weekend photo fun 8/1-8/3

[RRTrainman]

Here's a little project I've been fiddling with:

Tractor was a unpainted Peterbuilt from Herpa, Trailer was a dull gray Herpa model. I painted all the tires flat black, the trailer aluminum, tractor gloss black, cab interior a nice red velvet . I installed a happy lil trucker, chrome bull bar, custom made chrome drop visor, and air hoses.

Here's another happy Trucker

Its 1/25 scale

Here's my HO scale

[Rotorranch]

This time in better light!

Margarita man, I think you may be right. I still need practice!

Lou...I kinda liked the Bud Light loads, too. I ended up using a different cut of the box for the loads, and saved the Bud Light loads for a "fun" load.

Rotor

[Packers#1]

Great work everyone. Enjoying it very much so far.

[lvanhen]

It's Weekend Photo FUN isn't it!!   My grandson John has added an Army Base to the plywood central!!   The "grass" is foamcore from the dollar store, the roads are black foam from the craft store, and the "parking lots" are construction paper.  It won't win any modeling awards, but it sure is FUN!! 

[FastTracks]

The scene has a pretty major flaw in it though.  Can you spot it?

Tim,

The first reefer has derailed?  Must be the turnouts.

Tom

 

 

Ouch!

 

But, yes, the refeer is off the rails.  I haden't noticed it until I posted the image here.  The entire scene is about 24" long, so I just dropped the car onto it and never checked that it was actually on the track!

This is the module that was used...

Tilt Table

Version with video....

Tilting Table

[tstage]

The scene has a pretty major flaw in it though.  Can you spot it?

Tim,

The first reefer has derailed?  Must be the turnouts.

Tom

 

[selector]

Hi, everyone.  I have enjoyed all your images...lots of great development going on here and there.   This is my first contribution in about three weeks.  I finally held my nose and "weathered" up my PCM y6b a bit.  At least it looks dirtier if nothing else.  Below the bridge, reflected in the water, two pairs of canoeists are enjoying their summer, not seemingly intimidated by all those tons of steel imposing above them.

The 'hill' just left of the bridge is actually a hand towel sprayed with 3M glue and then scenicked with ground foam.  I then propped it up on a stool beside the narrow shelf on which the bridge rests, as this image shows.

 

[Guilford Guy]

Derailed Boxcar?

[FastTracks]

Hi,

 Not much time for modelling lately, so I just gathered up a bunch of stuff and put together this scene....

 

The tower is scratchbuilt, as is the factory.  The factory is built using DPM modular walls with custom made windows.

The engine is a Powerhouse Pacific.

The scene has a pretty major flaw in it though.  Can you spot it?

www.bronx-terminal.com

 

[jacon12]

I've been working in this area for what seems like years.  I built a car shop from sections of the Walther's modular kits, still have a good bit of work to do on it.

and around the 'business' end of it..

Thats about it for me.  Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

JaRRell

[Blue Flamer]

alfadawg01.

Great picture. To my untrained eye, it seems very well balanced between foreground and the sky above the low mountains in the background. I think that you should consider letting her do all your photography work.    My wife would probably have had her finger across the middle of the picture, right where the important part is,    but if anyone tells her I said that I'll deny it to my dying breath.

A big pat on the back to your missus and thanks to you for posting it.

Blue Flamer. 

[Margaritaman]

I can't seem to get the indoor lighting quite right. I tried two 300 watt halogen floods tonight, and the pics seem worse. I'll keep trying though.

Rotor

Your camera might have an adjustment for white balance will will help correct for the color those halogen work lights put out.

[lvanhen]

A lot of cool stuff this week y'all!

I decided I'd try to work on my weathering skills, (or lack there of ) a bit. I had 2 new Life-Like 100 ton hoppers left over from my store, so I thought they would be good candidates.

I very lightly weathered one for starters.

Then figured I'd make loads for them. That took most evening to get the supplies ready.  

Yesterday, I put the finishing touches on the loads.

Sorry about the pics...it looks like I still need to work on my photography. I can't seem to get the indoor lighting quite right. I tried two 300 watt halogen floods tonight, and the pics seem worse. I'll keep trying though.

Rotor

Rotor, I liked the hoppers better with the Bud Lite load!!

[alfadawg01]

No modelling photos this time, but here's the prototype at work:

Eastbound UP coal train on the former D&RGW at Rollinsville, CO, on July 29, with a brand new ES44AC and and ex-SP AC4400 in the lead, 2 more SP AC4400's and a UP SD90/43MAC about 20 cars from the end and a UP AC4400 bringing up the rear.  Photo by my wife (God love that woman) who shot quick from the car in case I didn't make it out in time.....

