Well looks like I get the honors of starting this weekends photo fun.
Below is the Walthers Gas Plant. I completed this over 12 hours (12 days of 1 hour lunch breaks). I still have to do touchup, weathering, dull coat, apply decals, and add interior lights. But it’s 90% there.
FYI: The side walls and interior wall looks like they were from the same mold as the Northern lights and power kit. IF you like modeling details, the Boiler Interior for the Northern Lights and Power kit should work quite nicely and be prototypical for a “wet gas” coke plant. (Petro was mixed in with coke gas in the boiler. The end effect was to produce a gas that burned more brightly/evenly in city gas lamps.)
For modeling purposes:
Loads In: Coal, Petro
Loads Out: Coal Tar (used by a NUMBER of industries), Coke Gas, rough coke (althouh this coke is NOT appropriate for steel mills as the type of coal used contained a number of impurities which would lower the quality of the pig iron from the blast furnace)
I think I’m starting to like painting brick over spray painting/air brushing. The uneven texture makes the brick look less uniform
Next week I’ll start either the storage tank, or the coke retort. Does anybody have a preference? I’ll start my lunch hour model series then, showing how 1 hour a day can make a difference.
That’s a sharp looking model. I only wish I had an hour for lunch. That’s what I get for working in retail! Have fun painting that storage tank with a brush.[:)]
Hi all, this week I finished the Reitenmodels N scale A-frame cabin, and did 2 upgrades on it, I used RSLaserkits cedar shingles for the roof and a set of RSLaser stairs inside, although it is hard to actaully see the stairs! oh well I know they are there so…enjoy.
Don very nice work on the Gas Plant. Wish I had the real estate to have one of those on the layout.
Chuck Cool A Frame you have there. Always wanted to live in one of them but someplace that has smaller, ah, predators around. That last photo sure does show how small that is and how much detail you have achieved.
I have been finishing some scenery and taking photos to enter in the competition at my Regions NMRA Conference next week. Here are a couple “also rans”.
AWWW cruddd!! I am following the scenery guru!! Great job Grampy I love lookin at your stuff.
Well here is my work in progress on the pink plateu. It will be a shelf diaroma to show off work done. It will replace my little shelf that I have currently. It is coming along slowly with other projects going on. The rock was painted with slate grey,then burnt seinna then raw sienna then black wash, rust wash and then a tan wash. The sticks in the background are my carved trunks for the pine trees from balsa. The finished one is made from dowel rod. I didn’t like how it turned out. And it took way to long to carve into shape. I like the balsa wood as it carves easy and it is easy to get the grain in the trunk. What do you think?
My compliments to all submitters so far. [8D] Ray, your photos are always worth a view, even your seconds. I will look forward to seeing a “first” sometime later if one of your entries places accordingly. Good luck.
DJ, this image is a stunner. Very well done.
Terry, the Pacific is a scrumptious engine with all the appliances visible.
Chuck, you did well on the A-frame. I would like to see it located at some point.
DigitalGriffin, your model turned out very well. The storage tank was always one that caught my eye, so I will be keen to see how it turns out for you.
Mike, your rock work is coming along very nicely. It will be a treat to see images of those areas when they are all done.
Here is my contribution for the week (BTW, I altered the title to reflect that WPF extends through to midnight on Tuesdays from now on…per direction from “The Management!”)
A Union Pacific TTT-6 is about to rejoin the main after having dropped of a short cut of empties at Sentinel Coal about 3.5 miles back along the spur.
Wow, another GREAT weekend of photos starting off! Some really impressive modeling here.
Well, here’s mine–2-8-8-2 #3550 (and ex-N&W mallet bought by the Rio Grande during WWII) giving 4-6-6-4 #3704 a helping hand up the eastbound 2% grade out of South Yuba canyon. I don’t normally double-head articulateds, but these two seem to run together comfortably. The 2-8-8-2 is kitbashed from an early Proto 2000 model, the 4-6-6-4 is one of my two Westside brass imports.
I completed and installed two ash conveyors on the Boothbay RR Village club layout this week. The one on the right is modeled with the bucket about ready to dump.
Now we need to add some scenery and an ashy MOW gondola to the scene.
