WPF 8/22- 8/24

[ngartshore350]

Just some progress shots from my cell phone! lvanhen, sorry about the quality

Not a very prototypical color but it matches (well close to it!) the original color of the station. Built in the 60's or 70's so I didn't want to paint it in case it might be worth some money one day (might be kidding myself?!)

One from a little while back

Regards,

Nige.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[steinjr]

I've been biting my tongue for weeks about the following: 

 If you can't take a picture that's in focus, or light enough to see, or worse, both, why post it?  

 There was a lot of complaining and bickering about a year or two ago about a forum regular posting a lot of fairly poor quality photos. It got bad enough that WPF threads had to get locked on a pretty regularily basis.

 If one specific poster's pictures (and it is fairly obvious which one you mean) really bug you to such an extent that you no longer can just skip his posts - why not do what a few people banded together to do for the forum regular back when there were frequent photo quality flame wars in connection with WPF back then ?

 Just mail the "offending" poster a new (or used) camera that takes decent quality photos. Most people don't take poor pictures deliberately - it is lack of equipment and/or lack of training.

 Grin,
 Stein

 

[lvanhen]

(Oh, Ivanhen, I have no trouble seeing the detail on those photos at all.  You may want to tweek your monitor brightness...  Just a thought.) 

Please re-read my post - I used Svien's pics as an example of EXCELLENT photography!!  There have been earlier posts on WPF as well as other threads that were both too dark to see and out of focus/movement.  Svien is the one who apologised for "poor pics", which they were NOT!!

[Dave Vollmer]

I didn't get much done as I'm recovering from an emergency appendectomy I had Wednesday night...  I'll be on convalescent leave this week so my plan is, as soon as it's comfortable to sit at my workbench, to begin converting this Penn Central SD35 into a CR re-paint.   Thanks to Brian Saul and Ed K for hooking me up with this little six-axle sweetheart for a serious bargain.

From Fallen Flags we see how she appeared as a Conrail repaint in 1979; Ed was also cool enough to send me a few cab signal boxes.  I plan to weather her first and then do the paint-out.  Note too the ACI label!

The CR decals and TCS decoder are hopefully on their way as well.

[Annonymous]

OK guys, take it easy. I may have used the wrong words earlier, I was referring to the lack of focus depth in my first two pics. It was never my intention that my little comment should start yet another discussion like this, we've been down that road far to many times allready.

So let's get back on the track and enjoy the WPF, shall we?

Svein

 

[KB0QQW]

Here's some news from the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad Club in the basement of Denver's Union Station...

With the DNC in town, there are tons of Passenger Cars parked out back (pictures coming soon).  All 6 tracks are now full - 2 full tracks of UP cars, a track of Amtrak Amfleet Cars, the SKi Train and a couple of tracks full of BNSF executive fleet cars plus parked on the south end, the DRGW UP Heritage engine, a UP Genset Switcher & the FEF-3 #844.

We received our most recent scenery addition this week - a new backdrop for the Morraine Canyon & White River Mine area. 

A 3mb full size image is available on the News Page of the club website @ www.pvwrr.org.

I'm working on getting additional pictures processed of the backdrop that will be posted to the club website in the next week.

Chris

[wm3798]

Time now for final touch ups, putting in the glass, and getting a drive under her. Stay tuned...

Lee

[steinjr]

 Some progress shots from my "Warehouse District" layout, after tearing up most of the tracks and relaying them in a different way after a change of prototype and redesign:

 

 Current track plan:
 

 

 Left (eastern) end of first street warehouses (upper left hand corner): 

  

 Right (western) end of first street warehouses (upper right hand corner):

 

 West Minneapolis Yard tracks:

 

 Mill and Power station tracks (right wall):

 

 Wausau warehouse and Gopher Distribution (lower wall, left of door):

 

 Most of the tracks are in. I have started on 8th Avenue - building up the road from Woodland Scenics pad to get the same level as the bottom of the tracks, and then a couple of layers of a thin rubber mat from Michels that supposedly makes good cracked roads when you cover it with plaster of paris (w/a little dark paint mixed in) and then push down sharply to create cracks:

 

 Smile,
 Stein

 

 

[spidge]

Made a little progress on the layout but I still need to add foilage and scrape some of the rock faces so they show up better.

 

 

 

[twhite]

Spidge: 

For me, nothing whets the appetite more than watching a Daylight cross over a tall, spidery viaduct.  Nice work.  Is that a ME viaduct that you curved out?  Beautiful job. 

Tom

[jbinkley60]

 

This week I received the Digitrax PR3 I ordered and upgraded another P2K SD50 using a DH165L0 and a Soundbug chip.    The PR3 and software are pretty nice and work well.  I did get around to finishing the installation of the stationay decoders and building the indicator panel for my staging area.  Now that the staging area is done I can clean off some of the excess rolling stock and start showing some scenery pictures again. 

