Weekend Photo Fun 22 - 24 June 2018

["JaBear"]

Gidday All from a frosty Friday evening, down under.

 

A photo of the Bears messy work bench may not seem much but, apart from assembling a pair of Kadee Hon3 trucks, due to w**k commitments, the bench has nothing on it for about 6 months.

 

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I had intended that fitting body mounted couplers, better trucks and a repaint of this AHM car would be a quick and easy task to get my hand back in, but as doctorwayne has put it, I've got on the “slippery slope”!!

It may yet take a month of Sundays to finish, but it is fun.

 

Looking forward to everyone’s really Good Stuff,

Have a Great One ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.

[dti406]

Bear, thanks for starting us out and hope you get back to work on modeling soon!

Managed to finish a couple of cars I had been working on this week!

Branchline 50' ACF 50' Boxcar with Tabbed Sill, with 4-4 Dreadnought Ends I salvaged from a 40' Boxcar kit to match the prototype, added A-Line Sill steps, then painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Speedwitch Media Decals, car was built in 1945 to replace worn out pre war equipemnt, repainted in 1958 at East Rochester.

Intermountain 4550 CF NSC Covered Hopper kit, substituted a Plano Roofwalk for the cast plastic one, painted with Scalecoat II ATSF Red and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in 1978 for hauling potash.

Now lets see the really good stuff!

Rick Jesionowski

[SeeYou190]

Bear: Thank you for starting us off this week. It is good to see you back at work on model trains again.

Rick: That boxcar is sharp looking and the covered hopper really is a bright eye catcher. Great job on both.

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I finished two more freight cars that I have decorated for the GARFIELD CENTRAL.

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The First is a Westerfield kit that has a SANTA FE car as its prototype.

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The second car is a Bowser kit that I added different details to and fitted with a Chooch coil steel load.

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Please keep the good stuff coming!

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-Kevin

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[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Bear .... Thanks for starting Weekedn photo fun.... Your off to a good start with the AHM car ... Good luck with it and the slippery slope. 

Rick .... More great freight cars from you. I like the 50' box car and the covered hopper.

Kevin .... Your feight cars look great.

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I'm working on scenery. I needed to include access to a long tunnel behind rock strata ...

This photos illustrate what I have done so far ... 

The small piece of plywood slides up and down. 

Pieces of foam board are fastened to the plywood and surounding rock strata with construction adhesive. The pieces on the plywood overlap the other pieces. 

I lifted up the plywood and placed it above the opening to check if it raised up oaky. . 

Next, I spread patching plaster over the foam board pieces, and I carved into it. Then I painted it as follows. First I brush on a layer of flat white latex to cover any blue foam that was exposed. Then, I applied various thin washes of acrylic paints waiting for each layer to dry before applying the next. 

Open Seseme ! 

The removable piece of rock strata is leaning against the stone wall next to the bridge abutment. The mine bulding on top is removable along with a foam board base whic hcovers the top side access hole. 

[Jimmy_Braum]

 bear, good to see you back at the bench. 

Rick- the freight car looks great. 

 

Whered you find a bowser kit? 

 

Gary, scenery workWork looks great

heres what I have to I offer 

A MOW designated caboose for my freelance

 

[N Scale Train Boy]

Hello everyone! I've recently been working on a 1' x 6' N scale switching layout. I am now starting to focus on improving the scenery since the track work is done, including a couple of roads and some trees. Everyone's work is amazing, and thanks for the opportunity to share all of our work. 

[BigDaddy]

edit  my hack worked yesterday, but not today.  see link above for the pic.

 

 

[N Scale Train Boy]

Thank you BigDaddy. I have no idea how to post images on here.

[BigDaddy]

Normally you have to follow the directions, exactly as listed in Steve Otte's sticky post.

However somebody posted a hack for google images.  You right click and choose View the Image.  Right click again and choose Copy Image.  Then in your post you click Edit and Paste, or just hit the control and V buttons at the same time.  The picture appears

Viola !!

 

 

 

[SeeYou190]

Jimmy_Braum

Whered you find a bowser kit?

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I am pretty sure I picked that one up in Riverdale Station Hobbies in Atlanta, Georgia. The owner is a Pennsylvania RR fan and has a pretty good selection of anything PRR related.

