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New Weekend Fun 03-23-08 to 03-31-08

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:33 AM
 Driline wrote:

Next time I'll have to paste a smiley so they understand its a joke.

Whoops! Mah bad!

Aggro: That is not fair! No prototype photos! How did you get the railroad company to park that car out on the main line so you could photograph it? Bow [bow]Thumbs Up [tup] Great job!!!

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Posted by Blue Flamer on Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:35 AM
 davidmbedard wrote:

best guess, we lost part of Sunday and maybe Saturday to "debates". Also, and more accurately, for most of us, ie the normal people, this is Spring Break. Which translates into a week to work on layout. But some of us have weird schools, and we don't get off til next week...

Actually, us normal people actually have to work. 

David B

David.

I wish that I had to work. Try being retired. NO days off, NO vacations, NO stat holidays, NO weekends. The only time off is between the HONEY, do this and the HONEY, do that projects.  Whistling [:-^] And the pension raises that you get don't even come close to putting gas in the car.

They say that these are the Golden Years. HA! The only gold that I see is the one lone gold filling in my mouth and in the sample bottle that the Doctor asks me for.  Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Oh well, I woke up this morning and no one was throwing dirt on me in the bottom of a hole in the ground. As Martha Stewart says, "And thats a good thing".  Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

PS. David, thanks for all helpfull information that you post on these Forums. I for one really do appreciate it even if some of the information does not impact me at that particular time.

Blue Flamer. 

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Posted by NSlover92 on Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:14 PM
 trolleyboy wrote:

Aggro and NSlover , loved the weathering jobs on those pieces of rolling stock Thumbs Up [tup]you guys should put up a how to thread on weathering tecniques.

Rob

Thank you, Mike 

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Posted by Hoople on Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:00 PM

CudaKen isn't the only one with a big boy anymore...

And now a little scene with it coupling up to my challenger...

Challenger #3958 at Stormont, Colorado.

The Big Boy in the siding.



The Big Boy pulls up in front of the switch.

The switch is thrown.



And the Big Boy is coupled.

And the video of the big boy, including the videofied version of the above photos...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fkSFwESUb8Y


Mark

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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, March 28, 2008 12:00 AM
 TrainManTy wrote:

Whoops! Mah bad!

Aggro: That is not fair! No prototype photos! How did you get the railroad company to park that car out on the main line so you could photograph it? Bow [bow]Thumbs Up [tup] Great job!!!

Thanks.

"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"

EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION

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Posted by AggroJones on Friday, March 28, 2008 12:05 AM
 NSlover92 wrote:
 AggroJones wrote:






Amazing, please say how you did so. Do you use wash and then paint the rust details? I am going to do that on my caboose to on the steps I am going to paint a little rust on the edges. Mike 

It begins with an airbrush coating of thinned Polly S reefer white. Some body washing, water compatable oil paints for rust, more body washing. The load spills are white oil paint. 

 

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EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION

http://community.webshots.com/album/288541251nntnEK?start=588

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Posted by trolleyboy on Friday, March 28, 2008 12:54 AM

Great sounding technique Aggro , and as I said before looks great.A semi sane modeller like myself may even be able to follow those instructions and come up with a somewhat good looking finished product.I've found that all my weathering had started looking the same ( I generally use the Bragdon industries chalks exclusivly ) I'll have to grab an old Athearn hooker chemicals car and see what shakes loose. ( the twisted side of me still wants to put some flouresant green spills comming out of it thoughWhistling [:-^])

Rob

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