Weekend Photo Fun - March 5th through March 7th 2021

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun## March 5, 2021 through March 7, 2021### All Are Welcome!

Hello and Happy Weekend to all my Model Railroader forum friends.

SPOILER ALERT

My WPF contribution this week is about the April Fools joke article in the new copy of Model Railroader. If you do not want to see it… STOP READING NOW.

My share is the original photograph I made to accompany the April Fool article that I submitted. The Kalmbach Media graphics art crew edited the photograph to better meet what they needed, more on that later. I put a lot of work into that picture, and this weekend I am going to share what went into creating it.

This is the photograph as it was submitted:

The story involves my ficticious need to bridge a gap in front of a door into the layout room.

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Nice work Kevin

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Thanks Kevin for starting WPF. Lovely pictures. Congratulations in order.

My contribution is a LMS Stanier Class 5 locomotive (commonly called ‘Black 5’) in the process of being built. On a test run. Lining to do next before adding the final bits.

David

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Beautiful work .

Sadly Ive nothing this week so far. I’ve only been focused on printing out a turntable pit. Perhaps I’ll photograph that.

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Kevin- Thats some good work! I love the partical beam idea and the boxcar modeled after rick and morty. Circus City Decals makes a “Pickle Rick” Thats the same size as a hopper, Best part, It’s SOO! Very nice pictures. I always am a bit envious of nice cameras. They always bring out all the detail, Like in your rock wall. Every detail stands out. Maybe one day! The Iphone will have to do for now.

David- Nice Black5! Can’t wait to see it built!

This week I got some work done on the new spur and got most of the creek done. Next I need to make supports for the bridge legs.

Also found this smoking deal on this athearn Genesis GP15. Couldn’t resist. Didnt run when It got here but the wheels were black. Cleaned them up a bit and now it runs like new! Was hoping to share the Scale Trains rivet counter BN SD40-2 this week but when I opened the package, there was a NS C44-9W! Mine was sent to the guy who bought the NS unit and visa versa. Oh well it happens, Ill just have to wait a bit longer.

Hope Everyone had a good week, now lets get this weekend started!

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Good morning from sunny and cold Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out, nice photography work.

David, good looking engine and photograph.

I did manage to finish another couple of cars this week, along with updating 15 hopper cars I got off of E-bay with Kadee Couplers and new IMRC Wheelsets to conform with the clubs requirements.

Atlas USRA Rebuilt Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Tichy Decals. Car was in general service and I needed a few Lackawanna cars as until 1960 Lackawanna was NKP’s partner to get to New York City.

Tichy Panel Sided Hopper with Extension, car was painted with Scalecoat II Silver and Reading Green paints and lettered with kit supplied decals. This is the eighth car I have built as I want to replicate the trains of these cars that used to go past my house in Toledo.

Last week I took my Rapido Ann Arbor FA-2’s to the club along with my recently completed covered hoppers.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

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I started a new project this week, turning an AHM model of the ACF’s Flexi-Flo covered hopper, from a toy to a model.

I was surprised at the details of the car, as I looked it over wearing my opti-visor, before I started cutting, grinding and filling.

Heres the model, out of the box:

Progress made so far: every thing stripped, removed and plastic running board holes filled in, grain hatches removed, some extra brake lines added, and it’s now ready for installing the kit I got from Plano, to start the rebuild.

Here’s the Plano kit:

http://www.planomodelproducts.com/photos/10930.jpg

I will also add 100 ton trucks with 36" wheel sets, and body mounted couplers.

I’m doing 3 of these cars.

More pictures to come.

Mike.

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Kevin- Don’t listen to the people who said your joke wasn’t good. It was a tiny bit more obvious, but it was the best I’ve seen in a long time. Really enjoyable read and photo. You seriouly had me for the first third. One question though, how did you get in contact with the MR editors? All my emails get returned saying address not found.

I haven’t got anything tangable this week, but I did work on my future track plan a bit more. This is what I’m planning on building first.

The plan is below, measuring 1.5 x 11 feet.

South of (below) this section the two tracks will become either the staging yard or another section of the layout. North (around the corner) will be the Plattsburgh yard. Does this plan look like a good start?

The full post/discussion can be found here:

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Kevin that is some fantastic work! But please tell me that there’s a set of decals I can purchase to make my own Trek-themed freightcars…[:O]

I’ve been chugging along with detailing and modifying a Broadway Limited Blueline 2-8-2. Most of the heavy detail work is complete on the pilot and footboards. I had an issue with the front LED not responding to my on/off commands and it just glows no matter what so I may need to do a decoder reset or swap function wires.

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Great stuff Kevin!!! Always perfect!

David nice looking Black 5, although a bit strange to a US guy.

Ringo, that’s fixin to be a very good looking river and bridge.

Rick, slick looking cars, great decaling.

Mike, nice looking Flexi-Flow, too modern for my layout.

I made the casting molds for my four new Shapeways figures that will be onboard my kitbashed lounge car.

I made sure they fit the parlor chairs.

I got the parlor chairs from Palace Car. GMPULLMAN (Ed) gave me the info on the chairs. I really like the interiors on Ed’s passenger cars.

More next WPF

Mel

My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

Bakersfield, California

I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

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Kevin, congratulations on the article in MRR and thanks for explaining how you did it, I found it fascinating. How they did the Mutara Nebula in Star Trek II was a good read as well.

