Chris
Lancaster,CA
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Great stuff again so far this weekend guys,really good stuff to get my butt kicked into doing stuff again. Since the new home layout is still pink foam board and plywood I'll drop off a few club shots again.
A few shots of some switching this week.
Rob
Hi Batman,
Thanks for your appreciation.
I starded whith an out of production Nscale Walthers icing platform.( I beleeive the HO ones is out too).
The inspiration comes from some shot I find on the web and especialy pics from the adds on the Walthers site about icing model platform. (make a search about "icing platform")
I take inspiration from one to another and come whith something nearly prototypical.
However everything was scratchbuild whith Evergreen parts, the legs were made whith a template as identical as the Walthers one.
What I was looking for was "the look" of the structure, well detailled because it's will be next the edge of my yard and eyes catching because my yard is a 12 tracks ladder and whith all the string of cars on it you don't see nothing else.
The icing platform will be set on the smallest yard ladder, 5" from the edge of the layout, and could accomodate an around 11 cars at a time.
I often kitbash models, it's easy because you have a good starting point and you could give the look and the finish you want and all in all it's not so difficult as you thing.
I hope to still edit some shots this week end because all the roofs are now finished, a brick foundation was added to the ice house and the office shop. I hope to paint it and wheater it for the next weekend.
Good week end.
Marc
Hi Dave,
I like the look of your yard and the overall look.
Which kind of turnouts did You use? I think is Atlas code 55 but I'm not sure.
Marc_MagnusHi Dave, I like the look of your yard and the overall look. Which kind of turnouts did You use? I think is Atlas code 55 but I'm not sure. Good week end. Marc
Marc,
All the new track is Atlas code 55, including turnouts... except for the two curved turnouts. Since Atlas had problems delivering their curved code 55 turnout, I went with FastTracks. I bought 2 pre-built ones... Had I more to build I would have gotten the jig and done it myself.
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
Well, made some updates to my Free-Mo module, tree, shrubs, signals and some small details. Here's a Burlington local passenger train rolling thru. Trouble is, the E unit blends into the foil insulation on the walls!
Ricky
I found this picture of this old worn out stock car. Obviously it is towards to the end of the career but looks to be still being used.
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I'm still busy with my H0n3 staging yard "Fiddletown". These are two segments.
All tracks are laid and wired.
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Rob - Those wooden buildings in the second photo are awesome. Are those kits or scratch built? Beautiful work.
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
Ricky - actually a pretty neat picture. My first impression was that the engineer was hurrying to get the mail through before tha forest fire closed down the line. I like the picture.
Quick update on my "Bridge to Nowhere". the MOW crew arrived last night and put down ties. There has also been a few more braces installed.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Great stuff as usual guys. Some very impressive modeling here this week.
Here is an Athearn BW Caboose I worked on this week. I installed Model Power trucks (they were the only ones I could find with metal axles), put in some clear styrene for window glazing and put in a single bulb for lighting. Then I weathered it with Bragdon Enterprises chalks. I think I got a little carried away!
Many more photos on my web page.
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Allan
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Great pics ,all! I am always on the lookout for modeling supplies on the cheap. Found this for corrugated steel. Anybody got a guess?
Terry
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saronaterryGreat pics ,all! I am always on the lookout for modeling supplies on the cheap. Found this for corrugated steel. Anybody got a guess? Terry
Twist ties???
Ray, good job! That's it!
They hold a shape and are FREE!! Next I'll try to wrap them around a 3" PVC pipe for a grain bin!
saronaterryRay, good job! That's it!
Terry, once in a great while, the light switches on. In this case I looked at it and looked at it and thought.... Hmmm, looks like something I have seen before..... Went and did something else, and bingo! The light turned on....
Roger the shrubber arrived on the SLOW and planted a few shrubberies (some up higher than the others with a little walkway coming down.....). Anyway some scenery has been added under and near the "Bridge to Nowhere".
A bit larger shot of the area:
73
Ray, the rocky face here is quite impressive and gives me ideas for a similar area I have. Did you do the rocks with molds or were they carved?
Jarrell
howmus Great start to the weekend folks! This thread is where I get my inspiration....... (Well one of many places actually, but still a great place for ideas!) I have been gradually working on the scenery and trackage on the logging pike on the middle peninsula on the SLOW. I needed to extend the track for the logging road, and the only place it could go was into mid air. The line goes by trestle from Bare Mountain to a place called Nowhere, NY which is the next ridge over from Bare Mountain..... So here is the start of the "Bridge to Nowhere". I'll be working on it this weekend (hopefully) and will try to report progress as it is done........ Oh, BTW, the the trestle pole are actually straight up and down..... Strange effects from the camera lense. 73
Great start to the weekend folks! This thread is where I get my inspiration....... (Well one of many places actually, but still a great place for ideas!)
I have been gradually working on the scenery and trackage on the logging pike on the middle peninsula on the SLOW. I needed to extend the track for the logging road, and the only place it could go was into mid air. The line goes by trestle from Bare Mountain to a place called Nowhere, NY which is the next ridge over from Bare Mountain..... So here is the start of the "Bridge to Nowhere".
