BigBlueConrailPacker is that SW an Athearn?? It looks good.
It's a Broadway limited with QSI sound/dcc
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Lots of steam this week, you could probably get a sauna going if this keeps up.
I got some new acquisitions this week:A BLI NW2 with sound and DCC.
Some cars that came with it.
I'm not changing roads or eras, I just happened to get a good deal on the NW2. I may end up repainting it for BN if I can't find a BN to swap it for.
Packers#1 Heartland Division CB&Q Also, Sawyer is at the beach (Don't watch too many girls, Sawyer) lol, I won't. Speaking of girls, how about a pic of my ATSF 6330?
Heartland Division CB&Q Also, Sawyer is at the beach (Don't watch too many girls, Sawyer)
Also, Sawyer is at the beach (Don't watch too many girls, Sawyer)
lol, I won't.
Speaking of girls, how about a pic of my ATSF 6330?
HAHAHA! You know it's time to take a break from MRRing when you say things like that!
Anyways, this is what I've been doing lately.
That's a bachmann USRA light 2-10-2 that I've been "Canadianizing". The most recent thing I've done was cutting off the steam pipes from the cylinders so I can make new ones as the original ones don't come up far enough on the boiler. The new rear truck is actually a pilot truck from some other engine that was in somebody else's scrapbox. Now that I have a torch, I have started to bend my piping for the FWH system.
Heartland Division CB&QAlso, Sawyer is at the beach (Don't watch too many girls, Sawyer)
Speaking of girls, how about a pic of my ATSF 6330? I think I've posted this before, but I can't remember. Took it on a REAL sunny day, and the lighting went kinda screwy.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Wow! Great model work by Lee, Oudoorfella, Spidge, Twhite, Crandell, Tyler, and DJ.... Also, Flashwave, that's a neat old NKP Geep... Also, Sawyer is at the beach (Don't watch too many girls, Sawyer)
My photo has C&S 700D in Prairie View.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Very nice work, everyone.
Hudson relegated to freight duty.
I've been taking some photos, trying to play around with the best setups to enter Model Railroader's photo contest.
As an evening thunderstorm clears away, Train 403 heads west around Mascoma Lake.
- F/36, 2.0 seconds, at ISO 320. Light is provided by layout track lighting and a photo lamp with a difuse filter. (Actually, it's an old reading lamp with a floodlamp bump that I'm holding a piece of paper over, but it serves the same purpose!) The stormy sky was added in Photoshop.
#9423 leads 402 past Mascoma Lake.
- F/36, 4.0 seconds, at ISO 640. Light is just natural layout lighting, track lights.
Train 403 passes Kimball Scrap in Enfield, NH.
- F/29, 5.0 seconds, at ISO 100. Again, light is just the standard layout lighting.
Great photos everyone. i'm stuck at the beach so I can't take pictures of my c-liner or h-15-44 all finished up, but I'll do that this weekend.
Thanks Terry, I now have even more pictures to choose from when taking photos and thats OK with digital.
Tom, I know we both live in California but its to bad there is so much real estate between us. I would love to visit.
Well it looks like this week is themed in steam so maybe I best take a shot of my one steamer to keep with the theme.
John
Wow all this Heavy Steam has me drooling !
Nice stuff guys !
Great Picture John
White Balance adj really helped
TerryinTexas
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I gotta get back in the diner. But it won;t be this week:
That's a 1:1 scale of where I'm gona be until next Wednesday, On the IN State Fair Train. I can't find the pictures I shot on the Naptwon layout of the HO scale model I'm doing)
-Morgan
Nice steamer above, Lee. Very nice. Your painting of the diesel has turned out very well. Far beyond my capabilities. Also, the scenery in the photo by outdoorsfella is really very good. The rock face turned out well. The rest of the greenery is also quite natural. The ballast job ain't too shabby, neither.
[edit- added] John and Tom both posted while I was composing my post, so I have to add that they are also excellent examples of modelling. I always enjoy their contributions.
I am too busy with other priorities this time of year, not the least of which is keeping a substantial garden and property from succumbing to a drought this year. So, I had time a few nights ago, late, to take a photo. Two competing railroads run their varnish past each other in this meet in the highlands above Seneca Falls.
-Crandell
Lee: Great work, as always --I especially like the kit-bash on the WM Challenger. Always thought those were particularly handsome steamers. Have you checked with Precision Scale in Montana to see if they might carry an N-scale all-weather cab? I know they carry quite a few N-scale super-detailing parts. Might be worth a try.
Outdoorsfella: Scenery's looking REALLY good!
John: GREAT bridge! I love curved viaducts!
Well, haven't contributed in a couple of months, so here's a couple of shots from train-watching on Yuba Pass. The first is Rio Grande challenger #3704 with a priority train of mostly California produce. The yellow striping on the front sand-box is an experiment to make the loco more visible at grade crossings. The Challenger is a Westside model.
About an hour later, 2-8-8-2 #3508 comes trundling by with an eastbound drag freight. Yah, I know the loco looks a little bright and shiny for a drag loco, but I just bought it two days ago and haven't hit it with the 'weathering' powders, yet. It's a new Proto2000.
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!
Thanks for starting things off this weekend with a couple good photos. Love the steamer on the TT and your F7 photo with the good looking structures and scenery is nicely done to.
I only have my bridge through the canyon scene and have posted it many times so I will hold off until I get more scenery done.
Then again this photo is new. I had a visitor that helped me with the white ballance on my camera. I didn't even know it was adjustable.
Well, I've been putting in a new scenic area that's gone untouched for the past few years. Here's a eastbound NS unit train coming out of Sand Patch tunnel into the new area on my Allegheny & Cumberland .....
I finished up detailing a Kato F-7. The basic paint and some of the details were done by Tim Adler, but I added the grabs, grilles and most of the lettering.
I've also got this old gem in the shop to work on. It belongs to the Western Maryland Ry. Historical Society, and was donated over 20 years ago. I've got to work out some kinks in the front engine to get her back into regular service. I reworked the pilot to have more of a WM appearance back in the day, and I'm going to undertake building a proper cab for her once I get her running again.
So, what have you all been up to?
Lee
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