Weekend Photo Fun 10-5-2007 Thru 10-7-2007

[jwar]

John, that is a great idea for guard rails that are both good looking and cheap. Where did you get the corrugated roofing? It looks like you just needs two...I don't know what you call them...raised corrugated section for each line of guard rail? And that view down to Keddie Wye is fantastic.

The coragated roofing/siding is by Evergreen scale models, the back is smooth, I filed it on the ends to give the apearence it was coragated on both sides. That bridge is the reason I built this mountain type layout and the helix realy makes it work out great., I love the Keddie area and worked there for awhile with WP... The terrain is not like this, but the road has a narrow curve and there is only a foot or so behind the guard rail to stand...have to hussle accross the road to get a picture, as trucks bare down on cars with Jake brakes, John.

[eeyore9900]

& thanx to you Jim-you've given me some ideas on to model HO Crown Vics on the hopefully future layout (have to please my best bud with an "in pursuit" scene!)

Steamage-I'm interested in that wigwag also. Would it happen to be an old Don Fowler Slow Motion? Reason I'm asking is I have one, 25+ years & still unassembled. I got it as a young teen, but opening the box, I was totally intimidated by the assembly of it & put it away. Any tips on it (if in fact it is) & if someone knows about the above product? (I still have it in the box by my workbench)

[UP2CSX]

John, that is a great idea for guard rails that are both good looking and cheap. Where did you get the corrugated roofing? It looks like you just needs two...I don't know what you call them...raised corrugated section for each line of guard rail? And that view down to Keddie Wye is fantastic.

[UP2CSX]

Great job on these Jim-the spotlights came out well IMO!

Keep us posted on those possible interceptor badges too.

Thanks, Mitch. Those spotlights came from a Busch light bar kit that I used to build Sheriff Herbies unit and they were a devil to get in if you want to have them upright. Another member here has kindly agreed to make some PI decals so we'll see how those look (or if you can even tell they are there. ) BTW, Sheriff Herbie's car is a $6 Model Power car and it is a much more accurate model of a Crown Vic PI than the Busch model. It even has the dual exhausts coming out below the bumpers in the right place. It started out as a plain black unit and I added the light bar, decals, and other details. 

[selector]

Wow, everybody, what a great, even exceptional start to our thread!  Mike, the RS11 is wonderful...really well done, and great image, too.

Sue and Larry, it goes without saying, but... and very

Keddy Wye gets better lookin' each time out.

Nothing from me this weekend.  I am in the interior of the Province and taking an all-day excursion Saturday on ex-CN 2-8-0 #2141.

Best wishes to all of you.

-Crandell

[Driline]

Getting ready to scenic my "Trailer Park". I've set the structures in place to see how it will all layout. The road is not done. I've got a couple layers of drywall spackling mixed with black acrylic yet to spread over the foam asphault road.

Oh, and JK, I'm using my Canon G7 10Mp camera. There's lots of buttons on it, so it will take some time to figure out

Couple of SooLine engines. The Geep is an Atlas while the SD-40-2 is a re-painted Kato.

[jwar]

This hi-way gaurd rail is extreamly easy to do.. stryine coragated roofing, cut strip, cut n scale ties, drilla few holes and ya done ...John

[jeffrey-wimberly]

That was a good job on the video. I really enjoyed it.

[gear-jammer]

Nice work guys.

Larry worked over the Proto 2000 Mallet video and made it old timey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKKFFYK50DM

Sue

[Anonymous]

Old Class A assigned R.O.W duties for the mine.

HO Scale, MDC Climax shell fitted to a Spectrum 44 tom chassis.

[WCfan]

Zgardner, wow. I really like the SD45. Being a fond fan of the SD45 I like any model of it. Really nice paint job. VERY crisp, looks factory painted.

Well I don't have much to show, well actually I do. But no Photos. I've gotten alot done, but I didn't have the time to take any photos. So hopefuly tommrow I'll have the time to take some photos.

[reklein]

Mikelhh, nice modeling,nice photo.

[howmus]

I have been finishing the last of my Cabeese. 

Ok, with the risk of sounding stupid.... is Cabeese plural for caboose? I've now seen this word three separate times lately and I am confused!

Thanks, 

 

Yes, that is the intention.  Techniquely it should be cabooses, but cabeese is generally accepted as one form for the plural of caboose.  Kinda like the plural of Goose is Geese........  (My 8th grade English teacher would roll over in her grave I'm sure!)

[jeffrey-wimberly]

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[NeO6874]

Zak, you mean you would slight your modeling time just because you'e having a baby? Very nice models and I hope the prototype male and mom come through in fine shape.

Well..............we'll see (please don't tell the wife)  There is always nap time, right?

Thanks.  I hope that they do too.  The wife and I are still fighting over a name.  She isn't going for Lionel or Athearn.  Heck, I was even trying for Link short for Montana Rail Link. Just kidding, I'm going for the oldschool names like Hank and Dean but she isn't going for them.  She wants the more new-age names.

 

you *could* always call him link, dress him up in green and give him a wooden sword & shield... 

