Ed: The lighting project turned out very nice. What a rewarding weekend project.
See everyone next weekend... be safe.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
WPF, the thread where every post brings joy and a sense of hobby camaraderie. Not to mention the inspiring and informative tutorials.
Kevin, I'm sticking to the skilled hands as your custom work yields fine results, and there's special skill involved in knowing when to 'cheat'.
Chip, You gotta' be kiddin', popsicle sticks and coffee stirrers, wow! I've only used the AK Interactive brand of water color pencils. A really sharp point can be had using emery paper. Along with highlighting they also work well for chipping, scratching and scrape effects. Slightly dampening the point enhances the marking.
Thanks to all who made the nice comments about my weathering efforts. Again, thanks to all the contributors and have a good week, Regards, Peter
Just a few hours left.
Ringo, your weathering job looks great. That is another thing that I have not tried. My locomotives and cars all look like fresh out of the box. I need more time.
Paul, great job on the cars. Nine in two weekends? I can't even do one in two weekends.
Timmy, nice work on the log car. Hope you can show us the finished product soon.
L Zhou, nice stock car! It will be interesting to see cars from the China Railway. It's nice having someone your age working on a layout. I wish I had started at your age.
Michael, I like the orange paint. Of course, I like BNSF's orange, too.
HO Velo (Peter), your modeling skill continues to amaze me. You make the most realistic-looking scenes! An inspiration to me to get better!
Allan, I love the Santa Fe F3. Passenger trains are my favorite models
Chip, that engine house turned out great. If I remember, you're waiting on some material to finish the floor? Hope to see pictures of the finished product and the inside wall with the tool shelves.
Kevin, your painting skills are amazing. I should send you my N Scale figures and have you paint them! I've tried, and they usually look like paint-splotched aliens.
Ed, your lighting is so much better than the stock lighting. Great work!
You guys keep me working on getting better. I've probaby been at this the shortest time of any of you, so I have so much to learn. Great weekend!
If I have left anyone out, forgive me.
York1 John
Everything looks good here
All the Craftsman at WPF
Thanks for posting This Thread is always enjoyed
Thanks for hosting Kevin and I'll see everyone next weekend
TF
Hi, Folks —
Still an hour or two of weekend left here
Thank you one and all for the comments/compliments on my lighting project. Again I was simply shooting for something to improve the plain beige Walthers interior.
Superliner_tail by Edmund, on Flickr
The ESU lighting strip/decoder worked perfectly in the double-deck Amtrak cars and the supplied marker lamps were a bonus. As far as I know the stock light kits from Walthers are no where to be found and commanding big ransom on eBay
These photos aren't all that great with a point-and-shoot but you can get a feel for the appearance.
Superliner_nightl by Edmund, on Flickr
This car has the stock light kit and an unpainted interior:
Superliner_pass by Edmund, on Flickr
Thanks again for hosting another fine WPF, Kevin!
Happy Modeling, Ed
Allan: The F3s look great as an A-B-A set-up. Beautiful motive power for a passenger train.
Chip: Your enginehouse is gorgeous. That was a great project. Welcome back to the forums in full force. Your absence was noted. I think all HO scale figures look like Odo from DS-9. I am used to painting figures that have real defined features like this:
I actually have something to post, if you stick around through the comments.
Kevin--Your cars are amazing. I know I have to learn how to do it, but I admit I'm a little intimidated by the prospect of decals, etc.
Ed--I know about cheapie Lilliputians. I used one in my engine house. He was far enough away and his back was turned. No one has to know that his face looks like Odo, the changeling, on Deep Space 9. I cracked open a couple passenger cars for our local club and got lost and ending up using my time at the lake cottage painting and posing Lilliputians.
Phil--good luck with your backdrop. I've got it to do--right after I get the main up and running.
Garry--Wow! That's some fancy track-work.