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-Kevin

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[cheese3]

Hi all,

Bear, Good luck with the project. Looks like fun.

Rick, The kits look great. Awesome work.

Kevin, Love the coil loads.

Garry, Scenery looks great. Strong work with the access section.

Jimmy, Caboose looks great.

 

As for my contribution. Im working on a new N scale layout. It is 30"x48". It will include a divider down the center wtih plans for an urban/industrial side and a mountainous section. The plan came out of The Complete Book of Model Railroading by David Sutton. I redrew the plan in N scale with the Atlas software.

I am extremely limited on space but I think this will give me some operation potential and some good old roundy round action

 

 

[HO-Velo]

Bear,  Thanks for the WPF start-up.  Now that's one happenin' looking work bench.

Going to be 104 and windy today, but a good way to beat the heat and hayfever is to stay indoors and work on the layout.

Reaching into the library again for another Photoshopped pic.

Thanks to all the contributors, regards,  Peter

   

[BRVRR]

Bear - Thanks for starting off WPF. The water car looks to be a good project.

Rick - Good looking cars as always.

Kevin - I like the Garfield Central Cars, Particularly the gondola.

Garry - Great job with the scenery. The hidden access is a great piece of work!

Jimmy - Your caboose looks to be a good MOW car.

NSTB - It appears you have a good start on your switching layout.

Adam - Good luck with our layout. You appear to have a good start.

Peter - Interesting photo.

I've been working on numbering my new FA-2. Progress is slow and the small numbers at the rear are driving me crazy.

Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.

["JaBear"]

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[SeeYou190]

JaBEAR: THANK YOU!

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I finally had one of my pictures captioned by the master. This is probably going to be the high point of my weekend!

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-Kevin

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[Track fiddler]

JaBear.... thanks for starting the thread Inside joke you get it. I'm very proud of my new bridge. I do believe I am going to start manufacturing my pillars before the agony of making all those gusset plates.

I think I can speak for all when it comes to this. Us scratch Builders are a different breed. I went to Scale Model Supply in St Paul today to buy bridge shoes.... Who does that?

If you brought that up in conversation with non model railroad people, they would look at you like you belong in an asylum. Well I got my bridge shoes and I'm going to start working on my pillars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

["JaBear"]

Rick,a pleasure, as always, to see your new cars.

 

“This is probably going to be the high point of my weekend!” I do hope your weekend hasn’t been that bad, Kevin!! My pleasure, though I do offer my apologies to the hard working ffolkes at the Garfield Central.

 

Good looking camouflage, Garry.

 

After what’s gone down for you lately, Jimmy, it’s good to see you modelling.

 

 “…thanks for the opportunity to share all of our work.”No, thanks for sharing your work with us N Scale Train Boy, though I’d encourage you to post your images so we can see them straight up. Unfortunately, some of us are lazy!

 

Good solid looking benchwork there, cheese3, hope you keep us up to date with your progress.

 

Even though it got down to 28 F last night, I don’t think I’d swap it with your 104, Peter. A Great Photo.

 

“…the small numbers at the rear are driving me crazy.”Yeah, know where you’re coming from, Allan.

 

 “I went to Scale Model Supply in St Paul today to buy bridge shoes.... Who does that?”I’ve said it before and will no doubt say it again, but the hobby is a great for learning things you normally wouldn’t know. Does that make us abnormal though?? Great progress on that bridge, Track fiddler.

 

Thanks everyone,

Cheers, the Bear.

[C&O Fan]

Added a KA 3 to the tool trailer and some weight for better pickup for my speeder project

 

 

[G Paine]

A couple new photos from Bootbay Railway Village this week

The Portland Press Herald Newspaper office is the next building I completed in the buildings on the right side grade series. Shown next to the Burgess Forbes Paint Factory which has a Miller Engineering EL sign

One of our guests must be a Porsche fan; he took a half dozen pictures of this car and shared them with me

 

[Harrison]

Terry, that speeder is looking good!

I am working on roads on my layout today. I am using creatology craft foam from michaels. I will be starting with the Rt. 9 underpass.

