I am jumping the gun I know this week.. I am going to be out of town until next wed so I thought I would post this.
My progress on my shelf scene I am building. This is where I was at.
Here is what I got done this week. Still working on my carved pine trees. I got 3 done today, they will end up on the upper level of the rock work.
I am also working on a background and a way to make the scene extend down the tracks into the backgrounds. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Have a great weekend.
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Just a couple of shots of part of the small town of Sundown.
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I've been looking forward to this thread.
My job took an unexpected turn this week - Usually I do human resources for a window manufacturing plant, but we can't afford to use hourly people for special jobs, so salaried folks get the call when we have to do something extra. This week it was loading a lumber car with 30 units of rough stock (we're shipping it to our millwork plant in Wisconsin). One of our forklift drivers and I loaded the whole thing in 4 hours: Here's a picture of yours truly after the job was done:
This is the third car I've helped load. As a model railroading HR dude, this was pretty good duty.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
My only project in a long while. Piture is hyperlinked to my thread on it' construction, but this is the only lightened picture
-Morgan
So Phil, how much did you have to pay your employer to get that loading duty?
"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
WPF starts on Thursday?I love long weekends.BILL
Here's one of my projects that I actually finished. I built a ballast hopper out of two old ore hoppers I had. I can still make 2 more ballast hoppers from the ore cars I have left.
Well, now that the cat's out of the bag..
Selector-
Was that picture taken outdoors? Looks great.
This is my latest completed project. This is an old P2K undec caboose kit I found at a train show some years back. The interior came detailed - so I painted it and put a guy in the cupola. Not sure it was worth it the effort. The caboose has an interior light - but I run DC and the light becomes effective about 9 volts which makes a really really fast freight!
George V.
Thanks to Mike for the early start at Weekend Photo Fun and to thosewho have joined him with some other great pictures!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Wikious Here's one of my projects that I actually finished. I built a ballast hopper out of two old ore hoppers I had. I can still make 2 more ballast hoppers from the ore cars I have left.
Nice work so far all! this week submitted for your approval, i have a mystery on my hands, i bought an older Faller kit that was supposed to be N scale but am not really sure or if it's HO, pics first then text to follow.
Now the stats; in N it would be 32' wide x 29' long and 35' tall to top of roof, the main floor window in the front is 5' off the ground and is 6 ' tall and 5' wide, and the door is 9' tall and 5' wide, it all seems odd, if you roughly half the above measures for HO it still makes no sense to me, did i get some odd hybrid here or were they just not as worried about scale size back in the day? and last one, can anyone tell me the age of this kit? or at least close? sorry for the long post here, and thanks for reading any help or thoughts would be good, enjoy!
Chuck & Heather.
DingySP Selector- Was that picture taken outdoors? Looks great.
Hi, DingySP. Thanks for your compliment. No, it was on the layout, under two 50 watt halogen GU10's. I played with the exposure time and the iris aperture until I got a nice contrasty image. Unfortunately, the two lights yielded two shadow as you see to the right of the ore cars.
-Crandell
These are a few pictures of a CB&Q T2 2-6-6-2 I've been scratchbuilding over the last couple years. Unlike the scratchbuilt Mikado I posted a couple months ago, this one has a scratchbuilt chassis instead of building on an existing brass import chassis. I hadn't touched it for a few month as I contimplated what to do about the valve gear. I decided to start with a Precision scale valve gear kit meant for a MDC 0-6-0. Every part used from the kit had to be modifed in some way, and I scratchbuilt numberous parts including the main rod. The valve gear is in the last pic. I still have to build the remaining 3 valve gear assembly's and add numberous more details to the boiler.
John.
Very impressive, John. I will enjoy seeing it all painted up with the details I am sure you intend to add. Wow!!!
Lotsa great stuff on here so far! Since I have to leave for work in a few minutes, I don't have time to comment on the individual submissions [sorry about that].
