Weekend Photo Fun - September 29th through October 1st Edition

[SeeYou190]

[SeeYou190]

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!

This week my share is: I HAVE A NEW COMPUTER!

Well, that is not really my share this week, but I did finally buy a new computer. This one has Microsoft Office, so I am typing this in WORD, and that is a big improvement right there. Also, I bought a professional quality “Brown Switch Mechanical Keyboard”, and it is making this a much more pleasurable experience to type all of this together.

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So, my meager share this week is a new (actually, it is pretty old) kit that I picked up. It is a kerosene engine powered track inspection car from Scale Structures Limited. This tiny model has a ton of character, and I am sure it will look great in photographs some time down the road.

-Photographs by Kevin Parson

I am looking forward to seeing everyone's photographs this weekend. This thread can always be counted on to be the best of the week.

-Kevin

[SeeYou190]

One more thing before I forget...

THANK YOU to Track Fiddler for opening Weekend Photo Fun last weekend, and also thank yous to everyone that contributed.

-Kevin

["JaBear"]

Gidday from a cool wet Friday night down under.

 

Thanks for kicking off WPF Kevin, and that’s going to be an interesting model though I’m not sure how you’re going to power it and where the decoder will go! 

 

However, I’m going to call foul because before I took Her-in Doors out for our Friday night kebab, the second post displayed a large Under Construction sign. As I’ve been helping clear out the Club rooms, I’ve saved various items from the rubbish bin, one of the latest being this flat car body, marked “Bachman China” on the underside. With a bit of cutting and filing I’ve fitted a pair of Athearn Buckeye trucks, so the car can run on an 18-inch radius, and started making a load for it, so all in all I thought I was fulfilling what I thought was going to be this WPFs theme!!!

 

Under construction by Bear, on Flickr

 

Looking forward to the really Good Stuff,

Have a Great one, ffolkes,

Cheers, the Gullible Bear. 

[tstage]

Thanks for starting out WPF this week, Kevin.

Another Tichy 10K gal tank car kit in the books...

As mentioned last week, this tank car is from the 4025 kit with the slightly larger dome (60") vs 54" with the 4020 kit.

Hindsight: Substituting the stiffer transparent tank strapping that came with the kit with Evergreen scale 1 x 4 strene strips was definitely a good choice.  Although pre-painted black, I see NO fatiguing or stress fractures from bending it over the tank.  The photo below shows the stress cracks on the inside tank strap (left) from the tank car build two weeks ago: (Click to enlarge)

Next time I would just paint the backside and leave the side facing outward unpainted, since it will be painted and decaled at a later date.

Also, my method of adding the side railing took a bit longer to accomplish than expected.  However, the results turned out well and the railing brackets align with one another.

The Ticky tank cars are definitely a step up from Proto 2000 tank car kits detail-wise - especially the braking on the undercarriage.  These should also hold up better in regards to handling because of the metal side railing.

There is quite a bit of drying time between certain steps so the Tichy tank cars are NOT a one-evening project.  Excluding drying times, it's probably 16 hrs of filing/bending/assembly time vs 4-5 hr for a Proto 2000 tank car.  I definitely like the results though.

Tom

[dti406]

Good morning from cloudy and mild Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out, good news you have a new computer, ours is 20 years old, but since my son is a computer engineer, everytime he upgrades his he sends us his old stuff which is light years ahead of a stock computer. Like your Kerosene engine, I have one of those it is supposed to go along with the Jennings Lumber Mill kit.

Bear, that is a nice looking flat for a Botchmann with a good lookin load.

Tom, that kit turned out great you a good builder. Don't see much of that in today Model Railroading world.

Here is what I accomplished this week!

First, another PRR G39 Ore Jenny, painted with Scalecoat II Black paint and lettered with Middle Division decals. This brings the fleet up to 46 cars.

Next up an Intermountain ART Reefer kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow, Boxcar Red and Black Paint, then lettered with Champ Decals. ART was formed by the MP and Wabash to bring produce from Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma to the Midwest and Eastern cities.

Also did another prepainted Bowser PRR H21a hopper car kit, I did dullcoat the car to remove most of the shine from the paint.

I have started work on a Moloco GATC RBL for the DT&I after consulting with Nick Molo on which kit to use for the car and the modifications needed to match the DTI car, I have put the flat sides of the kit together along with the underframe and have started on the underside brake and cushioning detail. In the background you can see the load that will be going on the depressed center flat I built previously.

Last week our club had an op session, I used my new Rapido RS-11's on the Mallet Creek loco, they ran superbly and I had a lot of fun with running the local.

Thanks for looking!

Rick Jesionowski

[snjroy]

Hello everyone,

Kevin: That kerosene loco car kit is pretty cool. Another one to put on my list!

Bear: Interesting bash project. What type of propeller is that?

Tom: Wow, that tank car project is coming along very nicely.

Rick: Your decal working is amazing.

I started "phase 3" of my scenery work this week:

IMG_20230928_201049 on Flickr 

Simon

[HO-Velo]

Kevin,  Thanks for opening the WPF, interesting old-time equipment for your MOW crew.

