cmulligan01 Perfect. I didn't remember the most famous green train. Glad you remembered. Nice pic.
Perfect. I didn't remember the most famous green train. Glad you remembered. Nice pic.
My version of the Santa Clara CA Interlock tower.
Here's a green train for St. Pat's day .......... The North Coast Limited.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good photos, everybody!
I've been trying to get a kitbash done from the Walthers Roberts Printing Company kit (except smaller in size). My RR is a fictional line that connects between the ATSF and D&RGW in the Southwestern U.S., Four Corners area (which isn't flush with big industries, for the most part). I made photocopies from the kit's pieces and then did some trial stuff of fitting how the pieces should go together, and then cut and assembled the wall pieces for what I had visualized. Anyway, here (still in progress) is my version of the kit:
This is from the 'back' side, which is what viewers usually see on my layout. The roof is just set in place, and I still have all the roof stuff to add, as well as the 'glass' behind the window frames, and the stairs and steps so the employees can get out safely...
Here is the 'street' side of the industry, and that entryway was a bit of a pain to put together, if you haven't put this kit together:
Hope everyone's having a great St. Patty's Day!
Jim in Cape G.
An older pic or two.........but yet green non-the-less.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
howmusGreat work everyone! I do love this thread every week. Thought I would put some green stuff up here to go along with the day...
I think everybody must be out celebrating,..I tried to get a green train thread going in the other forum but so far no takers. Anyone else here with a green theme?
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Some great stuff on here as always! Since it's still the weekend, I'll add a few things in that I've been working on, in both N scale and HO.
First up are some N scale equipment I weathered for my little N scale shelf layout. I was getting tired of nice shiny trains running around, so I decided to experiment with some weathering techniques. These were weathered with a combination of acrylic white and black washes, along with some drybrushed acrylics for texture and rust streaks.
First up is an Intermountain HATX SD45-2. #914 was power on the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (the setting for my N scale setup), so I was glad to see Intermountain had produced this particular unit. I relocated the horn, added ditch lights, removed the extra lights in the nose, and then weathered it up like this:
Next is an old CN 40' box car (made by Atlas). Now for the setting of this layout (early 2000s), this car is a long way past its prime, and seeing very little actual service. I weathered it up to look like it's seen years of neglect.
Finally, here's a green car for St. Patty's Day. A BC Rail box car (Microtrains) that's a long way from home, having made it all the way to Cape Breton. But with BC Rail now absorbed by CN, such migration of equipment is not all that uncommon. Of course the green scheme is pretty old, so it's appropriate to look rather filthy.
Now for the other stuff this week, we'll increase the size and switch up to HO scale.
I've been working on building this CN caboose (or van as we call them up north :) ), and it's finally looking the way I want it to. CN used to have many of these cabeese, which it built at it's Pointe Ste. Charles shops in Montreal. I built this from a HO resin kit made by Sylvan, painted, added decals, and weathered it. I didn't want to go for a shiny, new van, since my HO setting is around 2009+ (quite modern). By now, the only vans still in service are being used mostly as empty shoving platforms.
This one is meant to be a well beat-up van, as shown by it's broken windows, boarded end windows, overall state of disrepair, and general filthiness. The interior is mostly torn up, and the doors are welded shut. It's just getting used for pushing jobs anyway, so why should it need to be pretty? It's still missing wire supports for the smokejacks, but otherwise she's done.
Here it is:
Possibly the most fun part of building this van was actually making the broken windows. I cut pieces of sturdy, relatively brittle thin clear styrene to fit the window openings. I then cut partly in for any parts that were meant to be broken out completely, and snapped the piece out, making sure t left some white deformation around it (gives the look of very fine shattered areas). I then took a sharp hobby knife and scored the spiderweb patterns into the glass, as appropriate, making sure no two windows were the same.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!
-Tim
cowman howmus, Nice scenes. What did you use for fence rails? Thank you, Richard
howmus,
Nice scenes. What did you use for fence rails?
Thank you,
Richard
The fence rails were made from the twigs from the crab apple tree in my yard. The same material the tree trunks are made of that you can see in the photo. They were cut to a length of 12 scale feet, then debarked and split (I used a NWSL cutter). I stained them with a dilute black India Ink and Alcohol to weather them.
Thanks!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Great work everyone! I do love this thread every week. Thought I would put some green stuff up here to go along with the day...
I have been continuing some scenery work as I have had a few minutes to spare for the lasyt couple of weeks. This week I concentrated on fences.
There will be a 3rd. old time type of fence added along the front of the field soon.
Lets not end WPF just yet. We still have a few hours left, so lets keep it going.
Sam
Gidday All, Heck it maybe late Sunday afternoon here in New Zealand, but WPF on page 2!!!
This is NOT MY idea of fun replacing a broken drawbar on a Proto 2000 2-10-2 but its pretty useless without one.
It will be fun when its up and running though.
