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WPF May 23/25
Posted by jacon12 on Friday, May 21, 2010 10:07 AM

Goooood Mornin'!  Let's get this weeks photo fun on the road!.... uhhh... rails!

The day is also about to start at the Cherokee Brick Co. office and showroom.

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Posted by mountaingoatgreg on Friday, May 21, 2010 10:42 AM

Here is my contribution....

The lease has run out on this Evan's double door boxcar. The UTLX reporting marks and routing instructions have been painted over and the car now in service under the SFLC marks. If you look really closly you can see the old Fort Vancouver Plywood logo peeping through the paint.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND !!!!

Be Wise Beware Be Safe

"Mountain Goat" Greg

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Posted by Driline on Friday, May 21, 2010 12:14 PM

 Union Pacific 9425 gives a toot as it rounds past the trailer park.


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Posted by selector on Friday, May 21, 2010 12:28 PM

I like your image, Jarrell..nice touch.  You have lots of detail, the lighting is very fine, and the overall effect has a very nice impression to offer.

Nice boxcar weathering!  Nice rendering and a good photo to boot!

Frank, you have a nicely finished diesel there, and your roads (track and auto) look nicely done. Cool

Here are my two pics for the week:  First, Seneca yard showing an NYC Mikado moving some Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo closed hoppers and boxcars.  Close focus is 7" with image stacking software out to nearly 11' at the backdrop.

 

Secondly, viewed from behind a store in town, an H-8 from the Chesapeake & Ohio rumbles past, headed west.

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Posted by O_Kamoto on Friday, May 21, 2010 12:45 PM

Here's some from last weeks running session

 Bridgeport.

 

CSX meet at Bridgeport.

 

Shall Mound [HBD]

 

 Meet at west End

 

Enjoy,

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, May 21, 2010 1:40 PM

Jarrell Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun. Your photo really captures a mood. Looks real.

Greg ... box car looks like a real one.

Driline ... Great scene.

Dave ... Thanks for sharing club photos. I still need to see the layout when in Nashville.

Here is a little branch line activity. The doodlebug meets a train on the mainline in Valley Heights. Later, the motorcar heads past the farms toward Hinterland. Note: I "weather" my cows.

 

 

GARRY

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, May 21, 2010 2:20 PM

Slow start but really good stuff !!!

 

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Posted by trolleyboy on Friday, May 21, 2010 2:26 PM

Great stuff so far gents.Thumbs Up

Here are a few more club shots for this weekend.

 

 

 

Rob

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, May 21, 2010 2:27 PM

Thanks Crandell, I appreciate it!  I'm interested in a couple of trees on your layout, in the top photo the one right above the engines smoke stack and in the second photo the large, nearest to the track.  Did you make those?  I'm soon to get into an area on my layout where I will need a mixture of conifers and hardwoods and I especially like the trunk of the tree in the second photo.

Jarrell 

selector

I like your image, Jarrell..nice touch.  You have lots of detail, the lighting is very fine, and the overall effect has a very nice impression to offer.

Nice boxcar weathering!  Nice rendering and a good photo to boot!

Frank, you have a nicely finished diesel there, and your roads (track and auto) look nicely done. Cool

Here are my two pics for the week:  First, Seneca yard showing an NYC Mikado moving some Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo closed hoppers and boxcars.  Close focus is 7" with image stacking software out to nearly 11' at the backdrop.

 

Secondly, viewed from behind a store in town, an H-8 from the Chesapeake & Ohio rumbles past, headed west.

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, May 21, 2010 3:06 PM

 Looks great everybody!!

 Here's a KFC I just added to my town.  I still gotta blend it into the scenery.

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Posted by selector on Friday, May 21, 2010 6:27 PM

Jarrell, yes, they are bamboo skewer with the natural fiber furnace filter pads stuck on them.  I cut out the pads, slide them down, shape with scissors, spray with 3M Super 77 glue (aerosol can), shake two shades and textures of ground foam over it (newspaper below to catch the stuff that don't stick), then overspray with hair holding spray.  Let dry.

