Weekend Photo Fun 23,24,25

[stebbycentral]

loathar

ukguy-Your work never ceases to amaze me!

I think he just does it just to torture us lesser mortals.

[Robby P.]

So far so good everybody.  Some great looking shots. 

No layout shots for me.  I have been working on this old "The Rock" for a couple of days now.  I keep changing some rust spots, and trying to add some "depth" to the rust.

Well here's a before:

After (this is the side I have been working on, I didn't like how it was turning out):

Before I worked on this side....

Now the new look of that side:

And....a underneath shot:

 

 

[superbe]

Looks real good to me Larry, but I'll have to have my wife eye ball it. She's from Richlands!!  lol

Bob

[Kenfolk]

Great photos this weekend, on page 3 and its still Friday!  Grampy--What did you use for the cable along your roadway? As always, your layout looks great. Karl--Great details, what scale?
Jarrell--nice shot! Tomkat13--I'm just sure I've driven on that road, near Akron, I think. 

 

[Driline]

Robby P.

So far so good everybody.  Some great looking shots. 

No layout shots for me.  I have been working on this old "The Rock" for a couple of days now.  I keep changing some rust spots, and trying to add some "depth" to the rust.

Well here's a before:

After (this is the side I have been working on, I didn't like how it was turning out):

Before I worked on this side....

Now the new look of that side:

And....a underneath shot:

 

 

 

Thats looking better than the pro's on modeltrainsweathered.com  How did you "fade" the hopper? N scale right?

[ukguy]

Thanks all for the kind remarks.

 

Kenfolk

 Karl--Great details, what scale?

 Completely scratchbuilt (except for a few of the details) board by board in 'O' scale Ken.

Karl.A

[mikelhh]

 Some tough acts to follow!

 

 P2K S3  H0 scale

 

Mike

[howmus]

mikelhh

Some tough acts to follow!

 

Some very, very tough acts to follow.  Nice work as always being shown in this thread!

I finally got some scale sized beads in to work on my line poles.  Here is what I tried a couple weeks ago:

And here is the second try with the new beads and smaller wire for the braces:

I also assembled a Roundhouse kit that has been sitting on the shelf in my basement train room for close to 25 years......

Even back in 1925 we needed to have some California fruit ya know! Obviously the car has not been weathered yet.  Other than a little dust and sone rust on the trucks, it will stay fairly clean.  I added Kadee #5 couplers and Kadee archbar trucks with metal wheelsets.  Rolls nice!

[Grampys Trains]

Hi Kenfolk: Thank you. They are the smallest picture hanging wire I could find.

[Guilford Guy]

 Really great pictures so far this week!

 I've been finishing up a LONG project...

 

[loathar]

Dang Robby! Your weathering skills have really come a long ways in the last year or so!

[SilverSpike]

Definitely hard acts to follow this weekend.

Here is my entry, an HDR image with some Fresco artistic filter added.

Southern Crescent in the foreground with the track cleaning consist in the middle and then the yard switcher pulling a few cars around.

[TMarsh]

Great stuff once again everybody.

GAPPLEG- I have that same building, how come mine doesn’t look near that good? Oh yeah Talent. The white and blue boxcars in the back. They look suspiciously like the one that pulls up to the brewery on my layout to haul Pearl beer.

Stebbycentral- That road does look so realistic for it’s location. And many other locales for some of us rurals.

I hate to single out a few modelers and not acknowledge the others, but the list would be so long and I’m taking up photo space. You all are fantastic. Thanks for inspiring me to drive on!

Todd

[jacon12]

Karl, all I can say is it's a beauty! Jarrell

[jacon12]

Grampys Trains

Freight rolling through Blackwood cut.

 

Grampy, I now know the 'cable' is picture hanging wire, what are the 'posts' the wire is going through. First class as usual! Jarrell

[moelarrycurly4]

You all just amaze me.

 How was the fading of the paint done on the rusty rock hopper?

 

[CNJ831]

Oooops! Well, boss, it just sorta slipped out of my hands and kinda....

CNJ831 

 

[jecorbett]

Karl, Grampy,

Great stuff. It gives us all something to strive for. Grampy, I really like your guard rail. I just finished a similar feature with a road rising along side a two track mainline. I just slapped my guardrails together with round toothpicks and strip styrene just to have something there. I intend to do something more elaborate later on and this gives me an idea.

[dtommy]

CNJ831

Oooops! Well, boss, it just sorta slipped out of my hands and kinda....

CNJ831 

 

 

 

Very nice! 

[jecorbett]

Nothing new to show this week so here are some different views of the area I showed last week.

Lastly a look down the divided mainline toward the next area to be scenicked.

