It's a Walther's Cornerstone kit, I forget exactly which one. I bought it a few years ago.
Check here for your factory structures:
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.... no drama - no excitement ....
C'mon - SOMEbody post some crappy pics !!!
Nothing but three pages of great pics and cordial compliments .... maybe changing to "phinery" had something to do with it.
Mark.
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Great images and plenty of model railroading going on this weekend!
Here is my first stage of weathering on my old Atlas turntable, part of my ongoing Roundhouse and Roundtable Renovation project. For more details, check out Roundhouse Renovations web page.
A little rusting here!
Looks like the rails need some work too!
First run on the newly wired for DCC auto-reversing turntable.
Looks like the MOW crew needs to make a trip out to the roundtable!
Enjoy,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Some fantastic pics here this weekend, as usual. I have been working on weathering this water tower for the good people in Traintown. I used real dirt for the weathering, just a little, didn't want to much. The painting on the front was done using the Testors Decal Maker. I will post some pics of it installed on the layout later.
I am pleased with the way this WPP is going this week, Ok Mark R. Are these crappy enough for you or should I change the settings on my camera LOL. Mike
I,ve been working on backgrounds. This is a test board I painted that changes daily. Either I add to or start over. So far I,m only happy with the sky. Clouds still need work but getting closer. Mountains and hills need more detail. I am not a painter. So any artist out there want to offer help I,m all ears.
Glenn
I'm no artist either, but I sure like what I see there.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
MilwaukeeRoad wrote: What kind of kit is that Jeff? Looks very nice.
What kind of kit is that Jeff? Looks very nice.
I agree. I'm a sucker for scenes with barrels and pallets, though. Stuff on loading docks always makes the scene come alive.
Also, can you guys help me find a good, big factory kit, already painted, I just have to put it together?
I suspect that you'll find kits that are unpainted, or RTP (Ready to Plop.) The Walthers Cornerstone series comes in "reasonable" colors, which I sometimes keep, but mostly I enjoy the process of painting, detailing and weathering a structure. Seriously, painting isn't that hard, and once you've done a couple you'll find yourself looking for the "right" color for every part. For me, even a simple structure takes a week (we're talkin' four walls and a roof here) and the more complex ones might be a month from box to layout. It's not the only thing I do in that month, not even the only railroad thing, but, as my old Pappy used to say, "Patience is a virtue."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
The air smells nice and fresh after a whole bunch of pages and many interesting and fun images. Great going, everyone.
I thought I would throw in another at this point, but I must say it seems to have lost some sharpness and zip that the original has on my hard drive. This is cropped, and re-sized as you can probably guess, but its current size means that the image has lost quite a bit of sharpness and detail.
Dang!
Spectratone, what kind of scenery are you trying to recreate? If it's the arid desert Southwest, I think the background hills look just about right. Maybe a few more splotches of green to represent mesquite but it's very good as it stands.
Selector, your picture looks plenty sharp compared to the junk I take.
Jeffrey, did that GP-30 get involved in a grade crossing accident? The shop crew needs to get to work on those handrails.
Very nice photos, everyone. And the tone is so civilised this week!
Anyway. I spent a good part of the day manning a table at the Boeing Employees Railroad Club Swap Meet in the 'burbs of St. Louis. Made some healthy sales and thus was able to treat myself to some phinery from the land of the rising sun:
....a shiny new Kato SD70MAC! Now before you blow the civilised bit out of the water, please note that no, I have not yet applied all of Kato's tiny, tiny details, no, there is no ballast on that track (it's a 6' long test track, the extent of my layout, currently) and no, the SD will not clear the canopy behind it. You're welcome.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Ok the cork came today! Still waiting for more switch track and electrical stuff, But I started laying it down today. I got maybe 1/5 of it done. I'm still getting the hang of it for doing it for the first time.
Sorry for the one fuzzy pictur, I hope to share with you more progress on this as time goes on.
Conrail92,
Another item....I hope you peeled the plastic 'skin' from your foam before you laid the foam and cork. The reflection of the glue bottle caught my eye.
Don Z.
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UP2CSX wrote:Nice unit there, alphadawg. I just had the strangest experience. I have two industries at the end of my main street spur. Both have overhanging platform awnings. One clears a car on the side but not on the bottom. The other one cleared a car on the bottom. Now it won't clear a car on the side or the bottom. I have no idea what I did to change this. Hmmm....taps foot and wonders who is running a conspiracy to move platform awnings when I'm not looking.
