Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## January 15, 2021 through January 17, 2021### All Are Welcome!
This has been quite a week. Nothing that I should talk about in Weekend Photo Fun, but I have shared a bit on other threads.
My fun photos this week are of a thoughtful gift from David (NorthBrit) from the other side of the Atlantic. A few weeks ago David posted an amazing scene with a stone bakery building, and I fell in love with it. He offered to send me the kit, and I enthusiastically accepted.
It arrived this week, and it is lovely.
I am familiar with these printed high quality cardstock kits. They are fairly commonly used in wargaming, and some are amazingly detailed.
Try to think of these more as laser-cut craftsman kits than as cardboard kits. Instead of wood siding they have beautifully printed cardstock pieces. They assemble much like a craftsman kit, and when done they are fantastic models.
The only change I will make is that I hope to find Tichy windows that will fit into the cut window openings
Thanks for kicking-off yet another fine 2021 WPF, Kevin! January is half-over? How did that happen?
Your kit looks wonderful. I love building structures, too. I probably have enough various buildings to completely cover an entire second layout, and then some [8D] it IS a sickness!
Here’s an update on my Hulett shop and boiler house project. I got some “dirt” in place and some static grass down.
Good morning from cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio! Rain then rain and snow mix coming later today.
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, looks like and nice kit, I hope I can start on building some layout sections this year, as I am dropping to 10 hours a week for a time then retiring fully.
Ed, you sure get a lot of work done and it always looks really good.
Bear, I have to follow a Bear-Toon, I think you should get back to modeling.
I managed to finish up some cars this week:
IMRC 1937 Mod AAR Boxcar kit, did not install roofwalk and cut down the A-End ladders along with installing Yarmouth Scale Models Sill Steps. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #3 and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Erie received several thousand of these boxcars in 1941, they rebuilt them sans roofwalk and cutdown ladders in their own shops in the 1970’s. Car was in general service on the EL.
Tangent Scale models PS 4000 CF Covered Hopper kit painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used on the NKP hauling grain and fertilizer, one of the plants serviced was the Diamond Shamrock plant in Painesville,OH.
Since I have not been going to the club recently, I have been going through my old pictures for new perspective shots and here is one with my Wabash U25B and GP35 in the industrial area at Madura Curve.
Howdy… Unfinished business from last weeks thread… I need to acknowledge comments from last weeks thread. Kevin, Peter, Alan, Rick, and anybody I missed: thanks for commening on my steel mill photos.
Kevin … That look like a fun kit. How soon will you have time to put it together?
Ed … Your work on the industrial scene is excellent.
Bear … LOL. Listen to Rick’s advice about getting back to modeling.
Rick … I like this week’s freight cars and the photo with Wabash locomotives next to a scrap yard.
I started finishing a bit of scenery on my CNW Lander branch a few weeks ago. The last step was placing static grass. With the help of some forum members over on another thread, I wound up with this:
The grass is a little sparse-looking, maybe, but it’s supposed to represent an area of somewhat sparse vegetation.
I never seem to have any photos ready to post on WPF. So under the category of simply posting photos of what I’m working on without any hoopla, here are a couple of 3D rendering views showing a pile cap for a bridge project.
I machined a pair of these from a block of fine-grain basswood a few years ago for another project, but I have recently decided to go into the 3D resin printing business (not really an actual business, just a figure of speech). So, I pulled out an old .STL file and modified it a little for my new printer. The first issue was Systeme Internationale d’Unites. That’s right . . . the metric system. You know, millimeters and grams and whatnot. No problem. It’s not like I’m sending a multi-billion dollar spaceship to Mars or anything . . .
In 1914 at the start of the Great War, The Railway executive took over the running of the railways in the UK. They ordered a number of wagons to be built to carry munitions.
Here is one such wagon.
Two wagons of 1913 design built for Companies both in Burmantofts, Leeds
Dunno if’n I may have posted this puppy afore, but here it is: a pair of ore gondolas, one MDC and the other by Bowser. I needed something to haul scrap, and here they are![C):-)]
Ed: The progress to your scene is looking good! I really like the dirt road with the red truck.
Bear: Thank you for the laugh with the red truck scene!
Rick: It is great to hear you are getting ready to retire. Those are some good looking freight cars this week. The NKP covered hopper is a beast, and the small lettering makes it look even larger.
Jimmy: The 3D printed loads look like you are getting more use from the new machine. Neat stuff.
MLC: Thank you for stopping by.
Garry: I am beginning to feel like I am losing time that should be spent playing with trains. I had no idea I would work this hard when I stopped going to work. That point of view of the GP7 on the bridge is a very dramatic shot.
Mark: The grass looks good to me, in fact that picture of the scene looks great. You really got the maximum impact from a narrow scene.
Robert: The renderings of the pile caps look good to me. It seems 3D printing is becoming more accessable.
Allan: Your low light shot looks great. Well done.
David: Those are some great looking wagons you shared. Dare I say that they are charming?
Toad: I am going to be copying those reporting marks on some scrap gondolas. Very good.
Thanks Kevin for your comments. Our 10 or 12 ton wagons are tiny compared to over the pond.
Excellent work and pictures by everyone. I really am in awe at the work and models.
Two more wagons from me.
A Kirkstall & East Seacroft Railway Wagon I made from a 1909 design.
I acquired a number of wagons from a colleague. In the package he added this one. The Great Western Railway was a long way from Leeds. To see a G W R vehicle so far north would be very unusual, but I am loathe to discard anything. Perhaps I may repaint it. The couplings will certainly have to be changed.
Thanks for all the positive feedback, and a Bear Comic to boot! [:D]
The USPS finally decided I was worthy to recieve my new Rapido Flexi-Flo car after taking one month to travel about 300 miles from Indiana (Not India, but Indiana, the next state west). [:-^]
I remember seeing lots of these cars being loaded at the site of the old Colinwood roundhouse. For a while these were the “next big thing” in railroading.
Robert, your pile caps sure look like guitar pickups to me [8D] There’s even six cavities for each coil! Nice work on your 3D parts, too, Jimmy. Great contributions, folks!
Lots of weekend left — plenty of time for more photos [Y]
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