John--Scratch building can be frustrating and engrossing at the same time. I'm just started a month or so ago myself. Now I change just about everything I make. Just today, I had an idea that could finish my jail for today's pictures, but the scratch-building deities thought differently. It took me 4 hours to put steel bars over the front door. I had to learn whole new systems to deal with all the itty bitty parts.
RIngo--That WC car looks like it's got some dirt on it.
Paul--I love getting new rolling stock out on the track.
LT--Good start on the logging car. (I have a logging/lumber mill layout and not a single log car built.)
L.Zhou--that car would play havoc with car cards.
Michael--My layout is Southern Pacific and I have to say I don't have that particular color scheme on my layout. Of course, the fact that it's a century earlier than your diesel might have something to do with it.
Peter--Great weathering, very subtle. Okay, tell me about the pencils.
Allen--Tell the F3, pleasure to meet him.
Okay, this is the engine house I built out of Popsicle sticks and coffee stirrers.
And I took this on my layout. The benchwork and pre-wiring are done. I just have to lay some track--which I hope will happen in about a month when things cool down.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Kevin - Thanks for starting off WPF. The boxcar looks good.
Ed - Good idea w/the bounce lighting. I'm going to try it myself.
Phil - The 'for now' backdrop works. I like the background building.
Garry - Love that photo.
John - Nothing wrong w/the bank building. Moving the light pole/standard shouldn't be a problem
Ringo58 - The SOO loco looks like a shop queen. The WC boxcar looks good.
Paul - Nice photo. Love the UP turbine loco. I love to have one, but I don't think it would tolerate my 22-1/2 inch curves.
Timmy - Quite a job on the log car.
LiZhou - An unusual stock car. Bet we won't see one on a US railroad.
Michael - The orange nose does stand out!
HO Velo - Good looking car.
Since the single F3 couldn't handle my whole Santa Fe consist, I figured it needed some help. Meet Santa Fe F3 #16:
Here it is in the trail position with the whole consist.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
L. ZhouI hope you would like the two vehicles, the weathering and detail are great for the price in my opinion.
Yes, the price was great. Less than $6.00 with shipping.
Thanks, Kevin! I hope you would like the two vehicles, the weathering and detail are great for the price in my opinion.
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." -Lin Yutang
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HO-Velo Kevin, Thanks for starting up another WPF, nice boxcar, in skilled hands those Yarmouth kits work into some fine models. Oh, and thanks again for bringing the AK Interactive watercolor pencils to attention, they sure are handy for highlighting, like the seam lines on this Spring Mills Depot PD3000. Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, be safe and have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Kevin, Thanks for starting up another WPF, nice boxcar, in skilled hands those Yarmouth kits work into some fine models. Oh, and thanks again for bringing the AK Interactive watercolor pencils to attention, they sure are handy for highlighting, like the seam lines on this Spring Mills Depot PD3000.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers, be safe and have a good weekend, regards, Peter
Man thats a great looking hopper! Awesome weahtering, light but enough to make the details pop!
Peter: Thank you for your kind words about the Yarmouth boxcar I assembled.
I don't know about "skilled hands". Those Yarmouth kits come with magnificent etched brass strirrup steps and ladders that need to be formed into incredible HO scale representations of built-up angle iron. The brake systems in those kits is extremely well detailed.
I put all that aside, use Tichy ladders and A-Line sill steps. Then I install my simplified brake rigging using parts from Roundhouse kits and Tichy leftovers.
If you look at the unfinished picture, I just glued styrene strip to the body to get something to fasten the A-Line steps to. I took short-cuts and cheated all the way!
On this model I did use the roofwalk that came with the kit, but usually I substitute Kadee, Tichy, or Bowser roofwalks on Yarmouth and Sunshine kits.
Hopefully the paint, custom decals, and weathering cover up all the short-comings and make a decent looking model in the end.
Your covered hopper is beautiful. Highlighting panel lines sure does a lot for a basically smooth surface.
