Living the dream.
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!
This week my share is kind of a sad one. This is the last train car I can complete until my new workshop is up and running. When I took down my workbench I kept out a few close-to-complete projects that I could finish easily. This is the last of the projects I left out.
This is a brass tank car model by Overland. The lettering is all custom and fictitious.
I guess I will just be sharing old photos for a while until the new layout is under construction and the workbench is back in service.
Please feel free to join in and share a fun photograph.
-Kevin
Thanks for starting WPF, Kevin.
A great looking tank car.
A busy time here at the moment, so an old picture seen at Clarence Dock.
'Who is a naughty boy then?'
IMG_4971 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Back later.
David
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Thanks for opening the LAST of June WPF, Kevin. Yes! Next Friday is already July 1 and the daylight hours are getting shorter!
You can't go wrong with Overland, of course Looking Cool! How about some plackards?
1930 placards by Edmund, on Flickr
Your scene is excellent, David. Brickwork and shadows perfect. Reminiscent of Oliver Twist Looks like the boy was caught nipping coal?
This week I "aged" my overhead roadway with some light rusting on the girders and roadway oily marks on the surface. I wired the lights and, wouldn't you know since they're DC LEDs —
Bridge2 by Edmund, on Flickr
...wait for it —
I used a bridge rectifier
Bridge1 by Edmund, on Flickr
There was recently a thread about things you can't see inside a passenger car or the underside of any railroad car. I was thinking of that when I built this beautiful Kibri Tool Shed:
Tool-shed0 by Edmund, on Flickr
Right now it is just in preliminary light primer but I was pretty impressed with the post and beam construction and every rafter is there plus wood graining on the underside of the roof.
Tool-shed3 by Edmund, on Flickr
I've had this kit sitting on the shelf since 1996 never thinking I'd have a place for it. Glad I didn't toss it or give it away. It was included in the Kibri Factory complex which I used as a chemical plant in an other area.
Tool-shed1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Seems a shame that no one will really be able to appreciate these nifty details. The building will be tucked in behind the packinghouse.
Tool-shed by Edmund, on Flickr
Of course this is still a developing scene but I'm getting there slowly
Lets make this a great WPF! On to more excellent contributions, folks.
Regards, Ed
On Her-in-Doors and I trip to Taranaki, we got to revisit the Tawhiti Museum and got to have a chat with the founder and model maker extraordinaire, Nigel Ogle, a great guy. Apart from the fact that he makes all his figures, I’m really impressed with his use of forced perspective. This scene of a local railway tunnel being constructed is about 18 inches deep. He does it by eye and I’d say that the fore ground ffolkes were O scale with the rear N.
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Kevin,Your tank car model looks good. You've done a good job with the lettering.David,That's a good scene. I like seeing things like that, where the figures tell a story.Ed,That's some good weathering on your bridge, and the details on the toolshed look fantastic.Bear,Thank-you for sharing that tunnel photo. It's an incredible piece of modeling.
As for me, I've finally finished the scenery on the top deck of my layout:
Once I finish cleaning the tracks and resetting everything for ops, I'm going to do an opening ceremony, with one of my locos running through a 'ribbon' across the tunnel portal. Haven't decided which loco yet.
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Kevin, thanks for starting us out, great looking tank car, I have had good luck with the Intermountain kits, but I do change out some of the plastic parts for metal ones for durability.
David, thanks for showing us your little scenes on the layout, they are always unusual and well done.
Ed, some great model work and leave the puns to those who do them well like Bear.
Bear, nice looking scene you took a picture of, it is amazing how we got things done in the past without the major equipment we now have to build tunnels etc.
TBDanny, that is some impressive layout work can't wait for the ceremonial ribbon cutting picture.
I built some easy kits this last week!
Another Bowser 1958CF ACF Covered Hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. This car adds to the fleet for either cement from the Dundee MI cement plant or sand from the Yuma, MI sand pit.
