You all just amaze me.
How was the fading of the paint done on the rusty rock hopper?
Grampys TrainsFreight rolling through Blackwood cut.
Freight rolling through Blackwood cut.
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
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.
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.
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Dang Robby! Your weathering skills have really come a long ways in the last year or so!
Really great pictures so far this week!
I've been finishing up a LONG project...
Alex
Hi Kenfolk: Thank you. They are the smallest picture hanging wire I could find.
mikelhhSome 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!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Some tough acts to follow!
P2K S3 H0 scale
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Thanks all for the kind remarks.
Kenfolk Karl--Great details, what scale?
Karl--Great details, what scale?
Completely scratchbuilt (except for a few of the details) board by board in 'O' scale Ken.
Karl.A
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:
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?
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.
Looks real good to me Larry, but I'll have to have my wife eye ball it. She's from Richlands!! lol
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
"Rust, whats not to love?"
loathar ukguy-Your work never ceases to amaze me!
ukguy-Your work never ceases to amaze me!
I think he just does it just to torture us lesser mortals.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
GAPPLEGCouple of quick shots of my Cat Dealer:
Couple of quick shots of my Cat Dealer:
Everything looks great....EXCEPT....Do I spy a matchbox fork lift there in the background driving up the ramp
Now we can't have that on an otherwise fine layout specimen. You know how I feel about matchbox cars on HO layouts
Wiking makes a great looking HO forklift...I would check the walthers catalog.
StebbyCentral:
OMG, you've been out here observing our California Freeways !
Neat job. I really like it.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
stebbycentral
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Packers#1 Luke, great work on the engine house! Just a few shots from last weekend again:
Luke, great work on the engine house!
Just a few shots from last weekend again:
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
tomkat-13 Had some time today to work on my roads. Did the shoulders on the blacktop rd. & added patches.
Had some time today to work on my roads. Did the shoulders on the blacktop rd. & added patches.
From the looks of things I would say that your people seriously need to apply for some of that Infrastructure rebuilding money that Uncle Sam will soon be handing out. Great job!
P&SlocalJeffery, From past experiences in the real life scale you not only have to move the back wall further back, but you may also have to grind the ramp out for the truck to fit in the building. We had about an inch of clearance over the light bar. Seeing that your engine has a raised cab, that pumper may not be leaving the building.
Southern 6547, a Fairbanks Morse H16-44, slows coming up grade toward the yard..
Jarrell
jeffrey-wimberly How do you get fire trucks this big: to fit in a building made for fire trucks this big? From the front it all looks normal.
How do you get fire trucks this big:
to fit in a building made for fire trucks this big?
From the front it all looks normal.
Jeffery, From past experiences in the real life scale you not only have to move the back wall further back, but you may also have to grind the ramp out for the truck to fit in the building. We had about an inch of clearance over the light bar. Seeing that your engine has a raised cab, that pumper may not be leaving the building.
Rob
Robert H. Shilling II
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
carknocker1Dtommie , I didn't know if you knew about it or not but in Southwestern Indiana in the early 1990 's there was a short lived railroad called the Owensville Terminal RR that ran on an old CE&I branch from Owensville Indiana to Poseyville Indiana , If I recall their paint scheme was blue and white , and their logo looks like yours . nice work
Dtommie ,
I didn't know if you knew about it or not but in Southwestern Indiana in the early 1990 's there was a short lived railroad called the Owensville Terminal RR that ran on an old CE&I branch from Owensville Indiana to Poseyville Indiana , If I recall their paint scheme was blue and white , and their logo looks like yours . nice work
Carknocker1,
Yes, I am aware of that line, but I did not know about it until after I had created my fictional model railroad company. I honestly did not know about their paint scheme/logo--what a coincidence!
Thanks for the info!
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
HHPATH: Is that the Bourne or Sagamore bridge? It looks like a scaled down model of one of the two (for those not familier with these two bridges; they're twin auto bridges crossing the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts. The Bourne Bridge is very near to the Cape Cod Canal Lift Bridge; an ex-New Haven lift bridge currently hosting Mass Coastal service. It's the 2nd largest lift bridge in the US.