This is a thread where modelers can show completed projects, in process projects or photos of their layouts both old and new.
I completed a couple of cars this week.
Walthers Express Reefer Kit, broke 3 drills drilling all the holes for the grabs on this kit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Hunter Green and lettered with Microscale Decals. These are the new look lettering that REA Express started in 1961 when they were allowed to integrate trucks into the fleet. When passenger trains fell off REA ran into problems. Express Reefers ran in passenger trains carrying high value fruit items and or things like magazines and newspapers that required a clean dry car to avoid damage.
This is a Life-Like Proto 2000 Kit of the PS 4427 Covered Hopper, replaced the Plastic Roofwalk with a Plano one, drilled about 50 #79 holes for the roofwalk supports, on this one I did not break a drill, had much softer plastic than the Walthers kit. Car was painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Car Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. The C&EI was controlled by the MP and their cars ran in the same number series as the MP and were delivered in 1971 for grain service.
This is the freight terminal I’ve been doing for the last week. It still needs detail and signage but it is now fit to the space at the back of the yard.
Rick and Kevin - those are all great looking cars. I haven’t gotten that far as I’m still stumbling along with the scenery and buildings. J.R.
Thanks for starting things up this snowy, icy weekend, Rick. I like your REA express car. I’m a fan of lots of head-end equipment. I also like to have a caboose for every set of freight locomotives on the layout. Run-through or not, I like the caboose to match the engines [Y]
That GERN Liquid Flux is traveling in style, Kevin! Excellent job on that gutsy-looking tank car.
J.R. Your freight house is excellent. There is a building near me that is nearly identical, called Willoughby Coal & Supply. I’ll have to see if I can find a photo.
Several little projects cropped up for me this week. I picked up an old PRR observation car that represents ones the PRR made from P70 coaches. Anyone who messes with brass knows that the trucks, if provided, can be somewhat troublesome. Fortunately, I was able to build a center sill from styrene and screw it to the floor so Walthers, free rolling 2D-P5 trucks could be applied:
Then, a project came along I hadn’t really planned on tackling just yet but in response to a thread about CP Park-series observation cars I was inclined to open my Rapido car up for a look inside. So while I had it open I decided to try to correct the annoying light leakage from around the wind
Another week of great-looking railroad work! Lots of time and talent on display.
I finally am close to finishing the walls on a scratch-built n scale strip mall. I saw a kit that looked like this, but didn’t like the price tag. Thought I could make something similar. The windows are Tichy and plastic is Evergreen.
Please keep the pictures coming. Seeing all of your photos keeps me working to get better.
I’ve finished off another locomotive scratchbuild. It’s running on the chassis of a Bachmann On30 0-4-0 Porter, and has both sound and a keepalive module in it.
Rick, Thanks for rolling out the WPF, your sharp express reefer took me back to the early 70s when green REA trucks still plied the streets vying for LCL freight.
Kevin, Interesting tanker, nice paint and decals too.
Ed, Brave work on those windows, but I get ya, light leaks bug me too.
Tangent’s PS-3 hopper got a thumbs-up in this month’s MRR, and same here. The car doesn’t mind an 18"R curve at low speed and the underside affords a little space for hiding some weight if ya like em a bit heavier.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a happy Valentines Day and regards, Peter
Thanks for starting off WPF Rick. Great cars as usual. The Southern locos - hood forward. Cool.
Kevin - Great looking tank car. Nicely detailed too!
GMTRacing - The freight terminal looks good.
Garry - Santa Fe all the way! Good looking train.
Ed - Amazing work on the observation car. The cabeese are incredible. Beautiful, actually.
John - The strip mall seems to be coming alone.
tbdanny - What a cool little engine. Great work!
Harrison - 5001 is a good looking loco.
Peter - Good looking BN hopper.
I haven’t made much progress on my “pipeline on wheels” project. Only 5 cars have been decaled in two variations. Far from prototypical, but adequate for my intentions. At one letter at a time the process is tedious for me.
All five cars on test run:
The variations. 10,000 and 12,000 gallon tanks.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Just a quick reply to end the weekend. I need to get up early and get to work.
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Thank you for all the kind comments on my GERN tank car, and a HUGE thank-you for all of the great contributions from everyone for this week’s Weekend Photo Fun.
Well, … You know, The reason I always come and visit WPF every week is because there is always Master Modeler stuff here every week. Always enjoyed and something is always learned by me here.
And I somewhat know a lot of you guys that keep posting all of this great stuff.
I didn’t start a new scratch build today. I wanted to but I was stuck and enthroled with further finishing my acquired A. SAEZ model. I couldn’t leave it alone.
I spent all day putting on the new signage I purchased yesterday after I distressed them and refined added detail to the weathering and all the other small effects that makes a model look better.
A. SAEZ is ready to ship tomorrow but I don’t think that’s going to happen as this is going to take some thought process and a few days to box it up so it doesn’t break as it’s traveling across from the North to the South of the US of A.
I put it on the shelf and admireded it every time I walked by it for the rest of the afternoon.
It’s going to be hard for me to let A. SAEZ go but that’s what I got it for.
I had not gotten anything done model railroading wise, but I did take some photos of my JF class Mikado steam locomotive.
The locomotive is made by Bachmann China, one of the best in the Chinese model railroading scene. It’s lettered for the Shanghai Railway Administration, #2288. One unique feature on the specific locomotive is the addition of a second headlight ((The other JF Class locomotives produced by Bachmann China, lettered for the different railway bereaus only had one headlight and different decorations.))
The locomotive is equipped with a Digisight decoder (yup, you heard that right, a Digisight, does the name remind you of something similar?)). The sound is pretty good, including both the traditional whistle and the air horn that the Chinese steam locomotives used.
I think your looking for dry transfer signage. It’s not a decal, so to speak, you put the letters, or sign or what, against the structure and rub it, like burnishing, and the signage or letter, whatever, transfers to the building.
I’ve never done any, I bet Dr. Wayne is an old hand at this, but I think the more or less that you burnish the sign, makes it look more “old timey” and faded.
You’d have to search around to see where you can get them.
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