WPF 5/18-5/20

[Curt Webb]

I'll start off  the week with a short video of my completed TT in use.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEk1YDBMuoc

[Grampys Trains]

That's some outstanding modeling and a great video, Curt. Well done!

My I1sa with a coal drag passing through the yard. DJ.

[Curt Webb]

Thanks DJ. Coming from someone with your modeling ability  means a lot to me.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Curt : Very nice video.    ..... DJ: I like that photo. 

Here are 2 SD24's with a dynamometer car. ( .... and a Pennsy boxcar for the PRR nuts on board) 

 

[JeremyB]

wow 2 great pics and a great video to start WPF, good job fellas

[ChadLRyan]

The beginnings of another custom Leased unit.
Wanted the BN orange-face scheme like on some of their test SD50's, & applied it to a Kato white-face model.

 

[ollevon]

This is a picture That was in my local news paper In Gloucester Ma.

[PennCentral99]

Well, I, er, uh, tried a different weathering technique (this is supposed to be FUN, right?)......

Took a cotton ball, dampened it with 70% rubbing alcohol and wiped down the sides to fade and streak the lettering.  The I got out the fine tip sharpie pens and tried to do some "tagging".  Also tried some "rust spots".  Not quite what I expected, but I don't think it's bad either.....

["JaBear"]

Gidday all,good stuff as per usual. Here's ex- New Zealand Government Railway, Ww 644,  4-6-4T, built at the NZR Hillside Workshop in 1915, getting steam up at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.

Have a good one.

Cheers,the Bear.

 

[C&O Fan]

love the turntable Curt nice modeling always wanted one but just no space

here's an updated video of my car puller in operation

I found that separating the wheels that make the drum and letting the thread wrap on the smaller axle

between them

slowed the pull down to a realistic speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

 

[G Paine]

C&O Fan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

No prob, we fix quick-like

[C&O Fan]

G Paine

C&O Fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

No prob, we fix quick-like

thanks so much

i need to learn how to do that so i can make the link to my website in my sig line clickable also

 

G Paine

C&O Fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

No prob, we fix quick-like

[Phoebe Vet]

C&O Fan

love the turntable Curt nice modeling always wanted one but just no space

here's an updated video of my car puller in operation

I found that separating the wheels that make the drum and letting the thread wrap on the smaller axle

between them

slowed the pull down to a realistic speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

 

If you are using Internet Explorer all you have to do is hit the space bar at the end and IE will make it clickable.

[C&O Fan]

Phoebe Vet

C&O Fan:

love the turntable Curt nice modeling always wanted one but just no space

here's an updated video of my car puller in operation

I found that separating the wheels that make the drum and letting the thread wrap on the smaller axle

between them

slowed the pull down to a realistic speed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video

sorry don't know how to make it  a clickable link

 

 

If you are using Internet Explorer all you have to do is hit the space bar at the end and IE will make it clickable.

thanks looks like that works

 

[mcfunkeymonkey]

Been continuing to install Bullfrogs on my Free-moN staging yard module.
Also got all four shelves installed, to protect the knobs and to provide a non-layout surface for our Powercab and iPhone throttles:



Also been watching my daughter bust out her mad MR skillz as she builds a diorama of the BFG's cave:



She got a blast (not a jolt) out of using the Banananator static grass applicator.

Keep up the groovy work guys!
Always a pleasure to see.

[MRH044]

My picture for this weekend is of my G scale model of the Santa Fe station in Riverside California. The building is a little over 9 feet in length and was built after taking measurements from the actual structure in Riverside.

 

[Packer]

I started on some BN F-units. Buying a full ABBA set of the newer RTR ones (the Genesis ones would be nice to have) would cost an arm and a leg. So I decided to make my own using some Stewarts. I have an ABBA set of shells, and 2 chassis (1 powered, 1 dummy) already and am only in about 70 bucks. Best part, I get to have Fs with snow plows.

Here I'm test-fitting parts from the Details West kit for F-units (not the one for the highliners shells, but the older one). On the F9s the previous owner cut the rear doors off. So I took the Details west door and Striker plate and modified them to fit the stewart shell. The test is on the end that the end door wasn't cut off. I figure adding a piece of styrene the thickness of the shell to fill the gap from the cut-out doors and using the Details west doors and striker plates all around would look good. I would of used Highliners shells, but I want to keep this cheap because I still have a GP5 to finish building, 2 C425s that I need to make new fuel tanks for, and I'm still in college.

