #3985 at the head of a short excursion train rounds the curve at the west end of the Black River Valley layout. This loco belongs to my eldest grandson and is a favorite of his and his little brother.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Because of you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Good stuff from everyone, this week. Switchers.
Bear … Enjoy running trains at the Easter train show.
Mike L … That is an improssive structure. Also, it looks like blocks of white marble are being shipped. Are they headed to DC for more buildings and monuments there?
Rick … Good to see Pennsy power.
Jimmy … Glad you got hoppers at good prices.
Allan … # 3985 looks great. I know what you mean about other priorities.
DJ … Looks like swirch crews are ready to start a busy day in the yard.
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My photo is an older one with F-units rolling past Valley Heights.
Rick,
Right now my life cosists of editing my diss and mentally recovering from editing my diss so I can get back to it. Staring a deadline in the face. Working with my hands relaxes my sore old brain, clears the deck so it’s fresh to start again the next morning.
That and insomina, plus my tendency to build models to look right unless they’re right in the foreground, not so much to be exacting minatures that are tiny duplicates of reality. While the bins look like board-by-board, they’re not except where they need to be. Here’s the foundation as I was building it up.
No jig for me. I just used a big board to glue the very visible supporting posts. The wall on the far side of the bin and the slopesheet are both basswood laminated to aircraft plywood. I scribed it myself, because I didn’t have anything but plain wood in the budget. But the short wall at the top of the slopesheet is made up individually, because that’s the side that’s most visible.
The conveyer housings are printed paper. The one on top is made up of stickwood supports. I use gap-filling CA with kicker, so work speeds along, although I use Titebond III and wait for places like the tall bin wall, which I Titebonded and clamped. The sloping conveyer from the off-scene crusher (see how quick and easy THAT was to model…[;)] ) is simply a pink foam form sprayed with 3M 77 then covered with paper bonded to .010 styrene.
Garry,
Thanks for the comments. Actually, it’s supposed to be limestone, but it needs some weathering as it does look a lot like marble. Gotta get to that.
My mill in Purgatory isn’t very big, so I’m saying it pr
An old one from me
This is a model i built for a friends C&O layout
The photo standing beside the model is the prototype
Its a general store just down the street from the depot
in Prince WVA on the C&O mainline
No pictures from me this week, but I have my Grandt Line 25 tonner about half painted and decaled in Canadian Pacific maroon and grey. I hope to have it finished for next weekend, so I’m going to make you wait![}:)][swg][(-D][(-D]
Bear - Nice photo, worth seeing again. Nice to hear that the group is up and running once more.
Mike - Fantastic structure! I wouldn’t tell anyone that it isn’t all board on board. It is all board on board, but it just so happens that a couple of them are bigger boards! No need to mention the details[swg].
Rich - I really like the rock detail in the 3rd photo.
Jimmy - Congrats on taking the leap into air brushing. It will be a whole new adventure in modeling. I’m just getting into two-tone paint jobs and I’m pretty pleased with the results. Still a little learning to do, like burnishing the edge of the tape better, but its coming.
Allen - Nice low shot of the UP steamer.
Grampy - I love the fleet of switchers.
Gary - F units are my favourites.
Terry - Nice scratch build. Took some studying to detect the differences between the model and the prototype.
Have a great weekend everybody!
Dave
Dave,
I’ll keep that in mind. People do kind of remark on how fast things fall together and, well, I’m not superhuman, merely sleep-deprived human. So my secret shortcuts tend to slip out.
I forgot to get a picture in with the chutes and doors in place on the track side. Once again, very simple stuff that looks good at a distance. I painted one side of a manlia file folder black, marked and cut out the patten on the other side, bent and glued together the door and chute, painted the rest of the black, then CAed them in. Holes they supposedly block. Just not there. Neither are any cables, lever, etc to operate the door. Too far away in the scene to matter with this structure, although the soft focus here doesn’t help.
NBWs? Not a one, so far. I may get ambitious, but I’d need like 24 in one pass to make even the first one look right, so we’ll see. They would be visible though, so may bite the bullet and do some.
Some really great work again this week. I wait all week for this thread. Here are a couple pictures of the On30 Shay that I am detailing. It has tsunami sound with a current keeper and I replaced the gears with NWSL metal ones. Just need to finish up the weathering and letter the other side to be done.
Quartet with their pants up.
Four scratchbuilt HOn30 electric boxcabs with N scale Kato 11-103 power chassis for my “to be” limestone quarry line.
Bernd
Off to a great start again this weekend! This thread is one of my biggest inspirations for this hobby…
I have managed to get a bit more done at Keuka Creek. Finished the cut stone retaining walls at the tunnel portal and got it stained.
Before I can do much more here I need to complete some weathering and details on the track leading up to the scene. (One of the really important things is to figure out which first thing has to get done first!) So I spent an hour or so getting about 20’ worth of railbars/fishplates on one of the rails leading up to the scene super glued in place:
Next I need to rust up the side of the rails. Then I can finish adding the foam for the scenery, then go back and ballast the track.
73
Always some great modeling and inspiration on the photo fun. Finally got something finished enough to contribute.
Continental Can is a two Walthers hardwood furniture backdrop buildings kitbashed. The Sabretts building is an experiment with a Sabretts logo Photoshopped onto some Clever Models brick paper onto black foam core.
My Video was featured in this weeks MR online news letter
I was humbled by the great comments
Bear, Again thanks for the start. BTW I like classic re-runs, have fun with the club at the Easter show.
In the flavor of Vaugh Monroe,
“He wore a black leather jacket and motorcycle boots. He rode a souped up 'cicle that took off like a gun…”
Regards, Peter
I spent the week skiing, but got home in time to get to my LHS to pick up a couple of purchases. These are Oxford Diecast models.
That’s a 56 T-bird and a 58 Edsel. Even I was just a little boy then, but I remember these on the roads.
Just a couple progress shots in the last couple months.
Bernd
Those boxcabs are really nice!
The critter in my avatar is an HOn30 scratch build too. I have made two of them.
Dave