I think I'll start this week off, it's been quite a while. Just a few shots of my current layout/progress. Kinda glad the season is here, I really missed working on the layout.
And this was my first water test. I built a small 12"x12" square out of foam and just did some quick decorating.
An SD45 leans into the curve entering Blackwood cut. DJ.
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I bought this accurail kit for $5 on ebay a few weeks ago. Last weekend, I put it together, weathered it, installed kadee #5 couplers and intermountain 33" metal wheels. I wanted a light brown for the weathering, so I diluted autumn brown with some white, then mixed it with rubbing alcohol. I think it's a little heavy, but the wife and kids think it looks OK.
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A Pennsy snow plow being repositioned for winter
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I've been working on these items this week:Front Range 'Shorty' covered hopper.Busch Airstream trailer. Enjoy it's luster while it lasts. It'll soon be dull and dusty.Completely rebuilt a Proto 2000 E6 chassis and turned it into an E7.Tyco Campbell's Beans covered hopper.Bachmann split level mobile home.Tyco Old Dutch Cleanser covered hopper.
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Looking very good guys!
This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!!
Michael
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Motley Looking very good guys! This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!!
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jeffrey-wimberly Motley: Looking very good guys! This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!! Good job Micheal. I like it.
Motley: Looking very good guys! This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!!
Good job Micheal. I like it.
Thanks Jeff. I'm starting to get the hang of this weathering thing.
Great photos, everybody. Keep on posting them!
Michael... I recall seeing Rio Grande when I was in Colorado for a couple of years, and I never saw a clean DRGW locomotive. ... Nice job on yours.
Here is the back side of Union Station with people being dropped off for a train trip.
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Motley jeffrey-wimberly: Motley: Looking very good guys! This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!! Good job Micheal. I like it. Thanks Jeff. I'm starting to get the hang of this weathering thing.
jeffrey-wimberly: Motley: Looking very good guys! This week I weathered 2 Athearn SD45 D&RGWs. This is for you Jeff!! Good job Micheal. I like it.
Motley, I like your work on the SD45, black is less forgiving (for me) than other color schemes. I also like the additional details like the air filter & piping, Nice Job!
ChadLRyan Motley, I like your work on the SD45, black is less forgiving (for me) than other color schemes. I also like the additional details like the air filter & piping, Nice Job!
Thanks Chad, I appreciate the comments!
Speaking of detail parts. I got the Details West super detail kits for them, and I didn't even know which part were what, and where they went. And it didn't come with any type of instructions. So I have a lot of left over parts. LOL
Combine ZP didn't do a good job of the close tracks in this image, but I don't have time to take another series. So, here we have "Pennsy Power!"
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Nice work everyone. I've just finished a car for Sweethome Alabama - an L&N caboose in CSX service
Have a great modelling weekend
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jon grant Nice work everyone. I've just finished a car for Sweethome Alabama - an L&N caboose in CSX service Have a great modelling weekend Jon
Yes Jon,excellent work . What did the caboose start life as?
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BIG JERR Yes Jon,excellent work . What did the caboose start life as?
Thanks.
The caboose is a standard Walthers bay-window model painted in Santa Fe red/yellow. All I've added was the bay window mesh and covered up the side windows. I'd already sent away for some L&N caboose decals from Microscale for just this conversion, but I still need to add some data, as and when I find the right decals.
The rest was just a bit of heavy weathering
CSX caboose in 1995 still in L&N livery (Florida)
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As always, some wonderful photos here....
I have been putting together a powerhouse for the area at the quarry. It's a Design Preservation kit that will have a few modifications in it (#1 is the size..... It will be a smaller version). The walls are together and I have done the first "Test Fit" on the layout.
Another view... This one won't be photographed often.
Tonight I started to construct the coal dump in the building.
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
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Yard art behind Ezra Johnson's Midland Gulf Tourist Train station and pizza joint.
Last week I posted some in process photos of a couple of ExactRail PS4427 kits. Now I have the finished products.
The are cars purchased by the Andersons of Maumee, OH. They used to run past my house between the elevator in Maumee and the Grain Terminal in Toledo, OH. Color is a Green/Blue Gray and the decals are by Herald King.
I used to drive by the Monfort Feed Lots and Beef Processing Plant in Greeley when I lived in Loveland, CO on various trips, so I had to have one of these cars. Painted with Floquil Primer and lettered with Oddballs Decals.
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Worked today on finishing up a Santa Fe office building on our HO layout.
The building is a Herpa office. I kit bashed it by using two kits so I could have two sides with windows. The sign is by Blair Line. The light is a Miller Engineering (Micro Structures) florescent lamp I mounted in a Plastruct half round rod.
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Your airbrush may be "crappy", "low quality", but it definitely gave a weathered look to your work. My "low cost" airbrush remains in its package. Maybe someday I will decide that I am either brave enough to try it or have a project that I would be much better off if I use it.
Have fun,
Richard
cowman Your airbrush may be "crappy", "low quality", but it definitely gave a weathered look to your work. My "low cost" airbrush remains in its package. Maybe someday I will decide that I am either brave enough to try it or have a project that I would be much better off if I use it. Have fun, Richard
Richard (Cowman) Come on, now! Seriously, don't hold back on having fun. Back in the day, I was hesitant to even try out an airbrush. After I got one and tested it.......I did not want to spray another model with a rattle can ever again! Sitting in my room is a can of Dull Cote that I purchased around 1989-90. It's still full!
Don't sell yourself short. Hook that puppy up and give it a whirl! If you need any tips or assistance just post it here or send a private message to the modelers on this forum that regularly airbrush (myself included). We're here to help each other.
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Nice work everyone. A full scale shot! Here is a drive by shot with a point & shoot (bad shot). It is a big IC&E Western Star Rail truck leaving the station after filling up it's tanks. Somedoay I hope to build something like this in HO.
Pushkin's been helping out on the railroad again
Jon ... Instead of Soo Line .... It is the Fe-Line ......
....... oh, never mind .......