I'll be working on it this weekend (hopefully) and will try to report progress as it is done........ Oh, BTW, the the trestle pole are actually straight up and down..... Strange effects from the camera lense.
jacon12Did you do the rocks with molds or were they carved?
Hi Jarrell and thanks!
The rocks are done with molds from Woodland Scenics using plain old hydrocal. They are stained with several different shades of diluted paint (mostly the WS rock colors). Several people (including my son this evening) have told me they are the best rock faces I have done. They came out darker than most of my other rock work.
GRAMRR Rob - Those wooden buildings in the second photo are awesome. Are those kits or scratch built? Beautiful work.
Hi no those are sratch built board for board. We had a member now passed on sadly that the scratch building was his thing.Everything he scratch built was from the old RMC articles when they published a scratch building project each week. The tressles I posted the picture of last week or the week before were Brains work as well.
went back and redid some backdrop , still have the sky to redo.
model in O. the Western NY and Ontario Railroad
Main thing I have done in the last few days is clear off the work table of some projects! Got three engines dragging revenue again, bulk end flat car, 5 coal cars and one flat car back on the track. Only 4 box cars and 4 passenger cars to go! Then the next batch of engines?
Made and planted a few more tress, this box of Super Trees had some nice one! All so read about making better tress in the magazine and it helped. This time around I painted the trunks and made them healthier looking.
Next I broke out my Alton Limited Heavy Weight Passenger car. Guess with IHC going under not much of a chance of getting more. All so picture with my M1 A.
Last week I picked up a twin pack of Front Range trailers, whats the chance of finding them new in my LHS K-10 Model Trains? For $7.00 for the pair, what can you say?
Two of the engines I got going where my Erie Built. I got them when I was DC and there cheap couplers arms broke! So they sat and then I went DCC so I forgot about them. Got a Kadee coupler kit for them (over priced and did not work well stock) that had the parts I cloud kit bash something that worked. B unit is powered, but would never track right with all 6 wheels in the truck, A on the other hand tracked great? I pulled the center wheels from the B, made the center gear into a idler gear and tracks well now. Added decoders (hard wired) and LED to the A. Still need to replaces the missing horn and front coupler.
Coming through the woods.
Finally got to do something for Simon 1966. Made some coal loads for his hoppers. I offered to weather the cars, but Simon said no thanks, his 10 year son likes to do them. Hum, Simon has seen my cars, guess he knows a 10 year old can do better!
I have 4 of Simmons cars, first one is the orange one, then 3 back.
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Excellent work, everyone! So much great stuff, I don't know what to say!
Finally something new from me this week.
Today, the last scheduled train operated over the Watchinson Line. I have begun tearing down my current layout to make way for a bigger and better one, focusing on the Lackawanna Cutoff, as if it were in service today (in reality, reconstruction of the line will begin within the next few months, but my layout will be ahead of the game). I'm about 50% done with the destruction, and construction of benchwork for the new layout will hopefully begin soon (as soon as we get the basement rearranged, since the layout will be migrating across the room...)Anyway, this evening, several railfans braved the rain to catch the final run:Last Run on the Watchinson Line
Enjoy!
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fmilhaupt ngartshore350 Good start to WPF this week, nice work there marc! A PRR Observation I tried to kitbash to create "Tower View" Nice work-- what did you use for the sides?
ngartshore350 Good start to WPF this week, nice work there marc! A PRR Observation I tried to kitbash to create "Tower View"
Good start to WPF this week, nice work there marc!
A PRR Observation I tried to kitbash to create "Tower View"
Nice work-- what did you use for the sides?
It is a Union Station Product Kit http://www.unionstationproducts.com/
Thanks for the reply Ray, your son has a good eye..
Dave VollmerOkay, time to update the crew on my Enola Yard extension... The blue power lineup is indicative of my trend toward being less of a Pennsy modeler and more of a Conrail modeler. The view from US 11/15... This is my homemade billboard for the Summerdale Diner, a must-stop when railfanning the Harrisburg, PA area.
Okay, time to update the crew on my Enola Yard extension...
The blue power lineup is indicative of my trend toward being less of a Pennsy modeler and more of a Conrail modeler.
The view from US 11/15... This is my homemade billboard for the Summerdale Diner, a must-stop when railfanning the Harrisburg, PA area.
Hey Dave! You really nailed that Summerdale Diner sign! The only thing to make your scene more prototypical would be to add an automobile accident scene which happens consistently on that stretch of highway too often! Nice work....
Matt
Matt,
Thanks! I probably don't have enough road patches there either... Remember, this is an idealized world where PennDOT is competent and you can pace a westbound out of Enola without getting stuck behind a school bus (it's July), Granny, or a PennDOT lane closure.
Dave,
you have done it again - I am awed by these pictures!
Dave VollmerMatt, Thanks! I probably don't have enough road patches there either... Remember, this is an idealized world where PennDOT is competent and you can pace a westbound out of Enola without getting stuck behind a school bus (it's July), Granny, or a PennDOT lane closure.
Yes sir: about 12 or so potholes, a cement mixer with a flat tire and 3 or 4 little plastic workmen leaning on shovels and yawning would do it! LOL