 

To keep this MRR related:

4-8-4 #6005 (bachmann) takes on more coal as an 0-4-0 (Mantua) moves in to pull out an empty from the caol loading bay...thing

 

Slightly altered shot that shows the same scene, but kept the 120 ton crane and it's boom car in focus.  I just finished painting the crane and the underframe of the boom car in this shot.  I need to get something other than black for the rest of the boom car (i think... I'm still contemplating it, they're the tichy kits)

 

A shot "across the turntable" at 4-6-4 #5271 (Mantua, on the right) and 2-8-2 #1852 (Athearn Genesis) waiting "in the roundhouse" for the crews to finish their checks.

 

 

And here's an overview shot of the layout design:

the teal tracks off to the left are the (planned) lead/entrance tracks to the TT,  I'm not sure which one(s) will eventually be the finalized leads.

The green tracks across the bottom (that go through the coaling tower at the lower right) are just other tracks that are in the engine yard.

The long blue tracks are the RH tracks.

The red/rust colored tracks are the outside storage tracks for whatever needs to be there (mostly engines)  some will probably end up getting shortened stalls, though the table is slightly larger than the diagram is, giving me an extra 3-4" at the rear & right sides to potentially add three stalls to one side of the "existing " three.

[mikelhh]

 My HO scale Atlas MEC RS11 . Weathered with acrylics and chalks.

 Mike 

 

[onebiglizard]

I allus thoot plural for caboose wout be cubii.  But Ih nat allaus understand tae Englis an  their language.

William of Edinburgh 

 

[onebiglizard]

I love weekend photo fun - it inspires me!  Howwever I'm a working man and can't spare the time to follow the verrr..y long thead come Monday or so.  A "Hump-day Happenings" mid week photo thread would be great.  I don't yet have the time or skilll to get it going, but would applaud anyone that would!

Bill Field

MoPac y Frisco y TBD W. Illinois line(s)

  

[Dave Vollmer]

I also updated my webpage.

[Dustin]

I have been finishing the last of my Cabeese. 

Ok, with the risk of sounding stupid.... is Cabeese plural for caboose? I've now seen this word three separate times lately and I am confused!

Thanks, 

 

[GAPPLEG]

Mr. B , nice , a little humor never hurt anybody.

Finally back to model work, my mother died out in Albuquerque, so I had to go out there for two weeks.

Added some color to my cast resin stucco city hall. Been very slow going. HO , The color is highlighting flaws that I'll correct. Have cut some interior walls and am deciding on lighting options, doors and windows are ready as well.

 

[Dustin]

 

Love the Backdrop! Its quite convincing in these photos.

[howmus]

Nice work so far everyone!  I have been finishing the last of my Cabeese.  This one I decided to super detail the interior.  Spent hours trying to find layouts and photos of the interiors of cabooses.  Found a little but........ nothing that I could take verbatum and use.  So I have made my own design based on what I found and have started to scratch build some of the interior.





I had a coal burning Potbellied Stove so I put a length of pipe on it, painted it balck and glued it under the pipe on the roof.  There is a water tank on the far right made from some plastic sprue I had laying around from another [project.  Several details are on order, like a washstand and a chair for the conductor's desk (Left end of Caboose).

[zgardner18]

Zak, you mean you would slight your modeling time just because you'e having a baby? Very nice models and I hope the prototype male and mom come through in fine shape.

Well..............we'll see (please don't tell the wife)  There is always nap time, right?

Thanks.  I hope that they do too.  The wife and I are still fighting over a name.  She isn't going for Lionel or Athearn.  Heck, I was even trying for Link short for Montana Rail Link. Just kidding, I'm going for the oldschool names like Hank and Dean but she isn't going for them.  She wants the more new-age names.

[eeyore9900]

I've been doing more vehicles this week than trains. Officer Mike from Hillside PD is comparing notes with Sheriff Herbie about his new ride, a 2006 Crown Vic. Hillside keeps cars forever but Herbie gets a new car every year. Herbie likes the all black scheme - thinks it looks more menacing, especially with the big push bar

Great job on these Jim-the spotlights came out well IMO!

Keep us posted on those possible interceptor badges too.

[C&O Fan]

Thanks Jim

I forgot those are HO scale cows non digitally inhanced

[UP2CSX]

Terry, Sheriff Herbie will be right over. Nothing he likes better than nudging those doggies along. Usually a blast from the 200 watt siren gets them moving too. Did you know that you can actually get every cow in a field to come over to you if you moo at them through a PA system? Don't ask me how I found that out.

Don, that looks like quite a metropolis you're planning there. I think you need a subway system too.

Allan, nice Pennsy power there. I'm not sure I understand the accident part of your second scene either. Sheriff Herbie would just drive right by.

Zak, you mean you would slight your modeling time just because you'e having a baby? Very nice models and I hope the prototype male and mom come through in fine shape.

Steamage, I love wig-wags. Is that a working signal or a dummy? I've been looking at a working model but it looks fiendishly difficult to install.

Mr. B., I wonder how many visitors will even notice who's the owner of the Burns Coal Company? Nice model and very creative as well.

[Mark R.]

  ....  "EXCELLENT"

Mark. 

[MisterBeasley]

Looks like we're starting off with nice scenes this weekend.  I finally got around to putting some lighting into my first scratch-built structure, Burns Coal and Oil Company.

I snuck up close and took a picture in through the side window...

And later I backed off a bit, switched to a telephoto lens and took a look at what was going on up in the loft.

 

[steamage]

The new Wig-Wag is getting a final adjustment by the signal maintainer.