My new Christmas Tree Central is coming along quickly and will done before the true kick off of the holiday season. The mountain in the center in covering the base of my new tree (which was partially assembled for modeling reasons.
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Here are views of my farm
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Modenized heavyweight passenger cars are taking people home for Thanksgiving.
GARRY
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Very nice seens, guys.
A pair of SW7's working the yard. DJ.
Wow guys really great stuff so far. Love the farm scene. Hopefully my pics can stack up.
My latest project was weathering two of my MTH Norfolk Southern SD70M-2's. I have had these engines for 6 or 7 months and have always wanted to weather them.
Overall, I must say that these two engines are hands down my effort to date. All my weathering is done with a Paasche air brush water based paints and weathering powders.
Hope you all like them.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Will
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Nice work guys, love what all of you are doing!!
Well, here is my custom painted & lit Kato GP35 in daylight! Although ICE never had any of these, but it fits into what I model & what I want to use it for. It will be a Local switcher/spotter where they used various single locomotive equipment at times. Today it is pulling some baled scrap from the metal scrapyard. The model is also the subject of the Ditchlights posting I was running, please see it in the dark there!
Is the weekend yet? I can always tell when it is because my favorite thread of the week appears.
Great work so far folks!
I have been currently (a few minutes every few days) been continuing on the power house. It looked like this after basic gluing the walls together...
Here it was after being sprayed a primer gray for the color of the morter and the start of using a terra Cotta coloered Art Pencil on the bricks:
And... This is the final color. Several similar colors were used to highlight the brick and then the entire outside of the buiding was sealed with Dullcoat.
Still trying to figure out how to do the interior.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Great pictures everyone. Seems slow today so I will post another. Here is one with the yard on one side and the passenger station on the other.
I picked up a used brass Key Rio Grande M-64 4-8-4 at the Roseville train show last weekend, got it home and found out that it had been custom-painted to the very same locomotive number (#1711) as an M-64 I bought several years ago from Caboose Hobbies. So here are my two #1711's on Bullard's Bar bridge. The first one is the newer one. The second will be re-numbered as soon as I can find my Microscale decal sheet.
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!
twhite I picked up a used brass Key Rio Grande M-64 4-8-4 at the Roseville train show last weekend, got it home and found out that it had been custom-painted to the very same locomotive number (#1711) as an M-64 I bought several years ago from Caboose Hobbies. So here are my two #1711's on Bullard's Bar bridge. The first one is the newer one. The second will be re-numbered as soon as I can find my Microscale decal sheet. Tom
Great Stuff Guy's!
Chad - Nice work on the GP35, looks great!
Will -Nice weathering job on the SD70s. Now, are you just cleaning the wheels after you paint? Also, I thought I was the only one who likes the MU cables tucked under the plow. I like the cleaner look.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Hey,
Thanks Motley, one thing I do on mine, if I have the shell off is to put a 9V battery across the motor leads & apply liquid paint mask on the wheels with a brush, as if it was that BullFrog stuff, it comes off easy & there is no other issues, at least on mine! I tried that once & now it is just a habbit. Just a thought..
My freight house is getting close to completion...
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
Illinois Terminal gondola with weathering and load added.
While we're talkin' trash here, I've been working on my scrapyard.
I had fun with extreme weathering here. The junk cars and the old boiler in the third picture were done with Instant Rust. Most of the junk piles are castings I've picked up here and there over the years, in anticipation of one day having a scrapyard. (What a life goal, huh?) Most of these scrap pile castings are kind of small, so I elevated them by putting them on scraps of roadbed, and in some cases I added some more height by stacking that on some pink foam. The magic of the camera shows me that I've still got some work to do to hide some of the roadbed and foam beneath the castings.
The office building, plank fence and light poles were scratchbuilt.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good stuff again this week guys. Keep them coming.
Scarpia, excellent work on the freight house.
Here's one from the BRVRR:
Nathan behind the train table watching a freight train roll by, up close and personal.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Wow Mister Beasley! What a great scene! Nice work! Thanks for sharing with us! Thayne,
Mr. B, you have an excellent piece of work there...well done!!
Crandell
Mr. B., what a junky looking scene! Excellent modeling, you've really captured the scrap yard look and feel. DJ.
here is a short video of my morning project......... http://youtu.be/63wcZniKOkI
...Jerry
BIG JERR here is a short video of my morning project......... http://youtu.be/63wcZniKOkI ...Jerry
Jerry, OMG!!! How did you get that close to the tracks? This is an amazing video. Love the 844. Where was it by the way?
Motly; it was the Mormon rocks area of Cajon pass @ hwy 138 (close to home) Ice cold temps and the train was 1 1/2 hours late . wrapped the dollar store tri pod w/my flip video around a defect detector ,wasn't much time to think as the train took the BNSF track instead of the UP tracks where everyone was waiting . lucky for me a friend called me from Blue cut an warned it was on BNSF tracks so after a Cross country run I just made it ,felt terrible for all the folks waiting at the UP tracks
Very exciting to hear and see ,went up the pass so effortlessly ...Jerry
Motley,
After I get done weathering the trucks I clean the wheels by putting the locos on my test track and run the engine over an alcohol cloth. Once I clean the rear wheels I then turn it around and hold it in place to clean the front wheels. I used to tape the wheels but I found it is just easier to do it this way. Thanks for the nice words.
Ten Wheeler rolling out of Mt. Coffin to move some coal:
[N scale]
Happy weekend, all!
M.C. Fujiwara
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Big Jerr, I love your video of the FEF. Nicely done.
This week I show Pennsy Power on Sentinel Coal's spur.
MisterBeasley While we're talkin' trash here, I've been working on my scrapyard. I had fun with extreme weathering here. The junk cars and the old boiler in the third picture were done with Instant Rust. Most of the junk piles are castings I've picked up here and there over the years, in anticipation of one day having a scrapyard. (What a life goal, huh?) Most of these scrap pile castings are kind of small, so I elevated them by putting them on scraps of roadbed, and in some cases I added some more height by stacking that on some pink foam. The magic of the camera shows me that I've still got some work to do to hide some of the roadbed and foam beneath the castings. The office building, plank fence and light poles were scratchbuilt.
Double on your trash talk! Looks great!!
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Nothing new from me this week, but I did make a couple of video clips from the model railroad show last weekend
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Jon
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