Posted by BATMAN on Sat, Sep 22 2012 5:22 AM |
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Those guy’s from down under must be asleep at the switch. I always rely on them getting us off to an early start.
Brent
Gidday All, I wasn’t asleep at the switch last week, it was just that I had nothing to offer. [:(]
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Finished some freight cars this last week!!
As I had another decal I made another North Stratford Railroad Company 40’ Boxcar for the Ethan Allen Furniture Traffic. As the cars were bought on the used car market for this one I used a Youngstown Steel Door rather than the Superior Steel Door that I used on the first car. Car painted with Floquil Dark Green and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals.
This is one of many Covered Hoppers that the Reading Railroad used in Sugar Traffic as noted by the blue line over the road number. I used an old AHM/Robbins Rails/ConCor pseudo 2893 CF Covered Hopper kit that actually has a larger CF capacity and painted with Scalecoat II MW Gray then lettered the car with Herald King Decals. Many of these cars had the buy Savings Bonds slogans applied to the car.
This is an Atlas Pre-71 4650CF ACF Covered Hopper that was used in many various services including plastics and sugar lading. Car painted with Scalecoat II MW Gray and lettered with Herald King Decals. One nice thing is the spacing on the prototype cars of the READING was not always the same so some inaccuracies can be forgiven on the model.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
My new Paragon II PRR 4-8-2 M1B
That’s a great addition to your roster, Bob.
Geeps crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
Nice pictures guys.
Great pic DJ, I always love the lighting in your pictures.
WM GP9 #40, with its Scotchbrite nose,so ugly its cute![swg]
sure would be nice to see some of the weathered models.
Mine are weathered, just like on the railroad one week out of the shop.
Rick J [2c]
Great work this week as always. It took me a long time to make the decision to buy the Genesis GP7. I weathered it today using AIM powders.
In that vein, surely the Kingofweathering has a contribution?[8D]
Can’t help you here on that. This loco is literally just out of the shop. Those who visited WPF last week had to endure a series of rather unflattering build pics.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/210155.aspx
I posted a build thread here after finishing it as a follow-up:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/210285.aspx
So she’s looking pretty good this week now that she’s been through the electrical and paint shops.
Here’s a size comparison between #60 and a K-27.
#60 seems like a big engine on the narrowgauge, but when you get her next to a GP-30, she appears more petite.
This model runs fantastically with minimal issues. There are a couple of things I need to adjust, but it responds like its already broken in. Here it is on the hill on a 4% grade, 24" radius curve. 8 freight cars + caboose went right up the hill. In testing, she pulled 5 brass passenger cars and 2 weighted plastic passenger cars. There is room for more weight, if needed.
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Darn, I should have posted earlier. You guys are killing me. Great work all around as usual. Here are my humble submissions. Two PC RS2s, 9942 & 8369. Proto 1000 units letttered with Microscale decals. The numbers are not as accurate as I would like but I need to be frugal for awhile as my wife just got some new Trane’s if you know what I mean.
Excellent work Everyone!!! Great Photos!
Here are two box stock CP Kato’s I found at a not so local Hobby shop on Consignment.
Finished adding on all the grabs & extra parts, almost like a ‘before’ photo.
Trolley stop
Back side:
I know I’m outclassed, but aw well.
I’ve been messing around with adding smoke effects
Well this week I’m working on my first big scratchbuild since 2003. A concrete grain elevator. Don’t ask why, I just felt like building one. So far I have the eight silos mostly done. They’re made from 2" schedule 40 PVC pipe, a bit of plaster and glue and some gray latex house paint. I sanded the silos before painting so they look to have a texture like concrete. Each one is 11 and 13/16 inches tall or eighty-six scale feet in HO. Each silo has a plaster plug in the top so holes can be easily drilled later to mount details.
Finally got my hands on the actual print of the Dry Bulk Trailer. Definitely my favorite printed model yet!
Mark,
Which companies Dry Bulk (APB) trailer body is that? Kind of looks like a Heil with that seam on the side. I cut parts for the APB line at Trail King when they had a plant in Brookville, PA.
~Rob
Here’s two of the three Walthers background buildings I built for Slate Creek.
First is the Lauston Shipping…I rearranged the dock doors.
This is the Buds Trucking kit.I built 2 of these kits.
For those that are interested both Lauston Shipping and Buds Trucking are the same kit that includes lots of extra parts like walls,windows,doors etc so these buildings can be built in several configurations.
I will be adding roof details and will paint the dock door area.
Gidday, Had to dive on the computer this morning for w**k related matters, and also took the opportunity to have a quick look at this thread.
Your and EmpireStateJR comments got me thinking whilst carrying out boring gardening tasks for “her in doors”.
A more senior member of the forum may put me straight but as I see it Weekend Photo Fun has only 3 prerequisites; #1 it must be the weekend; #2 there should be a photo; #3 the contributor of said photo should have had fun. Easy!!
No matter how great or how humble a contribution is, the fact that time has been taken to share with the rest of us, counts a lot to me.
Out of curiosity I looked back over the past six months of WPF, and considering that its your guys summer when, as I am led to believe there is a bit of a hiatus regarding railroad modelling activity, there has been 737 replies and 72591 views. An average of 29.48 replies and 2903.64 views per week. That tells me that whoever originally came up with the concept got it right. (By the way my apologies to the .48 and .64 persons [;)] )
Keep on truckin"
Cheers, the Bear.
Nice photos as usual. It is time to get inspired.
Sue