[RR_Mel]

Great looking stuff guys, this by far is the best topic on the forum for me.  I really look forward to seeing all of the great work.

 

Arthritis still has the best of me so this week it’s been painting little people.  My supply has dropped and when it gets this low it’s time to do my people painting thing.  It’s hard to get in the right mood to do something that tedious but once I get going it isn’t that bad.  My intent is to get my stock up to 200 painted and ready to plant in my passenger cars and around structures.  I have about 45 finished so about 150 to go.

 

 

Again great pictures guys, keep em coming.

 

 

Mel

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

[Mister Mikado]

Mister Mikado pulling out of his newly completed AHM engine shed, good as new.

[peahrens]

Wow.  So many cool items.  I find it interesting that folks (and I) do things just for the heck of it, to figure out how it can be done, or just to try.  Most examples are pretty fine here, but I will post my modest items for interest and because it is fun.

Looking through closet kits bought without a particular plan, I built this Kibri crane this week.  It includes a LED but that made it hard to fit an operator also so let's pretend someone left the light on in the control booth.  It's next to an icehouse and I haven't figured that out yet.  Mabe getting past the refrig car era and the icehouse is idle and to be torn down.

IMG_0727 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

IMG_0729 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

Next came a Walthers Industrail tanks kit, some silver ones placed by one building and the black ones next to another.  One pipe piece intended to connect to a building faced the wrong way.  It was (over)heated and twisted, not too well.  If you visit you are required to stand 3' away.  The grandkids never notice these issues.

IMG_0731 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

IMG_0739 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

The extra pieces from the horizontal tank became primed steel products, with temporary locations.  If steel, the staked truck with two cylinders would probably have broken suspension.

IMG_0733 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

Enjoy your upcoming week!

[Harrison]

The first part of the road has been installed. I will be working on the grade crossing some time this week.

 

[mlehman]

This is what I did with my summer so far:

Narrowgauge container system for about $15...yes, the total I spent was right around that if you assume the one oddball leftover from another project container here cost the same as the Menards M-B trucks. This is what i started with.

Fairly complete build pics to come soon in my Menards/Denver Models 1:87 M-B double axle straight van review thread.  http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/269915/3072234.aspx#3072234

Great to see Bear bearing down at the bench again. Those were interesting cars and looks great so far, but I'll bet it's a Olympic size slippery slope. Looking forward to that and all the other great projects.

This is my 4th attempt to post tonight - they should take away my computer license? Do they make keyboards with those giant buttoms like the old folks phones? Still having fun even if I'm all Thumbz these days. Anyway, I wrote lots of grateful prose for all the sharing people do, this is just a great communuty.

Now if I can figure out how to get Kalmbach to get my attention to renew my e-edition? Not blaming them, except I just seem to ignore what metods they use to get this done since I signed up. I'm usually behind on reading it, so I eventually stumble across the fact that I should've re-upped, but its now too late to get it in e-form from what I gather, thus setting off a search of the stores to find a paper copy...I think this is a plot to get everyone to read at least one paper copy a year. Not sure if that works as well for overseas readers. Just kidding, but I'm too young to bethis old.  But I am apparently missing all the cues that exist. Maybe the email gets buried in the deluge of other stuff I delete? Makes me yearn for that monthly wait for the hobbyshop to get the next edition bundle of MR. Never missed a month then.

Good thing we can rely on regular editions of WPF to fill the holes in our MR life.

["JaBear"]

Before going to bed last night, I thought WPF had done its dash so I should thank all the contributors. So much for forgetting my position in relation to the International Date Line.

So, on a cold Monday evening…

 

Good to see the progress on the speeder, Terry, I suspect even with the light weight and minimalist pickup, it’s going to be a good runner.

 

I reckon the Railway Village is lucky to have a dedicated member such as yourself George.

 

Good to see the roading gang at work Harrison, hope to see more.

 

I don’t know how you do it Mel, your arthritis does not seem to affect the overall quality.

 

Good to see an “old “engine shed in service, Mr. Mikado, and Mikes Mercedes.

 

I’m afraid I just had to deface one of your “modest  items”, Paul.

 

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Thanks for a Great Weekend ffolkes,

Cheers, the Bear.