Ed: I like what you are doing with the passenger car interiors. Great job with the lighting. I assume the bolts through the sides on my boxcar are for the auto-racks. The kit is based on a LACKAWANNA prototype car that was rebuilt for automobile service, but there is not much information on the Yamouth website.
Phil: Backdrops add a lot to a layout. Your building in the background looks good.
Garry: I never get tired of pictures of your passenger terminal. It really is a wonder.
John: Your scratchbuilt bank will look good on the layout. The interior illumination is very well done.
Ringo: You cannot buy a STRATTON AND GILLETTE freight car (at least not from me, they do show up on eBay every once in a while). I will gladly send you one once my workshop is up and operating again. That should be in about a year, sorry.
Paul: Your UNION PACIFIC turbine locomotives are really cool. That is something you don't see every week.
Timmy: Great job so far on the flatcar! Same as Ringo, I will gladly send you a freight car as soon as production is up and running.
L Zhou: Since my boxcar was based on a LACKAWANNA prototype, I painted the model ERIE LACKAWANNA maroon. I had a bottle of that color in Scalecoat II, and decided this was a good place to use it. I love the Chinese freight car. The baggage car looks like a neat model too. I ordered one of the truck and tractor sets you pointed me towards.
Michael: The orange locomotive is an eye-catcher. Orange, at least to me, always seems like a very railroady color. You don't see orange too many other places.
Nice work everyone. Kevin another resin boxcar? Wow you have some model building skills!
I can't even build a Walthers cornerstone structure without getting glue on the corners, and messing up clear windows. LOL
Here is an SP SD40 with an "experimental" paint scheme. I kinda like the orange on it. I probably won't weather it, as it was only temporary paint scheme Whatta u guys think? Do you like the orange.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Kevin: Thanks for kickstarting Weekend Photo Fun. That boxcar looks excellent, what color did you use to paint it?
Ed: Great job with the lighting kit, the marker lights and figures spruce it up quite well.
Phil: Can't wait to see the backdrop! The background building is nicely weathered.
Garry: Great job on the scene! The backdrop and flats give a wonderful sense of depth and immersion.
John: That's a awesome scratchbuilt bank. The illumination from the streetlight and interior really ties the entire scene together.
Ringo: The weathering looks superb.
Paul: I like the UP turbine. It was truly a unique engine.
Timmy: Great job so far on the flatcar!
Here's a Bachmann China J2 stock car I got in the mail last week or so, behind a Class 22 baggage car. Have a good weekend, everyone.
John York 1 ...... Thanks for your remakr about my photo. I like your bank and other lighted buildings.
Ringo ..... Thank you for your comment. Your weathering looks great.
Paul ...... I like the UP turbine, and your backdrop with buildings looks great.
Timmy .... It looks like your log car will be a fun project.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Got started on the Log car...
This is the result of about an hour of "serious" Dremel hacking.
These shot's are of the frame re-installed.
Since the underframe will be visable, I decided to go "all-out" and install a complete brake system. That's what I will be working on next.
Great stuff so far guy's, keep up the good work.
Seeyou190: You are a boxcar making machine !!! One of these day's we"re gonna hafta swap car's.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Thanks for the WPF kickoff, Kevin. I'm liking the interesting items going up as usual.
Here is a veranda turbine leading a string of colorful reefers. I added 9 the last two weekends, so it was time to give them and the existing ones a test run together. All are from kits, mostly Walthers & Accurail.
20200821_125633 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Keviin- Thank you for starting my favorite thread again! Love your custom work, it's simply amazing. Would like to see one of your boxcars on my layout if you ever decide to sell one
Ed- Great looking passenger car, Really like the lighting and the people inside. Really brings the car to life.
