WPF 2/18-2/20

[Eric97123]

Thought I would start it off. 

 

[AltoonaRailroader]

Benchwork is going well now that I got my room finished enough to start builidng. I never thought I'd be able to build something like this but it wasn't too hard at all.

[jacon12]

Trying to catch the escapee from the pig pen, you'd think she'd get a little help from her brother.  Wait till Pa comes home!    

 

Jarrell

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Great work everyone.

Jarrell ... I really like your creative pig pen scene as well as the GE unit in the classic SOU paint scheme. Looks real.

Here's a view of "Reggie's Junk Yard" with an early 1960's edition of the Kansas City Zephyr.

 

[Grampys Trains]

Great scene, Jarrell, esp. the rusty corrugated tin.

Waiting at the crossing. DJ.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

DJ ... Nice action photo at the crossing.

[Grampys Trains]

Thanks, HL. Your excellent junk yard makes me want to look for a spot to model one, too. DJ.

[C&O Fan]

I agree on the junk yard scene DJ

when i saw that last week i loved the crane so i went online to ebay and got the

construction kit

Not a bad looking crane for 6$

and a pickup truck to boot

Since i don't have room for a junk yard I chose to make a construction scene

 but i still need a piece of culvert to hang on the hook of the crane

 

 

 

[selector]

We have a good start to WPF, Gentlemen. 

I call my submission for this week, a retouch of a shot taken two years ago,

C&O 2-6-6-6 Visits Seneca Sub

Crandell

[steamage]

Here is the SP Local working Sun Valley, CA.

 

[Motley]

Eric - Great looking scene with CSX power.

Altoona - Benchwork is looking very good, well done.

Garry - Love that Zepher passenger train.

DJ - Another awesome looking shot!.

Crandell - I absolutely love that shot of the trackwork in your yard. This is one of my favorites!

[GRAMRR]

Painted up an old Mehano 4-4-0 given to me by a friend.

Home made logo on tank car came out pretty nice.

[MAbruce]

Very nice work on display this week!!

It's been a slow start in the hobby for me this year.  I've hardly touched the layout, so here's the very first picture I've taken this year:

[Geared Steam]

Motley

Michael, I like your scenery, what did you use for the bushes/ground cover, WS ground foam?

 

[Motley]

Geared Steam

 

Motley:

 

 

 

 

Michael, I like your scenery, what did you use for the bushes/ground cover, WS ground foam?

 

Thanks, I appreciate that! I used several kinds of Bachman coarse gound foam, and WS Fine Foliage for bushes, and real dirt.

[dcfixer]

Lots of great stuff to look at this week.  Thanks everyone for sharing.

I originally wasn't going to do an interior for this car, but the wife talked me into it.  I'm glad she did, cause it was the most fun yet doing these railroad models.  There's more pix of the car on my website, if anyone is interested.

Maiden voyage will be tomorrow at the museum.

[cowman]

Michael,

Beautiful scene.  What did you use for your evergreen trees.

Thank you,

Richard

[duckdogger]

That is a very serious interior.  Outstanding.  Gonna have some pistol packing postal workers sorting the mail?

[G Paine]

C&O Fan

 i still need a piece of culvert to hang on the hook of the crane

Next time you go to McDonalds, Burger King, etc, pick up an extra soda straw, cut to length and paint concrete. I have used these for a lot of culverts.

[G Paine]

BRAKING NEWS:
BBRRV takes delivery of new switch motor at the Dragon Cement plant

[dcfixer]

duckdogger

That is a very serious interior.  Outstanding.  Gonna have some pistol packing postal workers sorting the mail?

Thank you. 

I've seen a b/w of a worker in an HW packing quite a hog's leg.  So far I have been reluctant to add another figure, cause it will block some things, but that's an idea that may just decide it for me.  I think I'll work on one.  Thanks for the inspiration.

There is a worker in there, but  no gun, just standing around;

 

[wholeman]

DC Fixer,

I love your work on the interiors.  What do you use for lighting?

