WPF 4/22 - 4/24

[trainguy4466]

those hoppers are awesome, guilford guy! are you going to post instructions?

[wedudler]

The engine is from Blackstone, RTR!. Blackstone is close to SoundTraxx^®. Therefore they use Tsunami decoders.

Wolfgang

[jacon12]

The tunnel looks great Wolfgang!

Is that a Tsunami sound decoder in the locomotive?

Jarrell

 

 

wedudler

and a video.

Wolfgang

[Guilford Guy]

I finally got around to working on the 2 bay hopper of Tyler's that I had been converting.

watch?v=jHqHffNHq90

[wedudler]

and a video.

Wolfgang

[MisterBeasley]

secondhandmodeler

I really, really want to see a couple of baseball players coming out of that cornfield.

[mountaingoatgreg]

More progress on my backdrop, If I have some free time today I should be able to finish it up!!!

More photos on my website:

Oregon Trunk Website

[jacon12]

That's a beauty, Corey!  Kinda reminds me of this,

A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon load of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise.

“Hey son!” the farmer yelled. “Forget your troubles. Come on in with and have dinner with us. Then I’ll help you get the wagon up.”

“That’s mighty nice of you, ” the boy answered, “but I don’t think Pa would like me to.”

“Aw, come on,” the farmer insisted.

“Well okay,” the boy finally agreed, and added, “But Pa won’t like it.”

After a hearty dinner, the farm boy thanked his host. “I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real upset.”

“Don’t be foolish !” the neighbor said with a smile. “By the way, where is he?”

“Under the wagon.”

 

Jarrell

 

 

 

secondhandmodeler

Here are a few progress shots from my cornfield.  I have about fifty percent more corn to add to the existing section. There are already 1600 stalks in this bit.   The other side of the road will be soy beans.  There will be a stand of tall trees on the far side to break up the view of the mill.
  Obviously I have some work to do.

Prepare to be underwhelmed!

[mononguy63]

jeffrey-wimberly

secondhandmodeler:

 

Corey: Corns looking good. When's the harvest?

Harvest? With the labor of love that's been put into that stand of corn, by golly that field's gonna be there forever!

Corey, coming frrom this old Hoosier who's seen more than his fair share of cornfields over the years, I must say that's the finest modeled field I believe I've ever seen. Very nicely done.

Jim

And a very Happy Easter to all!

[wedudler]

Re: Silver Valley RR « Reply #46 on: April 23, 2011, 03:22:12 PM »

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The box car (TOMALCO kit) is now weathered. There were no decals, so it became a Silver Valley RR car. 



The reefer ( ALAMOSA CAR SHOPS kit ) needs still some weathering. Those decals are very thin and fragile !!!

And here're prototype pics.

Wolfgang

[wm3798]

Here's the week's progress...


Time to start wiring... fan tracks first, then about 100 LED's.

Lee

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

secondhandmodeler

Corey: Corns looking good. When's the harvest?

[Sailormatlac]

secondhandmodeler

Thanks for the compliment  MisterBeasley!  It was a lot of work for sure.  Each stalk gets twisted three times for a total of  4800 twists!  I have 800 more to add and then hope to be done staring at 1/87 scale corn.

 

Awesome! A lot of work, but the result is stunning! Just don't get yourself a tendinite with all that twisting! ;-)

 

Matt

[secondhandmodeler]

Thanks for the compliment  MisterBeasley!  It was a lot of work for sure.  Each stalk gets twisted three times for a total of  4800 twists!  I have 800 more to add and then hope to be done staring at 1/87 scale corn.

[-E-C-Mills]

Excellent and inspiring work everyone.  Thanks for sharing!

[MisterBeasley]

secondhandmodeler

Prepare to be underwhelmed!

On the contrary.  That's an impressive amount of work, and the scene is one of the best of the weekend.

[jacon12]

Snake Eye Bennett's Salvage Co is progressing along.  Need more Scrap!

 

Jarrell

[secondhandmodeler]

Here are a few progress shots from my cornfield.  I have about fifty percent more corn to add to the existing section. There are already 1600 stalks in this bit.   The other side of the road will be soy beans.  There will be a stand of tall trees on the far side to break up the view of the mill.
  Obviously I have some work to do.

Prepare to be underwhelmed!

[Sailormatlac]

LEGO modelrailroading... Inspired by the old Marunouchi Station in Tokyo, but diverged into something completely different because of the lack of bricks. Tomikawa, don't laugh at me! Those old brick stations had style.

Build a styrene street for the switching layout. I used heavy visual illusion to make it looks longer (on the front, it's 6", in the back 4").

 

Matt ;-)

[fmilhaupt]

Today was one of those days in SE Michigan when the weather was perfect for taking sky shots to 'shop into the backgrounds of layout pctures.

A Nickel Plate freight departing Lafayette Junction on the Operations Road Show layout.

 

 

[MisterBeasley]

Rebuilding layouts and starting modules seems to be a common theme this week.  With ski season over, I put down some grass seed on Monday and now I'm watching as Mother Nature waters it, as she's been doing quite frequently this week.  But, looking ahead at the forecast, I planned today for the big Gypsolite job on the swamp.

I mixed the Gypsolite quite thin, and added a few squirts of cheap brown acrylic paint for color.  Then I did a skim coat over the foam and plaster-cloth land forms.  I've highlighted the deepest parts of the water basin with black paint.  Once this dries, I'll start adding more greens and browns, and then the ground foam and sand base.

[tigerholm2]

I have been reading and looking and admiring all of your posts  for a long time since I last posted. 

The last two years I got no new engines, but it seems like I got 20 new ones because I decided to repaint many of my older engines into different roads.

The latest are SDP40s into GN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLwi-4IvIc

Great Northern Empire Builder type passenger train, ~1966 with 2 SDP40 Great Northern engines.

I had got these Athearn SDP40s many years ago, in B&O, but never used them much as B&O never had them anyway, so now I finally repainted them in a railroad that actually used them for passenger trains, the Great Northern, at least in 1966, as I found prototype photo.

I did get some new Milwaukee Road passenger cars and made my own Milwaukee Road version of RPO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNtrEEKnJY

My Youtube Channel with lots more http://www.youtube.com/user/lakesuperiorvideos

 

[mountaingoatgreg]

Zack,

Yeah this a new layout, but I was able to save the backdrop.

For the whole story you can check out my website: SP&S Oregon Trunk

[zgardner18]

mountaingoatgreg

After a 3 week hiatus from modeling due to work and family I have been back at it in the basement working on the backrop.

Something doesn't look right, did you start over on the benchwork.  Didn't you have track and scenery there?

[UncBob]

mountaingoatgreg

After a 3 week hiatus from modeling due to work and family I have been back at it in the basement working on the backrop.

 

Backdrop

coming along really well

[Colorado_Mac]

Narrow-gauge boxcar, Gunlock, Colorado.  1953.

 

 

[steinjr]

 Good looking pictures - you guys set the bar high - I'll bring it down a little again  :-)

 Finally got  couple of vacation days for Easter and finished my "honey do" list, so I took the small 10.5" x 8 foot portable two section layout out on the porch and got the wiring done, so I could get started on doing a little switching, even though no ballast or scenery has been done yet.

32nd street yard. Team track at left, Ser Bakery at far left, Land of Lakes spur at right:

 

A GN RS3 shoving cars into the Land of Lakes spur - Hawkins chemical tank track at left, Soo interchange at right.

 

Smile,
Stein

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[mountaingoatgreg]

After a 3 week hiatus from modeling due to work and family I have been back at it in the basement working on the backrop.