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Weekend photo fun 8/28 - 9/1

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Posted by Robby P. on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:31 AM

This is my latest weathered job.  A rusty Railbox.  I added Cal-Scale airhoses, hand made cut-levers. 

 

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:29 AM

Happy B-Day [bday] PAcker!

Enjoy it all you can!

(Oh, to be 19 again! Wink [;)])

-G .

Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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Posted by CSXDixieLine on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:24 AM

Wow! What a great start to the weekend! The Reading coal train, the CR repaint, all the others and soooooooooooo many Alaska RR locos that I thought I was going loco! I think next wekend may be the first time I get to post a picture on the WPF thread that does not feature plywood and sheetrock screws. In fact, I hope the pics have some nice sky blue in them, but just what else gets included is a little cloudy at this point in time. :)

Keep up the good work everyone and happy modeling over the weekend! Jamie

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:19 AM
Thanks Altoona, it took four coats to cover it completely!  This layout has to share the room with our home office.  The computer desks are a deep Merlot color.  I figured that the bench work wouldn't stick out as bad if it was the same color.  Now, if I could only get my turnouts in, I'd be cooking with gas! 
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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:18 AM

Here's an area of my layout that I've been working on.  Southern's 6547, an H16-44 made by Atlas, leads the local of late afternoon.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Friday, August 29, 2008 8:10 AM

In Conrail's first months, there was little to no standardization with respect to paint jobs.  One oddity that many don't realize is that many 50 foot boxcars that were transfered to Conrail on Merger Day in April 1976 were painted by Conrail in Penn Central Green.

I had messed up a weathering job on an N scale 50 foot Micro Trains Penn Central boxcar and subsequently purchased a new one.  That one ended up coming out well enough:

The prototype (from Penn Central Online):

But I still had the messed-up 50-footer.  What to do with it?  Chuck it?  Naw...  Never throw a car away!  Checking out the Fallen Flags website, I found these among several photos of Conrail green boxcars from the very early CR years (1976-80):

So I stripped and re-painted the 50-footer with PolyScale Penn Central green.  I added Microscale decals and ACI labels.  The dimensional data isn't correct (these letters are about 0.5 mm high; I once tried to cut them out one-by-one to do a PRR X31A properly, and while it looked okay by the time I did one side of the car I was burned out) and the font's not quite there, but overall it both captures the feel of an early and lesser known Conrail prototype and keeps a $15 boxcar out of the trashcan!

Oh, yeah, and for you large scale people (HO and up!), here's an idea of why I use an Optivisor when I do this:

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Posted by AltoonaRailroader on Friday, August 29, 2008 7:53 AM

I likey!!! Smile [:)]

I like that you painted your benchwork too, looks much much better than just the plain wood. Good job, keep us updated eh?

 

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Friday, August 29, 2008 7:28 AM

Well, this isn't much to look at, but I'm excited non the less!  Here is my new bench work waiting for the backdrop to be installed.  I'm also waiting for my turnouts to arrive before I can start setting out track.Banged Head [banghead]  This bench work was a little more involved than my old 'sacred sheet'.  I hope you guys don't mind progress shots.  Otherwise I'll have to wait until sometime next year to post!

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Posted by AltoonaRailroader on Friday, August 29, 2008 6:52 AM

Grampy, what can I say, super completely inspiring, especially to us newbies. I'm gonna have to start buring these pics to a CD cause my thumb drive is filling fast. Shock [:O]

Thanks for the great pics, please keep them coming, I have a long way to go.

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Posted by AltoonaRailroader on Friday, August 29, 2008 6:50 AM

 

Love you're work Dave and I'm glad to hear the recoup is in full swing. I'm a big fan of the PRR > PC > CR myself so I really dig what you're doing now especially. I'll have to post a pic of a PC GP-9 I painted from a undec shell. I think it came out pretty good, (how hard is it to screw up black?) LOL and I want to keep it as PC, but I need to finish some details on it and take a crack at weathering. I'll post it later this weekend, or maybe later today if I can get the wifey to run down and take a few shots for me.

 

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Posted by berlingo on Friday, August 29, 2008 1:41 AM

Hi everyone,

 

Great pictures in here, I've been watching many many times .  You guys give me a lot of inspirations.

 

Here is my diorama in HO Scale, were taken against the actual sky........still got no idea about weathering all new cars yet...

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Posted by ChrisKSDF on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:48 PM

In light of the completion of climate control installation in my 3 car Las Vegas garage, meaning that construction can finally begin on the 22x35ft ARR Anchorage Subdivision, here's my first of hopefully many contributions to WPF:

A celebratory photo of the 17 locomotives that'll soon finally have some real mainline track to get out and stretch their legs on!

  

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:33 PM

Although I'm still on "convalescent leave," I'm feeling fine.  I'm grateful to the stringent fitness requirements of the service for keeping me in shape such that something like an appendectomy is more a minor nuisance than anything else.  I'm chompin' at the bit to go back to work, but in the meantime, I've been modeling like crazy!

