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Turtle Creek Central

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  • From: Oregon
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Turtle Creek Central
Posted by KBCpresident on Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:50 PM

I know that the Turtle Creek Central has been revisited a number of times (the first how-to-build article, a tutorial on how to paint one of their locomotives and where to get decals, and even a heritage unit.) 

The black and red scheme is handsome, the decals and paint are publically avaialble... seems like they are almost inviting people to build their own TCC layouts. Has anyone? Or even featured it as an interchange, or painted their own TCC Power?

The Beaverton, Fanno Creek & Bull Mountain Railroad

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:44 PM

I have four freight cars lettered for the TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL in the Fleet Of Nonsense.

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:08 PM

Hi Kevin,

Did you make the load in the gondola? It really looks good!

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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Posted by KBCpresident on Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:16 PM

I agree, very impressive!

Any more TCC modesl floating around?

The Beaverton, Fanno Creek & Bull Mountain Railroad

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:53 PM

hon30critter
Did you make the load in the gondola? It really looks good!

KBCpresident
I agree, very impressive!

The tarped piece of equipment is a Chooch casting. I am not sure the origin of the large crate, but it might be Chooch also.

I spent a lot of time painting the tarp, highlighting and building up shadows in the creases. It is a very good casting, but the "pre-painted" finish in the Chooch package was awful. I wanted it to look like a heavy and worn piece of canvas.

Thank you for the kind words.

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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