Hi all: I guess I get to start off this week. The crew of #633 is busy switching loaded coal hoppers at Blackwood Coal.
Great Photo as always Gramps !!!
I have nothing to add this week as my layout is still covered in plastic from the storm { Ike }
till i get my roof inspected
Wish i could get my camera to focus that close what camera do you use ?
Thanks Terry. I have a Panasonic DMC-FZ7, aper. priority f 8.0
hi
Sorry no picture, but over the week I finished building and weathering my Pikestuff n scale engine house. Just need to make a floor and foundation out of styrene and it is ready for instalation.
tim
Recently completed “Mimbres Valley Produce” in Deming, NM. The Reefer is scratchbuilt by an old friend.
This is one of my all time favorites.
N Scale
Lee
Very nice images, Gents. Nice muted colours which work nicely. I like the soft focus around the periphery of Grampy’s image.
I recently commenced the weathering of the Rivarossi C&O H-8. Here is what it looks like so far.
-Crandell
Great photos everyone. I will try and contribute this week. I am suppose to be getting in some rolling stock, well see if it makes it before the weekend is over.
BTW great photo grampys. I love the grade crossing it is perfect.
Just doing a little roofing work on an old coaling station this week. I want the structure to have the appearance that it was abandoned and hasn’t been used for decades.
And now the other side.
I should have the top done by next weekend.
Another great start this weekend.
Grampys: Beautiful shot–love the soft-focus photography, gives the scene a LOT of mood. Terrific as usual!
Lee: I can see why that’s one of your favorites–that’s an absolutely STUNNING shot.
El Capitan: I like both that reefer and the produce shed. Really good work!
Crandell: Beautiful loco shot! I take it that the Allegheney is starting to run in well for you?
Jeff: Man, that roof has seen a lot of WEATHER, hasn’t it? Neat job!
Well, here’s mine for the weekend: Just to prove that I CAN operate two trains on DC, LOL! “Royal Gorge” pulling out of Deer Creek on the eastbound track while a 3-cylinder 4-8-2 brings a load of empty reefers down the westbound.
[Tom
I’ve recently completed weathering a dummy Athearn Soo Line Loco to match my powered one which was weathered by JKtrains. Together they look really cool pulling a drag of sooline hoppers.
The second loco on the right is the one I weathered.
Looking good Driline.
Very nice, Frank. Jerry does good work, and I think you are very close with what I see. [tup]
-Crandell
Just finished this, started life as a Santa Fe unit, re-did it SP , and just to get flamed by SP purist I did it up in Speed Lettering , which of course in real life the RSD-15 weren’t around that long. But as I’ve said before I model the SP as if it didn’t disappear.
Jerry–
As a huge SP fan and modeler (steam not diesel) all I can tell you is that if that Alco didn’t exist in Speed Lettering, it SHOULD have, LOL! Nice job. Good looking loco. Back when SP was running Alco’s, we Northern Cailifornians used to refer to them (particularly the PA’s) as “Honorary Steamers” from all that neat exhaust.
Tom
Well I don’t have anything amazing too add this week just more progress on my layout, I started laying cork (in my opinion, the worst and hardest part) on my layout so far 20% done about.
Crandell, I sure wished we live close by, but at last we do not.[:(] Great looking PIC as normal.
I learned two things to night.
1 Don’t try to fix a BLI Steam Engine while you are talking on the phone with Jeffery! [;)] Got it back together, and fixed what was wrong with it, now I have a new problem? But, that will be a different posting.
2 I hate ballasting track! [:(!] But I will get he hang of it.
I will not post any PIC till I get a little farer on the project, I have painted more of the mountain still needs some detail paint work. Plus I have learned how to straighten out Super Trees. Working on some dead trees as well, they add a lot to the over all look of K-10 Mining.
Thanks for all the great PIC’s as well.
Cuda Ken
I never really balasted before, I plan on reading up on it and doing alot of practice before hand when I get too that point…
Lee: Very nice photo.
Crandell: Thanks, and I really like those head on shots, very dramatic!
Tom: Thanks for the kind reply, you have a pretty nice looking photo, yourself!
Tom, thanks. I like how the front end has turned out, but the side of the tender is a bit heavily weathered, and the drivers haven’t been done. Honestly, I haven’t run this engine in four or five months. I am having a Tsunami put in it in the next six or seven days because the Loksound sound files for the chuff and the whistle are terrible. Meanwhile, when I did try to get it to move after the weathering and dull-coating, it stuttered and stalled, so I have a clean-up job on the wheels.
I will use this engine once I am happy with its sounds. It is beautiful…Rivarossi did a good job.
I haven’t seen an image of yours I didn’t like. [:)] This one is no exception…quite a grand view. I am for some reason drawn to your large retaining wall, and think to myself…hmm, I could do that in my steep area near a curve. Yours looks great.
-Crandell