Sunday Photo Fun 9-30-07

[kpolak]

Nice work Doug!  Looks great! 

Did you find out the cause of the Zeppelin studdering?

Kurt

[FJ and G]

Hi Doug. I'm actually now modelling an abandoned RR as I've been going on a writing project and have left MOW duties fall by the wayside (so to speak).

 

[cnw1995]

Thanks, David, it sure looks suitably weedy. JimA and Kurt, it runs pretty well so far. I have to fiddle with it a bit more. Pressing down the slider toward the track worked. Since I took off the front truck, I love how it whips through the curves. I think it is still a little too light - enough for this motor to move though...

[Brutus]

Looks great, Doug!

[Frank53]

Finished up a repaint on a second K-Line vehicle - the Coca-Cola red looked a little too new:

[Jumijo]

Finished up a repaint on a second K-Line vehicle - the Coca-Cola red looked a little too new:

Say! That's some nice work right there. You really outdid yourself on that one. Wowzer!!! Mighty fine! Boy, you throw a black wash on those chrome spoke wheels and I'm convinced it's REAL!

Not , but !!!

[Frank53]

before:

[Jumijo]

before:

That's why you get the two thumbs up. I'm lazy, and would have just wiped the Coke logo off with a Q-tip dipped in nail polish remover, then sprayed it with flat and weathered it a little. You took it to a whole 'nuther level with that gray. Talk about transformation! 

[cnw1995]

I hear you, Jim. I especially like how the chrome is dulled or painted. I find it hard to get paint or a wash to adhere without being too thick.

[Jumijo]

Agreed, Doug. Another reason I would have taken the lazy way out. And I don't know how many people think about color, but the gaily painted red represents to me, subliminally perhaps, the excitement of a happy time or a boom time. Where as the somber gray coloring quite clearly evokes thoughts of the "mean streets, hardscrabble era" of the 1940's that so many 1/48th scale Americans experienced back then.