Good work, all of you. I always love this thread each week!
I have been using what little time I had to add the beginnings of a scratch built silo to the barn. This is about 30% done and have to put a roof on it finish the staves, paint it, and attach it to the barn (would be much closer to being finished but I ran out of the size wood I was using and am waiting for a package from Kappler to arrive). Ultimately the silo will be painted white as was the old Wood Stave Silo on the dairy farm I grew up on. My Father made farming history with that old silo. Got it written up in several farming magazines and in the local paper. Almost 200 people showed to see him fail the day he had it moved intact from one side of the barn to the other to be next to the Grange concrete stave silo. BTW it was a success and we got about 10 more years out the old girl before Dad didn't think it was going to hold up any more. She fell down of her own accord about 30 years ago. I figured it would be a good addition to the barn in 1925.From the other side of the mountain (What the bear saw):I will have to scratch build the silo chopper/loader as well and an old style canvas belt to run from it to a belt tractor. Then the corn can be brought in to fill the silo. (Hmmmm, of course then it won't be correct for august around here.... We didn't start harvesting corn for silage until late September........) Oh well, I'm gonna do it anyway! :DBTW, since this is supposed to be Plainville Turkey farm as it might have been in 1925 (both a dairy and Turkey farm), does anyone know where domestic 1/87 turkeys can be had?????
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Photos are great folks. now time for a laugh. Trying my luck at scenery
I wanted to post a pic that was something other than my usual MOW cars. This is my HO layout that I work on when the weather is too bad to run the G scale layout. The Super Chief makes a stop at the station before departing on its way to Los Angeles. Enjoy, Michael
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The track is down, now it is ready for weathering & ballast.
For earlier photos check post in link below.
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1315698/ShowPost.aspx
I guess it's about time I did a little contributing of my own. Below are some photos of my recent background rock work at the Crossroads on my layout. After making the landforms and testing the track, I test fit the buildings and signs. Here's the progress so far:
In addition, I've been test fitting the road and railroad trestle over the highway just east of the Crossroads.
My next project is to start the terra-forming for Tucker Hollow, the next spur up the track from the Crossroads. Tucker Hollow is named after my deceased father-in-law, who gave me the partially finished water tower seen here.
My next month's work is cut out for me. I'll be building more mountains, painting the backdrop, and laying some asphalt roads.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Thanks Don, I appreciate it.
J.
Don Z wrote:Jarrell,Great photo....you're an artist with the camera!Don Z.
Jarrell,
Great photo....you're an artist with the camera!
Don Z.
Jeff
That old building looks good !!!
JIM
Research; it's not just for geeks.
I have a lot of switchin' fun with this little Atlas
Jarrell
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: This structure is part of an old Tyco kit I got back in the late seventies. It looks like it's been through several really bad storms.
This structure is part of an old Tyco kit I got back in the late seventies. It looks like it's been through several really bad storms.
Jeffrey,
You need some "no trespassing" signs, yellow safety tape, a red condemned building sign, and a couple of crows on the roof. That's a nicely dilapidated building!
More nice stuff here.
WM3798 ..... I like the layout photos with visiting NKP locos. Stebby central ........ nice engine house! ........ Dave V.............. great work on the TOFC flatcars and trailers ..........I like Jeff's shed, too.
Happy Model Railroading.
GARRY
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Yes its a Revell/AHM kit. I believe it come out of the AHM engine sandhouse with fuel tank kit.
Kevin
I have the same kit and I believe it is a Revell kit, can someone confirm or deny this?
Jack W.
After spending the last two weekends travelling on business to the cold but friendly environs of central Saskatechewan, I have finally gotten back to working on my O-scale engine-house project. It's now 95% completed; I still need to lay the track, mount the doors, and apply a little weathering to help disguise some of the defects in the paint.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
JP,
I used PolyScale Earth as the main color. The decks were then washed with thinned PolyScale Steam Power Black. They were also drybrushed with a bit of PolyScale Concrete and weathered with various pastel chalk colors (black, brown, dust, etc.).
