Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## January 8, 2021 through January 10, 2021### All Are Welcome!
I have had a great week. Progress is moving forward on the house again after a two week stagnant delay for holidays and what-not.
I received another treasure in the mail from an eBay seller this week. This is another item I have been wanting for a long while, but was not willing to spend over $200.00 to get one.
“THE WORKS” Blast Furnace is finally mine!
I am so excited to own this magnificent beauty. It is really going to be a show-stopper when it is all together.
The box weighs a ton! There are over 400 pieces to this monster.
Thanks for opening the WPF for the first “full” weekend of 2021, Kevin. I share your thrills on opening a new Walthers kit. Is yours one of the earlier runs? The more recent stuff made in China is not as good (the plastic is lower quality) than the earlier Cornerstone kits. Many of the early runs were made in Denmark.
I had a second blast furnace kit and I sold it just before the third run was announced. They were going for some “crazy” money back then [:-^]
I decided to tackle one more “orphan” area of my layout. This spot is at the yard throat to the Hulett ore unloader docks and has been languishing for too many years! Here’s a “before”
So I got to work on placing some pavement and making an access road to the machine shop. The small, one story building in the foreground is the harbormaster’s office.
Thanks for starting WPF Kevin. That kit looks fabulous and should keep you busy for ‘a few hours’.
Ed. A busy time for you as well. It is great to see an area being built especially if it has been bare for a long time.
I, myself have been playing around with a little weathering of parcel vehicles. I do not really like to do weathering, but I have never seen a clean parcel van.
I have never heard of such a thing. Had the seller let the bidding go on, who knows how much more he could have gotten at the final bid. Did you threaten this guy? I will take your word for it, Kevin, but this has to be a first in the annals of eBay history.
Kevin, thanks for starting us out and congradulations on a good find. Sometimes E-Bay sellers do some odd things. I have had some items that I was watching being offered to me at reduced prices and have jumped on them if I really wanted them.
Ed, your attention to detail is amazing, nice work on that area of the layout.
David, nice weathering, something that I really don’t care for but if it is done properly it really looks good.
Jimmy, nice 3D printing, what is it going to be?
Last week Ringo asked about the Kadee Cars, they are superbly detailed, and when they first came out we complained about the price, but now they are less then the cars from other builders and still look great. Also one of the few companies where you can get undecorated kits and unpainted completed cars.
I managed to get some work done this week.
Red Caboose 1944 AAR Boxcar Kit, as I was modeling a rebuilt car I did not install the roofwalk, just the grab over the brakewheel side ladder, lowered the A end ladders and installed A-Line Sill steps in place of the plastic ones. Painted car with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #3 and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was originally built in 1958 and rebuilt in 1972 to follow the current rules of removing the roofwalks etc., car was renumbered after rebuilding and was in general service on the MP.
Athearn PS 2893CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II MOW Gray and lettered with Microscale Decals. Car built in 1957 and repainted in 1971 but still keeping the current graphics. Used for moving Soda Ash which is used in many applications including glass, soap and other products.
Kevin, thanks for another WPF thread! I love seeing everyone’s work. That is a complicated-looking kit. It will be a great addition to your future layout. If I were to attempt that, I would need far more detailed instructions than those normally enclosed with kits.
Ed, great work on filling in the space. A while back David had a thread about taking care of some things that we’ve put off. I’m in the same boat. You’ve done a good job on an area that you’ve delayed working on.
David, the weathering looks great. That is one modeling thing that I have not yet done. Everything on my layout looks like it just came out of the box. That’s another project to have on the list.
Jimmy, that’s nice work using a 3D printer. It’s great you’re able to design and print things you want.
Rick, the details on your cars are great! You really have a great ability to make realistic-looking models. Your photography is also excellent.
I have not had much time for the layout lately. I’ve been working on a modern hotel for a certain problem spot on my layout.
I’m using styrene with Tichy windows. I saw a model kit with a similar hotel, but it was priced way more than I wanted to spend, so I am just making my own. It will look somewhat like the model kit, but this certainly makes me work harder and learn more.
Hope we continue to get some good photos this weekend.
Kevin- Thanks as aways for starting this weekend off. WOW. That looks like it is going to be a fun but challenging build, can’t wait to see it compleated. Great deal too! I’m suprised he ended it! I found a good deal on an athearn genesis Wisconsin Central F45 with sound, a Walthers Proto WC Russle snow plow and a Walthers WC 34’ hopper for $200 I am picking it up from a guy on Sunday, hopfully in time to share here. I hope you did not have to threaten him LOL
Ed- That machine shop looks great> I like that you also posted the prototype picure
David- I like the weathering!