Bear, 'Waste not, want not.'  Might that load be a ship's screw?

Tom, 16 hours well spent, very nice model and a joy to see.

Rick, You're a rolling stock building machine!  Another good looking array of cars this week.

Simon, Seeing the train rolling thru 'phase 3' has got to be inspiring.

Kevin got a new computer and I a new forklift.  Artitec did a swell job with the Hyster.  

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers.  Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter

[Track fiddler]

SeeYou190

One more thing before I forget...

THANK YOU to Track Fiddler for opening Weekend Photo Fun last weekend, and also thank yous to everyone that contributed.

-Kevin

 

Not at all Kevin, My Pleasure.

You're hosting Weekend Photo every week is greatly appreciated  I'll pick it up anytime needed.

Happy to here you got your new computer and had fun War Gaming, but you owe me one my friend...

I'll be posting to the best thread of the week sometime tomorrow.  It'll be of something old is all I've got lately.

 

Thanks to all the contributors here as well.  Great looking projects

 

TF

[Pruitt]

Work continues on the Wind River Canyon...

["JaBear"]

Tom, I’ve added this to my “Favourites,” so as to be able to find your Tichy Tips, when I get around to assembling my tank car kit.

 

Busy, busy, busy, as per usual, Rick, like the depressed centre load, and those RS-11s look trick!

 

I bet starting Phase 3 is pretty exciting, Simon!

 

That realistic looking fork lift just adds to your realistic looking scene, Peter.

 

Mark, “Pretty in Pink.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0sYQRECkY

 

My “Under construction” flat car load, in the 1:1 world is a turbine/rotor out of a “Turbine Fow Meter”, part of a helicopter mounted spray system, which had not been flushed after use, and as a consequence was seized and badly corroded, and while I managed to get it cleaned up and freed up, it was never going to be a precision measuring device again, and was scrapped. I did keep the turbine/rotor as I thought it would make for an interesting load, though I don’t have a clue as to what purpose it has in the HO scale world!

 

Flow meter rotor by Bear, on Flickr

 

Cheers, the Bear.

[SeeYou190]

JaBear

Though I don’t have a clue as to what purpose it has in the HO scale world!

It looks like it could be an impeller for a massive barge mounted sand dredge.

-Kevin

[Track fiddler]

Good morning

As always fun to check every thing out.  Some impressive looking modeling here everyone.  Your tank car turned out great Tom.

 

Bridge #7 was a fun one to make as it was quite different from the rest.

Judy saves meat trays for doing the old pencil-foam trick.

There will be a road sharing the other side of this stone culvert bridge.

Bridge #7 under bridge #1 that's under reconsruction.

 

Thanks for all the contributions so far this weekend.  Keep em coming please, enjoyed.

 

TF

 

[tstage]

Beautiful bridge work, John.  You really need to get back and do more of this...seriously.  Good stuff!

Tom

[tstage]

...so as to be able to find your Tichy Tips, when I get around to assembling my tank car kit.

Here ya' go, Bear.  No better time than the present...

["JaBear"]

2it by Bear, on Flickr

[Track fiddler]

Good morning

Thanks Tom, ya put a smile on my face, and a bit of neglect guilt along with it...

My late friend Gary, our MR Club host, would give me one of those wooden nickels, as his subtle hint to pick something to do on the layout.

 

TF

[gmpullman]

Great Stuff this weekend, fellas! Thanks for setting things up, Kevin!

I never really know what is going to jump out at me from 'project-to-project'. This week happened to be getting a few passenger cars 'up to snuff' for the comfort of all my little plastic people.

Proto Passenger NYC 4-4-2 PRR 10-5 by Edmund, on Flickr

I dug out one of my '48 Century 4-4-2s and a Pennsy 10-5 that was painted to match the Missouri Pacific Eagle. I have to add wire grab irons, paint the interiors, add aisle grab bars and window shades, then a smattering of LPP and finally a decent lighting arrangement.

The Walthers interiors are terrible for having mold release on them that resists paint. I give them a quick rinse of 99% isopropyl then a light coat of Tamiya primer.

Proto_NYC 4-4-2 mask prime by Edmund, on Flickr

Walthers is to be commended on their painting prowess. The outlining on the New York Central striping and lettering is exquisite! The aisle railing is Tichy .0125 bronze wire with Molotow chrome paint.

Proto Passenger NYC 4-4-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

It is a little blurry here but there are starting points for drilling the #78 holes for the grab irons. Not my favorite task!

Proto_NYC 4-4-2 vestibule by Edmund, on Flickr

Then the interiors can get painted:

Proto Passenger Interiors by Edmund, on Flickr

   — and finally the LPP put into their seats. Painted figures are becoming scarce so I have to resort to painting some of the raw Preiser figures I've been putting off.

Preiser Figures paint-r by Edmund, on Flickr

Some of their figures are perfectly detailed while others look like a blob of wax. Well for passenger interiors I don't get too picky since they are not very prominent:

Preiser Figures paint by Edmund, on Flickr

 

 Thanks for showing all your great photos of the week, everyone! Excellent inspiration!

Cheers, Ed

 

 

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