Here is an opportunity to showcase your recent project or to dig into your photo archive and show us a favorite model or scene.
Everyone is welcome — there are no judges, no panels and no prizes.
If you have been watching from the sidelines, why not jump into the fray? Sharing photos is all part of the fun! We look forward to seeing photos of your “Great Stuff”!
As you may have guessed — I have continued on the Roundhouse Betterment Plan and got all the rail epoxied into the slots and got a two-shade primer coat on it.
Next will be some additional shading using Pan-Pastels.
These “Pipes” are all going to be slid over the bottoms of the vertical support timbers which, to me, looked a little too “spindly” so I came up with a plan to reinforce them with these sleeves.
Good continuation on the roundhouse Ed, too bad Model Masterpieces is no longer around they had a whole selection of enginhouse machinery and the belt drives that ran it.
Nothing new this week so here is a similar picture of my PRR N1 with a coal drag but with Alco’s with and ore drag, along with a video!
These next two created a problem…no more gondolas, not even in kit form. Some flat car kits are in the cabinet, but I will prefer these in gondolas so have a couple of kits on the way.
Lastly, I’m getting up the nerve to tackle this IHC 4-6-2 project. I ordered parts for upgrading the loco a bit, including handrails, bell, headlight, number boards, generator, whistle, pop valve. Had a tough time finding discontinued Cal Scale 604 handrail stanchions but a pack was hiding in PA. Meanwhile, I can get to work prepping the loco shell and getting the DCC / speaker install ready.
Ed: The machinery and equipment for the roundhouse is looking impressive.
Rick: Don’t worry, I have a new boxcar to post this week. [:)]
Terry: Good work on the black & white pictures.
Mike: I love narrow gauge in pictures. Great shots of Silverton!
Allan: Thank you for sharing those pictures.
Paul: I also use a lot of Chooch loads. I love them. Loads make everything better.
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I finished this boxcar this week for the Pacific Great Northern. It is a Tichy kit of a steel side USRA rebuilt boxcar. I cut the brake rods too short, but I doubt too many people would notice.
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I used decals intended for a LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE GP-7 to make the car side graphics. I need some oppinions, does it look too much like the prototype paint scheme? I have some other ideas using prototype decals in weird ways, but I am sensitive to making them look wrong.
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What do you think?
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Please keep the pictures coming this weekend. We are off to a good start!
Yes, they do, mostly.It’s only been there about a year, so still testing and adjusting from time to time.
There’s very little handlaid track on the layout, really only where there’s no other choice. So I tend to build curved turnouts and they do look squirrelly from certain angles. In this case, the view is not a normal one and what’s there is screened by a building and some fencing. If I ever need to redo it, I’ll take another crack at it, but that was the best I could do fat the time.
Ed, Thanks for breakin’ out the WPF and your array of shop apparatus.
Mike L., Real nice mountain shot with the trestle. Great job of making the airplane actually look airborne, hope the dead-stick landing turns out well. Is that a de Havilland?
My trainshow Ma & Pa 4-6-0 DCC ready came with a Lenz decoder which I installed yesterday. I will probably replace it with a loksound, but I have too many projects right now.
I haven’t really ever done any photography of my railroad which is odd because I was a photo nut back in the old days when I had a layout. The weathering on my reefer doesn’t photograph as well as I would have thought. The loco needs weathering too.
A BIG thank you to everyone for the great contributions to this installment of Weekend Photo Fun! Lots of informative and inspiring modeling talent here!
I made a little more progress on the roundhouse project last night so here is a little update:
The above photo shows what I was refering to with the sleeves on the columns. We had a 1920s era timber-framed building where I worked and some of the columns were later reinforced with steel plates. This was kind of what I had in mind. I imagine steel may have been used to help protect the bottoms of the timbers, too.
RH_Floor1 by Edmund, on Flickr
RH_pilaster by Edmund, on Flickr
Shop_tools by Edmund, on Flickr