Both mainline tracks will tunnel through the mountain which will rise up into the corner. The houses you see up there are N scale and will be my first attempt at forced perspective. The trees will get gradually smaller the higher up they go. The mountain will not be flat topped. A small hill will be added behind the two houses.

NOTE TO SELF: Next time, pick the trash up off the floor before taking pictures.

[Robby P.]

Driline, its HO scale.  I haven't tried to weather a N scale car yet.

Loather, thanks.  I try to tell people the more you practice the more you will see a improvement.

For the fade everybody, just plain white "testors" sprayed out of a airbrush. 

[Grampys Trains]

 Hi: Thanks Jarrell, jecorbett. Lots of great photos this week.  As to guard rails, I used 5/32 dowels I found at AC Moore. I cut the tops at a 45 deg. angle, and made a jig to drill the holes, to keep them at a uniform distance apart and from the top. Then, I glued them in place, painted them white, and weathered them with alcohol/ink wash. Then, I strung the wires through all the holes. Then I weathered the wire with a rust colored wash. Here's another shot of the guard rails.

 

 

 

 

[C&O Fan]

Wow what a great bunch of photos and outstanding work

I spent the last week on a scratch building project

Its the Express building at Quinnimont WVA on the C&O

Here's a COHS photo of the Proto Type

I used a stain pen to stain the 2x4s and interior walls

I placed them on 2 ft centers

as well as the roof rafters for the porch roof

 

The finished building had to be slectively compressed to fit in the space alowed

so i had to shorten and cut the width

[Packers#1]

 Robby-excellent weathering!

DJ, great work as usual.

Well, I finally printed out the sign for my medman's pharmacy. 

The story: Over on another forum, one of our members was stricken w/ inoperable throat cancer. He did not survive. He was a pharmicist (had his own store), and so one of our members got the idea to create a medman's pharmacy, and now we've decided to make it a franchise. Here's mine:

 

 

[mononguy63]

ukguy

Thanks all for the kind remarks.

 

Kenfolk

 Karl--Great details, what scale?

 Completely scratchbuilt (except for a few of the details) board by board in 'O' scale Ken.

Karl.A

Karl, I think you've missed the point of WPF - you're supposed to post picture of models, not the real thing!

Excuse me while I pick my eyeballs back up off of the floor.

 

[GAPPLEG]

TMarsh

Great stuff once again everybody.

GAPPLEG- I have that same building, how come mine doesn’t look near that good? Oh yeah Talent. The white and blue boxcars in the back. They look suspiciously like the one that pulls up to the brewery on my layout to haul Pearl beer.

 

Todd

Yep Pearl Beer , Grew up in El Paso Texas drinking Pearl beer. Had to have those on the layout. FYI Born in Springfield Ill. though .

Driline  you caught me , It's the only one I have at the time that looks massive enough for the job at that site, Got lots of forklifts around the layout, just haven't found a large one yet anywhere.

Grampy you shame me , everytime I look at your work , I just get depressed by my efforts.

[V&AL]

"License and registration please...                      Do you know why I pulled you over sir?"

"No officer, but I bet you are going to be asking yourself that same question for the rest of the day..."

"??!!!??!!!!!!!!"

Elsewhere 4 BNSF units (3 SD40-2's and a GP-60) were heading to Fred's Locomotive Shop for an outsourced rebuild/relettering:

 

Disclamer:

These are my models on the club's modular layout.

[Grampys Trains]

Hey Jerry: That Cat dealership is a great scene. I esp. like your chain link fence. And, I worked for Cat for 23 yrs.

[mountaingoatgreg]

 Great stuff everyone...

I have been working on some structures for a club layout and have finally gotten to a point where I can take some pictures. The  first little building will be the caboose supply building and will be in the forefront of the layout so I will be adding lots of little details to this building. The next structures is an ash pit and conveyor which I still need to weather and add all the details too. The last structure is a kitbashed coaling tower. I will have both sanding and coaling capabilites added to this tower and it is currently about 50% done.

 

 

 

 

Have a great Weekend Everbody!!!

[wm3798]

I threw this together one night this week...  I was in the process of setting up the waybills to get ready for an upcoming operating session, and I realized I needed to build a gondola load of rebar...

 Rebar is textured steel rod used to reinforce poured concrete in foundations, structures and highways.
I used lengths of stranded wire, cut to scale 20' and stripped of insulation. To simulate multiple layers, I put a layer of round toothpicks at the bottom, then laid strips of balsa wood to represent dunnage supporting the top layer. I painted the load with a blend of black and silver craft acrylics to get a dark gun metal color. A couple of washes of a brownish red rust color finish it off. Like all the loads I make, it is removable.

Lee