Good evening, this is where all the modelers can show what they have accomplished the last week and or new photographs of their layouts.
This is part of what I accomplished this week, a lot of partially finished items are sitting on the workbench.
Intermountain Plywood sided boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Orange, Black and Pullman Green. Lettered with Champ Decals. These cars were built in 1944, and were made of plywood to keep the usage of steel down during WWII. This is the as delivered paint scheme, they were later painted in the mineral red and vermillion red paint schemes.
Atlas 3560CF ACF Covered Hopper kit, removed the cast on Roofwalk and Walkover Platform and replaced them with the Plano Replacements. Painted the car with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered the car with Dan Kohlberg’s ICG Decals. Car was built in 1972 and was mostly used in hauling heavier density material like roofing granuals as the larger covered hoppers would tare out before they were fully filled.
Rick … Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. I think people also post old photos in here as well as recent stuff… I have new stuff this time… Your GN plywood boxcar looks nice and ahs an interesting history. The ICG covered hopper looks great, too.
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I stayed indoors most of the week because of winter weather. Much of the time, I worked on my 1900 era scene in a corner of the layout… I made a 1913 Ford fire truck from a Jordan kit, and it is in one of the photos. …I have completed most of the work in this scene … Remaining work includes trees and other plants, making changes to ground cover, repositioning some buildings, and adding details.
Thanks for starting us off on another Weekend Photo Fun thread, Rick
Boy does THAT sound familiar!
Beautiful looking rolling stock, sir! I was aware of War emergency gons and hoppers. Didn’t know about box cars, too?
Your hundred-year-old scenes look great, Garry. I really like the way you did the rusty tin roof[Y] and anyone who has ever built a Jordan kit knows just how much work goes into one of those! I hope someone continues making the line (I’d like to see Don Tichy pick it up).
Great ride, Mike! Worth the price of a ticket!
I spent some of this week getting the Hulett Machine Shop closer to completion:
Some really great work here already. Ed, the detail you put into your models is inspiring.
Here is the latest addition to the BRVRR NYC roster. E7 #4034 on its maiden run on the layout with a six-car Mail and Express train under the Route 32 Overpass at the East end of the layout.
As an aside. I’m in the process of updating my website. I should have everything finished by Sunday. Take a look then if you find the time.
Thanks to all of you out there, WPF is always the best thread of the week. Keep the ideas and photos coming guys.
I built up a brass frame for one of my Rivarossi Cab Forwards this week. I’m a power freak so to install dual Canon EN22 motors in a Rivarossi articulated a new brass frame is the easiest way to go.
It took one ½” x .0625” x 12”, two ¾” x .0625” x 12” K&S brass strips and a 150 watt soldering iron to make the frame.
Old Rivarossi frame at the top and the new brass frame at the bottom.
I have about 10 hours in the brass frame not counting the CAD drawing. The CAD drawing took twice as long to make as the actual brass work.
Nice work all around! Nothing from me this week, but I’m working on it…
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The kit leaves a big opening in the floor which I filled in to look like wood-block flooring which was popular (or was it oak?) in old factories.
I first encountered wood block flooring in Cleveland Union Terminal where the entire mail and express area floors were paved with it. Amazing stuff. Of course, it has all been ripped out to make way for a — now failed — retail space called Tower City.
I love those cigar band NYC E & F units even though they post date my era by a few years. Since I’m a freelancer I just rewrote history a bit and moved that scheme to 1956 and include a set along with my lightning stripes. I did the same with the Century Green (aka jade) boxcars.
Rick, Thanks for starting up the WPF. Your models are interesting, so too the story and facts behind them.
Ed, Nice mach shop with the forgiving wooden block floor, I can almost smell the cutting oil smoke, hear a tool bit squeal and visualize a “Bull of the Woods” calendar hanging on the wall.
A small recollection of when a cream-puff Caddy I had my eye on got away.
Peter: I know exactly how that guy feels - great scene!
I’m still working on scenery.Added some weeds,grasses,wildflowers and trees to this area.Still lots to do. It’s taking me so long to get the grade crossing installed,the little guy in the '42 Ford finally left the car there and walked home!
Still plenty of weekend left - keep the “good stuff” coming!
Neat idea on the sound and action together, Terry.
Peter, I was gawking at the fins in the Caddy when a title for that scene came to me: “Fins vs No Fin”
Your stuff is looking good, Jimmy. Here’s a pic of the rig I use to video the Cascade Extension. The depressed center flat I used up to Silverton for this purpose just wasn’t up to being pushed past there, although it runs fine in train. So I grabbed a 30’ Blackstone flat, squished everything aborad and away it went. Looks like heck and the antenna is too high for the Mears “little lines” above Silverton, but it does the trick.
The video is via a Eachine TX05 4-in-1 FPV Camera System that operates in the 5.8 ghz band. I plugged it into a suitable drone battery for power.
Working on weathering an HO Scale Intermountain ES44AC in the Southern Pacific livery, and patching out/re-numbering it to Union Pacific. Southern Pacific and the ES44AC never shared the same time period.
The yellow patch is plain craft acrylic paint applied with an airbrush, then sealed with Pledge Floor Finish applied with an airbrush. The numbers are Microscale, applied with Micro Set and Micro Sol.