The F9A will recieve the same mods, but I have to add a lower headlight. The pilot on the F9A is buggered up to, so I'll add a snowplow pilot and it'll still be prototypical.

The set will be BN 824 (F9A), BN ??? (F9B), BN 737 (F7B), and BN 668 (F7A).
The 824 is one of only a couple F9s with plows, and there are quite a few good pictures of it on rrpictures archive
The 737 looks like a late phase F3B, but is labeled as an F7B. The portholes on this unit are also plated over. This makes use of a late-phase F3B shell I have
The 668 is one of the ex-GN F7s that has both dynamic and the pilot plow (I like the look of the plow). There are ex-NP units that are similar, but they have lower headlights.
As for ???, I haven't choosen a prototype F9B to make it... 

[CSX_road_slug]

Packer

I started on some BN F-units. Buying a full ABBA set of the newer RTR ones (the Genesis ones would be nice to have) would cost an arm and a leg. So I decided to make my own using some Stewarts. I have an ABBA set of shells, and 2 chassis (1 powered, 1 dummy) already and am only in about 70 bucks. Best part, I get to have Fs with snow plows.

Here I'm test-fitting parts from the Details West kit for F-units (not the one for the highliners shells, but the older one). On the F9s the previous owner cut the rear doors off. So I took the Details west door and Striker plate and modified them to fit the stewart shell. The test is on the end that the end door wasn't cut off. I figure adding a piece of styrene the thickness of the shell to fill the gap from the cut-out doors and using the Details west doors and striker plates all around would look good. I would of used Highliners shells, but I want to keep this cheap because I still have a GP5 to finish building, 2 C425s that I need to make new fuel tanks for, and I'm still in college.

 

The F9A will recieve the same mods, but I have to add a lower headlight. The pilot on the F9A is buggered up to, so I'll add a snowplow pilot and it'll still be prototypical.

The set will be BN 824 (F9A), BN ??? (F9B), BN 737 (F7B), and BN 668 (F7A).
The 824 is one of only a couple F9s with plows, and there are quite a few good pictures of it on rrpictures archive
The 737 looks like a late phase F3B, but is labeled as an F7B. The portholes on this unit are also plated over. This makes use of a late-phase F3B shell I have
The 668 is one of the ex-GN F7s that has both dynamic and the pilot plow (I like the look of the plow). There are ex-NP units that are similar, but they have lower headlights.
As for ???, I haven't choosen a prototype F9B to make it... 

 

I'm guessing you wanted to display the photos...?

[Packer]

CSX_road_slug

I'm guessing you wanted to display the photos...?

I'm don't get it. Do you mean the photos of the prototypes, the cut ends on the 2 F9s, or the 4 shells I'm starting with?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Packer

 

CSX_road_slug:

I'm guessing you wanted to display the photos...?

 

I'm don't get it. Do you mean the photos of the prototypes, the cut ends on the 2 F9s, or the 4 shells I'm starting with?

He means the two photos you posted of the work on the door. They didn't show up because of a missing command line parameter. He quoted the post and fixed the bad parameter so the photos show up.

[GAPPLEG]

Did you resin cast the whole thing ? How did you acheive the stucco look ?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[jalajoie]

Here is one from the club. A replica of a paper mill that exist in my town.

 

[Eric97123]

I have been working on a propane terminal. 

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Eric97123

I have been working on a propane terminal.

And it looks like you're doing very well on it. Keep up the good work.

[Packer]

jeffrey-wimberly

Packer:

 

CSX_road_slug:

I'm guessing you wanted to display the photos...?

 

I'm don't get it. Do you mean the photos of the prototypes, the cut ends on the 2 F9s, or the 4 shells I'm starting with?

 

He means the two photos you posted of the work on the door. They didn't show up because of a missing command line parameter. He quoted the post and fixed the bad parameter so the photos show up.

Oh. Strange that they showed up fine on my computer for some reason...

CSX_road_slug: Thanks for fixing it.

[MRH044]

GAPPLEG

Did you resin cast the whole thing ? How did you acheive the stucco look ?

 

The building was made out of foam and coated with a concrete mixture to make it appear as if it were stucco.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

The New York Central loco has been patched.

[tomkat-13]

Action on the M&A Railway.

 

[Dave Vollmer]

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