Great Stuff as usual,
Have a Great One Folks,
Cheers,the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
impressive looking E5, here's #724 getting some upgrades with a plow, and pieces from the F unit upgrade from BLMA. I also can do my E8A's I got enough MU hoses to equip 50+ locos, .
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Nice vid of a really long train, Mike. Like your layout.
DC
http://uphonation.com
Mike the video is impressive. I like the wide curves.
Here is an E5 close to departure time at Union Station.
Nice work,everybody!
Here is the video I threatened to post earlier...'Sorry for the all-around crappy camera work. I can't seem to hit a good combination of brightness/sharpness. Maybe I ought to read the manual.
watch?v=eCLm2wSiq7A
Mike
BUMP - don't want this to get lost on page 2 this early in the weekend!!
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Awesome work everyone. I love this thread. Here are a couple of stills from my stockyard and meat packing area. The GP-7 is a Genesis and the RS-1 is a Atlas.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Mike,
It was me. Good memory!
-Bob
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Bob,
I like how your numberboards came out. I've got some to improve myself, so good to know about the DA etched ones. Someone else mentioned those here a few days back -- or maybe it was you? as I didn't know about them.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Had a missing number board on this P2K FA2 so I fabricated a clear plate to fit and used some Detail Associates etched brass stencil numbers. The lighting is a little brighter than I wanted but will do until I put some frosting on the back of the plate.
Great Work this Week!!!
Building a modern Wedggie Plow on an ExactRail Gunderson Gondola. Still in the works.
cowman DC, Great photo. Nice falls. What did you use for the falls? Thanks, Richard
DC,
Great photo. Nice falls. What did you use for the falls?
Thanks,
Thanks, Richard. It's been 18 slow months. Must. Run. Trains.
0.015in clear styrene (back support). If I did it again, I would use 0.020in. Needs to be a little stiffer for that long a drop (9.5in). There are 4 strips.
Magic Water (base coat, waves) - partially cured for about 12 hrs. (tacky)
Liquitex gel, medium and thick (edges, runs, ripples, etc.). There's some cured strips and beads of Liquitex Gel stuck on with the partially cured Magic Water. I used a syringe packed with the medium gel to lay out the beads and strips on a non-stick pan.
Some cotton (foam). Rolled, and packed on.
Red Devil clear caulk - goes on clear, dries clear - mixed with partially cured Magic Water. (edges, pool splash/foam). The Red Devil by itself was just to tacky/thick for me to spread. The mix is hard enough.
White acrylic craft/art paint mixed with Liquitex iridescent craft/art paint (white highlights).
When everything was cured/dried, I applied 3 liberal coats of Krylon Crystal Clear. The first 2 coats were air brushed on the falls, cause of the cotton. I think one sprayed thick coat would set the cotton good enough. The other coats could be carefully brushed. IMO. The Magic Water, Liquitex, Krylon and Red Devil all officially claim to be non-yellowing.
I don't think it's going to settle or yellow/discolor in my remaining life time. Should be easy enough to keep clean. All my painted rock is also clear coated - Krylon Matte Finish. I can gently wash the rock and water, if I have to. That Krylon stuff is durable, in my experience.
Thanks for taking interest.
It has been a while since I have posted a photo of Central St in Sheepscott. It is still a work in progress, but I have painted the street and added parking spaces and centerlines. A couple of the buildings are still "in progress", a couple others are still cardboard mockups, and others are added with Photoshop. At least I am making progress forward, however slow.
While rehabilitating an old N scale gas station model to sell it off, since it did not fit on my present layout, I discovered the corner gas company brand sign was missing. It had a distinctive shaped sign and I had a decal for the sign, but did not know if I could neatly scratchbuild the odd shape. However there were other decals for the brand that would fit a round sign, if I could make one neatly. The solution was a craft store clip-on earring blank. I bought a package of a half dozen years ago for another sign project, and had several left over. (shown at left) And it perfectly fit a round oil company sign. Removing the clip and straightening out the stem of the clip gave me a neat metal circle with an integral “handle,” a lollipop shape. I found a piece of brass tubing that the lollipop “stem” fit into, and a piece of copper tubing that fit around the brass tube, and a piece of hard steel wire that fit into the brass tubing. The steel wire would fit into some kind of a fitting I got as the hardware store to use as the base. All assembled with GOO(tm) and superglue and 5-minute epoxy, I had a nice structure for a round sign.
I wanted to check the color of the pole so I googled service station pictures from the 1950s. They ALL had the distinctive shaped sign. I redoubled my search through my surplus structure box and found the prototype-shaped distinctive sign. I put my sign structure in my surplus sign parts box. It had been fun and I learned a little something.
Some impressive scenic shots, so far.
Here's the last unobstructed views of Happy Creek falls. The bridges are finally going in. Be laying track soon.
Great work and photos this week!
Here's my contribution, the further adventures of Burlington's 1935 Pioneer Zephyr as it tours the California gold country. Here she is crossing Bullards Bar Lake with the Malakoff Dry Diggings in the background.
If you notice, she seems to have lost her giant ladybug from last week, lol!
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!