Bowser PRR X31 Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Hunter Green and Black Paints then lettered with Prime Mover Decals. The Hoboken Shore was formed in 1954 from the Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad that served the docks and industries in Hobken, they had more yard track mileage than mainline mileage. The railroad was in financial trouble and in 1971 they took advantage of the new IPD rules by purchasing 50 old boxcars from the PC to send out for revenue, these cars did not last long as they were approaching 50 years of age in 1974. And as they lost the IPD revenue and lack of business the railroad folded in 1978.
Rapido Ann Arbor FA-2's with a general freight led by some of my fleet of Covered Hoppers in the sand service out of Yuma, MI headed for the Ford Engine Casting Plant in Brookpark, OH.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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Rule 2: I make the rules.
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Thanks Kevin for kicking-off the WPF thread. My prediction is that your workshop project will gain some speed!
David, nice picture. I'm always amazed how you manage to come up with a new picture every week. How big is your layout??
Ed, nice weathering job. Your layout is progressing fast!
Bear, thanks for sharing. The compression effect is amazing...
TBDanny, I like the color tones of your layout. It brings out the details nicely.
Rick, your decalling work continues to impress me.
These last few weeks, I've been focussing on a few locomotive projects that have been taking a lot of calendar time. I managed to finish one of them, an HOn3 Grandt line GE 25-Tonner. After a lot of tweaking, I managed to get it to run fairly well. Instead of the wires supplied in the kit, I used pieces cut from a phosphore bronze sheet for power pickup. Extra weight was added, as well as a DCC decoder.
IMG_20220622_195702 on Flickr
Simon
Ed. Yes, the boy has been caught stealing.
As for your pictures? I marvel at your modelling. Well done.
Bear. A clip around the ear. Don't remind me.
The Navvy scene? Brilliant!!!
tbdanny. I too like to have figures etc to have a reason to be where they are.
Your scenery looks really good. Well done. As for running a train for the 'Opening Ceremony'? A double header perhaps?
Rick I try to do scenes I see and not what I thought I saw.
Your kits are amazing. I wish we could get decals here in the U.K.
Simon. Simple scenes we see every day. That is all I do. All in 11ft by 8ft (give an inch either way).
The green diesel is cute.
dti406Ed, some great model work and leave the puns to those who do them well like Bear.
Thank you —
and I will heed your advice.
Ed
gmpullmanThank you — and I will heed your advice.
Wait a second...
I was ROFLing after reading the "Bridge Rectifier" comment.
Keep em' coming Ed.
Some old photographs.
'Waiting'
IMG_5693 by David Harrison, on Flickr
I like the overgrown look. Class 47 47583 'County of Hertfordshire' with Military Train heading North.
IMG_5694 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Waiting at the signal.
IMG_5517 by David Harrison, on Flickr
'After the rain'.
IMG_5726 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Kevin, Thanks for opening the WPF with a good looking tank car. Hopefully your bench won't be long out of service.
Ed, Like your road weathering, a nice touch of realism. Guessing the dark streak down the middle of lanes are due to oil leakage and older vehicles crankcase blow-by.
Bear, 'I like work, I can watch it for hours', and Mr. Ogle's wonderful scene certainly draws the eye for many a long look.
New or old, I like all the pics. Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend and a happy National Canoe Day. Regards, Peter
HO-VeloGuessing the dark streak down the middle of lanes are due to oil leakage and older vehicles crankcase blow-by.
Thanks, Peter.
Somehow those dark streaks look more pronounced in the photo than when actually viewing the road surface in person. It is Pan Pastel brushed on there and I can easily lighten it by going over it with "concrete" color.
We probably see less of this effect today since, I suppose, auto engines are better sealed against oil leaks (remember the crancase vent tubes that drained on the roadway?) and it seems like more pavement is asphalt surfaced than bare concrete so there's less contrast.
Woodland Park crossing over Aurora Avenue, 1935 by Seattle Municipal Archives, on Flickr
Memorial Tunnel on West Virginia Turnpike WV by William L. Bird, on Flickr
Good Luck, Ed
Fabulous work, everyone.
I've been offline for a while, it's been over a year since I was able to set up the layout-- but we prioritized finding space for it in our new place (just moved out west) and I finally have trains running again. Snapped a few photos today during inaugural switching ops.
