"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot Visit my blog! http://becomingawarriorpoet.blogspot.com
Actually it's a GP-7 with the Joan Rivers treatment... Here's a slightly better view...
And also a much better view...
The black trailing unit is also a chopper, that one is a GP-9...
Here's my article about building them...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Don, I have to lift the top off. When I built the mountain I made a lift out section
Here it is during construction with the lift out removed.
You can kind of see the split line in a shot of it more complete.
by using rock molds I have disguised is somewhat.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Here's a pic from my finished layout
wm3798 wrote:I did some more detailing last night... Lee
Lee,
Is that a chop nose geep 9 hiding behind the GP40?
Some great pics, everyone. Seem to get better ever week. Keep up the good work.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Here's a few old pics i dug up: they were taken while the layout was still under construction: laid some track and put down some lichen and foam.
hopefully i get some pics of the finished layout. actually, i'm in the middle of remodeling several scenes.
Thanks for the tip, Alfadawg, I didn't know that!
Ya learn something new everyday!
Terry
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
alfadawg01 wrote: saronaterry wrote: Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.Very nice modelling work. And there's no need to apologize, you've got that Geep pointing the right way......GN's GP30's had the low hood end as the front.
saronaterry wrote: Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.
Hi guys, here's my first ever contribution:
Yes, I know the geep should be long nose forward, but I model 1973 just after the BN merger.
Very nice modelling work. And there's no need to apologize, you've got that Geep pointing the right way......GN's GP30's had the low hood end as the front.
Would be cool if they had high-hoods on GP30s and SD45s though.
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.
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Hello Model Railroaders. ... I see many good photos such as Terry's, Lee's and Stein's. That's a creative train Kenfolk, and I enjoy seeing people having fun like you do.
I have two more photos to post. I just completed my "protypically correct" Bulington modernized, heavyweight diner/parlor car number 308. It's made from a kit made by NKP Car Company. You can find this company at its website, http://www.nkpcarco.com/ They have passenger cars for about 20 railroads.
Each of their kits will provide hours of modeling enjoyement for the experienced modeler. They have etched brass sides. Other parts are cast resin or styrene.
My number 308 includes interiors and window blinds and curtains. It is trailing car number 6161 which is a modernized coach I kitbashed from an old JC Models kit.
The first car I made from NKP Car Company was baggage/RPO car number 1941. I completed that car about six months ago. The prototype was a modernized heavyweight car that commonly was assigned to the Kansas City Zephyr.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
ukguy wrote:
Never get tired of viewing your handywork, Karl. Beautiful job, as usual!
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Yesterday evening the Univ. of Tennessee was victorious in NCAA basketball game at Memphis, and today I saw this G-scale train on a layout, in the UT orange and white, obviously having "caught" a "Tiger"!
(Admittedly, the snapshot taken with a cellphone lacks quality, given poor lighting, etc., but I thought it worth sharing. No offense intended to Memphis fans, of course.)
Thanks to all for a great WPF!
Hi all,
I'm seeing quite alot of excellent stuff on here this weekend, especially Karl's Army-Navy store.
This week I decided to try my hand at 'serious' weathering. So I dug out an old Athearn bluebox ACF 4-bay Centerflow covered hopper, whipped up a sheet of home-printed decals, and set out to replicate this decrepit Family Lines hopper. I've never felt comfortable with any type of modeling that doesn't involve straight lines, rectangles or circles - so accurately depicting a run-down hopper is a challenge, to say the least! I posted it on the critique thread when it was ~80% finished, so I could get some constructive feedback. Here is the end result:
I couldn't bring myself to duplicate every single patch and splotch of different-colored paint that appears on the prototype car; I'll just say this is how it probably looked a few years earlier...
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
railroadnut675 wrote:Hey! Where did all my pictures go???!!!
Thanks Crandell, its one of my favourite parts of the structure.
Karl.A
Sometimes I don't know which words would be suitable to describe your work, Karl.
You know what I like best about the three shots? I like the weathered rear of the large billboard sign perched atop the short addition. I think you get a gold star for that.
-Crandell
The beauty and the curse of digital photography is you really get a handle on what has to be on your "to do" list!
Was it on this thread, this week? I haven't noticed any troll issues.
Weekend Photo Fun is generally a new thread each week. You can go back a few pages and find last week's, if that's what you're looking for.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Wow, really nice stuff this weekend. Karl, I'm amazed. When's MR coming over for the photo session?
This old gas station has been with me since my Mom found a yard sale Box o' Trains in the early 1960's. It was old then, but basically a sound wood structure. I've been picking up detail parts, mostly from JL Innovative, for some time now. I finally got around to cleaning up the castings and getting them painted.
Gotta like those late Transition Era gas prices, huh?
Hi gang --
This weekend I have been working on track bed for my layout. Put in quite a bit of WS 5mm (H0 scale) track bed.
