Since nobody has started this yet I guess I will. Couple projects I just finished this week.
The gp-38 is an undecorated atlas model. Disassembled the whole thing, cleaned, lubed and tested. Then I added a NCE decoder and added front and rear led lights. On the outside I added the long hood bell, plow and ditch lights. I was missing the one end railing so I bent new ones from brass rod. Decals were from shell scale that I found on ebay. Then I drybushed the rust and silver colors for contrast.
Drybrushed the weathering on the trucks and fuel tank and finished off this rs-3
They look very nice Mike, I too like the light weathering touch. Very nicely done.
As a follow on to last week, I’ve put together a short video of the same Atlas S-2 (Tsunami equipped) on YouTube. If you have some time to kill, check it out (it’s even HD).
I don’t have anything from my home layout this week, but I do have a couple of pictures I took last November at the Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Ga. The modular club I’m a member of set up it’s large HO scale layout, plus the smaller N scale. The event was titled ‘Planes and Trains’.
In the photo below you can see the very small O scale setup which we hope to, at least, triple in size this year. Also, the area most popular with visiting toddlers (and parents) is the ‘ride-able’ setup near the bottom of this picture.
Jarrell
Grampy, is that you in the red shirt in your photo? [:)]
Jarrell and C&O fan, that would be my buddy, Cork, who is an O and O27 scale collector, and Al, who has a smaller HO scale layout. I’m taking the photo and enjoying watching them having some fun. DJ.
Grampy love the overview shot of the layout. You always have great pics but it is nice to see this side of the layout as well. Very nice. Everyone else you guys have some great stuff as well. I hope to have some more pics up by the end of the weekend of a weathered covered hopper and weathered rsd-4
I installed some lighting for night ops in West Canaan last week, and filmed this video of train CDWJ crossing Main Street at grade. Since I had no sound clips of trains at night, plus it’s the dead of winter here so I can’t record the peepers and frogs, the video is set very early in the morning on a rainy day…the birds are already up!
Progress pics of my 12DupSR-5Bd COSF car with lowered floor. Ready to letter as soon as I find out how the COSF letters were spaced amongst the upper duplex windows.
Mike, I think you are doing very nice, very natural, weathering on those motors. Well done!
What a nicely detailed image you have there, Lee. [:)]
Terry, I think your building is coming along well, but what strikes me most is the near perfect tone of the inside wood…nicely aged, it seems.
DJ, you have a very nice layout, obviously, but I do agree that it is very nice to get this stand-off view for a change. It helps to put things into perspective.
I photographed my trusty Pennsy J1 trailing a few hundred tons of coal and hoppers coming across the interchange bridge over Seneca River.
I was going to comment on how I liked one of the models. Then I realized it wouldn’t be fair to the others. Everyone’s work is just FANTASTIC!!! This is going to be another great WPF I can tell.
Great work again this week guys.Mike that is wonderful weathering,so many of us have too heavy a hand but that sir is a great job. Crandell love that bridge scene,makes me want to sit down on the embankment and see what I might catch under the bridge.
So this week I thought I would give the club shots a rest and show som preliminaries form my home layout.
As I said very early progress so far as I have been otherwise engaged,but I’m very much and Alcophile as eveidenced by the power at the terminal
One of the problems is I have too many hobbies. I like for a distraction to paint 15mm ( roughly HO scale ) militarty miniatures as well,alas too many hobbies too little time.
Thanks Crandell. I have to say we have been lucky the last ten years or so with all the Canadian prototype locmotives that have come out,the RS10 and 18 in front of the shops are the Plastic Proto ones that Hobby Craft now Trueline trains had made up.Hard to believe proper RS10’s and 18’s are ready built from a major manufacturer. I can remembering having to kitbash the old Atlas RS11’s and try to manhandle and grind and file the Miniatures by Eric heavy cast brass corners and details on.Man I can’t believe what we used to have to go through.
