New Haven 1-5
If I remember correctly, there are two 'm's in that word.
Nice logo
Bob
http://southcoastrail.blogspot.com/
Boomer Red: Those locos look OUTSTANDING! Great work!
Zak: Great work as usual. Love the grass.
Lou and Jamie, thank you for your kind words!
Garry, I'm sure there are many fine members on this forum with a lot more experience in photo editing than a novice like me. A full translation of the entire Norwegian forum thread is a bit to much to handle with my limited English skills, but I can make a short description of how I edited this particular photo.
Svein
NH I5 - looks much better. As to the spelling, you can spell it any way you want - the Gov can't even pronounce it!!!!
Fixed the spelling:
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Oh, GOOD EYE, man...I used to be a PROOFREADER on a newspaper, and I didn't catch those!
Hey Luke, just a quick note before you print out your logos and paste them to your fleet - you forgot the R in California, and the H in Where.
I do that all the time in photoshop, which is tough when I need it for work...
Well, it's late but it's still the weekend. Not too happy that my Charger's coked, but happy that I got a little farther this weekend on my diorama.
I was able to do a little grass work and some power pole planting (no wires yet). Looks kind of funny without the wires yet, but it'll look good when all is done.
Here's a shot of what I've done. As you can see the grass in front and on the bank was just added.
--Zak Gardner
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unca roggie Boomer Red: you did such a good job on your loco up there, that I had to blow it up to see if it was a model or a prototype...perfect amount of weathering (makes note to tone down the glopfest of watercolour paints, next session of dirtying things up).
Boomer Red: you did such a good job on your loco up there, that I had to blow it up to see if it was a model or a prototype...perfect amount of weathering (makes note to tone down the glopfest of watercolour paints, next session of dirtying things up).
This is probably the dirtiest engine I've done. It started as a Rail Power Products shell that I custom painted and detailed.
I have redone my logo:
Luke
New Haven I5, the logo design is good, but the blue lettering is very hard to see on the black - maybe a lighter blue? My
got me an icon for my railway
I still have to add the link to the brake wheel and paint. This is the bottom of a Norfolk Southern boxcar. Up until the Depression NS painted their boxcars green. This car will receive the pre-1910 N&S scroll. The body is being detailed to match an ACF car of the 2300 series.
Next week I might start on Norfolk Southern's coal ops in the Piedmont of NC that ended in the mid 1920's.
I have used the stick-on weights in the past. I did have a couple of them come loose. No big deal though. I am a bit of a frugal person and was able to get about 200 lbs of old wheel weights from a friend in the automotive business. I figured I used up about 10% of the Map gas bottle and about 15 minutes of my time. I made the mold at work one day on my lunch break from a bar of steel from the scrap bin. I melt the lead in an old plumbers ladle.
All I did with RailRoading today is making a new logo for my layout:
There are great scenes this week. Thanks all of you!
I've worked on the layout some this week, but no photos. I did a little railfanning on Friday:
I use the peel and stick tire weights, too. So far, the store where I buy my tires has given them to me free.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Making your own lead weight, Hum seem you have a lot of time on your hands, hope no Lead.
I sure you know this tip, but wheel weights are cheap and have double sided tape all ready installed. I bought a box 25 sticks for $21.75. Reach stick has 8 one onces weights, so that is .09 cents per onces. I use to use penny's so the cost is about the same. But no gluing and I have had penny's come unglued. I have yet to have a wheel weight come undone.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
I don't have a layout yet but here are some photos of engines I've been working on lately.
CN SD40 #5003 started as an Athearn RTR model that I added some details to.
CN SD40 #5233 was also a Athearn RTR model that I detailed, the biggest mod was removing the Dynamic Brakes.
Santa Fe FP45 #90 is an Athearn Model I detailed and weathered
I needed some weights to add to some cars I am building. I used up the last of what I made a couple of years ago so out with the melting equipment. I made up this pile in about 15 minutes and was able to add them to the frames on the cars I am currently working on.
The weights each weigh in around 1 oz so it is easy to figure on how many I need. Some are a bit heavier and some lighter so I can mix and match as needed.
Before I get a bunch of coments on melting lead and the associated hazzards, I am well aware and take the proper precautions. I have a good fume hood/ventilation system in my shop that pulls all smoke and fumes outside. At full pull it can move 500 CFM (Measured with the gage from work) so I never smell anything. In fact the small amount of smoke that did come off of the wheel weights was visibly sucked right out of the hood.
Dan
Flashwave Mononguy: I gotta ask about your Monon Caboose. Who made or its it custom?
Mononguy: I gotta ask about your Monon Caboose. Who made or its it custom?
My caboose fleet started out as undecorated Athearns that I hit with some rattle can red spray paint and decaled to suit my fancy, as the prototype never had any of those types.
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Very slick on the working derails! Jamie
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-Morgan
Svein. I am favorably impressed with the photo editing. Would you consider posting an English translation of the link to the Nraway forum? Perhaps, you can start a thread to explain.
Wolfgang.......Nice oil facility! ..........Working derails......... That is remarkable!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
More work at my Oil dealer and I've just finished a video about my working derails.
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Great photos all! I always enjoy the Weekend Photo Fun, and right now (bedridden with a strained neck) it's a great way to pass some time!
mononguy63I personally can't distinguish greens and browns
Same with me, to an extent. I can tell but sometimes.....? And you are right when it comes to picking colors for something I get this deer in the headlight look and holler for someone's help LOL.
Sorry I'm off topic, on with the photos the weekends young!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Setting one off on the interchange track
4 loads going out- you got the paperwork?