Good morning from sunny, hot and humid Northeast Ohio!
This is the thread where modelers can show their completed projects, works under construction and old or new layout pictures.
Got a couple of new cars done this last week!
Atlas FMC 5077CF Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Silver, White and a mixture of Big Sky Blue & ATSF Red Paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in May of 1976 and was one of the infamous IPD boxcar fleet with many various colors and many unknown shortline railroads leasing them to rebuild the shrunken boxcar pool of the late 70’s. Don’t know how long this car stayed in this scheme as that light green lettering would sure fade in the sun.
Eastern Car Works kit of the PRR G26 65’ Mill Gon, painted with Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Red paint and lettered with Champ Decals. Car was built in 1931, one of 1,650 built and they lasted hauling steel products from the mills into the PC and Conrail days.
We were finally able to go back to the club last week, but with only limited attendance for each period that we were assigned to, as there is limited space for social distancing in the layout room. I took my new Rapido Ann Arbor FA-2’s to try out with a number of the Ann Arbor, DT&I and Green Bay and Western cars that I just finshed to populate the train.
Nice job on those cars Rick and thanks for kicking off the WPF thread. I found the time to work on my layout last week (!). Among other things, I converted this HO bobber caboose to HOn3. Runs great…
Have a great weekend everyone, especially our fellow American neighbours for their 4th of July celebrations.
Rick: Thanks for kicking off WPF. I like the gondola and scene.
Mel: Nice trailer and load, especially the lights.
Last weekend I built the load for this Blue Box flat car. It is two kits of two generators each from American Model Builders. Happy 4th of July weekend.
Upon researching my fallen flag railroad and the locale I needed to model in my “what-if” 1950’s scenario, I discovered that a 1/4 mile paved oval race track existed right near one of my modeled scenes between 1946 and 1957. It was known as the Huntington Beach Legion Speedway as well as Talbert Speedway and hosted motorcycle and midget races. Being a retired race driver myself, I had to include this scene (slightly relocated by modeler’s license) on my current layout. The scene is located at the end of an aisle so only the south turn is modeled.
Everything except the people and the pick-up truck in the infield had to be scratch built. Soldering little tiny headers together was a pain! However, I did remember to model these midget racers turning right to turn left!
Another scene I needed to include was the Newport Boulevard overpass at Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. As the Newport Boulevard bridge needed to be against the backdrop at one end of the scene, I decided to use a mirror under the bridge to make it appear that Pacific Coast Highway continues beyond the bridge. I made my own first surface mirror by carefully stripping the backing paint off a regular glass mirror. A very gentle polishing of the newly exposed metal coating gave me a decent quality first surface mirror that I placed directly behind the Walthers bridge. The effect impresses a lot of layout visitors.
The lenses dried, but their flexable. Like contact lenses. I will try again with a better resin/epoxy… after I clear this mess off my glass… which should only take the rest of the night.
Back when I was still in Rapid City, SD, our club created decals for the Rapid City Black Hills Western RR which once ran into the Black Hills from RC. The decals are sorta hypothetical, and I just had to have a set. The boxcar is from TM with Walthers old time data applied. Here it is in service on the Mt Hood RR.[C):-)]
Tim, I remember an article from MR in times past about created lenses, but, for the life of me, cannot remember exactly when it was published. Keep workin’ at it Bro!![:-^]
Hornblower - did you make a mold for the midget cars or scratchbuild each one? I appreciate the different grille openings and other details on the cars but the overall scene is fantastic. I never drove midgets but I think the influence caused me to try my hand on this Austin 7 special.
Still beavering away on the transition at the back of the yard. I missed last week as I was at Mid Ohio for a race and next weekend I’ll be in New Hampshire for another one. Love the pics you all post.
A simple project to add a pair of GP35s to the two already in our Wabash fleet snowballed out of control when I got a few good deals on even more undec Kato GP35s. As a result, the Operations Road Show now has all eight GP35s the Wabash had at the time of the N&W merger.
I tried both whittling away at pieces of styrene as well as casting copies of the styrene shapes. I achieved mixed results with the castings. I think the mold was just too thin and flexible. However, I was pretty happy with the four styrene cars shown in the photo. I’d like to build a few more to fill out the field bit. I still need to find more HO scale wheels and tires.
I love the Austin 7 special and it would fit right in at the Goodwood Revival although I don’t know if you’d want to race it quite that hard! Those guys seem to have more money than God! I hope you have as much fun with it as I used to driving GT4 class with the SCCA. I eventually had to retire as my eyes, which were never very good, went totally south.
Yea, I don’t remember where / when I saw it either. But, I will be trying again sometime tomorrow… ( This oughta be interesting. What with all the " cussing" and “gnashing of teeth”.)
Anyway’s, since the local’s here apperently take their fireworks seriously ( yea, there still launching flaming onions into the tinder dry brush.) I find myself up a bit later than usual.
So I finished the underframe of the " Buffalo Brine" reefer.
I normally dont bother with brake details, ( although I have actually installed working brake’s on a Tichy ore car … no I’m not EVER doing that again ) but since Tichy included all the bells and whistles in the reefer kit, I went ahead and glued them all on.
Now, on to the body.
stay tuned for our next episode, where we’ll here Little Timmy say…
" Buffalo Brine ??? Who would drink beer flavored with pickeled Bison Brisket ???"
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