WPF 3/25/2011

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Thanks for the info , Chad . I found them . RON

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The Thomas Sub gets a visitor from the Bayou…

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Meanwhile, work proceeds on the new engine terminal:

Before:

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and a little later:

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Keep up with all the latest shenanigans with my blog…

Lee

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Great work as always everyone!

Earlier this month, the first of VIA Rail’s rebuilt/refurbished LRC coaches was released from IRSI in Moncton, NB, and is now around Montreal for crew training and testing. With the release of this car, we got to see VIA’s new LRC paint scheme. Not wishing to be outdone by the prototype, I whipped out one of my Rapido resin LRC cars, and set about repainting it. I had a bit of Testors “Chezoom teal” left over from another project, and it matches the green “Renaissance” paint on the new cars nicely. I sprayed it over the blue, stripped off the old decals, and added new VIA Rail Canada emblems. I also added a thin yellow stripe swiped from a Microscale CN locomotive set.

Here’s a quick photo of the finished car:

I’m also almost finished a CN C44-9W, an Athearn model to which I am adding a Kaslo CN-style “tear-drop” windshield cab, and some other details. The cab has been sprayed red, the ditchlights and plow are on. Now I just need to paint the cab roof and nose-top black, add the cab interior, wipers, and decals, and put it on the loco. If all goes well, I’ll have photos of it ready for next weekend.

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Garry, I love how the background works so well in your excellent image. The rockwork really pops, too.

Crandell

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Nice work everyone, especially some excellent track work out there.

I’ve been quite busy this weekend trying to convert a bunch of worthless Bachmann 40’ gondola into CN Drop Bottom Gondola from 1931. Each car have a total of 250 new handmade styrene parts (I counted them!), including small 2x2mm nuts… Probably my most crazy kitbashing project until now. I would say the modification is completed at morethan 80%.

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I also did a little touch up to 4 other Bachmann quad hopper repainted to CN scheme and upgraded. Why Bachmann? A friend of mine gave me a box with 4 x the same B’s CN trainset… I need hopelessly gondolas and hoppers for the layout… and kitbashing is fun.

The new Massey Harris dealer is under construction… Scheduled opening for tomorrow.

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Matt

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Long story short I need to build an underpass for my layout before I can start the rest of my benchwork as it is on a tangent in the middle of a curve and will set up a lot of the basic groundwork for the rest of the layout. all the pieces are just mocked up and in no way in final position. The ties are just sitting on the top of the girders to see how they look.

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A bit late, but here’s my addition, taken while the paint on the scenery was still drying.

A ex Santa Fe FT Rent a Wreck waits on the main as a hotbox gets attended to.

To finish this scene, I have to ballast and paint over the blue of the foam. A project for when I get some more greenbacks. [;)]

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Fantastic and super great background

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Ballast is down and scenery started

Here is the cow pasture

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I’ve been plugging along on my new layout. This weekend I put up the backdrop. This week I will start installing the foam scenery.

A shot of the old backdrop used;

I wanted to give using a photo backdrop a try but I think it is going to be a little too much for me right now. So I’m going to do another painted one. It should turn out fine but time consuming.

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Been working on this Bar Mills kit of H J Simpson Feed for the past few weeks.

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