Well, I finally get to start it![:D] Well… enjoy this weekend’s photo fun!
aren’t you supposed to start it with a photo ?
Sorry, I don’t have a photo at this time.[:(] It is 6 a.m at my house & that is to early to take pics. Also, the Train Room is cold. So I will get a couple pics up tonight.
Apparently not. It looks like this weeks photo fun will be discussion only.[:D]
No, It will be as usual.
Okay, here is a pic 
Yes I know, It ain’t a model train. This is D&S loco #478, a K-28 my favorite at the RR. My favorite & the C&TS is either K-27 #463 or the big K-37. They are both awating a rebuild. The pic is good for weathering because the loco is weathered & can be a help for what real weathered loco looks like…
Weekend Discussion Fun just doesn’t flow too well. [zzz]Here’s an old one of mine just for the H of it.
I spent a few hours this week applying wet plaster castings to my layout. Here are a couple of photos of the rock work. I can’t wait to get it colored…trying to take a photo of white plaster is really difficult!
Don Z.
Hoorah! I finaly get to contribute after lurking as a spectator for ever. This is an Athearn RS-3 Rio Grand I converted to an Erie unit with Microscale decals.
This is what it looked like before. It was a very nice scheme but I wanted an Erie unit. I didn’t think to take better pictures before I started.
Here it is all stripped with the yellow sprayed and masked. I used brake fluid (Dot3) as a striper, worked like a charm. This is actually a replacement shell because I screwed up my original. Do NOT use brake cleaner on styrene [oops]
Here the black is shot. Its a custom blend of Testors Flat anf Gloss black.
That’s all for now. Thanks for looking.
John
Nice cliff work Don, should look pretty cool once it’s painted. Can you give us a run down of how you did that cliff face? I’ll need to do a small pary like that myself.
I wanted to upgrade an Atlas TT for my layout so I styled it after the much photographed/modeled SP Gallows Turntable at Laws California. No attempt was made to create an exact model and some elements are slightly out of scale…just a "good-enough-stand-way-off-scale" approach to disguise the less than eye appealing Atlas model as it comes out of the box! I used balsa stripwood, stone blocks from A.C Moore, piano wire, stain and india ink/alcohol. I’ll do final installation this week to get it operating. It was a bit time consuming but a fun creative project, even though not up to rivet counting standards in any way.
Out of the box Atlas TT
Stripwood work
Laying block
Shanty upgrade
Gallows added plus stain/weathering
Location on the layout
The prototype
My new TT !
That looks really good my friend.
Tom, you did a great job on the trusty old Atlas TT, well done. I have one sitting awaiting some form of modification in the future.
My son Crispy is participating in a nationwide interchange program with several other modellers on another forum. Here is his freight car (weathered by his own hands) getting ready to be interchanged. It is currently on its way out west on a hot freight destined for Colorado.
yesterday arriving from Florida came this fine reefer. Here it is getting switched in the yard ready to head out on a local around our layout.
Once a month we forward the interchange car and will see our model arrive back here in Illinois some time around Christmas.
I love the rock work with plaster castings, and that turntable project is awesome!
I started work on some background structures and the backdrop yesterday and also added some new clouds using a new template I cut out of card stock and with some thinned out white acrylic paint with my air brush. Using some images from the Internet I was able to re-size them and then printed out on glossy photo paper with my color ink jet printer, and then attached them to 1/4" thick foam core using 3M spray adhesive. I attached the “Dixie Machine Welding and Metal Works, Inc.” structure backdrop to the background just behind the roundhouse.
This area is still a WIP!
Cheers,
Ryan
Great work everyone. Tom, great looking turn table. I like the way you weatherd the wood deck. And Simon, nice looking box cars, a little weathering really brings them to life dohnit?
J.P.
How does that work for you? I’ve been thinking of trying one, it sounds pretty fun, but I’d be worried about not getting my car back…[xx(] plus shipping would get expensive…
Maybe it would be a permanent decal file swap, so someone could paint and decal a car for my railroad and keep it…
I may have photos in time for the weekend, the WRS shops have been busy playing with junk and turning them into revanue cars…[:)]
Hope to finnish this wheel pit lathe this weekend. Have a wheel tread lathe for the back of the wheel shop area. Then may start a wheel boring mill. Trying to get things done before I have two carple tunnel operations, of which sounds like a piece of cake LOL.
Hosler Helper spotting the #1 driver on the “peeler”
Enjoy all the pics here as I really love to see the talent of you guys. Have a great weekend…John
Well we will have to see how it works out. The group is small and we have all known each other from the forum for some time. There certainly is a cost involved in shipping the freight cars, I figure about $4 per month. Plus there is the risk of not getting the car back, or it getting damaged. We chose a not too precious freight car, but I think that the enjoyment my 8 year old will get from seeing his box car on 8 or 9 layouts around the country is worth it.
Maybe I’d try it with area modelers, we could physicly meet and swap cars, no shipping neccisary. Something like that.
That is a great looking loco, jep1267.