Phil- Great looking scene, I always like seeing pictures of your layout. Looking forward to seeing more with the new backdrop
Garry- Really great looking scene. Love all those silver F units! Looks like its real with the city backdrop
John- Thats a fantastic looking bank! If you said it was a kit i would have believed you. The bank I go to has an electrical box Right after the ATM that makes you swerve around it to leave, Maybe put a few bushes in front of it and I think it wouldnt be in the way! Will try and post a picture of it, I need to go there today.
As for my projects for the week, semi weathered my SOO sd39 and a WC boxcar I picked up at a show for $7 last year.
Garry, I think you posted while I was still typing!
I love your passenger trains. I know I've said it before, but your backdrops are the kind I like. They give a sense of distance.
Kevin, thanks for the start of another great weekend. Your work on boxcars is amazing. Whenever anyone looks at my layout, I make sure to point out my favorite boxcar from SGRR.
Ed, I love passenger cars and the work you've done. Sometime let us see a night picture of the car lit up.
Phil, nice idea for the backdrop. That's something I haven't worked on yet.
My latest layout work was a scratchbuilt bank. I'm still new enough at this that I don't think everything through before working. On this one, I took quite a bit of time getting the lights in. I put it into its spot on the layout, got the lights wired and lit. Then I looked closely, and realized one of the streetlamps is in the ATM drive-thru lane. I spent all that time working on it, and never once realized what I had done. I'm leaving it for now, but will probably eventually just take out the light.
Kevin ..... Thanks for tarting this week's photo fun. ... That is a great addition to your "fleet of nonsense".
Ed .... Your interior and lighting for the Amtrak cars is impressive.
Phil .... I like your background building.
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Here is an older photo of a Burlington commuter train departing from Union Station.
Happy Friday, everyone!
Kevin, another fantastic boxcar.
Ed, love the idea of bounce lighting those cars with the LEDs up-- looking forward to seeing what it looks like!
I made a for-now backdrop this week-- about a half-hour project to tape together foamboard with artist's tape, sand the joints, and hit it with matte light blue spraypaint. Already looking forward to setting up more shots-- for now, here's some switching action through early morning October haze.
Looking forward to more great stuff this weekend!
Phil
Thank you for another outstanding kickoff to the Weekend Photo Fun, Kevin!
Great success on your resin car! I wonder if those bolts coming through the side plates are for the automobile racks in the car?
Funny how something will start me off on a tangential project.
A few weeks ago there was a thread here about Walthers lighting kits. I dug through my stock and found I had a few made for the Amtrak Superliner cars
THAT in turn got me looking at their plain, tan interiors so I decided to pry them open for a very rudimentary painting and people placing session.
Superliner_population by Edmund, on Flickr
These cars have tinted windows and I don't run them very often so I am using "cheapie little people" inside.
In one of the sleeping cars I decided to use the ESU DCC programmable lighting strip. Conveniently, it has 11 LEDs and there are 11 rooms on the top level of the sleeper:
Superliner_illumination by Edmund, on Flickr
I fit the supplied red LEDs to align with the marker lenses on the end wall. I'm also using indirect "bounce" lighting on this car as I mounted the strip with the LEDs facing UP! There's enough reflectivity on the ceiling to provide a nice, even glow inside the car. If I aimed them downward they would only illuminate the center aisle which isn't readily seen through the windows!
Superliner_illumination2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I bent-up some fancy .020 bronze wire to engage the four clips intended to work with the Walthers light strips. So far, so good.
Hopefully I'll get a few more photos before the end of the weekend.
On to more great stuff, folks!
Cheers, Ed
Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a great place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.
I am thrilled to once again be starting Weekend Photo Fun this week. I do love this thread and the way it brings the discussion forums back to a fun spot. I believe it is the best thread every week.
I am proud to present another new boxcar this week for my Fleet Of Nonsense.
This model is painted and decalled for Dick Elwell's famous Hoosac Valley Railroad. A model railroad of this significance deserved a special model. This is resin boxcar kit by Yarmouth models.
Please share your models, layout pictures, fun model railroad photos, projects under construction, or what have you.
HAPPY WEEKEND!