Living the dream.
I fell asleep early last night and was not able to open WPF at 1:00 AM (eastern) as normal.
This week my share is one of my favorite pictures I took on my 30 by 30 photo diorama.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
I am looking forward to seeing everyone else's fun photographs this weekend.
I will check back later.
-Kevin
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio!
Kevin, thanks for starting us out nice picture and a good looking piece of motive power.
Got a couple of cars done this week!
First is and Intermountain ART Reefer Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow, Boxcar Red and Black paints and lettered with Mask Island Decals (Now available thru Highball Graphics Decals with Hubert Mask's death.) The MP & Wabash (Both Gould roads) combined to make their own Reefer Company - American Refridgeraor Transit to compete with PFE, FGE, BREX, SFRD etc. so that they would have a source of Reefers for produce.
Next, an old Front Range kit for the converted boxcars the Southern made to haul the new 45 and 48 foot trailers so they would not just haul one trailer on a 89' flat car. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Trailer is an Athearn 45' model painted with Scalecoat II Silver paint and lettered with Microscale Decals.
Pair of Scaletrains GE C39-8 Engines with a Trailer Van Train on the Strongsville Club Layout.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Hello all. Kevin, thanks for kicking off the WPF thread. I really like the picture you posted: the paint job on the loco is impeccable.
Rick, great photos as always. I was not aware of the Front Range kits.
I took a little break from my scenery work this week. I found a re-tooled Bachmann 4-4-0 on Ebay at a good price. A sweet little runner that will replace the one I bought in the 70's... I did some minor changes to the paint.
IMG_20220819_130059 on Flickr
My scenery work is progressing too. Still filling in some gaps with some sculptamold. The bridges are removeable, in case you are wondering. Perhaps we should start a "what's on your workbench" thread for those who struggle to show something finished (like I do!).
IMG_20220818_211843 on Flickr
Simon
Thanks for lighting up the Great WPF, Kevin! Great looking "Super-Power" Steam shot!
Excellent rolling stock, Rick!
Good job on the scenery, Simon. I think most of what we see in WPF is "work-in-progress" or not-quite finished modeling. Many of us like to see what goes into a project.
I'm finally to the point where I've gone as far as I can with the Rexall Building. Installed the first floor lighting.
Rexall_test-fit by Edmund, on Flickr
The sign, while not lit in this photo, has a styrene frame around it now. Next door to the druggist (chemist) is a little tobacco shop.
Tobacco Shop by Edmund, on Flickr
Tobacco shop by Edmund, on Flickr
Moving right along ...
Cheers, Ed
Kevin. Thanks for starting WPF. A great looking scene.
Rick Lovely looking cars. Well done.
Simon. Exquisite looking loocomotive. Scenery looks to be coming together. Well done.
Ed. I am envious of your talent. Excellent modelling.
Myself. I acquired a new tank via my grandchildren. A little out of scale to the other tanks, but it travels the layout well.
IMG_2327 by David Harrison, on Flickr
IMG_2318 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A little scene at Leeds Sovereign Street Station
IMG_2328 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Looking forward to seeing more pictures.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Thank you to everyone that has contributed so far. There are still a little over 12 hours left for this edition of Weekend Photo Fun. I hope we can see some more!.
Rick: That A.R.T. reefer looks amazing. I have never enjoyed painting reefers, but I have done a few of them. I need to come up with a good fictitious reefer company for my railroad. I have 10 CBT Shops reefers stashed away for this project... it is in the maybe/eventually column. I also like your NS/SOUTHERN flat car. I built one of those kits a few years ago. I could not get any weight into the flat car, so I had to weight the trailer. If I remember correctly, I sent it off to Harrison in New York for his layout. I hope it ran well being so top-heavy.
Simon: Great picture showing your old American 4-4-0 in action. I have a couple of old-time locomotives painted for my railroad, a Bachmann "John Bull", and an IHC 2-4-0 "Bowker". I really need to add an American Type at some point. None of these run, they are just part of the prop fleet.
Ed: The building with the Rexall Drugs storefront is an amazing piece of modelling. Thank you for all the in-progress shots and updates along the way. All the effort really was worth it. The interiors are beautiful. The wood panelled walls in the tobacco shop look perfect. I especially like the light sources being visible and not just coming from above. I have never tried light fixtures as interior sources. Great job.
David: It is wonderful that your grandchildren share the layout with you and get things for it, no matter how out-of-place they might be. I remember visiting Garry's layout in Kentucky, and there was a scene with all out-of-scale buildings and scenery. He said that was all the items his wife bought for the layout, so he built a small scene with it for her. I love things like that.
dti406Kevin, thanks for starting us out nice picture and a good looking piece of motive power.
Thanks Rick. Since I currently have neither a layout or a workbench I am going to be posting a lot of my best pictures as WPF contributions for a while. I hope to get back to projects soon.
snjroyKevin, thanks for kicking off the WPF thread. I really like the picture you posted: the paint job on the loco is impeccable.
