Lets get the show on the road!
A Central of Georgia RS-3 (Atlas) pulls a local on its way back to the yard.
Jarrell
Thanks for starting this week, Jarrell. That's a great scene with the bridge, old building, conveyors, and of course the fine looking Alco.
Another shot of an I1sa 2-10-0 crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
Jarrel .... I really like your scene and the RS-3. The photo would be suitable for framing.
(edit) DJ .... Love th 2-10-0 photo !!!
I worked some more on my scrap yard. I added a foreground scene with an auto parts business, and I added details throughout the scrap yard.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Heartland, excellent job on your scrap yard. DJ.
Grampys Trains Heartland, excellent job on your scrap yard. DJ.
Tanks DJ. ..... Happy Model Railroading, Garry
Garry... your scrap yard scene and photos are awesome. You nailed it will all your details, even down to the stock race car. Well done!
Bob
IronGoat Garry... your scrap yard scene and photos are awesome. You nailed it will all your details, even down to the stock race car. Well done! Bob
Thanks very much, Bob!
Couple of back alley shots from the Quincy Point Yard.
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Durnit Garry, now you got me wanting to do a junk yard! At first I didn't think you had a junk yard dog but now I see him and his house just over the fence. I like the way the piles of junk behind the red truck in the bottom picture has weeds growing all in it. Very typical!!
This is one of those scenes that has a score of little scenes all in it.
Heartland Division CB&Q Jarrel .... I really like your scene and the RS-3. The photo would be suitable for framing. (edit) DJ .... Love th 2-10-0 photo !!! I worked some more on my scrap yard. I added a foreground scene with an auto parts business, and I added details throughout the scrap yard.
Great Scene Gary
Your details really make it work
I really like the crane is it a Kit ?
TerryinTexas
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If I could build laser cut structures like that I think I'd have a layout full of them.
Very Good indeed! About how long did this one take to construct?
Odie Hi everyone! I finished my Bar Mills Mooney's plumbing this week. I changed the name of mine to "Leeking Plumbing" after a club member's actual plumbing business.
Hi everyone! I finished my Bar Mills Mooney's plumbing this week. I changed the name of mine to "Leeking Plumbing" after a club member's actual plumbing business.
Here are the cars I just finished and put together recently!
Eastern Car Works 2600 CF Airslide Hopper, lettered with Oddballs Decals. Why the CGW would use light yellow on silver is beyond me. Can hardly make out the lettering on the car, most were painted black on gray, that will be the next Airslide I do.
Tichy Train Group Composite Side Gondola, Lettering came with decal sheet in kit.
An old Mantua Gondola where I had to replace the underframe with one from an old Athearn Boxcar. The Die Cast frame had little or no detail and did not any method to attach a Kadee as the couplers were Talgo mounted back then. Car lettered with Oddballs Decals.
Thanks for looking! :
Rick
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Great work, friends.
Here's some narrow gauge: Action at my H0n3 module Salina.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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jacon12 If I could build laser cut structures like that I think I'd have a layout full of them. Very Good indeed! About how long did this one take to construct? Jarrell
Jarrell, you have have to start somewhere. Bar Mills, American Model Builders (Laserkit), and other laser cut manufacturers make a number if inexpensive starter kits, less than $25. Everything looks harder than it is before you give it a try!
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Wow, you guys sure started the weekend off with a bang! All I can say is
"I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy."
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Wow, GREAT Work again this week!! Not too much from me, just fooling around a little, some more...
Yup, I'm doing it, heh heh..
This started out as an Athearn Undec, & was a little damaged, both the frame ends were badly 's' shaped & a couple plastic parts suffered as well. All that aside, I removed the cab & nose & replaced them with Cannon units & 4 window cab sides & upper door lock. I modified the nose with a BLMA cover plate & RailFlyer light bucket. Also used RailFlyer Sinclair ant, & light buckets on the ditchlights, the brackets are just bent snips of PE fret. The treadplate is Archer decals. Many things are missing at this point, I will start adding grab irons to the model, frame & underframe details & adding all the other goodies as they fit into the shell painting process. One thing I did not change were the radiator grills, I could have, but I didn't.
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Thanks! any ?'s, please ask!
I've got a section of my layout that I just haven't been all that happy with and today I did some surgery..
Muuuuuhaahaahaaaa! Get out the BIG knife!
and the shop vac..
First attempt at weathering (be kind). For some reason, I decided really close-up pictures were better than "here's the whole car"...
Before:
After:
I also sprayed Grimy Black to the interior of the car. On the outside, I sprayed dull cote, hit it with a bunch of pastels and then another layer of dull cote.
My technique was to color the pastel on (like a kid with a crayon) then smear it with my fingers. A bit messy but I'm happy with the result.
Excellent photos by everyone so far.
The "Super Chief" exiting the tunnel. I don't have all the cars yet, waiting for the preorders to ship the rest. I have two 10-6 Sleepers and one Baggage so far.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Wow, I feel outclassed here.