[ns3010]

Another great start to another great week! Excellent work, everyone!

This week, while going through assorted stuff, I found some scenic material leftover from my last layout. So this week, along with our day off today, I got a decent area covered. I have a little touch up to do, and then those areas will be done until I get trees. This weekend, I hope to get some more work done, until I either run out of materials, or run out of areas that will get grass (large sections will get gravel, which I do not have).

Enjoy! Hopefully I'll get some more done this weekend, and I'll have more shots.

[dcfixer]

wholeman

DC Fixer,

I love your work on the interiors.  What do you use for lighting?

Thanks, Will

On the cars with the Walthers all-wheel pickup, I use SMT LEDS with a 4v full wave, regulated circuit.  Drawings, part numbers, vendors and more info on this circuit can be found on my website. For this car, I tried a simplified circuit by Jim Betz over at the Yahoo PCL. The differences are that I use 300 ohms for the current limiter (R1), 2 of the regulating zeners (ZD1=3.9v) in parallel and 90 ohms on each of my LEDs (R2).  This circuit's working voltage and final LED brightness will vary a little with track voltage and loading.  This circuit will consume more power.  It also takes a real long time to charge up that cap and get the lights on, but it is truly flicker free.  LED brightness will dim slightly with loss of input power on my circuit.  I use the same regulator, LEDs and super cap that is described on my website for both applications.  To correct the color of the LEDs I use a little piece of the standard, blond Scotch masking tape over them.

Here's a copy of Jim's circuit.

[zgardner18]

steamage

Here is the SP Local working Sun Valley, CA.

 

Sun Valley, really? I was just there yesterday.  I would have loved to have seen this shot instead of the graffiti trashed, run down, hooker walked Sun Valley, California.  And to think that I get the pleasure of working there at least once a week.  Good old Los Angeles County.

[UncBob]

GRAMRR

Painted up an old Mehano 4-4-0 given to me by a friend.

Nice job on the engine

I have the IHC

While not as detailed as the Bachman still a great runner

[Packers#1]

Great work everyone! 

Well, been a while since I participated in WPF, but hopefully my pics won't break your screen haha.

Well, been chipping away at the box of Supertrees. I love love LOVE this stuff! Here's a few shots of the progress. First, an overview of the right side. Still don't have the road planned out (lost both my scale ruler and woodland scenics grader.) Anyone know how many inches wide a 2 lane n scale road is? Anyways, trees in the back, hot rod/car customizing etc shop in front of those, there will be a bait shop in front of that, train to the far right.

Anyways, here we are looking down the cut. The hill the camera is resting on will have trees, as will most of the length of the main.

Close-up of the end of the B23-7. I don't really like this paint scheme, and while I've had an idea of another, I'm not really sure. Anyone have an easy to paint two tone paint scheme?

Close-up of the shop:

Finally, got a LOT more trees left to make and plant. Might make a tutorial.

[Motley]

cowman

Michael,

Beautiful scene.  What did you use for your evergreen trees.

Thank you,

Richard

Thanks. I used a combination of Bachman, WS, and Central Gems. The Aspens were custom made from a local guy that sells them at my LHS.

[BRVRR]

Great stuff again this week guys. Keep them coming!

Here is one from my updated website:

Traditional rivals round the curve at the West end of the BRVRR layout. Both locomotive sets are at the head of short mixed freight trains.

Keep up the good work guys. This is always the best thread of the week.

[howmus]

Very, very nice work on display here this weekend (just like always).

I have been adding some details to the workshop attached to the engine house as time has permitted this week.

A water barrel for fire protection and a bucket beside it, a potbellied stove for heat during the cold months (and a coal box), a rack of lumber stock, some oil stains on the floor, and a vise on the workbench.



Here you can see a silver colored electric box on the wall by the door, a couple figures I added getting ready to start a project, More tools, shovels, and brooms, and the dust collection pipe for one of the machines.



Better shot of the workbench...

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