Up first is an Atlas N scale Penn Central SD35 I've converted to a Conrail paint-out:

Before:

The desired result (from Fallen Flags):

After some paint, a Sunrise Enterprises cab signal box (thanks, Ed K!), weathering with acrylics and chalk powders, lotsa Dullcote, decals, and more Dullcote, the result:

One thing I tried to replicate was, as evidenced by hundreds of photos of similar ex-Penn Central Conrail locos, that they often slapped what must have been cheap black paint over the Penn Central Scotchlite logos and lettering.  In short order, that lettering showed through on almost every engine as that cheap paint peeled away.  The "CR" stencils were another early Conrail cost-saver; they're the "C" and "R" from the "CENTRAL" portion of the Penn Central roadname stencils.

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Posted by lvanhen on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:25 PM
 Driline wrote:

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.

Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too Laugh [(-D]

OK Driline - you can have next Wed, but I wan't the following Tues!!

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:00 PM
Hi Dave: Thank you very much. Your remarks mean a lot to me. How's your recuperation coming along?  I hope you're getting well, again.  It's good to see you back on the forum.
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Posted by Kenfolk on Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:40 PM

Uh...weekend huh?...don't I wish! Anyway, good to see all the pictures. Grampy, great work. 

Maybe I can get around to a picture on here before the weekend is over.

 

 

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:33 PM

Grampy,

Once again, I have to say it.

You are a fantastic modeler.  Your scenery, track, and rolling stock are all perfectly executed.  I especially like the weathering; many folks overdo it with an airbrush; you have not.  Dead-on.

I happened upon your photo page.  All of it, shear inspiration.

Thanks!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:57 PM

Looking forward to those cars Robby.

Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup] to DJ.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:45 PM
Hi all: Good start everyone. I'm finally getting caught up with weathering all my locos and freight cars. I also added some more foliage, and tried Paul Dolkos weed seed follicles for tall grass, from Oct. MR. Here's a Reading RR short coal train, for a change.         
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Posted by Robby P. on Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:00 PM
I did keep thinking today was Friday.  I will try to get some of my weathered cars up this weekend, plus the mother in law is coming Sigh [sigh].

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:31 PM

Of course, this thread should run into monday, cause it's labor day here in the U.S.

Happy b-day Packer! and good lookin locos, gotta love alcos.

Jeff, good work on that straight spot.

I might get some pictures for ya'll l8r this weekend. The only loco I've got that still has it's shell is my GP35, the other Geeps and h-15-44 are down for painting. And it's not my best work. Sorry for my dark pictures last week, my desklap had burnt out and it was night, so my only illumination was my ceiling fan bulb. They should be filled w/ light this weekend.

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Posted by rs2mike on Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:27 PM

I have been working on several projects at once.  This is what I have accomplished so far.  The post office car is being built like the one in the sept mr issue. 

I also completed this MDC/Roundhouse 2 truck shay.  It was a complete basket case.  I disassembled it and rebuilt it.  To my dismay it was missing the rear drive shaft to the truck and the motor drive t was split and it was missin all of its driveshafts.  So this one will be a dummy display at the museum when I get to building a layout.

Not sure what this is but it looked cool and it was free.  So I built a chasis out of styrene and put freight trucks under it like it is in for restoration.  It will get a heavy rust job like it has just been brought in or something.

I have also stripped the paint off my bachman gp-40 and added grab irons, new brass horn, antenna.  I think I will also add a plow, rotating beacon, mu hoses, and I will bend new handrails out of wire instead of that cheap plastic.  I also stripped the paint on my athern gp-9 and added antenna, horns, rotating beacon, and gps antenna.  I think this one will also get a plow but I haven't decided yet.

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Posted by Driline on Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:15 PM

 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.

Ha Ha! You don't get to start it this week. He beat you to it LOL. Next week it will be Wednesday and you'll miss that one too Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by Packer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:52 PM
Wow, didn't think you had EZ track on the layout from the first shot. Looks like normal track until one of the shots exposes those clips. Good job on ballasting, Jeff.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:48 PM

I did some work on the layout this week. I had a 'S' curve right up front that's been giving me some trouble periodically with some Genesis cars. So I ripped it out and put in a new stretch of EZ-Track to replace it.

Here the new piece of plywood that will support the track is already in place.

In this photo, I laid the new section on top of the old one to give you a good idea of what I'm doing.

Here I've got the new section in place on top of pieces of white beadboard.

The old rail joiners didn't want to come out so I clamped the rails in place and soldered them to the existing rails. The job was spot-on. The rails are in perfect alignment.

 

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Posted by Packer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:33 PM

 TrainManTy wrote:
Well, he said it was going to be early... Plus maybe if we start early it won't go as late into the week like it has lately.

Well, never though of it that way. But I guess it works out in theory. Besides, it's close enough for me. (I don't have work tommow, and today is the last day of school for the week, so tomorrow is like my saturday)

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:30 PM
Well, he said it was going to be early... Plus maybe if we start early it won't go as late into the week like it has lately.
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:25 PM
Usually we wait until the weekend to start this.

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Weekend photo fun 8/28 - 9/1
Posted by Packer on Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:18 PM

Well I'm starting it off a bit early this week. BTW yesterday was my 19th B-day.

This week I got 3 Alcos. The first Alcos I have.




Got them for 10 bucks each, and they run and look good. Of course these units will have to go to the paint shop to get their pilots, walkways, steps and handrails painted right, and the stripes on the back are going to go (unless that's actually right, some units are like that on the BN)

To fix the number issue (they are all 4258) I'm just going to paint over part of the 8 to get a 9 and a 6; since I don't have decals.

I'm also getting DCC and LEDs into these units.

Vincent

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2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.

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