We called 'em Aggro Trees for the longest time. Big Smile

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, May 21, 2010 6:37 PM
Already too much great work to single people out, but GREAT PHOTOS ALL! Well, this week I've been reviving a bachmann station kit and today I installed the station and some scenery on the layout. Also got down two museum display tracks, but only have one filled. Also began building the conveyor system on the Dixie Quick-Mix plant. First, some station scenes: Finally, somewhere to proudly display this Atlas car! And here's the build of the conveyor system. first, the housing on the low building: and looking at the scene in progress: N-JOY!

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, May 21, 2010 7:03 PM

Big project for the last couple of weeks was taking a tyco illniose centeral gulf c-630 and rebuilding it into a nice new loco.  Added an athearn chasis and wheel set and added a detail set and filled the pilots, airbrushed and weathered.  Enjoy

and finished






and put to work pulling a log train

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Posted by zgardner18 on Friday, May 21, 2010 11:00 PM

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Posted by Motley on Friday, May 21, 2010 11:45 PM


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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:55 AM

Great shot, Zak.  How did you do the grass in the foreground, it looks super... like the real thing!

Jarrell 

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Posted by zgardner18 on Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:38 AM

jacon12

Great shot, Zak.  How did you do the grass in the foreground, it looks super... like the real thing!

Jarrell 

zgardner18

Jarrell,

Thanks much, I paid a lot of money to create that grass.  It was made by using the Noch Grasmaster.  I do it in layers of different colors to catch the real effects of grass.

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:32 AM

This is my 1000th post to the forum, Big Smile still have a long way to go to catch people like Selector, but this is not a race.

At a recent train show I found 2 Athearn blue box undecorated boxcars which fit in with my plan to use up some old decals. The first one completed is Turtle Creek Central TCC 132.

Maybe it needs a bit of light weathering...

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Posted by fmilhaupt on Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:28 PM

This week's new additions to the freight car fleet on the Operations Road Show layout.

 First, an Overland  wagon top boxcar I painted.

Overland B&O wagon top boxcar, painted by Fritz Milhaupt

There are four more to do, but before I paint them, I think I'll replace the doors with the ones the real ones got as replacements later in their careers.

The second is the first from my collection of resin kits- a Funaro & Camerlengo Pennsy X26C .

Funaro & Camerlengo Pennsy X26C boxcar built by Fritz Milhaupt

That's one kit down, about fifty to go.

 

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Posted by stebbycentral on Saturday, May 22, 2010 8:43 PM

 Progress on my newest layout section.  Future plans include a pumphouse to be located next to the watertank. 

 

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:50 AM

Since my Canon A540 camera has "Bit the Dust" all I can share is some oldies from my old layout. I'm looking at the Pentax K-x as a replacement & upgrade. With this camera I can use my lens from my 35mm Pentax K-1000. Has anybody here at the forum used this Camera? Well here are the old shots.

 

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:38 AM

fmilhaupt

This week's new additions to the freight car fleet on the Operations Road Show layout.

 First, an Overland  wagon top boxcar I painted.

Overland B&O wagon top boxcar, painted by Fritz Milhaupt


That's one kit down, about fifty to go.

 

 

Fmilhaupt,

That's an interesting looking boxcar. I don't think I've ever one with the top rounded like that.  Do you have a prototype pic?

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Posted by fmilhaupt on Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:50 AM

Hamltnblue
Fmilhaupt,

That's an interesting looking boxcar. I don't think I've ever one with the top rounded like that.  Do you have a prototype pic?

One with replacement doors: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo381593ajs.jpg

One at the B&O Museum, also with replacement doors: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo385897abn.jpg

 

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Posted by jon grant on Sunday, May 23, 2010 9:47 AM

Hello all

I've spent some time detailling and weathering a few modern-ish freight cars for Sweethome, Alabama. Here are a selection of photos of the covered hoppers I've recently finished.

 

Happy modelling,

Jon

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Posted by Driline on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:02 PM

 Boy this thread didn't last very long. 1,900 viewers is pathetic. Last week we had over 5,000.

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Posted by duckdogger on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:06 PM

 I like the water tower. Jon grant, I like your yard weeds and subtle touch on the covered hoppers.

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