Great looking work everyone! This is always my favourite thread of the week.
For myself, I've recently finished a full typical modern VIA Rail Canada Quebec-City-Windsor Corridor consist, of a custom painted Athearn P42, and three Rapido Trains LRC resin coaches. All units are custom painted and decalled by me, and the coaches were also built from their kits by me.
I apologize from the start that the pictures aren't very clear.
(The paint line between the blue and gray isn't that neat here, due to a muck-up with the masking. I intend to fix that sometime in the future).
Also this past week, indulging in my other modelling interest (the CB&CNS and DEVCO in Cape Breton Nova Scotia in the late 1990s), I completed my first CB&CNS locomotive. It is an MLW RS-18, kitbashed from an Atlas RS-11 using Miniatures by Eric and Railflyer detail parts. I painted it and added Microscale decals. This photo is not very clear, but it shows it quickly.
I'm off on a cross-country vacation for the next few weeks, so I'll try to post some better pictures of this unit when I get back. By then I should be well relaxed and ready to get on to my next project: DEVCO GP38-2s.
Have a great weekend everyone.
-Tim
MotleyRix highway overpass
The overpass blends so nicely with the background. It really looks like the model extends beyond...
What did you use for the roadbed? The lines are so straight.
Good work.
Bob
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Sir Madog WPF is always the week´s highlight for me!
WPF is always the week´s highlight for me!
Me too.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Once again, I am overwhelmed by the quality of the work presented here!
Mike - I very much like the way you blend in your scenery with the background - excellent job!
Just completed my first weathering job on one of my locomotives. It is a Kato Dash 9 and I went with a heavier weather becuase #8979 is an older Dash 9. Here is what it looked like to start with.
8979 has had a tough life on the rails, alot of miles and awhile back she had a nasty fire. Those GE's and their blown turbos.
View from the other side, all in all it took me about 4 hours to complete.
Next three are views from the front. I am very pleased with the way it turned out.
Something started growing on my layout overnight:
First vegetation with static grass, bushes, spalings and trees. Many thanks to my family members for helping out with tree labor! Jamie
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Driline The BLMA brand fence is finally in. Many details yet to go.
The BLMA brand fence is finally in. Many details yet to go.
Driline, Love the scene, weathering and well everything looks great!
willjayna Man you guys beat me to it, I was looking forward to starting this thread. Nonetheless, I recently purchased my 3rd Tower 55 ES44DC in the Northern Pacific Livery. I intend this one to be a Norfolk Southern in the gray ghost or primer paint scheme. Here is what I had to start with. Really great start to the weekend so far. Keep them coming. Will
Man you guys beat me to it, I was looking forward to starting this thread. Nonetheless, I recently purchased my 3rd Tower 55 ES44DC in the Northern Pacific Livery. I intend this one to be a Norfolk Southern in the gray ghost or primer paint scheme. Here is what I had to start with.
Really great start to the weekend so far. Keep them coming.
Will
Will, I don't think you and I could be friends anymore. You just killed my Northern Pacific Dreams............
Grampys Trains K4s crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
K4s crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
Love the shot! To me it looks like the early morning with the sun starting to shine over the hills. All you need is smoke from the engine and the shot is priceless.
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ECI 1301 passes a steamer on it's way through Westport.
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dragenriderAs this picture scrolled into view my first thought was "now why is Jeff posting a pic of an old tender here?" Then I realized that it was a model and not a corroded derelict you found in Louisiana!
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Great pictures, friends.
Here's a first picture from my module Salina with all four segments.
Wolfgang
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jeffrey-wimberly A few things I've been working on:
A few things I've been working on:
As this picture scrolled into view my first thought was "now why is Jeff posting a pic of an old tender here?" Then I realized that it was a model and not a corroded derelict you found in Louisiana!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Good shot here! You managed to get the entire train in a nice curve plus the canoer..er..er.. errrrs (is that a word?) all in one shot.
Well done!
Jarrell
selector Driline, you have set a very high standard for this WPF! Nice photos! Bruce, your photo with the fireworks is excellent. It's a keeper. Could be on a postcard. Jarrell, I am happy to see your new water at last. I'd say you have done it very well. I wouldn't mind a close to macro shot. This weekend I show a Class J braking as it descends the shallow grade across the interchange bridge over the Seneca River. The woman in the trailing canoe looks up in appreciation for the immense and hissing locomotive as it looms above their canoe. -Crandell
Driline, you have set a very high standard for this WPF! Nice photos!
Bruce, your photo with the fireworks is excellent. It's a keeper. Could be on a postcard.
Jarrell, I am happy to see your new water at last. I'd say you have done it very well. I wouldn't mind a close to macro shot.