Workmen from the Permanent Way prepare the future foundations of the main station. The mixed goods train left the brake van and a wagon of sand in the nearest siding. In the foreground, a truck is stuck in loose sand that is awaiting grading.
The two main heavy plows stand in the sidings ready for deployment to combat the blizzard of 2011.
The front plow is a heavy gondola plow, the back one is a crew caboose/ heavy plow. They will be traveling in consist with support staff, heavy equipment for rescues and extra supplies such as sand for the engine and rails.
That's a drift just down the road from my home.
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Well, I finally got off my duff and did something.
The locomotive roster sits idly by waiting for the Fruit and bean Express to pass-by.
I think they will be waiting overnight.
Now if I can keep this ambition going I ought to be able to actually run a train in the next couple of days!
Robert H. Shilling II
I second Jody's suggestion that you try a lazer kit. As he said, Bar Mills instructions are very good, even to the point of being entertaining. There are some things that I really like about the lazer stuff, one being that you can paint all the details before you assemble the kit. If you want your doors to be a different colour from the trim around them - no problem! If you want 2 or 3 colours for trim and details there is no need for super steady hands like you need on a styrene kit where the details come molded together. There also seems to be more 'texture' to the models. They seem to 'pop' a little more than the styrene ones.
I did Mooney's Plumbing as my first lazer kit. I detailed the interior because it will be in the foreground on my layout. I am planning on changing some of the interior details to show more bins of parts and fewer skids.
When you take the parts out of the box it can look a little intimidating but if you follow the instructions it will turn out to be a breeze. Just don't skip any of the steps especially priming the raw wood and using lots of interior bracing. Here is my (non expert) version of Moody's:
Dave
P.S. Lots of great pictures everyone. Now I have to find space for a junkyard!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I appreciate it! I guess I'll order one of the basic kits and see how I do with it.
Can't hurt, and gotta start somewhere.
Odie jacon12: If I could build laser cut structures like that I think I'd have a layout full of them. Very Good indeed! About how long did this one take to construct? Jarrell Jarrell, Laser cut wood kits are really much easier then they look. To be honest, I think they are more forgiving then plastic in a lot of ways. As suggested above, pick up one of the bar mills basics kits and give it a shot. The little pamphlet full of tips included in these kits is very informative for the beginner. I also like how well the tacky glue holds the parts in place immediately...it is actually kind of hard to get use to. Sometimes I think it holds parts in place faster then CA glue on plastic parts. I only started building these kits this fall, so I am by no means a seasoned expert. As for my Mooney's kit, i'd say I have 20 hours or so in it. I don't keep track, it could be less. I spend an hour or two a night, and maybe 6 or so on the weekends when available. So far, it is safe to say "i'm hooked!". Jody
jacon12: If I could build laser cut structures like that I think I'd have a layout full of them. Very Good indeed! About how long did this one take to construct? Jarrell
Jarrell,
Laser cut wood kits are really much easier then they look. To be honest, I think they are more forgiving then plastic in a lot of ways. As suggested above, pick up one of the bar mills basics kits and give it a shot. The little pamphlet full of tips included in these kits is very informative for the beginner. I also like how well the tacky glue holds the parts in place immediately...it is actually kind of hard to get use to. Sometimes I think it holds parts in place faster then CA glue on plastic parts. I only started building these kits this fall, so I am by no means a seasoned expert.
As for my Mooney's kit, i'd say I have 20 hours or so in it. I don't keep track, it could be less. I spend an hour or two a night, and maybe 6 or so on the weekends when available. So far, it is safe to say "i'm hooked!".
Jody
Looks like another great weekend in the WPF thread. I've been drooling all over the keyboard here looking at some of the work!
I have continued to use a lot of those words my Mother said I wasn't to ever use. Been putting the belt drives in place and hooking up the belts..... It appears to be getting a bit easier, but I still have not found a way to get fingers, tools, etc in such a tiny place..... The lastest done on the workshop/engine house at the quarry.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Haven't seen anyone start a video thread yet, so I'll park it here. You folks in Germany might not get to share in the fun, thanks to the lawyers at Sony Music... The rest of you will just have to endure an advertisement to purchase the music you hear. Sigh...
Anyway, if you're allowed to, enjoy the video.
The scene is the new work on the low line of my expanded peninsula.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Lee, I love the video. What a terrific layout you have!
Here's ol' 290 working the siding at LaGrange
This area of the layout started getting some scenery this week as we hunkered down for the winter storm that never really blossomed here.
Jim
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Speaking of laser cut kits here's my 2nd attempt at one and my second attempt at posting on WPF. Bud Smiley's by Bar Mills. My first was an easier kit, Swartswood Junction, available through the Old and Weary Car Shop. By the way the pumps, drum and oil can display are by JL Innovative.
Mark