Here are some more flatcars whose plastic and metal decks were treated the same way:
The pipe load is scratchbuilt, but the tarp-covered load is a modified Hay Brothers Garage casting.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Packer wrote: I went and super-detailed a model of one of my favorite locomotives, the Gp30.Before:After[
I went and super-detailed a model of one of my favorite locomotives, the Gp30.Before:After[
Packer,
It's hard to actually comment on the detailing job because the pics are so bad. I suggest using better lighting and either a tripod or putting the camera on a couple of books and then using the timer shutter release. I love seeing a good BN loco, but the only detail I can see in the pic is the radio antenna. Or, Garry's eyesight must a whole lot better than mine.
Hey Dave,
The decks on your flat cars look great. What color did you use to get that weathered wood look? It looks spot on.
J.P.
Many of you in N scale are familiar with the beautiful Alan Curtis PRR F30d TOFC kits. I understand Alan Curtis no longer makes them. I also thought I heard that someone else was going to continue to release them, but I'm not quite sure about that. Jerry Britton can probably correct me on that.
Anyway, those kits are really nice. But a whole train of them may push the bounds of practicality for many folks. So I took another look at the Atlas Trainman-type flats and TOFC cars.
WARNING: Rivet counters (I use that as a term of endearment!) may wish to look away.
Adding Plastruct I-beam to the sides, 4 side stakes, and 0.020" styrene ramps on either end gives the impression of a PRR/TTX TOFC car with a minimum of effort.
The car in the back is with the two trailers is the stock Atlas car with the deck painted and weathered but as-yet otherwise unmodified. Notice how odd the trailers look just sitting on the empty deck. The middle car has the mods. I know, I know... It's not a correct Pennsy lettering arrangement. I may have to fix that later. Lastly, the car in front is a Trainman TTX flatcar with e Classic Metal Works PRR 32' trailer and the mods to the flatcar. I weathered it to look like a TTX paint-out, as TTX trook over the PRR F30d fleet in the year I model (1956).
A whole train of these pulled by a pair of GP9s will give me a close approximation to a 50's era PRR TrucTrain.
We shall see... I have three more of these to do ...
This is another neat vantage point I found by randomly dropping the camera on the layout and firing away.
These are also Eric's. I did the decoder installations for him. I thought Yough Crossing was a good place to shoot these, since the Nickel Plate was a partner in the Alphabet Route... It could happen!
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Hello everybody...
I really like the water scene with fishing by Terry in Texas. Don Z's scenery is looking impressive so far, and sorry he was under the weather. Jeff's night scene in the loco shop is really neat. Packer's work on the BN GP30 and cabooses is outstanding.
Below is my WPF contribution. My town of Prairie View did not look right with a European style factory that was originally in the scene. That old building just did not look like part of rural America.
To replace it, I built two buildings from Railway Design Accociates (RDA) kits. I had purchased three different RDA kits on Ebay a couple of years ago and and intermixed the parts. I already used some of the parts for other buildings elsewhere on the layout.
One of the two new buildings are are the smaller building with the Frisco trailer parked at its dock. The other building is the large stone building next to that one.
The new buildings seem to fit in with the other two buildings on the same side track. Looks like I should straighten a lamp post on the platform. Oh well.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
I went and super-detailed a model of one of my favorite locomotives, the Gp30.Before:After
A pair of cabooses I got for more than 1/2 off.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
I don't have any pictures to post, but I have a youtube video of my newest locomotive. I just got it today; an Atlas GP40. It was on sale for about $75 and I thought it was a good deal. It's a got a decoder already installed for when I convert to DCC.
So if you like some hi-hood N&W action feel free to click the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMHvQpcIlo
Excellent shot, Jeffrey. I love the lighting of course, but also the angle you chose. Nice work.
Mike
Terry,
The rock casting was put on hold as Chuck Ellis and I went to San Antonio last weekend for the SAMRA train show. I played chauffer and drove Chuck around to see several layouts....I might as well have been running around with Elvis! Of course, once he got to talking, it was quite some time before we went to the next layout. We only saw 3 different layouts. Then I came down sick on Sunday and was bedridden all week until today.
The 'clinic' might be next weekend.....
TerryinTexas
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