WPF, 3/15 to 3/17, 2013

[cowman]

howmus,

Nice scenes.  What did you use for fence rails?

Thank you,

Richard

[howmus]

cowman

howmus,

Nice scenes.  What did you use for fence rails?

Thank you,

Richard

The fence rails were made from the twigs from the crab apple tree in my yard.  The same material the tree trunks are made of that you can see in the photo. They were cut to a length of 12 scale feet, then debarked and split (I used a NWSL cutter).  I stained them with a dilute black India Ink and Alcohol to weather them.

Thanks!

73

[THayman]

Some great stuff on here as always! Since it's still the weekend, I'll add a few things in that I've been working on, in both N scale and HO.

First up are some N scale equipment I weathered for my little N scale shelf layout. I was getting tired of nice shiny trains running around, so I decided to experiment with some weathering techniques. These were weathered with a combination of acrylic white and black washes, along with some drybrushed acrylics for texture and rust streaks.

First up is an Intermountain HATX SD45-2. #914 was power on the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (the setting for my N scale setup), so I was glad to see Intermountain had produced this particular unit. I relocated the horn, added ditch lights, removed the extra lights in the nose, and then weathered it up like this:

Next is an old CN 40' box car (made by Atlas). Now for the setting of this layout (early 2000s), this car is a long way past its prime, and seeing very little actual service. I weathered it up to look like it's seen years of neglect.

Finally, here's a green car for St. Patty's Day. A BC Rail box car (Microtrains) that's a long way from home, having made it all the way to Cape Breton. But with BC Rail now absorbed by CN, such migration of equipment is not all that uncommon. Of course the green scheme is pretty old, so it's appropriate to look rather filthy.

Now for the other stuff this week, we'll increase the size and switch up to HO scale.

I've been working on building this CN caboose (or van as we call them up north :) ), and it's finally looking the way I want it to. CN used to have many of these cabeese, which it built at it's Pointe Ste. Charles shops in Montreal. I built this from a HO resin kit made by Sylvan, painted, added decals, and weathered it. I didn't want to go for a shiny, new van, since my HO setting is around 2009+ (quite modern). By now, the only vans still in service are being used mostly as empty shoving platforms.

This one is meant to be a well beat-up van, as shown by it's broken windows, boarded end windows, overall state of disrepair, and general filthiness. The interior is mostly torn up, and the doors are welded shut. It's just getting used for pushing jobs anyway, so why should it need to be pretty? It's still missing wire supports for the smokejacks, but otherwise she's done.

Here it is:

Possibly the most fun part of building this van was actually making the broken windows. I cut pieces of sturdy, relatively brittle thin clear styrene to fit the window openings. I then cut partly in for any parts that were meant to be broken out completely, and snapped the piece out, making sure t left some white deformation around it (gives the look of very fine shattered areas). I then took a sharp hobby knife and scored the spiderweb patterns into the glass, as appropriate, making sure no two windows were the same.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!

[stebbycentral]

howmus

Great work everyone!  I do love this thread every week.  Thought I would put some green stuff up here to go along with the day...

I think everybody must be out celebrating,..I tried to get a green train thread going in the other forum but so far no takers.  Anyone else here with a green theme?

[rdgk1se3019]

An older pic or two.........but yet green non-the-less.

[JimRCGMO]

Good photos, everybody!

I've been trying to get a kitbash done from the Walthers Roberts Printing Company kit (except smaller in size). My RR is a fictional line that connects between the ATSF and D&RGW in the Southwestern U.S., Four Corners area (which isn't flush with big industries, for the most part). I made photocopies from the kit's pieces and then did some trial stuff of fitting how the pieces should go together, and then cut and assembled the wall pieces for what I had visualized. Anyway, here (still in progress) is my version of the kit:

This is from the 'back' side, which is what viewers usually see on my layout. The roof is just set in place, and I still have all the roof stuff to add, as well as the 'glass' behind the window frames, and the stairs and steps so the employees can get out safely...

Here is the 'street' side of the industry, and that entryway was a bit of a pain to put together, if you haven't put this kit together:

Hope everyone's having a great St. Patty's Day!

Jim in Cape G.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Here's a green train for St. Pat's day .......... The North Coast Limited.

 

[markdeimling]

My version of the Santa Clara CA Interlock tower.

[cmulligan01]

Perfect. I didn't remember the most famous green train. Glad you remembered. Nice pic.

[doctorwayne]

cmulligan01

Perfect. I didn't remember the most famous green train. Glad you remembered. Nice pic.

Nice train and nice photo of it, too. 

I would have thought someone would have shown us the Green Diamond or perhaps the Green Mountain Flyer. 

This is also a passenger train, but no green except for that generated by ticket sales, as there finally seem to be some passengers on board.  This is the Erie Northshore's diesel-electric "BEE", seen eastbound over Chippawa Creek:

Originally built as a gas-electric, the locals nicknamed her the "Bee" based both on the sound she made and the paint scheme.  The name stuck, and it appears as such in the timetable, but in all-caps:  after all, it's the road's only "name" train.  

Wayne