Wow, really nice stuff this weekend. Karl, I'm amazed. When's MR coming over for the photo session?
This old gas station has been with me since my Mom found a yard sale Box o' Trains in the early 1960's. It was old then, but basically a sound wood structure. I've been picking up detail parts, mostly from JL Innovative, for some time now. I finally got around to cleaning up the castings and getting them painted.
Gotta like those late Transition Era gas prices, huh?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
railroadnut675 wrote:Hey! Where did all my pictures go???!!!
Was it on this thread, this week? I haven't noticed any troll issues.
Weekend Photo Fun is generally a new thread each week. You can go back a few pages and find last week's, if that's what you're looking for.
The beauty and the curse of digital photography is you really get a handle on what has to be on your "to do" list!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Sometimes I don't know which words would be suitable to describe your work, Karl.
You know what I like best about the three shots? I like the weathered rear of the large billboard sign perched atop the short addition. I think you get a gold star for that.
-Crandell
Thanks Crandell, its one of my favourite parts of the structure.
Karl.A
Hi all,
I'm seeing quite alot of excellent stuff on here this weekend, especially Karl's Army-Navy store.
This week I decided to try my hand at 'serious' weathering. So I dug out an old Athearn bluebox ACF 4-bay Centerflow covered hopper, whipped up a sheet of home-printed decals, and set out to replicate this decrepit Family Lines hopper. I've never felt comfortable with any type of modeling that doesn't involve straight lines, rectangles or circles - so accurately depicting a run-down hopper is a challenge, to say the least! I posted it on the critique thread when it was ~80% finished, so I could get some constructive feedback. Here is the end result:
I couldn't bring myself to duplicate every single patch and splotch of different-colored paint that appears on the prototype car; I'll just say this is how it probably looked a few years earlier...
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:
Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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Yesterday evening the Univ. of Tennessee was victorious in NCAA basketball game at Memphis, and today I saw this G-scale train on a layout, in the UT orange and white, obviously having "caught" a "Tiger"!
(Admittedly, the snapshot taken with a cellphone lacks quality, given poor lighting, etc., but I thought it worth sharing. No offense intended to Memphis fans, of course.)
Thanks to all for a great WPF!
ukguy wrote:
Never get tired of viewing your handywork, Karl. Beautiful job, as usual!
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Hello Model Railroaders. ... I see many good photos such as Terry's, Lee's and Stein's. That's a creative train Kenfolk, and I enjoy seeing people having fun like you do.
I have two more photos to post. I just completed my "protypically correct" Bulington modernized, heavyweight diner/parlor car number 308. It's made from a kit made by NKP Car Company. You can find this company at its website, http://www.nkpcarco.com/ They have passenger cars for about 20 railroads.
Each of their kits will provide hours of modeling enjoyement for the experienced modeler. They have etched brass sides. Other parts are cast resin or styrene.
My number 308 includes interiors and window blinds and curtains. It is trailing car number 6161 which is a modernized coach I kitbashed from an old JC Models kit.
The first car I made from NKP Car Company was baggage/RPO car number 1941. I completed that car about six months ago. The prototype was a modernized heavyweight car that commonly was assigned to the Kansas City Zephyr.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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saronaterry wrote: Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.
Very nice modelling work. And there's no need to apologize, you've got that Geep pointing the right way......GN's GP30's had the low hood end as the front.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
alfadawg01 wrote: saronaterry wrote: Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.Very nice modelling work. And there's no need to apologize, you've got that Geep pointing the right way......GN's GP30's had the low hood end as the front.
Would be cool if they had high-hoods on GP30s and SD45s though.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Thanks for the tip, Alfadawg, I didn't know that!
Ya learn something new everyday!
Terry
Here's a few old pics i dug up: they were taken while the layout was still under construction: laid some track and put down some lichen and foam.
hopefully i get some pics of the finished layout. actually, i'm in the middle of remodeling several scenes.
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wm3798 wrote:I did some more detailing last night... Lee
Lee,
Is that a chop nose geep 9 hiding behind the GP40?
Some great pics, everyone. Seem to get better ever week. Keep up the good work.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Here's a pic from my finished layout
Don, I have to lift the top off. When I built the mountain I made a lift out section
Here it is during construction with the lift out removed.
You can kind of see the split line in a shot of it more complete.
by using rock molds I have disguised is somewhat.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Actually it's a GP-7 with the Joan Rivers treatment... Here's a slightly better view...
And also a much better view...
The black trailing unit is also a chopper, that one is a GP-9...
Here's my article about building them...