I wrote an article for Model Railroader about the paint job on that locomotive. It is a box-stock Bachmann ATSF 4-8-4. The article was about how to use painting methods used by Wargamers for realism in models that are mainly used as photo-props. I went through blacklining, color blending, floating, oppressive shadows, light-sourcing, non-metallic metals, and everything else.
They did not like the article, oh well.
For me the cornerstone of a good Saturday begins with a hot cup of coffee and a full measure of WPF.
Kevin, Thanks for starting up the WPF with a nice diorama shot, I can feel the fun.
Mike Tylick's gated crossing article in the Sept. 22 issue of MRR mag. prompted me to photograph my gate protected industrial spur. Made mine with brass rod and tubing, but in retrospect the blue LED for night protection would look better mounted atop the left side gate post. If I recall correctly the prototype had the light mounted on the gate.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter
Kevin - It is wonderful that your grandchildren share the layout with you.
Whenever they visit they ask to go in the train room. I tell them to be careful and they are. Like anything else things do get broken (accidently). I do not 'tell them off', just to be more careful next time.
That way they 'return'. No Thomas the Tank Engine for them. Now they are confident running 'the big diesels'; albeit more than 100mph at times.
This is a street scene contest entry I made for our last NMRA meeting. It had to be 30 x 70 scale feet. This is HO, and made out of stuff I had laying around. Pictures for the interiors were taken from the internet and scaled somewhat to fit the windows. I used clear packing tape for glass.
20220423_183316 by Silver San Juan Division, on Flickr
20220423_183806 by Silver San Juan Division, on Flickr
well. I have three for decaling. the sw1001 just needs dels and weathering. the rs32 is the mother unit for a slug set which the slug is an atlas S2 construction underway. the U23B is for a shortline. with no name.
Done and dull coat added. the white decals are because I couldnt find black with the right data.
That disaster of the grey bulkhead now looks like this. I never could find a prototype, but htis is now a locoshop car anyway.
E.F. Screwloose machine co. (abandoned) in progress. the wash applied. It will be an abandoned building. I mixed valleyjo wood grain wash with a few drops blackgrey wash and came up with a very dirty dark brown wash. looks really good.
I tested the wash on the one old sd45. compared to the none washed unit, that wash made for a nice dirty look. with other propper weathering it should look really good.
The recent accomplishments. not bad since i have been in stroke recovery since april.
Shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
I really admire your old E. F. Screwloose Machine shop, Shane. The plant where I worked was built in 1930, not quite antique but old enough to earn some respect.
I like the way you highlighted random bricks and the fire escape and standpipe are neat details.
Can I offer a suggestion for another detail I like to see modeled? On some of these old "vertical" factories I've sometimes seen a beam or jib extend out over a column of windows. These would be used to hoist machinery to the upper floors (no elevators in those old buildings, of course). Even though you have window sash installed sometimes the sash are removed when machinery had to be moved in or out of the building.
This site offers a few suggestions:
https://igg.org.uk/rail/9-loads/11-crane.htm
Actually, in the link above, the top photo on the left side shows an example. I've also seen the beams cantilevered out over the building's parapet with the back end of the beam anchored to the roof structure. Another example below, although there's only two brackets where the hoist would be:
Osborne Road, Pontypool 23 December 2017 by Torfaen Corvine, on Flickr
Here's an example in use:
Lead Sheet by Edmund, on Flickr
Just an idea
I wish you well on your recovery...
Thanks everyone for the complimentary feedback on my little corner building
Shane,
Nice work and sorry to hear of your adventure with a stroke. I endured one back on Thanksgiving day of 2014. I was fortunate that it wasn't more severe and have regained around 90% of my lost abilities. I thank our Lord for my recovery.
Here are a pair of my 50' GN boxcars; the green one is Intermountain and the red puppy an Athearn Kitbash. They aren't exactly correct, but I am going for the GN "feel".
Don; Prez, CEO or whatever of the Wishram, Oregon and Western RR
I haven't accomplished anything for well over a month.
So I'm living off of everybody's posted photos.
Great work everybody !
By the way, I "sort of" contributed this week ...
In the background of Tankertoad's photo, you can just see the top of the milk truck I built picking up the daily delivery of milk.
( I know, ... it's a bit of a reach... )
Rust...... It's a good thing !
There is a lift off on the left side. whre that addition is. The structure is loosely based on E.B. Holmes machine co in bufflo NY street view is similar to this only slightly longer. I have a companion building to build and I can add the lift to that one. it will also have inter building bridges to this one.
See the lift Ed?
I never posted this one. it has a companion that I putn admiral cab on
NVSRRSee the lift Ed?
Yes! Very good
NVSRR it will also have inter building bridges to this one.
Chem_bldg1 by Edmund, on Flickr
That's another old factory detail I like, the connecting passages between buildings. Reminds me of the big one at the Packard plant in Detroit where partly finished automobiles passed from one building to another in an overhead, enclosed passageway.
Regards, Ed