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Rule 2: I make the rules.
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Good morning from cloudy, mild and rainy Northeast Ohio!
Evan with the Ohio State Bowling Tournament I am working on I managed to finish a couple of cars this week.
First up, an Athearn PC&F RBL painted with Scalecoat II NP Dark Green and Floquil Lark Dark Gray paints and lettered with Champ Decals. The SP in the 60's created the Evergreen Freight Car Corporation to assure themselves of cars to haul lumber out of the Pacific Northwest as private owner cars had to be delivered back to their origin points rather than the circutous routings many regular cars received.
Next a Rapido 5820 Plastic Pellet Covered Hopper, painted with Scalecoat II UP Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used delivering plastic pellets from one manufacturer to another to make finished products.
I also took out a Moloco PC&F 50' RBL kit and spread out all the parts, can't wait to get into this kit.
Athearn Southern Pacific SD's and GP's hauling a general freight on the Stongsville, OH Club Layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks for starting off the last-of-April WPF, Rick. Lots of progress on your rolling stock in spite of your time being shortened. Those Molo cars do have superb details!
More kits for you, too, Bear. I wonder just how many of those PRR 'cabins' have been made by Bowser. Glas they're finding their way down to your stomping grounds.
A few weeks ago I began placing better background prints, something I should have done years ago. In the ore dock area I needed to blend the bottom edge into the existing scenery:
Backdrop_Hulett by Edmund, on Flickr
I didn't fancy leaning over all that real estate so I came up with an idea to grab a length of 'shoe' molding which is sort of a quarter round but thinner in one direction (I don't have much width to work with back there) and apply static grass and some tufts and shrubs then fix the whole strip, nine feet of it behind the ore piles!
Ore Stock by Edmund, on Flickr
Here's a closer view on the other side of the river:
End of double track by Edmund, on Flickr
Then while surveying the scene approaching the lift bridge I decided that it was missing a smashboard signal:
Bridge raised by Edmund, on Flickr
AS of an hour ago it was still in primer I made the mast and ladder and used a Showcase Miniatures semaphore mechanism to hold the smashboard.
Caboose by smashboard1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Caboose by smashboard by Edmund, on Flickr
It is illumated but I'm only going to use one red roundel as a final absolute STOP!
Plenty of time left for more contributions, folks!
Cheers, Ed
Rick, Thanks for rolling out the WPF. Liking your Evergreen boxcar; glad to learn about it's SP connection and hauling lumber out of the Pacific Northwest. I've an Athearn RTR EFCX 8'+8' plug-door boxcar and imagining it as loaded with PNW forest products will be added fun.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter
I'm going to add my newly painted Chooch? tunnel portal to the weekend mix. I think it might need some more guano at the top.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Here is a box sort of. I need a few boxes for brass steamers that i got that didnt havre boxes. And a few trolley pieces. I took hardboard cut it down to form it,then lined it with closed cell neoprene foam. there is a lid not pictured.
ere i the continuation of the 009 scale 3d print pieces as they progress. tomorrow will see more pieces printed.
In HO decaling continues trying to get those deisels done so I can get to the brass pieces. design of a new layout is on going.
Shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
gmpullmanMore kits for you, too, Bear. I wonder just how many of those PRR 'cabins' have been made by Bowser. Glad they're finding their way down to your stomping grounds.
A couple of real obscure ones. The Tarr was only in business for about 6 years from my reseach. The Delphos was considerably longer and is a bit of a shout out to my Mother-in-law and her family as that is their hometown