I wanted to start one for once, so here’s my contribution. Its a former Canadian national Kato SD40-2 done up as a former GATX leased unit, now Wheeling and Lake Erie 7370.
I did the decals and matched the rust spots and weathering exactly to the prototype. Let’s see some more excellent work.
I finished the HOn30 boxcab yesterday. The shell is 3D printed from Shapeways, and the drive is a Bull Ant from Hollywood Foundry.
For details on the project and comments about 3D printing see my how to discussion.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/244840.aspx
Due to something funny in the forum software, you probaly will have to copy and paste thee link into your browser.
Jimmy, thanks for an early start to this week’s WPF. Quoth the Bear, on to the good stuff!
Weekend already?
A few pics from around the layout
Hmm, where that wire come from?
Should have a train or 2
Nice layout Bob!
I have no new pictures to post but I’m working on a couple of projects that will hopefully show up in the next few weeks.
Dave
Jimmy,
Good job on that weathering.
George,
Those skirts really work for me. May not be fancy, but they look right.
George,
Thanks for the tour[tup]
This turned out to be a week of great ideas and some progress. I discovered I actually had some more room to extend the Cascade Branch[wow] It required some tidying up of stuff in storage, but it needed some sorting and disposal. After eliminating a 4’ long rack on the other side of the HVAC from Crater Lake, I found another 6’ of wall I could use. here’s how it looked with everything cleared out and the bracket to hold things in place.
I replaced the sagging insulated ducting with shiny new Canadian ducting. More clearance and it brightened things up, also. The benchwork is experimental for me, riffing off various ideas I’ve had for doing multi-deck systems with very narrow fascias. You do have to use 3/4" plywood, as 1/2" just isn’t rigid enough. The only support over 6’ of span are the two metal brackets from the big box. One end is tied to the adapter section I built to connect at the Crater Lake end while clearing the water heater and the other to a wood block next to the casing around the door.
Everything clears the water heater and I will be building a heat shield that will double as “hill” to make it a lot less busy looking. I saved myself a lot of grief by cutting a cardboard template, then cutting the plywood.
Next is a pic of the superthin benchwork from underneath. I will be adding some “crossmembers” underneath screwed into the plywood at the front, but resting on a rail attached to the wall. A skinny fascia will go on the front, but will be no more than 4&quo
Gidday Jimmy you just go ahead any time, and “fill yer boots”. [tup] [swg]
The only problem for me as I see it, by starting I can get away with any old tat cos I know that the really Good Stuff will follow. With your very nicely done locomotive, (not my era but I’d be proud to turn out as good as job as that), Georges Boxcab and Bobs Club (?) layout photos, I just hope I don’t lower the tone, especially as you’ve requested “more excellent work”. [(-D]
Well I did get some modelling done, in that I got the davits for my ferry painted. Scratchbuilding one item is all very well, but I have to admit that I find duplicating the rest to look the same is hard work. For that reason I will never entertain using hon30critter Daves new standard, with his boat kitbash, “the One Foot Rule”. I’ll stick to the three foot rule (with a blindfold over one eye and the other one closed).
Have a Great One Ffolkes,
Ah heck Mike!
Why don’t you just tear out all the HVAC and the washer and dryer and then pretend you are camping![:o)][swg][(-D][(-D] Think of the space that would open up!
I am seriously envious of the space you have available AND your ability to make good use of it!
Dave
Bear!
Please stop making me blush! Right now I’m bidding on a second Athearn launch so I can get it really right the second time around.
Your davits look great. I’m assuming based on the alignment of the curved arms to the gears that the arms must be able to rotate relative to the gear mechanism as the lifeboat is pushed out over the side of the ferry. In other words, the way you have modelled the davits they are in their stowed position. Is that correct? Just curious.
Dave
Thanks for the compliments everyone, it was also my first airbrush project. Amazing the difference it can make.
I love the boxcab, the layout photos are nice, I love the narrow gauge stuff, and the davits look nice as well. Good start to this weekend everyone.
Good stuff from everyone, this week. Switching CD Smoker.
Jimmy … Your SD40-2 looks read to go to work on the W&LE.
George… Nice modeling of a boxcab. Looks great.
Bob K … I enjoy looking at the layout photos.
Mike L … Insread of a duck under, your layout is under duct. LOL … Nice work.
Bear … Always good to see progress with the car ferry.
Grampy … Great photo of an EMD switcher.
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I restored streetcar service in the City of Heartland. Rails were thoroughly cleaned and the streetcars had some much needed maintenance. I still need to install trolley wires.
A few shots from my layout:
Converting other cars into woodchip hoppers is a long-term ongoing project for me. Having 6 boxcar conversions done, I decided to do a couple of the open hopper conversions to see how they go. Started with a old coal service hopper and extended the heigth.
Paint
Decals
And done, but awaiting weathering, along with it’s brothers.
Thanks for the kind comment everyone. I’ll try to return to my typically more spicy pics in the next go-round.[(-D]
Bear,
Great davits! I know what you mean about making more than one of anything. It’s harder than it looks, but they look great!
Garry,
Now that you mention it, it is a bit like a ductunder. Just wish that duct was an inch or two higher. I had to install some foam cushioning in case I move my head just wrong…[:'(]
We camp pretty fancy, but no portable layout for the woods yet. In fact, we haul so much gear to “rough it” that we needed the Canadian military to help us out with one of their sweet surplus M101 trailers[:D]
Now you got me thinking…[D)]…there is room to strap a decent sized module on top…hmmm, hmmm.
The wife did ask what was next after this. I told her I’m pretty sure I’m out of real estate njow. But this morning I’m thinking that I could punch a hole in the wall to my office/workshop and run a spur in here…but that means I’d have to clean my office…probably not going to happen much more than what it got this week. One of the bonuses to this project was that it opened up a space to store my excess copies of MR underneath that have been sitting around since I helped one of our older members out with as he and his wife moved to a smaller space. Some of them go back to the 40s!
Not much from me this week, only a very short video of a container ship.
Dave, This is my club layout. I can only take small portion of credit (1st pic, bridges, retaining walls, rock castings/ Hydrocal) some of my earlier work.
There are many commitees and over 60 members who have made this possible.
Jimmy, Stealin’ some Kiwi thunder? Seriously though, thanks for rollin’ out this week’s episode of WPF and your SD-40-2.
The out of the box finish and detail of the Neo 1976 Chrysler Town&Country knocked my socks off, but so did the price. 1976, the days of big boat station wagons and 60 cents a gal. gasoline to feed em’.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
Yeah Dave, I’ve modelled them in the stowed position. I actually read your post just before I hit the hay late last night, and woke up in the early hours, which is not uncommon, and then started trying to work out how I could make them work. I figured out everything bar how to cut a small enough thread on the crank, drifted off to sleep and upon waking this morning, decided I certainly have some stupid ideas [banghead] and also decided I’m quite happy with what I’ve got.
AAAUGHH Gee, you’re really rubbing it in now!!! [(-D][(-D]
Cheers, the Bear.[swg]
Jim, thanks for starting us off on another WPF.
George, I love the little box cab loco! What does the BRV mean?
Mike, you are a busy man!
Bear your davits look good to me. They resemble the ‘screw’ davits we had on a couple of the ships I was on.
Grampy, nice photo as usual.
Garry, a good looking and busy city scape.
Here is one from the BRVRR:
Pennsy freight and passenger trains pass the BRVRR yard and shop where workmen attempt a few repairs to their crane.
Keep the photos and ideas coming everyone. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
A scene on the RD Moses layout in Jefferson TX