Jimmy- Nice work on the 3d printing. I remember designing things in highschool and laser and 3d printing them. I have a “bust” of my head made by a program that scans you using an Xbox Kinect. 3D printing is something I would like to learn in the future
Rick- Thanks for answering my question! I don’t own any kadee cars, maybe its time I change that! Great looking cars as always. And I like the club layout shots!
Mike- (From last weeks WPF) You scratch built that? Thats amazing, looks better than my RTR one!
This week I got around to removing the old weathering on my bachmann WC gp38-2 and added MU hoses, Cab shades and light weathering with powders.
I got tired of waiting for my CNW paint for my SW1500 project, so I went with MILW colors. Of course as I finished it the CNW paint showed up. Only 3 months transit time!
The MILW didn’t have sw1500s but heres my take on it
Kevin, David, Ed, Rick, John York 1, Jimmy, and Ringo: … Great stuff. Thanks for contributing.
I have had the four Walthers steel mill kits (first run) on my layout for many years. It has plenty of switching activity. … Coke oven: Inbound coal and outbound coke. … Blast furnace: Inbound ore, coke, and stone. Outblund hot metal, slag, and ash. … Electric furnace: Inbound hot metal and scrap metal. Outbound steel slabs. … Rolling mill; Inbound steel slabs and outbound structural steel. …
Coke oven:
Blast furnace ( first picture is old before I added railings; Too large to fit in photo )
Electric furnace (left) … Rolling mill ( right; two kits end-to-end )
What’s going on? Are you trying to ‘blow the Brit away’ with your modeling. I cannot compete against such ‘gems of work’ by everyone. [bow] [bow] [bow]
My only other offering this week –
I like to make slight alterations to the scenery every so often. Old trees removed New ones in their place. New colors of flowers appear. Just ‘like nature’ seeing things differently.
Loving all the industrial photography this week, folks. Those blast furnaces are really impressive kits-- and Kevin, that’s quite the Ebay find.
Bringing a short local into town here.
The trees to the right are new Super Tree armatures. I’m playing around on the layout with size and placement-- they’re bare for now, but I’m experimenting with how it looks to add very light sprinklings of flocking (it’s late autumn, just a few leaves clinging to mostly bare branches.)
I apologize for the poor photo quality. I have been saving up to buy a laser cutter since last June. Selling stuff on feebay…etc. to pay for it. I finally got it yesterday and cut my first test piece.
The part shown is a wall of the Denver Union Station model I am building. This took about 6 hours to draw and 15 minutes to cut
Thank you to everyone that has been sharing in my excitement about the new Blast Furnace kit. It is one of the older models made in Denmark. I inventoried all the loose parts that have come off of the sprues, I am confident that all of the pieces are present.
Ed: Making progress on a neglected area is wonderful. The machine shop with the heavy bridge crane (that is what we call them down here) looks good.
David: Your weathering on the baggage/postal car look very appropriate. I am always apprehensive to add weatheringg to a project.
Jimmy: Getting into 3D printing of your own parts must be very exciting to do.
Rich: I do not know why the seller let the auction go like that. It was not even an active auction for 24 hours when he ended it. I was thinking it was too good to be true, but then the kit arrived. I grinned for two days straight!
Rick: I have also had the sellers of items I am watching send me private offers to sell. That is an interesting twist. Your improvements in the Athearn covered hopper look great, was that a blue box kit? I removed all the grabs and ladders from a couple of E&B Valley covered hoppers, and that was a lot of work.
John: Your work on the hotel model is looking like a great project. Tichy windows are wonderful for scratchbuilding.
Ringo: Your weathering on the Wisconsin Central GP38-2 locomotive looks very realistic. The sunshades add a lot to the appearance.
Garry: Your steel mill complex made quite an impression on me. The way you had an entrie section of your layout dedicated to the stell industry was beautiful. It added so much to your layout without dominating everything.
David: I love building scenery, and have always enjoyed revamping and refreshing the scenery as well.
Phil: I have always liked the Supertrees kits. The
The PRR FF1 arrived today. It was another one of those “as luck would have it” eBay stories. The two winning bidders backed out of paying so the seller relisted it. This gave me a second chance at this fine model and I won it this time at a lower final price than any of the previous top bids [:D]
There were only twenty-five of each of three paint schemes made of this model. I’ll have to put a decoder in there. There is full interior detail.
In my haste to take the picture I didn’t notice the fourth driver and trailing wheels eating ballast [:$]
Kevin, do you have either of the steel mill modeling books?
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