Thanks for your comments guys.
Excellent contributions by everyone.
Just a little scene of Staff Nurse Sandra Brown passing Roseville Station on her way to work at the hospital. St James’ Hospital is just around the corner.
David
Just a grab-shot while running The Century the other night [;)]
NYC_4025-speed by Edmund, on Flickr
I recently pulled out the stock QSI decoders and installed Tsunami-2s in them. Nice [Y]
No such luck — straight out of the Walthers package, Kevin. I wish they would have made the doors open as most drivers keep them open during their runs, even here in snowy Ohio. I’ll have to do some surgery and put a driver in, too.
Thanks to everyone for the great contributions this weekend!
Regards, Ed
Here’s an overall shot of North Shore Yard West on the lower level. Please ignore all the peripheral stuff (such as dangling wires and so forth) and focus on the store-bought backdrop photo. Temporarily taped in place. I’m gonna need about six more of those; this one was just a test. The supplier can alter and mirror the image to transition into other shoreline scenes. We’ll see how that goes.
I lined up some actual N-scale containers along the bottom to see how the photo image scales out. Not too bad. Plus those containers are placed strategically to hide the tape pieces. I probably should have made the space between the back rail and the backdrop a little larger to place more stuff there to blend more smoothly into the photo. Things you learn along the way.
Robert
Enjoying everyone’s work and pictures of their work immensely.
Years ago, I read an article in MR on putting together a load of Farmall tractors on a flatcar. I bought Laserkit decks and added the Life Like tractor models painted red to a Bowser flatcar. I used the same lumber pieces mentioned in the article and used black thread to carefully wrapped around the wheels and stake pockets to secure the tractors to the car (though the real means to secure the tractors is glue). My tractors are not as detailed as the ones in the article, but I’m pleased with the work. I have two other Bowser flatcars and two other decks, so maybe I’ll do two more cars? I have not decided yet.
Alvie
Thank you everyone else for sharing.
I am still plugging away on making my water tower.
Started on the spout.
Trying to gind it to a taper has proven to be a bit more difficult then I anticipated.
HG
Hah, my first BearToon! I’m honored. [swg]
Alvie, that tractor load looks really great, I love the attention to detail and look forward to seeing a set of them rolling down the track.
Thanks everyone for the kind comments and for sharing your fantastic work. I love looking through this thread every week, even if I don’t always contribute.
Phil
Another great WPF. I didn’t have anything to post again this week, but I sure enjoyed seeing all the talent on display. Thanks, everyone.
Just for fun this afternoon:
NYC #4034 with a short passenger train.
NYC #1821 with a freight westbound.
Thanks guys for a great WPF.
My new arrival…
Runs like a champ out of the box. The loksound 5 is a grinder, low speeds are awesome, and the dual sugar cube speakers are SWEET! Probably ran this 4 hours this weekend, forward, backward, at various speeds. The sound, lights, details and paint are top notch. Only changed CV29 (to accept long address and disable analog) and changed address to cab number.
Terry
I used that same article to make a tractor and seed drill load for an HOn30 flatcar and large crate for the Boothbay Railway Village layout. The seed drill was too wide for the flat, so I ‘disassembled’ the 2 outer drills and made cribbing to hold them until they were delivered
20210130_234454 by Chuck Lee, on Flickr
I have been building a model of Denver’s union station. The building is a fascade, only 2 inches deep.
I have spent about 80 hours drawing it and all the parts are laser cut on my laser cutter.
The clock is 1.25 inches in diameter. It is illuminated by 20 LED’s mounted behind the clock face.
20210130_231549 by Chuck Lee, on Flickr
Still a long way to go.
One for a North Brit.
Boy, oh boy, what an inspiring bunch of talented ffolkes.
Thank you all very much![bow][bow]
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Hey Chuck -
Awright!!! This is good. Love the clock.
Where do you get your acrylic?
Robert
I have done it!!! I have made the dizzy heights of a Beartoon.
[<:o)] Let’s have a party. The drinks are on me.
David
Tap Plastics https://www.tapplastics.com/ for 1/16" and 1/8" thick
Delvies Plastics https://www.delviesplastics.com for 1/32" thick
I think next up is doing the middle window arches which I will have to design and 3D print.
A little late to the party but here is my weekend project starting to take shape…found this little steamer in my dad’s Mantua collection of unbuilt kits.
Rich
Better late than never!! [tup][tup]
Allan: It sounds like the Express has a lot of new features. Have fun with your new toy.
David: Have you named very many of the figures on your layout? I have named a few as I paint them, but not real names. I have “pocket square guy”, “hat tipping guy”, “leaning guy”, and things like that.
Ed: The Century is handsome. I like two tone gray.
Robert: Your containers blend in nicely to the backdrop. Very nice.
Alvie: I remember that article also. If I can recall with any accuracy, the article used a 60 foot flatcar and eight red tractors. I like yours better.
HG: Thanks for the update on your water tower project… keep 'em coming!
Allan: What model locomotive is number 4034? It looks like an early E unit.
Terry: Your new locomotive is a real eye-catcher. What a beauty.
George: Your flatcar loads are great! Very nice work.
Renegade: That clock face is incredible! Every clock tower I have ever had on my layout was set to 10:04 as in Hill Valley… even though my layout is set in 1954, a year before the lightning strike.
David: Congratulations on the Bear-Toon. It is an honor.
Rich: That little Mantua 0-6-0 of your father’s is a great item to have on the layout.
-Kevin
Kevin. Most of my figures have names. To me they bring a reason to be where they are. Most have nothing to do with the model railway, but bring the railway into the scene as a whole, imo.
David
Kevin,
I believe it is an E7, at least I think it is. When I bought it and its brother, they were in Burlington livery.
I changed them both to NYC. The process is describe on my website on the “How’d You Do That” page.