Some great examples of model railroading and photography again this weekend! Thanks guys!
Phil, a great job on the loco. Its been fun watching your progress.
Here is one from the BRVRR.
Pennsy #1361 at the head of a four-car Arch-Roof train westbound on the outer main line of the BRVRR layout. I purchased the Roundhouse cars at the Kirtland train show this weekend and just had to try them out. Together with our Bachmann K-4, they make a great little train.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make WPF the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Been working on scenery lately, here is some of the progress if it can be called that.
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This is an HO scale drug store I am finishing up. It was made by adding 3d printed parts I designed and printed to a pill bottle. More details and pictures can be seen here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2014/03/pill-bottle-heisenberg-drug-store-3d.html
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I finally finished up a Turtle Creek Central hopper. Since the magazine never said how to do hoppers, I took a little liberty from the PRR, and the EBT. Plus you also get to see my foam coal load idea.
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George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
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George,thanks, a good reminder for me. I lightly weathered the recent 5 background buildings built but was holding off on dullcoating (or other spray) until the signs and decal work is declared done. I presume a single type spray can suffice for the building and the sign(s). After that I'll add "glass" on most of the buildings. Is that Krylon acrylic clear gloss, semi or flat (and how flat? compared with others?
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Paul, did you seal your new sign with a clearcoat spray? Inkjet ink is water solubile and will run if it gets splashed. I use the same Krylon Acrylic clear spray that I use on decals.
Lots of impressive work shown, including the unique aspects such as Phil's loco and Mike's F4 (do you have a "hun"?). The freight cars and loads, scenery & backdrops also inspire me to keep stretching and try new and challenging things (in time).
The grandkids were here this week so on the train front all we did was run some trains but I did get my first building sign sorted out. I had made a couple of custom decals with success but this trackside building's ribbed sides called for a flat sign. I found the HP printer didn't provide snappy colors for this combination on plain paper so tried on glossy photo paper and was pleased with the result.
DC,
No, only two are, as HO scale aircraft are pretty rare. I have a Roco UH-1 helo and a DHC Beaver single-engine plane from Osborn Models. The rest range from 1:100 to 1:320 scale. They all work so long as they are smaller than HO because you almost always see aircraft in the air farther away than things on the ground.
I'll try to work in a thread about my aircraft soon since there's interest, as I've been thinking about doing one anyway.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Really like the aircraft models around your layout, Mike. Are they to scale for your trains?
DC
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Grampys Trains WB I1sa with a coal drag at Stoney Creek. DJ.
WB I1sa with a coal drag at Stoney Creek. DJ.
Very nice! Wish my I1s looked that good. I also love the sense of speed you get from the shot.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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bob K ... Lumber load looks great. Thanks for explaining how you did it.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Great "stuff" as always guys.
Had a "project" wood load I did quite a few years ago when building all my centerbeams and bulkhead flats. Most are Jaeger wrapped loads for '72 opra and open McKean '72 centerbeams as well as the wrapped ones for the Roundhouse bulkhead flats.
This particular load was to be an unwrapped load of various length lifts. This is the first time there have been pics of it
The load is stripwood "veneered" over a ripped clear pine base. The planking is detailed in between the lifts and completely at the ends. Banding is the Jaeger vinyl tape. This was to be a removable load, however, I used 3M auto doublesides tape, Even w/ working the mounting side to loose stickiness after being mounted became part of the car, will not budge. Since the load is permanant, I should place hold downs to the winches.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Phil ... Great work painting the loco, and I like the scene behind it with the rocks.
Mike L ... Box car and jet look good. Nigh scne looks real.
Tom W ..... I can nearly feel the thrust of the big cylinders on your nice model 4-8-2.
Rick J .... I really like the covered hoppers especially the CB&Q car.
GP9 ... Nice locomotives, and the rock coloring looks good.
My shot is of an F3 ABBA crossing the Mrs. Hippy River.
Wow, awesome work everybody! Puts what I've been doing to shame. I started scenery in one corner of the layout. The mountain is plater cloth over wadded up newspaper and the rock outcrop is drywall joint coupound that I pressed crinkeled tin foil into. The trees are lichen, which I picked up at Michael's. The locomotives, a K4 on the left and an I1 on the ight are both modified Minitrix models.
