It’s almost Friday on the east coast and I really want to post this, so I’m starting us off this weekend.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on this little brass loco and posted pictures on WPF. I built it from parts/scratch, and it’s been quite a challenge. This week I finally painted it:
There’s still work to be done - decals, weathering, and window glass - but it is such a thrill to see it in its monochromatic glory. The decals won’t arive for a few weeks, so it will be a while before I get to finish it up. I’ll post again when it’s finally done.
It runs well with the motor I salvaged from an old CD drive, and it pulls three cars up a 1.5% grade.
So, there’s my contribution for this week. As always, I’m looking forward to seeing what you all have been up to.
Phil, that’s a great looking little locomotive, I really admire the workmanship!
Haven’t posted here in some time, but here’s a photo I took recently of one of my Rio Grande 1600 series 3-cylinder 4-8-2’s, with a passenger train on Yuba Summit. The loco is an older Key brass import that’s been re-balanced and re-weighted, and is hauling 7 heavyweights–mostly Walthers-- up a 2% grade. The cliff here is a 5-foot drop to the garage floor, so speed is slow and CAREFUL, lol!
Phil, nice model, Mike always enjoy your new photo’s and Tom, glad to see you back to posting and try to be more regular.
Myself, I did not get a lot done this last week so I am going to dust of some models I did in the past that are some of my favorites.
When they first came out I purchased 4 of the ExactRail Undecorated PS 4427 Covered Hopper Kits as I did not ever think that these cars would ever be done by ExactRail and so far they have not been.
These are two of my Anderson’s Grain Cars, which used to run past my house in Toledo from the Anderson’s Elevator in Maumee to the River Terminal.
Monfort Grain had a number of cars for hauling feed to their massive feed lots in Greely, CO, used to see these cars when traveling back and forth from Loveland to Toledo on vacations.
CB&Q Kit car built by the CB&Q shops, just like the paint scheme and it fits in with some of my other Burlington Grain Hoppers.
The Andersons cars were done with Herald King Decals and the Monfort and CB&Q cars with Oddballs Decals.
Wow, awesome work everybody! Puts what I’ve been doing to shame. I started scenery in one corner of the layout. The mountain is plater cloth over wadded up newspaper and the rock outcrop is drywall joint coupound that I pressed crinkeled tin foil into. The trees are lichen, which I picked up at Michael’s. The locomotives, a K4 on the left and an I1 on the ight are both modified Minitrix models.
Had a “project” wood load I did quite a few years ago when building all my centerbeams and bulkhead flats. Most are Jaeger wrapped loads for '72 opra and open McKean '72 centerbeams as well as the wrapped ones for the Roundhouse bulkhead flats.
This particular load was to be an unwrapped load of various length lifts. This is the first time there have been pics of it
The load is stripwood “veneered” over a ripped clear pine base. The planking is detailed in between the lifts and completely at the ends. Banding is the Jaeger vinyl tape. This was to be a removable load, however, I used 3M auto doublesides tape, Even w/ working the mounting side to loose stickiness after being mounted became part of the car, will not budge. Since the load is permanant, I should place hold downs to the winches.
No, only two are, as HO scale aircraft are pretty rare. I have a Roco UH-1 helo and a DHC Beaver single-engine plane from Osborn Models. The rest range from 1:100 to 1:320 scale. They all work so long as they are smaller than HO because you almost always see aircraft in the air farther away than things on the ground.
I’ll try to work in a thread about my aircraft soon since there’s interest, as I’ve been thinking about doing one anyway.
Lots of impressive work shown, including the unique aspects such as Phil’s loco and Mike’s F4 (do you have a “hun”?). The freight cars and loads, scenery & backdrops also inspire me to keep stretching and try new and challenging things (in time).
The grandkids were here this week so on the train front all we did was run some trains but I did get my first building sign sorted out. I had made a couple of custom decals with success but this trackside building’s ribbed sides called for a flat sign. I found the HP printer didn’t provide snappy colors for this combination on plain paper so tried on glossy photo paper and was pleased with the result.
Paul, did you seal your new sign with a clearcoat spray? Inkjet ink is water solubile and will run if it gets splashed. I use the same Krylon Acrylic clear spray that I use on decals.
George,thanks, a good reminder for me. I lightly weathered the recent 5 background buildings built but was holding off on dullcoating (or other spray) until the signs and decal work is declared done. I presume a single type spray can suffice for the building and the sign(s). After that I’ll add “glass” on most of the buildings. Is that Krylon acrylic clear gloss, semi or flat (and how flat? compared with others?
Gidday All, Phil, great start to the weekend, nice work on your loco.[bow] Mike, with all these aircraft you’ll soon need some form of air traffic control.[:-^] Tom, I would like to think that one day I can emulate that scene of heavy steam in the mountains, though I think that I could be too clumsy to have a 5 foot drop![:)] Rick J, they may be a bit modern for me but I always enjoy the effort you’ve put in.
**GP9 Man, “**Puts what I’ve been doing to shame”.
Paul, I use the gloss clear from the can. The flat is sometimes unpredictable as to how much flat or “powdery” the surface becomes when dry. Then I airbrush flat or semi goss over that.
I finally finished up a Turtle Creek Central hopper. Since the magazine never said how to do hoppers, I took a little liberty from the PRR, and the EBT. Plus you also get to see my foam coal load idea.
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