More progress on the engine terminal... put up some lights I had laying around, and did a little night photo shoot...Next we'll be putting some LED's in the roundhouse, but that'll be a while as there remain some structural details that need to be addressed.Lee
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Again, great pics, guys! I finally have something I can post: the new fencing around the West Tate NE, water tower:
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jeffrey-wimberly hectorgonzales: Wow, that is fantastic modeling! I congratulate you! Not a model. That's 1:1. Can't even get to it now as the area now belongs to a gravel supplier.
hectorgonzales: Wow, that is fantastic modeling! I congratulate you!
I know how it feels Jeff. Back of Cherokee Brick and Tile of Macon Ga. there are two Tank Engines In a cow field. I would love to restore. But the last time I seen them was about 15 years ago.
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Another shot of metalized HO varnish:
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Built a new shelf layout (1'x4') depicting a fictive Universal Warehouse were anything from anywhere is handled. Inspired by Quebec City Downtown, a comment by Vince Lee and the late Carl Arendt.
Will mainly serve to shoot rolling stock and engines in an appropriate setting. Layout based on Inglenook design.
Matt
Proudly modelling the Quebec Railway Light & Power Co since 1997.
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Not much more will happen to the swamp for a while, so this is what it looks like now.
I dug out the basin of the swamp, plus the downstream channel and a couple of notches above where the rising water will move up into lower areas of the woods. This leaves a rough, "popcorn" surface, so I coated it with plaster cloth. I left a small hill with a lone dead tree in the middle, and I've got some rock castings in the basin as well.
The scrapyard is taking shape in the background of the photo. I picked up some resin "junk pile" castings at a show about a year ago. I've sprayed them basic black, as they appear here, and I'll be sprucing them down (as opposed to sprucing them up) over the next couple of weeks with dingy paints and weathering powders.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Margaritaman No time for modeling today, we were chasing ATSF 3751. Got creative with the Blackberry wedged between some rocks while I stepped back. OiqjkItDn9I
No time for modeling today, we were chasing ATSF 3751. Got creative with the Blackberry wedged between some rocks while I stepped back.
OiqjkItDn9I
That was far better than the video that I got. Not only were my hands not steady but my memory card became full right after the tender came into view. I might take the boys back today to try again as it rolls by on it's way back to L.A.
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Great looking pictures!!
Here's one from me!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good start guys. Keep them coming.
Here is one from the BRVRR. Thought I'd so something a little different, at least for me:
NYC RDC #53 waits for passengers at Berea Station as PRR #9822 passes with a short freight train.
The F7A is an Athearn BB kit as is the F7B unit. I stripped and painted the B unit and added Microscale Decals. Both were detailed with a Walther' Dress up Kit. The A unit has the original Athearn drive and a TCS T1 decoder , the B unit is a dummy with a Soundtraxx DSD101LC sound decoder and speaker. Both units are electrically coupled with a Miniatronics 2-conductor plug & wire set.The RDC is a Proto 2000 that I stripped, painted and striped. The NYC decals were made on my home computer. It has a TCS T1 decoder.
Keep up the good work guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
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hon30critter Simon Love the Pogo logo! My all time favourite cartoon. "We have met the enemy and he is us!" For those of you who are not familiar with Walt Kelly's comic strip check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comics) How did you do the artwork on the reefer? Dave "...Walla, walla, walla and Kalamazoo..."
Simon
Love the Pogo logo! My all time favourite cartoon. "We have met the enemy and he is us!" For those of you who are not familiar with Walt Kelly's comic strip check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comics)
How did you do the artwork on the reefer?
Dave
"...Walla, walla, walla and Kalamazoo..."
Dave I didn't. I participate in an interchange where a group of modellers send a freight car out on a trip all over the US. This happens to be a visiting car from another modeller. Here is a quote from him
"The car is a redone Accurail 40' wood sided reefer with decals I made with my inkjetprinter and then weathered".
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
UncBob Farm- Freight Depot-Servicing side finished
Farm- Freight Depot-Servicing side finished
Great scene and detailing. I love it!
