Living the dream.
This week my share is something from a few years ago.
In the six years that I have been without a layout I have tried many things to keep myself active in the hobby and stay creative.
One of the most fun was my 30" by 30" photo-diorama that I built to create and photograph scenes. This was a great creative outlet and allowed me to quickly participate in the Sjow Me Something thread on these forums.
This was the very first photograph I made on the 30X30 photo diorama:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
What a great journey that turned out to be. I created over 500 photographs on the diorama.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone's photographs this weekend. This thread can always be counted on to be the best of the week.
-Kevin
Good morning from mostly cloudy and warm Northeast Ohio!
Thanks for starting us out Kevin, one of your nice pictures on that diorama. Amazing what a different angle on the same place can make a good looking picture.
Here is what I got done this week!
Another pre-painted Bowser PRR H21a hopper car kit, I did hit it with dullcoat to get rid of the shiney finish.
A different Bowser hopper car, the 100 ton variety, painted with Scalecoat II Rust paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. I think I remember reading that these cars were made with Corten Steel, which rusts and the rust coating stops further rusting of the car, which was then lettered after the rust formed. Also Corten steel is stronger and longer lasting so the hope was they would not have to reskin the cars after the sides deterioted due to the acid in the coal.
An Atlas 5347CF FMC Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II NP Dark Green, Black and Silver paints and lettered with Herald King Decals. The Green Mountain Railway invested heavily in IPD boxcar boom of the late 70's and early 80's and kept their cars in service even after the boom went away.
Received the final 5 cars of the "General" from Walthers, so I took the completed train to the club for a little run last weekend.
Have a great weekend!
Rick Jesionowski
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Kevin, Thanks for starting up the WPF. Adding photography makes diorama building extra fun.
Rick, Always interesting and fun to see what's rolling out of your shop.
Venga! Venga! Venga! Good to see an American leading the Vuelta after such a long hiatus.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter
Thanks for setting up another fine WPF, Kevin! A diorama is a great way to practice modeling technique and have fun with photography.
Rick, it looks like your BD85 is like mine with one black battery box and the other painted Tuscan. I wonder what's behind that?
PRR BD85 Battery box by Edmund, on Flickr
The Race is on, Peter!
I haven't had much to contribute of late as I was mostly doing some DCC upgrades to some of my locomotive sound and lighting. This really doesn't interest many here.
More recently I began sorting through my roster of (too many!) troop sleepers and finally getting around to applying the grab irons and painting the interiors plus adding some window shades (yes, they had window shades)
Troop Sleeper-door by Edmund, on Flickr
Troop Sleeper by Edmund, on Flickr
The windows aren't huge so I wasn't too choosy about color combinations or too much 'neatness'. No lighting, either. In the Kitchen cars I placed a few pots, and and some dishes, although for the most part the troops used their mess kits to eat with.
Troop Kitchen by Edmund, on Flickr
Troop Kitchen range by Edmund, on Flickr
Again, you really don't see much through the small windows but you can at least detect there's 'something' in there. An improvement over the Walthers basic tan interior plastic.
While on interiors, I fancy-upped a couple of the Nickel Plate coaches by applying painted antimassacars (tedious masking!) and giving a basic color change, again, improving on the basic tan color.
NKP Coach interior by Edmund, on Flickr
In the foreground is a white primered interior with tape applied prior to painting the maroon upholstery color.
Another little project was mounting these Kewanee boilers for shipment:
Kewanee on F30-PRR by Edmund, on Flickr
Kewanee on F30 by Edmund, on Flickr
On to more Fun Stuff!
Cheers, Ed
Troop by Bear, on Flickr
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
This old brass 2-10-4 getting a new clean look. and all set up for dcc. Paint job is almost done with the touch ups. not doing that again. too long to do it. It is based on the Great Northern version.
shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Great job by everyone so far this week.
Thanks for starting us out Kevin.
Rick: the 'General' looks superb coming around the curve.
Peter: Always enjoy the bicycle pictures.
Ed: Love those car interiors and flat car load.
Shane: the GN paint job looks great.
This week I completed the repaint job of a CNW yellow box RSD-5 that I've had for many years. The original Atlas paint job had the modern Zito yellow that this type of unit never wore on the prototype. The original lasted until 1980 on the CNW AlCo line in Minn. and South Dakota.
Used TCP CNW yellow and green to complete the body and end stripes and added the class lights that were on the prototype. Microscale decals and Dullcote completed the job.
Scott Sonntag
Great pictures folks! Here's a shot taken at the club.
Simon
IMG_20230725_215611 on Flickr
Looking good, everyone!
Here's a scene-is-nearly-finished look at a flatcar being delivered to Rocky Mountain Drilling in Casper, from the perspective of a rider on the car.
Mark P.
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