So… let’s get started!! First of all, I didn’t build this car… what’s that? You can tell? Be nice now! Anyway, it was built by a friend and it’s won a few ribbons in local model building contest. He models the Boston and Maine (HO scale) in the early 1920’s. I photographed it for him…
Jarrell
Jarrell, great photo work and your friend’s model is…
… wow!
Is it HO scale?
Here’s my contribution for the week.
Last Thursday (12/11) I started with this:
By Friday evening I’d got it to this point:
Yesterday I finished the paint and reassembled it:
It’s a Hart Gondola. These were usually used for spreading ballast because they could side dump from either side or center dump. I think I’ll be using it as a car to collect/ship waste glass from the Fred Mullions & Sons window factory.
I’m looking forward to another great weekend’s worth of photos. Jarrell got us off to a great start!
Great work, Phil. I have trouble putting simple handrails on a loco! [
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I went back and added the scale my buddy models. Thanks!
Jarrell
Thanks for getting the thread going this weekend, and thanks for the photos.
The older n-scale layout in the new location (garage loft) is starting to come back together; most of the structures are now in place, but still have to work on some roadways, vehicles, people, trees, shrubs, animals, and other details. But at least I am running trains again! Its only 2 x 8, and narrows down in the center (where it had been a shelf above a workbench before that allowed a usable workspace below).
I’ve got the trackwork back in near perfect shape to where I’ve had no derailments over several hours running time! (Whew!) Connections seem to be good, though wiring is still temporary. There are still a couple of locomotives I haven’t run on it. But so far, so good.
I haven’t added wiring for lights in structures, streetlamps, etc., yet, either. Some of the newer structures still need weathered. And the backdrops are still off.
I haven’t taken time to really set up a scene for photos, just took a snapshot of a freight approaching a crossing. I was adding freight cars one at a time to check couplers, etc. After photo was taken, I was running up to 9 or 10 cars without any issues. I had earlier repaired a truck on a boxcar that fell off during the move. Thankfully, I found the pin.
I’ve also been working on preparations for the new section of layout, but thats still down the road a ways.
This is looking along the narrow center section; the close end is more rural, and the far end is a small community.
Jarrell, I echo what Phil said about your photos and your friend’s models: They’re World-Class!
Phil, that Hart gon turned out nicely!
Here’s my contribution for this week: A home-grown cement distribution center, patterned after the now-discontinued WKW Medusa Cement kit:
I’ll confess I did some ‘digital cheating’: The backdrop sky on the left-hand side was in shadow, and when I tried to correct that with a photo floodlight, that made it look even more crappy - so I ‘normalized’ the sky. Other than that, everything is as-it-was.
I enjoyed everyone’s pics. thanks for sharing…
Nice work everyone
Wow Jarrell
Your buddy did a fantastic job
And your photography helps display his great work
I built a miners shot gun house
I got a little carried away with the ink wash but it’s still believable
Still needs a rocking chair and a coon dog on the porch
Nonsense…the ink wash is very convincing…makes it look like it needs a good scraping and a coat of paint…which is what you did right before the ink wash…[:-^]
Wow! Still Friday night and already some awesome photos here!
Once again it has been a very busy week so not much got done on the layout. I have finished decaling the boxcars though. It is amazing how many mistakes you can find after you photograph a model…
The air bubbles in the decal will get fixed tomorrow. Other stuff I will just live with…
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Lee
Lee, Beautiful shot!![:)] But I’m getting ready to go shovel the 6" we got here in northern NJ yesterday!!![:(!]
I see some great pictures on Weekend Photo Fun so far. Lee’s photo is enough to make me shiver from a the winter weather.
Here’s a picture of some activity in Prarie View. An 0-6-0 will be handling local switching, and a way frieght is about to depart up a branchline. Meanwhile, workers of the track department are beginng their day.
I don’t know, it looks very good to me. I don’t think you got too carried away with the ink wash at all. Looks very convincing
Let me echo the others here, I think the india ink wash is just right. Get that dog and chair on the porch, some ground work around it and it’s gonna be first class. I wish I could do half this good.
Jarrell
Good stuff as usual.
Well I have been working on the backdrop (painting), and much more to go with that. Also finally got some plaster in the mail to finish off my mountain. I added some more hills, and a small tunnel. I still have to plaster paris all of it before I can even think about paint.
Theres also a shot of plastic right above the layout to help with the dust. Mitch gave the idea of a drop ceiling, but the basement is only about 6’5. So I added some plastic to help for now.
Oh, and you can tell the 3:00 is running alittle late.
My latest project, a Rail Yard Model caboose. Painted for the Westport Terminal RR. What else?: [:)]
Wolfgang
Wolfgang, I like the weathering you’ve done…, not too much or too little. What is your technique, in general, for weathering rolling stock?
Thanks,
Jarrell
That’s different.
Usually first dullcote. Then different colors, mostly earth, at the bottom of the car.For the roof I’ve used chalk.
Here you can find weathering ideas.
Wolfgang
I’ve been working on sidewalks for my downtown area.
Tom
This morning I took the old Diorama outside for a short visit with the winter sun. I wanted to take some shots of a couple of engines that I have been working on. Yep, you’ve seen them in the past WPF but here they are under better lighting.