We gave my son an I-Phone 12 for Christmas and I got his I-Phone 8 as a hand me down. So I was messing around with the camera and took these.

One advantage of using a phone over the Nikon is it fits into places the Nikon can’t. Next, I think I will see what the video quality will be like.

Keep up with the good stuff, it’s always enjoyable.

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Kevin, that’s a really neat article and explanation on how you did the display. It was a fun thing to read in the magazine.

David, that’s going to be a nice-looking locomotive when you’re finished. Your backdrop sure blends in well with your layout.

Ringo, that pickle is about the most realistic looking graffiti I’ve seen for a layout.

Rick, the covered hopper cars look right at home on the club’s layout.

Mike, that looks like an interesting project. Be sure to let us see the finished product.

Harrison, I don’t know enough about layout setups to comment with any authority, but it looks good to me.

Micktropolis, the 2-8-2 is looking good so far. Hope to see pictures of the finished product.

Mel, as always, your work on passenger car interiors and figures is amazing. You continue to inspire me.

Brent, your roundhouse and lighting is very nice. Good work!

I don’t have any new pictures. I’m still working on the arduino crossing lights. I am now working on a Nano board, which is smaller than the Uno. I’m still waiting for the correct USB cord that will connect witht the Nano. I also have to figure out how to power it and connect it on the layout. I’m learning.

My pictures go back to the beginning layout about 2½ years ago. The dry river bed is still on the layout, but I’m already thinking of ripping this out and putting in a staging yard. At my age, there’s so much to do and so little time left to do it.

The dry river partially finished:

The dry river mostly finished:

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Great stuff as always everyone.

John that river scene looks great.

Brent, isn’t it amazing what you can do with a phone these days.

Mick, interested in seeing the project as it moves along. Looks like a great start.

Mel, I can’t remember, have you done a tutorial on castings before?

Kevin, Just got my copy today but loved to see how it was created.

Here are a few shots from various parts of the layout.

Scott Sonntag

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Scott, I had intended to make a how too on this batch but ran into a problem with this one.

Her hand broke off in the first mold. This is my fix.

I did get a pretty good top mold after the fix, my resin was too old so I’m waiting on a new batch before I will know if the fix worked for sure.

Mel

My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

Bakersfield, California

I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

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We are off to another great start this weekend. Thank you to everyone that has made a contribution so far.

Energizer: Thank you for the comment on my post this week.

David: That is a beefy and powerful looking 4-6-0 that you are building. I’ll bet it will be very nice when it is finished.

Ringo: Pickle Rick! I will definitely have a Pickle Rick train car at some point. The obvious would be a private car for Rick’s Pickles, but I would like to work Jaguar into the theme somehow. Also, make the slogan from “That Morty, is why you don’t go to therapy.” Best final episode line ever. [(-D]

Thank you for complimenting the rock wall. That was built to test/practice my ability to join rock castings with sculptoamold. I am happy with how it turned out. Now I need to duplicate it on the real layout.

Congratulations on the successful diesel locomotive repair.

Jimmy: Thank you for dropping by. I hope your turntable project is going well, and I look forward to seeing pictures when you can.

Rick: Great job on that Tichy USRA rebuild boxcar kit. I have built a few of them, but always seem to have trouble getting the ends to fit flush to the carbody sides. It looks like you used the sill steps that came with the kit. They always looked small and fragile to me. Did you just glue them to the sill, or are the reenforced somehow?

Also, what did you use for the grab irons on the left? Those look like Kadee grabs. I have a drilling jig from Yarmouth for installing these, but have not had a chance to use it yet.

Mike: Some of the old AHM freight cars have a good amount of detail on them. I have a couple I stashed away for projects. It looks like you are doing a really good job to make it stand out.

Harrison: I only listen to the bad comments if they offer constructive advice for improvement. I hav

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Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with some nice ‘imagineering’, has me looking extra forward to my MRR April issue delivery.

FGE’s early 80s rebuilt plug door insulated boxcars were deemed to be ‘as good as gold’ and ‘as solid as a new car’.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, have a good weekend, regards, Peter

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Push by Bear, on Flickr

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Thanks Kevin. This iteration of the Ramsey building is from a 45 year old Tyco version of the kit. I had a couple of them, so the building doubled in size. I also have Ma’s Place as a farmhouse. All of these kits from back when I had a 4X8 sheet of plywood on my parent’s basement floor

Mel, looking forward to seeing how you create those molds.

Scott Sonntag

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Bear-Box1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Great Stuff this weekend, folks!

I’ve been messing with micro-miniature LEDs and some signal parts this weekend.

Building the signal bridge is the easy part—

LED_Signal-head-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

I forget where I got these signal heads. They originally had bi-color LEDs but the colors weren’t great and there was no yellow aspect.

LED_Signal-head-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

On the right is the mast and heads with the old LEDs removed. I used a few blobs of Hypo cement for a lens which worked out great.

LED_tri-color-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

What I’m installing in place are these tri-color LEDs from Evan designs. The colors are ideal for signals, especially the “true signal green” which looks perfect.

LED_tri-color by [url=https://www.f

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I didn’t do much railroad work this weekend, but I was going through some old photos and found a picture my my layout when I was younger.