Weekend Photo Fun 3/7/07 to 3/10/08

[Southwest Chief]

I'm working on our 2 USA G scale long cabeese to make them look more D&RGW like.  They started out looking like this.

 

And after working this weekend, here's one with finished plastic work, next up is painting and lettering for 0505.  The other caboose that will receive similar work will be numbered 0540.  I can't wait to paint over that bright red paint with a more realistic boxcar red.

[Iain42]

I worked on my Norfolk Southern 2-8-4


The trailing truck still needs some work


I also worked on this:

[shayfan84325]

I put coreless motors into a couple of brass locos - a forney and an NWSL Shay.  Here's the forney just before I closed the hood:

And after surgery:

Here's the Shay:

What the pictures don't show is how well these engines run.  The Shay creeps along with a top speed of 10 smph, and the Forney can creep so slowley I can count the ties as it passes over them (it still tops out at about 40 smph).  Both are very smooth.

I also took a picture of the Blackwater depot:

And a buzzard's eye view of a couple of the Blackwater insustries:

Hope you all had a great weekend.

[pike-62]

Here are a couple of F&C PRR hopper kits I finished up this past week.

Dan Pikulski

www.DansResinCasting.com