Here is an Intermountain 60' Wood Deck Flat with Life Like CAT Generators inside AMB (American Model Builders) Laser cut skeleton frames, in addition, there are a few GC-Laser 'Crates' for fillers. This is not finished, only a mock-up. I wanted to see how it would look & shoot. I really want to get a few more LL Gen's, & AMB kits to populate the car properly. I did cut down the LL air cleaner to nest in the crates. I left the bottom of the crates un-glued, so I can remove the engines, the 'x' members give sufficient tension on the structure to allow it to be separable from the base. The CAT's & crates are affixed with paint mask, to allow for changes & future positioning. As it is just a mock-up, there are no tie-downs in this photo. I believe the car needs 33" wheels, (too tall 36"er's are on it in this photo) & will need the final weathering.. Enjoy!!!
G Paine Getting a late start this week... Bringing back an old photo. The B&M slug set on the grade by the gravel loader on my HO layout. All Athearn that I painted with details. The slug is kitbashed from a dummy GP-9
Getting a late start this week...
Bringing back an old photo. The B&M slug set on the grade by the gravel loader on my HO layout. All Athearn that I painted with details. The slug is kitbashed from a dummy GP-9
Nice Slug!
Just a WIP for me today, but I rarely post here anyways.
It would seem Is snagged the last of the Conrail HiRailers from FDT. I like Conrail, but I wanted one for the MadisonRailroad. First thing that gets done in the morning, our Road Foreman jumps in his HiRailer and tootles up the 6% incline to make sure everything is in order. And that's every day we plan to go up or down it. Rule 1.1.1 and all.
So anyway, here's the truck in question partially repainted. I still have a white and blue stripe to add, some touch up where the liquid mask bled onto the hood, and I'm gonna repaint the lights on. rear bumper and front hi-railer will be repainted silver by hand. I'm also thinking of putting flags on the posts, we'll see. Not sure if the sides of the rail wheels will stay silver, or if I pull their liquid mask off and paint them in something else. Might see if I can repaint hubcaps. There's also a provided steering wheel and a little notch for a driver, so I think I'm gonna include me one of those and replace the windshield too. I don't think the CMPA lettering will be applied to this one, just the stripe. It's so tiny!
-Morgan
Hello everybody. Great photos were posted today.
Here's a picture of a "pike-sized" Zephyr arriving in Prairie View
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comics) Edit: This link doesn't want to post quite right so try it and select "Pogo (comics)" to get there.
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"...Walla Walla Wash., an' Kalamazoo..."
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Not a model. That's 1:1. Can't even get to it now as the area now belongs to a gravel supplier.
Well, then, it's a fantastic photo. For those of us who occasionally over-weather our models, it's nice to know "there's a prototype for everything." The rust belt, for those of us modeling the late Transition Era, didn't go away. Like the belt on my pants, it just seems to have move a bit further south.
hectorgonzalesWow, that is fantastic modeling! I congratulate you!
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Today, as I drove to work, I saw an unusual thing for the suburbs of Boston - a dead beaver by the side of the road. This odd event inspired me to start the scenery project which will become both the scrapyard and the swamp.
Not too many city planners actually mark out an area on their maps where the swamp will go, I suspect, but if you get that wrong people are going to have damp basements. Anyway, watch this space for further developments. I've already got the 1:87 beavers.
jeffrey-wimberly
Wow, that is fantastic modeling! I congratulate you!
An inbound load of dried possum arrives at the feed store!
Workers repairing a pipe in front of a demolition job
Rock Tunnel at Silver Valley RR.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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That's a great scene and photo, Jarrell, lots of great details.
Head end power swap complete, K4s to E8. DJ.
I don't have anything new this week but here's a favorite oldie
Hmmmm.... wonder where everyone is today, on vacation maybe?
Jarrell
I'd post some pictures but Photobucket has screwed up my account for 4 days so I can't access my pictures, I would find another host if I were all of you.
Regards
Ricki
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George,
Perhaps you should edit the date on this thread.
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This is a coal mine tucked into the snow covered rockies, near the UP (formerly D&RGW) Moffat Tunnel subdivision in Colorado.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989