Weekend Photo Fun - November 10th - November 12th, 2023

[dti406]

This is the weekend thread where modelers can show their completed models, work under construction and layout pictures new and old.

Let's have a lot of participation this weekend!

Rick Jesionowski

 

[dti406]

Good morning from mostly sunny and mild Northeast Ohio!

I only managed to complete one car this week, a Tangent Bethlehem 52'6" gon. Painted with a mixture of Floquil Jade and Dark Green paint and lettered with Highball Graphics decals. The Lehigh Valley acquired 100 of these gons in 1970 for hauling ingot molds between Bethlehem Steel plants along with the D&H Railroad. I installed a pair of State Tool & Die ingot molds in the car resting on 4x4 wood stringers which run thee length of the car.

A pair of Atlas C-420's running on the Strongsville Club layout.

Have a great weekend!

Rick Jesionowski

[York1]

Thanks for opening the WPF thread, Rick.  You said you completed only one car this week -- if I completed one car in a week I would be throwing a celebration party.  Nice work on it!

 

While I didn't accomplish much, I finally removed some industrial sidings on the layout.  The industries will relocate to the other side of the layout.

The next major work will be to turn the bridge into a double track bridge.  I might be able to get that started today.

 

[HO-Velo]

'I want my, I want my WPF.'  Good to see the forum back in business.

Rick, Thanks for opening the WPF, like your gon' and Tangent products.

John, Every step forward is a step closer to completion.

'Cow Trailin' 

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers.  Wishing everyone a good celebratory weekend as we honor and thank Veterans.  Regards, Peter 

[tstage]

As my last few week's contributions attest, I have several projects going on concurrently and work on each a little at a time when the opportunity and mood is conducive.  One of my longest running projects is this HO NYC "Long" wood caboose laser kit from AMB:

 

 

 

Before I add the roof, I'm beginning to mock up & construct the interior with details that I want to include, using multiple references and conjecture from other NYC cabooses because I cannot find interior photos of this particular NYC lot # caboose (732).

 

The exterior & interior walls have been painted with Scalecoat I Boxcar Red and Tamiya XF-14 J.A. Gray (light green) & XF-70 Dark Green 2, respectively.  The floor is made from Evergreen 2040 V-groove styrene sheeting and painted with a solution of 5:1 Vallejo 310 "Old Wood" and DiH2O.  The icebox, oil room, and bathroom walls & door are constructed, as well as the storage space underneath the cupola with the same V-groove styrene as the floor.

 

I will be adding two interior wall lamps for the conductor on the forefront adjacent left wall and the front wall between the two front windows.  I've already drilled out, painted, and wired up the potbelly stove with a 0603 warm LED (below).  A TCS FL4 function-only decoder (that will fit in the opening behind the icebox & oil room wall) will illuminate both wall lamps and the potbelly stove:

 

 

 

I still need to construct the coal bin, benches (both sides), bench tables (2), slanted desk (for conductor), interior railing (around the stove), and paint the two wall sections to match the two-tone interior scheme common in NYC cabooses.  I'm also trying to figure how best to route the wiring for the lamps and stove.  So, still a ways to go before completing this one.

 

Yes, I'm fully aware that most of these details will not be very visible through the caboose windows - even illuminated.  However, my plan is to make the entire upper shell of the caboose removable so that the interior details could be viewed when removed.  This will require that NOTHING is attached to the shell and EVERYTHING is attached to the floor and base of the caboose.  This will also make the decoder and lighting accessible if something should require repair or removal.

 

And for those who might be interested, the HO toilet and potbelly stove are 3D-printed by a company called All Scale Miniatures.  The detailing is VERY clean with little flash, if any.  This is my first experience with ASM products and I was quite impressed with the parts when I first received them in the mail.  I'm always happy to support small cottage businesses whenever possible.

 

Tom

[NVSRR]

Sitting on the workbench.  a totally free lance boxcab electric.  The pantograph is just sitting on top in roughly the plce it will be mounted.   The pilot trucks and power truck are GG1 parts from a parts unit.  the boxcab is a 3d print scaled up from an N scale cab. Much work to build the porches yet. of course paint and electrical

[pike-62]

A little late for Sunday but here goes...

 

 

 

 

Dan