[Rotorranch]

A lot of cool stuff this week y'all!

I decided I'd try to work on my weathering skills, (or lack there of ) a bit. I had 2 new Life-Like 100 ton hoppers left over from my store, so I thought they would be good candidates.

I very lightly weathered one for starters.

Then figured I'd make loads for them. That took most evening to get the supplies ready.  

Yesterday, I put the finishing touches on the loads.

Sorry about the pics...it looks like I still need to work on my photography. I can't seem to get the indoor lighting quite right. I tried two 300 watt halogen floods tonight, and the pics seem worse. I'll keep trying though.

Rotor

[Margaritaman]

Mods, feel free to clean up those links.  thanks

[Margaritaman]

It was the Arbor Society's "Plant a Tree" week

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[loathar]

graphitehemi-Holy crap! Did you do all the chrome too?? What did you use?

[tstage]

I'm hoping to post something from my layout at some point in time.  In the meantime, here's an acquisition of mine from the New York Central System Historical Society (NYCSHS) train show, that was held here in Cleveland back in May:

A brass NYCRR Brakeman's latern - ca. 1912

It has a wick in it and supposedly still works.

Tom

[Grampys Trains]

Robby, you nailed that hopper, Simon, your buildings are really something, and I checked out your site and photos, great layout, well done, Packer fan, good progress on your layout, Mr. B, nice to see someone come out with a decent cab, they were really roomy (the real ones), Perry, very nice photos, Jamie, that benchwork is looking good, Jay, yours is too, Tom, what can I say, what a creative addition, very cool, Russel, nice to have a working yard, eh?, Loathar, you bet! Here's a triple hopper that's probably older than most of the members of this forum.  It's an Ulrich, all metal, operating hopper. I think I got this in the 50's.    

[Packers#1]

Check out what I just won off of ebay: An N scale atlas classic GP35. WHOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Picture is the ebay picture.

[IRONHORSE77]

The bullhauler you showing is a KW not a Peterbilt.

CHUCK

[Packers#1]

V&AL, I prefer the stock nose. the EMD is all right, but the GE is hideous. I'd rank them on a scale of 1-10, 10 being perfect:

stock: 8.5

EMD: 7

GE: 5, maybe 6 if black

[Flashwave]

Honestly: I prefer the stock cab, shortened and lowered.

[V&AL]

I'm trying to decide what cab to use for my E33-2 project. The E33R-2 will have the wide cab... trying to decide home chopped nose of EMD cab.  Here's the options:



Using stock nose, shortened and lowered:


Using an EMD cab:  (cab would not fit, I had to hold it in postion and shoot with the other hand)


Using a GE wide cab:


wadda y'all think?

[Flashwave]

While railfanning near Cold Spring, NY, two boomers are lucky enough to catch a meet between one of the NYC's premier trains, the Empire State Express, southbound to Gotham and a northbound freight one long ago Sunday.

There's no Photoshop trickery here, save for the smoke. This is a diorama scene, shot against the actual backdrop of the Hudson River and the Hudson Highlands' famous Storm King Mountain. 

CNJ831

Beatutifully done. But why can't they do decent people? It's the only tip off.

[twhite]

Here's a little project I've been fiddling with:

Tractor was a unpainted Peterbuilt from Herpa, Trailer was a dull gray Herpa model. I painted all the tires flat black, the trailer aluminum, tractor gloss black, cab interior a nice red velvet . I installed a happy lil trucker, chrome bull bar, custom made chrome drop visor, and air hoses.

WHEW!  With all that chrome, I'd be a happy lil' ol' trucker, myself

Nice work!

Tom

[Tjsingle]

Alright, this is what I have been working on.

Right now I'm starting to kit bash a GP38 into a SDL39. Yes I know I could have bought the kit, but I figured this way would be cheaper, and would work on my Kitbashing skills. Right now I have cut most of the long hood off as the doors on that end didn't match. I have Cannon and Co. Parts on order. When the parts arrive I'll chop the molded in frame shorter. I don't have an updated picture but I cut out the Conductors side battery box as that didn't match either. Right now I'm looking for SDL39 truck side frames.

They have a article in mrr about kitbashing this model

[graphitehemi]

Here's a little project I've been fiddling with:

Tractor was a unpainted Peterbuilt from Herpa, Trailer was a dull gray Herpa model. I painted all the tires flat black, the trailer aluminum, tractor gloss black, cab interior a nice red velvet . I installed a happy lil trucker, chrome bull bar, custom made chrome drop visor, and air hoses.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Picked this up in Alexandria this mprning. The only thing I don't like is that UP loco. That piant job is going to bite the dust as soon as I get ready to redo it. The bonus car is an Athearn Genesis covered hopper.