Nice Work people. CSXmu, like the conversion. Except if I did it it would look a lot different.
This station came out perfect. Then I weathered it. I don’t know if I like it now. It looks dirty. I know that’s how it supposed to look, but dang it looked good before.
Looks fine to me chip[^]
Great pics everyone
Aggrojones, I’m looking forward to seeing those passenger cars completed.
Chip, the station looks good from here, what exactly don’t you like about it?
Hi Everyone
I spent last weekend building this.
well I had to put a door on it because my wife is looking after some other kids. I went to put the door on and I did not leave enought room for the door jamb. And I had hung the door the wrong way. Which turned out better anyway I like the dor the way it swing now. I hade to do some modification which took me all day friday to do. but its bone and kids be safe now.
The funniest part was that when i was all done in the room i could not shut the light off in the room because it was behind the one of the flipup section that is behind the door.
Hopefully next week goes better I 'm going to try and lay some more road bed
everyone has some very awsome pic in here keep up the good work. I do enjoy the weekend photo fun.
It just looked good all spanky clean and it took a lot of work to get it that way. I know the weathering had to be done or it would have looked all out of place. I’m getting used to it. I’ll just have to start another model.
You sound a little like me Chip, a somewhat perfectionist. I’ll spend hours painting a structure, making sure theres a good even covering, making sure theres no windowframe colour on the adjacent brickwork and getting everything else ‘just so’. Then when I have everything perfect(ish) and looking absolutely flawless, I realise that I’m going to have to drybrush some white/grey over the ‘woodwork’ to make it look faded and cover the too pristine structure in grimy washes and simulated dirt I know my base colours dont need to be perfect as they will be covered by weathering on the whole, but I just cant bear to look at an unstraight paint line or see the primer coat showing through.
Have fun & be safe.
Karl.
Rio Grande coal drag with Split Rock Mine in the rear veiw mirror heads east toward the Joint Line.
Unweathered IHC Consolidation. I just bought this one on ebay for $35. It’s basically new and had a brass pilot, bell and other
details. It runs and pulls great but needs a decoder. I’m spoiled with plug and play now and don’t really look forward to a hardwiring job. It will be a nice addition when wired and weathered though.
Great work everyone!
GrandeMan-- I love them hoppers.
Mellow-Mike-- You’re too much! [:D]
Joe-- Now thats TOTAL control of your bedroom!
I’m learning from the master… You’re weathering is an inspiration.
Eastbound Coal drag waits for a clear main south of Sadalia, Colo.
Guys, here’s a shot I liked but had to photoshop the tunnel a little because you could see some light from the staging behind the tunnel. Still, I though it might be apprieciated by F unit lovers here. Here goes…
Ok, just one more. Ya’ll know I’m a pic posting maniac. [:D]
My achievements this week.
I really do need to get some of these kits finished and stop buying stuff when I already have too much to build, paint, weather, place…
Great work guys.
Karl.
If I was to post a photograph of what I accomplished this week, it would involve a screenshot of my bank account… I got to let about $100 burn a hole in my pocket this weekend at an LTS… got an Atlas cylindrical hopper for $14.95 and a Genesis Trinity covered hopper for significantly more… and a lot of other random stuff.
Great work everybody![tup]
Here is what I spent my available time on this weekend: The face plate of the switch panel for the tracks serving my HO scale steel mill.
The hardware store only had one DPDT switch in stock, so I had to special-order the remainder. But one was all I needed to drill the holes in the plexiglas and test the fit of each one. This is a power distribution panel ONLY, it will not control switch machines. Nothing worthy of appearing in MR I realize, but it’ll get the job done.
I know, I know: “If you use DCC you don’t have to wire all those separate blocks.”
…Well I don’t have the money or the time to install decoders in my 30+ locos, so I’m gonna stick with what will accommodate ALL my motive power for the next few years [until I’ve finished paying for my kids’ education].
This is for Jshrade some industries, a Brickyard and a sand plant.
Harbison Walker Industries. 
US. Silica Sandworks 
Fantastic!!!
I hate to say this; but your pics show up as little boxes with red X’s. [:(]
If you copy-and-paste the web addresses into a separate brower window, the images will display (at least they did for me). For some reason, trying to view them from within trains.com spawns a “Forbidden” error message…go figure?[%-)]
http://image32.webshots.com/33/7/65/42/297876542CWoLIe_ph.jpg
http://image34.webshots.com/34/8/49/52/294484952LkfYGE_ph.jpg
I can see musicman’s pics on the forum. I’m running Firefox. Wonder if that has anything to do with it???