Here's my contribution for the week. Been assembling structures for a Main Street-type business block across from my steel mill, a freelance of something that could have existed on the outskirts of Cleveland. These are the latest additions, a drug store (Merchants Row III) and a former White Tower hamburger joint under new ownership (also a reworked Walthers kit). The white cardboard platform I set them on was warped, which unfortunately caused some stray light to be visible from the inside. Their permanent locations will be on a perfectly-flat, dark gray surface. First, the drug store - which shares the building with a union hall (this is a steel town, remember!). I edited the prices downward on some of the window ads, to make them look more like the target year 1992:
...and the Burger Shack. The short wall toward the left is the 'front' [1st pic], which faces the street. The 2nd pic shows the drive-in window, the 3rd one is a rear view:
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Here's a scene from an area I've been working on for a while now. The station is Model Powers Redwood Station which I've named Deep Step Station. The 'asphalt' is Durham's rock putty and the light pole is one of Walthers. If I remember right the foreground car is from Athearn. The picture was taken with an old 3 megapixel camera and light was provided by an incandesant bulb in a reflector over to the left. A white piece of paper was held to the right of the camera to reflect light back into shadow areas.
I'm always trying to photograph models in a way that more shows how large the prototype actually is and also to simulate light at different times of the day and that's what I was after in the picture below..
Jarrell
Seems like another GREAT WPF!!!
Here's some update shots of my layout. Not the best shots, but you get a idea.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Nice work so far!
Some progress shots of my pond and trestle:
Still a lot of details to add in, but it's starting to take shape.
Looking good everyone!
Here is a work in progress.
John (onequicknova) ........ That is certainly an impressive locomtive! Thanks for showing your progress. It is good to see talent like yours in this era of R-T-R locomtives made in China. I hope your model inspires others to build their own models.
Others may be interested in knowing more about Burlington's 2-6-6-2 fleet. The first of Q's 2-6-6-2's came from GN in the early 1900's, and Q soon afterwards purchased some built with a different design such as the T-2. The tender was unique, and when built it had a tilting devices to help the fireman fuel the engine with coal. Later, some of these tenders were converted to oil as is the case with John's model. Some of the 2-6-6-2's worked the Deadwood Branch until the diesel era.
Congratulations to John for his progress to date on this locomotive.
Nice work every one
Here's a video of my Rivarossi H-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlbxnRIywhc
TerryinTexas
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Thanks in advance
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Terry, gotta love the H-8. I notice your truly excellent water near the 2' mark. Veerrry nice.
onequiknova John.
I'm not worthy I'm NOT WORTHY
*bows*
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Heartland Division CB&Q John (onequicknova) ........ That is certainly an impressive locomtive! Thanks for showing your progress. It is good to see talent like yours in this era of R-T-R locomtives made in China. I hope your model inspires others to build their own models. Others may be interested in knowing more about Burlington's 2-6-6-2 fleet. The first of Q's 2-6-6-2's came from GN in the early 1900's, and Q soon afterwards purchased some built with a different design such as the T-2. The tender was unique, and when built it had a tilting devices to help the fireman fuel the engine with coal. Later, some of these tenders were converted to oil as is the case with John's model. Some of the 2-6-6-2's worked the Deadwood Branch until the diesel era. Congratulations to John for his progress to date on this locomotive.
Thanks Garry. Unfortunately, people who still scratchbuild steam are becoming few and far between, espeically someone my age.
A little clarification on the Q's articulateds. The Q's first articulateds, classified T1's, were indeed a GN design,but only the first 3 actually came from the GN, and those three never set foot on GN property. the Q plucked them out of a GN order. They ended up liking them enough to order five more, which were nearly identical except for a few Q related details. These engines were basicly outdated within a few years and eventualy were rebuilt into 0-8-0 switchers.
The T2's were the largest single group of Mallets on the Q, with a whopping ten loco's. A few of these lasted into the 50's, which is the era I'm modeling mine in.
The last time the Q dabble with articulateds was with the purchace of a single 2-8-8-2 T3 which proved rather unsucessful and was off the roster by the early 30's.
John
MAbruce -Nice!
I will second that nice Loathar and raise you an outstanding work, MABruce that is one sweet trestle you have there!