 

[wm3798]

If you've been following along at home, you've been watching the progress of this in earlier posts in thiis thread.  I still need to get some windshield wipers and touch up a few more things, but overall I'm really happy with the results.

Lee

[howmus]

(Oh, Ivanhen, I have no trouble seeing the detail on those photos at all.  You may want to tweek your monitor brightness...  Just a thought.) 

Please re-read my post - I used Svien's pics as an example of EXCELLENT photography!!  There have been earlier posts on WPF as well as other threads that were both too dark to see and out of focus/movement.  Svien is the one who apologised for "poor pics", which they were NOT!!

 

Oops!  Mea Culpa, my bad...........  I was trying to figure out what would be wrong with them as I thought they were great. 

[spidge]

Spidge: 

For me, nothing whets the appetite more than watching a Daylight cross over a tall, spidery viaduct.  Nice work.  Is that a ME viaduct that you curved out?  Beautiful job. 

Tom

Yes Tom, it is a ME viaduct. I know there is no such bridge in the Cajon Pass but I have seen a couple of these when I was a kid and had to have one. I have a new photo with grass and some trees/bushes but I still need to add some burnt grass and trees to darken the scene for the Cajon look I am looking for.

 

Also a short video;

http://www.nscale.org/photos/showphoto.php?photo=5762

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's another night shot for you to look at.

[Blue Flamer]

Dave.

Sorry to hear that you are under the weather. That can be nasty. Back in the mid '40's they rushed me to the Hospital with a severe appendicitis attack. Just as they started to operate, the appendix burst. Six year old's are not supposed to spend two weeks in Intensive Care getting a Penicillin shot in the butt twice a day. This was in the Dark Ages in England, just after WWII. 

Get well soon and remember, only pick up those "N"ice little "N" scale models. If you try to pick up one of those "H"orribly "O"versized  engines, the weight of it could tear your stitches and then it would be back to Nurse Cratchit and those darned ice cold bed pans. OUCH.

Blue Flamer. 

By the way. I hope that you were a good patient. I have heard it mentioned numerous times in the past that Doctors make the worst patients. But, on second thought, you haven't had your Doctorate long enough to pick up to many bad habits.

B.F. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

[MisterBeasley]

Spidge - you're inserting the "thumbnail" view of your photo instead of the full-sized copy.  If you remove the "thumbs/" from the photo's URL, you can go from this:

to this:

 

[AltoonaRailroader]

If you've been following along at home, you've been watching the progress of this in earlier posts in thiis thread.  I still need to get some windshield wipers and touch up a few more things, but overall I'm really happy with the results.

Lee

Great job!!! I'm a big fan of Loco kitbashing and remarking. I've changed a UP GP-7 to a PC GP-7, and repainted a GP-9 shell that I think was marked for the USPS and created quite a beautiful PC GP-9 out of it. I'll post pics next weekend. But regardless, very fine job, I think all you need now is a little weathering and you'll be good. Still looks a little shinney even with the dull coat.

[spidge]

Spidge - you're inserting the "thumbnail" view of your photo instead of the full-sized copy.  If you remove the "thumbs/" from the photo's URL, you can go from this:

 

Thanks, I didn't realize this. Then again those larger photos show all the little things I need to work on.

[wm3798]

Great job!!! I'm a big fan of Loco kitbashing and remarking. I've changed a UP GP-7 to a PC GP-7, and repainted a GP-9 shell that I think was marked for the USPS and created quite a beautiful PC GP-9 out of it. I'll post pics next weekend. But regardless, very fine job, I think all you need now is a little weathering and you'll be good. Still looks a little shinney even with the dull coat.

Nope, no weathering beyond the Dullcoat I applied...  The Western Maryland had a washrack, and they weren't afraid to use it... They even Simonized their diesels a couple times a year.  You're thinking of the dark days after Chessie the Knife took over, and let everything slowly rot...

Lee

[AltoonaRailroader]

Ahhhhh, did not know that. I model the Penn Central and Conrail in early 70's so I guess you can tell where my weathering dirt comment came from. LOL

Still a great job done in just a weekend.

[rs2mike]

Here is this weeks projects.  Finished the shay and painted it(mdc), cleaned and letterd the heisler, painted and detailed the steam engine for around the shops to restore.

Then I lettered and lightly weathered my Riv berkshire

Then I painted an ahm geep

Then I took this rs-2 that I have been practicing weathering tecniques on and chopped it up

and chopped up another geep and came up with this

and took the remaining pieces and came up with this

I then started this project based upon the article in model railroader this month to turn a model power post office car into a yard office.  This is my progress so far in this project

So as you can see I have been busy lately.  There are more projects but they are in various states of disrepair so I will post those when they move along a little farther.