Phil, nice model, Mike always enjoy your new photo's and Tom, glad to see you back to posting and try to be more regular.
Myself, I did not get a lot done this last week so I am going to dust of some models I did in the past that are some of my favorites.
When they first came out I purchased 4 of the ExactRail Undecorated PS 4427 Covered Hopper Kits as I did not ever think that these cars would ever be done by ExactRail and so far they have not been.
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These are two of my Anderson's Grain Cars, which used to run past my house in Toledo from the Anderson's Elevator in Maumee to the River Terminal. Monfort Grain had a number of cars for hauling feed to their massive feed lots in Greely, CO, used to see these cars when traveling back and forth from Loveland to Toledo on vacations. CB&Q Kit car built by the CB&Q shops, just like the paint scheme and it fits in with some of my other Burlington Grain Hoppers. The Andersons cars were done with Herald King Decals and the Monfort and CB&Q cars with Oddballs Decals. Thanks for Looking! Rick J
These are two of my Anderson's Grain Cars, which used to run past my house in Toledo from the Anderson's Elevator in Maumee to the River Terminal.
Monfort Grain had a number of cars for hauling feed to their massive feed lots in Greely, CO, used to see these cars when traveling back and forth from Loveland to Toledo on vacations. CB&Q Kit car built by the CB&Q shops, just like the paint scheme and it fits in with some of my other Burlington Grain Hoppers. The Andersons cars were done with Herald King Decals and the Monfort and CB&Q cars with Oddballs Decals. Thanks for Looking! Rick J
Monfort Grain had a number of cars for hauling feed to their massive feed lots in Greely, CO, used to see these cars when traveling back and forth from Loveland to Toledo on vacations.
CB&Q Kit car built by the CB&Q shops, just like the paint scheme and it fits in with some of my other Burlington Grain Hoppers. The Andersons cars were done with Herald King Decals and the Monfort and CB&Q cars with Oddballs Decals. Thanks for Looking! Rick J
CB&Q Kit car built by the CB&Q shops, just like the paint scheme and it fits in with some of my other Burlington Grain Hoppers.
The Andersons cars were done with Herald King Decals and the Monfort and CB&Q cars with Oddballs Decals.
Thanks for Looking!
Rick J
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Phil, that's a great looking little locomotive, I really admire the workmanship!
Haven't posted here in some time, but here's a photo I took recently of one of my Rio Grande 1600 series 3-cylinder 4-8-2's, with a passenger train on Yuba Summit. The loco is an older Key brass import that's been re-balanced and re-weighted, and is hauling 7 heavyweights--mostly Walthers-- up a 2% grade. The cliff here is a 5-foot drop to the garage floor, so speed is slow and CAREFUL, lol!
Tom
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Nice work, Phil!
Picked up some Tamiya weathering kits and took a stab at a boxcar. Looks OK for a first effort.
Added an F4E to my stable of aircraft flying around the layout. And I've been working on outside lights as part of my Night Scene thread. Want to make an old fashioned arclight to hang over your intersection like this? See how here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/213765.aspx?page=1
Added an F4E to my stable of aircraft flying around the layout.
And I've been working on outside lights as part of my Night Scene thread. Want to make an old fashioned arclight to hang over your intersection like this? See how here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/213765.aspx?page=1
And I've been working on outside lights as part of my Night Scene thread.
Want to make an old fashioned arclight to hang over your intersection like this? See how here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/213765.aspx?page=1
Want to make an old fashioned arclight to hang over your intersection like this? See how here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/213765.aspx?page=1
It's almost Friday on the east coast and I really want to post this, so I'm starting us off this weekend.
Over the past few weeks I've been working on this little brass loco and posted pictures on WPF. I built it from parts/scratch, and it's been quite a challenge. This week I finally painted it:
There's still work to be done - decals, weathering, and window glass - but it is such a thrill to see it in its monochromatic glory. The decals won't arive for a few weeks, so it will be a while before I get to finish it up. I'll post again when it's finally done.
It runs well with the motor I salvaged from an old CD drive, and it pulls three cars up a 1.5% grade.
So, there's my contribution for this week. As always, I'm looking forward to seeing what you all have been up to.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.