Phil
got my ebay rivarossi 5104 turntable in the mail yesterday. no controller so the fun this weekend has been figuring out the wiring. it still runs after 50 years BUT stopped whenever it felt like. gave the gears and shafts a lube job, cleaned up the motor brushes, and the switch points that only let the motor run when the index locking pin is up. no luck. would run most of the way around and stop. a nudge got it going again but that's no way to run a railroad.
finally remembered from other photos of this dinosaur--check the contact circles and wipers. flipped the turntable, popped the ring and washer holding the center shaft and looked everything over. nothing looked too dirty but i cleaned every metal surface with contact cleaner and put the turntable and ring back on. still jerky.
what solved it was lightly scraping the ring surfaces and bending all the contacts outward so they all pressed against the circles with more force. now the bridge makes a flawless complete 360 rotation in either direction. made my weekend!
ps anybody else doing this repair--which may apply to other brands--those wipers are old so bend them up extremely carefully. also the shaft locking ring spreads apart when removed so one has to crimp it tight again. you don't want to lose that ring. and you have to put the ring and washer back on for every test to maintain full contact pressure.
i've jabbered enough so everybody enjoy your weekend. -rob
gmpullman HO-Velo Guessing the dark streak down the middle of lanes are due to oil leakage and older vehicles crankcase blow-by. Thanks, Peter. Somehow those dark streaks look more pronounced in the photo than when actually viewing the road surface in person. It is Pan Pastel brushed on there and I can easily lighten it by going over it with "concrete" color. We probably see less of this effect today since, I suppose, auto engines are better sealed against oil leaks (remember the crancase vent tubes that drained on the roadway?) and it seems like more pavement is asphalt surfaced than bare concrete so there's less contrast. Woodland Park crossing over Aurora Avenue, 1935 by Seattle Municipal Archives, on Flickr Memorial Tunnel on West Virginia Turnpike WV by William L. Bird, on Flickr Good Luck, Ed
HO-Velo Guessing the dark streak down the middle of lanes are due to oil leakage and older vehicles crankcase blow-by.
Dark streaks down roadways is the norm and not limted to being caused by older vehicles. As you say, it is more pronounced on concrete than it is on asphalt which most road surfaces are, but it is still visible. When asphalt is first laid down, it is black. Overtime, two things happen. The asphalt is bleached by the sun until it is a light gray while at the same time, residue from vehicles builds up creating the streaks. I put this effect into all my roads whether rural or city. I use AIM weathering powders and choose Grimy Black to weather my roads. I put a thin streak down the center of each lane and then rub it down with a dry paper towel to blend it into the surface. Here's an example from a photo I posted earlier
UPDATE: I found a few images that show the effects of streaking over time. The first shows a fairly newly paved road that is still a dark gray. Streaking is barely visible.
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The next three show that as the pavement gets lighter, the streaks become more noticeable.
vEabR.jpg (300×200) (imgur.com)
view-of-two-lane-road-through-autumn-trees-west-hurley-new-york-video-id160239189 (640×360) (gettyimages.com)
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Happy Sunday morning everyone.
David: As always... thank you once again for a great little scene from your layout.
Ed: Placards will be coming later. Thanks for the suggestions. I loved and laughed at the Bridge Rectifier joke. Your lighting is fantastic. The Kibri tool shed does have a nicely made interior and big doors to see it.
Ed: That is a great example of forced perspective in that scene. In North Florida there is a museum dedicated to Stephen Foster that has several dioramas with forced perspective. I have not been there in decades. I hope they are still there.
Danny: All that scenery looks great. You have really made something special there.
Rick: Great freight cars again this week. I had never heard of the HOBOKEN SHORE, and I appreciated the history of this roadname you shared.
Simon: Great little critter. I have built a few through the years, but never tried to get one to run.
Peter: That guy in the canoe looks likehe is heading for a good day.
Phil: It is good to hear that your layout is running again. I look forward to seeing more of it.
Rob: Impressive story about fiddling with the old turntable. Great work.
There is still some weekend left. I am looking forward to more.