Thanks, UP2CSX. You may have a case of extreme expansion and contraction on the part of the awnings, the freight cars, you operators or worse yet, a combination of all three. You might want to enforce rule Z part 0.1 paragraph zed line 235.6 on operating nights ("The general manager reserves the right to deny coffee and donut priveleges to any and all operators and their accomplices found to be messing with the aforementioned general manager's head on operating night.....).
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Well I will fire a salvo against ME
But this is a very DEER picture:
This was what I was doing this summer. Bought about 75 acers of land for a hunting area for some friends of mine (I do not hunt) My fun are the pictures and target shooting.
Sorry, but after all the FUN you where having I had to do it!! DEER I hope no one gets mad!!!
howmus wrote:Done went and bought me a heavy duty tripod for the camera today. The one I had was light duty and didn't do a good job of supporting the Rebel or my Movie camera. So I just had to go and try her out....... Just a few more photos of Hopewell Junction. Took the telephoto lens and went across the valley and took them from the top of Bare Mountain. (Well not really.....) ;) :D Some old timers are having a game of checkers outside of Roses Diner. The Reverend Miller is gonna have to stop reading so much and chase off them raccoons out back too in the garbage!The afternoon freight coasts downhill behind the business district.
What kind of paint did you use on Mechants Row??? I tried some Craft paint and it did not work very well.
Bear Mountain, Family lived in Havestraw NY.
Ray, that bandstand came out great, as did your pictures. Those flower beds were the finishing touch! By coincidence, I just finished redoing my Merchants Row building that you have on your layout. I added a scratchbuilt lighted sign, put in some interior lights, repainted one of the store fronts I've hated since I did it, and added some awnings. I realized today while riding through downtown Prattville that that was the one things I was missing for an authentic Southern town - awnings. Have to do something to keep the scorching Southern sun off the shoppers. I'll take some pictures tomorrow when I get all the awning supports up.
George, I used a combination of Flouquil and Polly Scale paints. I think I have 12 different colors on all the store fronts. I tried some of the craft store acrylics but they are too thick and cover up too much detail. I'll be interested to see if Ray used the same kind of paints.
P.S. I like your deer, nice shot.
I can't help myself I am so excited my friend tooks pictures of my layout that I am putting up another pic.
You can see my first attemp at weather on the UP gondola. The 2nd attemp is on the D&RGW 0-2-0 Switcher on the tender I added the wood because the plastic wood pile was lacking to say the best.
UP2CSX wrote: Ray, that bandstand came out great, as did your pictures. Those flower beds were the finishing touch! By coincidence, I just finished redoing my Merchants Row building that you have on your layout. I added a scratchbuilt lighted sign, put in some interior lights, repainted one of the store fronts I've hated since I did it, and added some awnings. I realized today while riding through downtown Prattville that that was the one things I was missing for an authentic Southern town - awnings. Have to do something to keep the scorching Southern sun off the shoppers. I'll take some pictures tomorrow when I get all the awning supports up.George, I used a combination of Flouquil and Polly Scale paints. I think I have 12 different colors on all the store fronts. I tried some of the craft store acrylics but they are too thick and cover up too much detail. I'll be interested to see if Ray used the same kind of paints. P.S. I like your deer, nice shot.
Thank you for both. THe craft paint for me WOULD NOT COVER. I tried using FloTrol to slow down the drying so that it would flow better. I think I needed to wash the plastic better.
I have an Ultrasonic cleaner and I will try dropping the parts in that. DPM kits will probably be the same problem (have about 30 of them to do, OH JOY!!)
Nice work and pictures.
UP2CSX wrote:That wood in the tender looks pretty good. The only thing I'd try is to stain some of the wood since a wood load is rarely all the same color. The weathering job is probably a little too much but that's how we all started out. If you want to try for an interesting effect, get some rubbing alcohol and rub it lightly on the flat panels between the uprights. It will remove some of the heavier weathering on the flat panels and leave it on the uprights, where most of the rust and dirt tend to collect. Just think about what part of a car the rain would run down in sheets. Those are the parts of the car that always stay (relatively) clean.
Plan to do both just have not got to it yet.
Well I haven't done to much to my layout this week. I did paint a mountain but it would be a waste of a photo. I did work on my next weathered car for Ebay. I try to do one a week. This one took awhile. I did the graffiti by hand. I tried to make it look like a sunset on the one side. I also tried to make the couplers rusted real good. Its a great looking car, but weighs a good bit due to the custom load.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
here is my first contribution, these shots didn't came out the way I hoped they would, but at least they give you an idea about the first module of my layout
4 Axle EMD (GP38-2) waiting for a red signal
main street
the yard..
I hope you enjoyed these shots, please note everything is still WIP