Here are a couple of cars that I finished in the last week.
This is a Details West FGE RBL, painted the roof silver and reeefer yellow sides and ends. Lettered with two different sets of Mioroscale Decals, one for FGE cars and the other for the Gothic Data.
This is a Walthers 10,000 Gallon Tank car, painted with Scalecoat II Aluminum and Black Paint, lettered with Champ Decals.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
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Nothing new this week so some Engine Servicing Facility Pics.
Here are two Athearn BB 50’ Express Reefers that I recently painted for the P.R.R. I picked them up in very bad cosmetic shape (rescued is more like it) at an LHS a few years back for the price of $1.00 each. After stripping the damaged paint and removing the heavy rust on the weights they have been outfitted with Intermountain 36" wheels and Kadee #27 couplers. To keep the project cost effective I used Krylon “walnut brown” and Krylon flat black. The decals were leftovers from a diesel project. Both cars received a clear satin finish.
Here is the newly painted PRR # 1120 on it’s maiden voyage. 
Here is the newly painted PRR # 2743 on it’s maiden voyage.
Here they are between another Athearn BB 50’ Express Reefer and a Rivarossi SS Baggage car.
Let’s visit Silverton, where tourists are welcome…
Here’s a bull session between two old rails at the Silverton Northern engine house as #3 rests under cover.
I built a couple of Labelle boxcar kits for the Silverton Northern this week.
Rick … You continue posting good looking freight cars…
Curt … Great looking locomotive terminal!
JR … I like the Pennsy express reefers.
Mike … Your Silverton photos are great.
Here are photos of Silver Orchid, a Budd 6-4-6 sleeper I made from a kid made by NKP Car Company available from their website with a good slection of prototypically correct freight cars of several railroads.
Thanks Garry for the compliment, after working on that Moloco GATC car I have sort of slowed down the last two weeks and have been watching some old DVD’s and the Olympics rather than modeling.
Rick J
A custom freelance Proto2K GP18, I am building.
It is in the works, trying a freelance Scheme, etc…
Happy weekend,everyone!
Good stuff,as usual…Keep 'em coming!
Curt - I like your servicing area,the turntable looks great!
Garry - Really nice job of blending your backdrop into that farm scene. I’m guessing the scene doesn’t extend much beyond the back tracks - but it looks much deeper than that.
I’ve got a shot of some repairs being made to a drain pipe in the yard,and a short runby video. (Sorry for the “Batman” camera angle,I thought I had the camera level.
Another great weekend photo fun thread, has to be my favorite each week.
Great video too middleman.
Here’s a shot thru the gum trees of my freelance Pacific East Coast RR (yep the Pacific is on the East coast of Australia).
My little 4-4-0 steamer has Canadian, Alaskan and Gorre & Dapheited passenger cars, must o got em cheap from the other side of the Pacific
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Must fix that white patch under the tree too.
cheers
Midddleman- Thank you for the compliment. I have never thought of a scene like that hmmm…
I was playing around with some photo editing software. I added the smoke and aged the image. The lead loco is a scratchbuilt CB&Q O2A and the second is a Challenger M2A.
onequiknova- That is a great modeling and photo job.
I am armchaired; up for a while, but found this (Couple of layouts) back:
http://myrrlayout.com/R/Aspfiles/DetailPage.asp?Xfer_Code=40001053
Thanks!.
Here’s one more with the engines reversed.
A recent project of mine was to build an F7B slug with a chopped roof. I used parts from an Athearn F7B and a Proto 1000 F3A.
First, the parts from the P1K F3A:
Motor, truck halves, side frames, wheels, flywheels, shafts, worms.
Now the parts from the Athearn F7B:
Body shell, worm housing clips, truck bottom clips, gears, frame.
The trucks were assembled and placed in the frame, the shafts with worms were put in and the the worm housing clips snapped in place. A small piece of rubber was placed in the motor well to support the motor at the height needed for the shafts to be level between the flywheels and trucks. The motor was laid on it’s side so it would stick up as little as possible. The shafts were inserted into the flywheels and the motors position adjusted so the shaft runs were equal then the motor was secured in place with hot glue. That’s the mechanical part done. Two jumper wires were run between the trucks and a Digitrax DH123 decoder hardwired in for motor control. Making the body was a simple matter of cutting away a strip between the portholes and the roof line of an old Athearn Hi-F F7B shell then joining the cut down body and roof together. The portholes and most of the gaps between body and roof were filled with hot glue. Excess glue was cut away and everything was smoothed out. A layer of masking tape was applied to the sides of the body and painted flat black. The paint is acrylic and soaked through the tape insuring the tape adhered well to the body. The fans and exhaust stacks on the roof were cut away and the area sanded smooth then it too got the tape and paint treatment.
Click here for a video of a test run.
The unit runs very well and is e
Ahhhhhh… The weekend, and time for the best thread around! Some great modeling and photography as always!
I have little by little been completing the wall to be used for a mold to make the sides of the Octagon Blacksmith’s Shop in Alloway, NY. I will end up a few rows of cobblestone short from the prototype, but don’t tell on me. No way I can find stones it seems that would be perfect for the 4.2 inch courses, so mine will be about 4.75" instead…
I hope to pour the silicon rubber mold mid next week.
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I won’t tell. Often adjustments have to be made. I’m looking forward to seeing it when it’s done.