My new Christmas Tree Central is coming along quickly and will done before the true kick off of the holiday season. The mountain in the center in covering the base of my new tree (which was partially assembled for modeling reasons.
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Here are views of my farm
Modenized heavyweight passenger cars are taking people home for Thanksgiving.
Very nice seens, guys.
A pair of SW7’s working the yard. DJ.
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Wow guys really great stuff so far. Love the farm scene. Hopefully my pics can stack up.
My latest project was weathering two of my MTH Norfolk Southern SD70M-2’s. I have had these engines for 6 or 7 months and have always wanted to weather them.
Overall, I must say that these two engines are hands down my effort to date. All my weathering is done with a Paasche air brush water based paints and weathering powders.
Hope you all like them.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Will
Nice work guys, love what all of you are doing!!
Well, here is my custom painted & lit Kato GP35 in daylight! Although ICE never had any of these, but it fits into what I model & what I want to use it for. It will be a Local switcher/spotter where they used various single locomotive equipment at times. Today it is pulling some baled scrap from the metal scrapyard. The model is also the subject of the Ditchlights posting I was running, please see it in the dark there!
Is the weekend yet? I can always tell when it is because my favorite thread of the week appears.
Great work so far folks!
I have been currently (a few minutes every few days) been continuing on the power house. It looked like this after basic gluing the walls together…
Here it was after being sprayed a primer gray for the color of the morter and the start of using a terra Cotta coloered Art Pencil on the bricks:
And… This is the final color. Several similar colors were used to highlight the brick and then the entire outside of the buiding was sealed with Dullcoat.
Still trying to figure out how to do the interior…
73
Great pictures everyone. Seems slow today so I will post another. Here is one with the yard on one side and the passenger station on the other.
I picked up a used brass Key Rio Grande M-64 4-8-4 at the Roseville train show last weekend, got it home and found out that it had been custom-painted to the very same locomotive number (#1711) as an M-64 I bought several years ago from Caboose Hobbies. So here are my two #1711’s on Bullard’s Bar bridge. The first one is the newer one. The second will be re-numbered as soon as I can find my Microscale decal sheet. [:$]
Tom
Tom! I love this pic! great stuff my Friend… Carl.
Chad - Nice work on the GP35, looks great!
Will -Nice weathering job on the SD70s. Now, are you just cleaning the wheels after you paint? Also, I thought I was the only one who likes the MU cables tucked under the plow. I like the cleaner look.
Hey,
Thanks Motley, one thing I do on mine, if I have the shell off is to put a 9V battery across the motor leads & apply liquid paint mask on the wheels with a brush, as if it was that BullFrog stuff, it comes off easy & there is no other issues, at least on mine! I tried that once & now it is just a habbit. Just a thought…
My freight house is getting close to completion…
Illinois Terminal gondola with weathering and load added.
While we’re talkin’ trash here, I’ve been working on my scrapyard.
I had fun with extreme weathering here. The junk cars and the old boiler in the third picture were done with Instant Rust. Most of the junk piles are castings I’ve picked up here and there over the years, in anticipation of one day having a scrapyard. (What a life goal, huh?) Most of these scrap pile castings are kind of small, so I elevated them by putting them on scraps of roadbed, and in some cases I added some more height by stacking that on some pink foam. The magic of the camera shows me that I’ve still got some work to do to hide some of the roadbed and foam beneath the castings.
The office building, plank fence and light poles were scratchbuilt.
Good stuff again this week guys. Keep them coming.
Scarpia, excellent work on the freight house.
Here’s one from the BRVRR:
Nathan behind the train table watching a freight train roll by, up close and personal.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Wow Mister Beasley! What a great scene! Nice work! Thanks for sharing with us! Thayne,
Mr. B, you have an excellent piece of work there…well done!!
Crandell