Jury is still out on I like it, or whether I should tear it out again (yes - I did use caulk, not glue) and replace it with WS 3 mm (N scale) track bed for the industrial park running track (the "mainline" inside the industrial park) and just lay the tracks for the industry sidings directly on the blue layout base foam.
Anyways - I learned quite a bit about track bed and transitions between different track beds from some of the guys over in the Layouts and Layout Building forum (http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1366745/ShowPost.aspx).
Of course - if I had had any sense, I would have asked there before I laid a lot of 5 mm track bed
I also cut channels in the layout styrofoam surface and put down metal wires in plastic sleeves to use for throwing turnouts from Humpyard Purveyance handles on the fascia (when the fascia come on) and soldered on some more track power feed wires.
This afternoon another forum poster, Svein, came over with a new engine he had bought, a Norwegian State Railroads Di3 (really a GM EMD AA16 engine with a 567 power plant, produced on license by NOHAB in Sweden - see http://home.hetnet.nl/~nohab/gmaa.htm).
It was a sweet engine. No sweat putting in a Simo DCC decoder, and the engine started creeping along very gently and very evenly at speed step one from the Prodigy Advance controller he had also bought. Couldn't hear the motor until the engine was going at a pretty good clip. Room in the fuel tank for a speaker. And plenty of adhesion - the engined weighed in at 500 grams - a little over a pound.
Anyways - here she is:
It has been a good model railroading weekend. And spring has arrived here too!
Grin, Stein
This weekend I worked on a staging yard/storage area assembly for underneath my layout. This is the second. The first one I assembled in place which took a lot of bending over. This time I assembled the major switching area as one 7' section and manuvered it in place. This is the final assembly before sliding it into place.
Engineer Jeff NS Nut Visit my layout at: http://www.thebinks.com/trains/
TrainManTy wrote: Bapou wrote: TrainManTy wrote:Robby P: Outstanding work! As promised, I got my new railfanning video up!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0FCGm8QIQ Tyler, is that a Bachman 70 tonner? If it ishow does it run?Also in the end of your video when said 70 tonner is leaving, that is an electric lol sound where did you get it? I need some electric loco sounds. Good modeling! Oops! I thought it sounded a little odd! I think I just Google searched for train sound clips and found it. The 70-tonner does run, it's a Bachmann loco with the decoder already installed. It belongs to a user here, Guilford Guy.Thanks!
Bapou wrote: TrainManTy wrote:Robby P: Outstanding work! As promised, I got my new railfanning video up!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0FCGm8QIQ Tyler, is that a Bachman 70 tonner? If it ishow does it run?Also in the end of your video when said 70 tonner is leaving, that is an electric lol sound where did you get it? I need some electric loco sounds. Good modeling!
TrainManTy wrote:Robby P: Outstanding work! As promised, I got my new railfanning video up!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0FCGm8QIQ
Robby P: Outstanding work!
As promised, I got my new railfanning video up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0FCGm8QIQ
Tyler, is that a Bachman 70 tonner? If it ishow does it run?
Also in the end of your video when said 70 tonner is leaving, that is an electric lol sound where did you get it? I need some electric loco sounds. Good modeling!
Oops! I thought it sounded a little odd! I think I just Google searched for train sound clips and found it. The 70-tonner does run, it's a Bachmann loco with the decoder already installed. It belongs to a user here, Guilford Guy.
Thanks!
Well this is off topic, but look what I found searching the keywords you gave me:
http://www.dieselairhorns.com/index.html They have a library of horns!
ukguy wrote: Great looking start to the structure Simon, Very nice looking scenery Bob (southcoastrail), very realistic. My contribution, another board-by-board scratchbuild.Take care & be safe,Karl.
Great looking start to the structure Simon,
Very nice looking scenery Bob (southcoastrail), very realistic.
My contribution, another board-by-board scratchbuild.
Take care & be safe,Karl.
That's INCEREDIBLE!! IF IT WASN'T FOR THE STYROFOAM BASE, I WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT'S A MODEL!!!
Thanks Simon, the shots are a little too dark. I second Simons recomendation for a visit to the FOS site for some really great and original HO structures.
Karl.
Karl Lightman's looks really fantastic in these outdoors shots. For those of you in O scale what Karl accomplishes here in scratch-building shows you want can be achieved in this scale. The size lends itself to fantastic detail that is lost in HO. Look at the magazine and paper stand, this would be really hard to accomplish in HO.
If you are in HO and like the look of this model head on over to Fos Scale models at http://www.foslimited.com/ here you will find a fantastic selection of models with plenty of character. They are really well done kits put together by a really personable and talented guy.
Some of the FOS kits were featured on the Rod Stewart spread in MRR a few months back.
Karl, it still needs an interior BTW.