This weekend I show a Class J braking as it descends the shallow grade across the interchange bridge over the Seneca River. The woman in the trailing canoe looks up in appreciation for the immense and hissing locomotive as it looms above their canoe.
-Crandell
jacon12What a great little scene, Ray...., lighting effects and all! And, how did the Papec Band get their name? Jarrell
What a great little scene, Ray...., lighting effects and all! And, how did the Papec Band get their name?
Ask and thou shalt receive...... The Papec Machine Co. aka: Pneumatic and Propeller Ensilage Company was a farm machinery company in Shorstville, NY (Not far from where I grew up) that made silo chopper filler machines... Well, one of these:
Put together, they looked more like this (scratchbuilt for the farm on Bare Mountain). You can see it at the bottom right of the photo with the pipe going up the silo.
We had a couple of them on the farm when I was a kid. more about Papec here: http://wellssouth.com/blog/?p=46
Anyway the Papec Company was very community minded and formed a band which used to play concerts in the nearby communities which all had the park gazebos for the purpose as well as marching in parades. My Father played for several years in the Papec Band before he went to Ithaca College as a music major. He was the first oboist to ever graduate from Ithaca College. This whole section of the SLOW has a bunch of family puns and jokes. It also has the names of a lot of the family on it as business owners. If you look close you will see "Rose's Dinner (the wife of Don Howard, my dad's cousin and the owner of Don Howard's Farm Machinery Dealership). Next door is Nina's Beauty Salon. The sign is a copy of the sign which I still have of my mother's hairdressing shop. Miller's bed and Breakfast is a tribute to my sister Rev. Janice Miller who runs a boarding house for foreign high school students. And many more down the street.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Made the connections to send the first train from Maryland Jct. to Elkins... Still more work to do, but at least now we can generate some revenue on this line!
Here's a link to a slide show of the whole run... just scroll down past the cover photo...
And don't worry... the bridge girders are on their way!
Lee
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Nice work guys. I really love the fence Drillline.
I was hoping to get a picture up this weekend, but alas. Dang those craftsman kits. (Can't wait to start the next one.)
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
howmus Nice everybody! "Saturday in the Park, I think it was the 4th. of July..." 4th of July in Hopewell Junction and the Papec Band has started their annual John Phillip Sousa concert. I think I hear their opening number now. The "Stars and Stripes Forever!" Not many trains running on the Holiday, just the local Milk Run on it's late afternoon run. Gotta get that milk to the dairy! Ah the closing number.... The Washington Post March! One of my favorites! A happy Fourth to all of you out there South of the Border. I already wished our friends to the North a Happy Canada Day a couple days ago! 73
Nice everybody!
"Saturday in the Park, I think it was the 4th. of July..."
4th of July in Hopewell Junction and the Papec Band has started their annual John Phillip Sousa concert. I think I hear their opening number now. The "Stars and Stripes Forever!"
Not many trains running on the Holiday, just the local Milk Run on it's late afternoon run. Gotta get that milk to the dairy!
Ah the closing number.... The Washington Post March! One of my favorites!
A happy Fourth to all of you out there South of the Border. I already wished our friends to the North a Happy Canada Day a couple days ago!
Here's a shot of my town I'm still working on. Gotta add some more detail work.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hey the Steam is back WHOO HOO !!!!
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Excellent start of a long weekend. . Looking forward to seeing much more.
Springfield PA
Thanks Grampy, I appreciate it.
I like your Hammer Creek shot also. Looks like somebody's getting in some late afternoon fishin'!
Grampys Trains Jarrell, great job on the pond, very realistic. K4s crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.
Jarrell, great job on the pond, very realistic.
good work to all ,Jerrel nice sene ,I like it...Jerry
As time permits, I've been working on a corner of my layout. This area has a section of cork over part of it and I decided it would be a good spot for a small lake or pond. I drew out a rough shape and then cut out the cork revealing the extruded foam base..
I then covered the bottom with plaster cloth, smoothing over holes as much as possible. I used Woodland Scenics Flex Paste to cover all holes after the cloth had dried and painted it..
I then poured a couple of 1/8th inch deep layers of WS Realistic Water and after that had dried good I installed some tall grasses at the edge using WS Water Effects as an adhesive and then did some sceniking work around the area using ground goop for a base.
Today I've poured the final layer of 'water', working it around the grass with a tooth pick. and after that dries I'll work on lilly pads.
Here's a shot showing the area overall..
Driline
Frank, your weathering (and everything else) is outstanding.
Happy 4th of July everyone !!
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This is a recently completed truck at Sheepscot Transfer and Storage. The Dysarts truck is a Sylvan Scale Mack COE and the trailer is Classic Metals Works. Both are painted with home made decals. Dysarts is a real company located in Hermon, ME
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch