edit: stupid me posted twice
I'm a little late to the weekend fun, but I just finished my first attempt at weathering a boxcar. I was inspired by Robby P.'s entries into previous WPFs. His rolling stock always looks so realistic. Even though my work is no where near the caliber of his, I have to thank him for all the advice he gave me on how to get started.
I chose an old, cheap Model Power model for my first try. It probably wasn't the best choice because the brown ends proved to be very hard to get any type of visible rust color/wear to show. The model had horn hook couplers and I didn't have any Kadees that fit so I just weathered what was on there.
I weathered one side heavier than the other because I wasn't sure how much would fade after I applied the Dullcoat. Looking back on it I think I overdid it on the grimy black on the heavily weathered side. Too much black covers the rusty color. Here's a few before and after pics:
Before:
The less-weathered side:
The heavily-weathered side:
A better view of the top:
I'll definitely be practicing on more cars in the future. I'm excited to see how the weathering looks on more colorful cars. Thanks Robby for all the advice.
Brunton ...In late 2010, down came the layout, and the helix is no more. ...
...In late 2010, down came the layout, and the helix is no more. ...
..nnnnooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo...!!!
Not the helix. Not THAT helix.
Thanks for the kind words, Derek and Crandell!
Crandell, what happened was a bout of temporary insanity! I got hornswaggled into local politics! I ran for, and unfortunately won, a seat on our town council. Three years of essentially no layout progress. The darned council ate up ALL my spare time! Even our home renovations ground to a near halt.
Then, as my term on council was winding down, came the KO punch for the layout - my company transferred me from Philadelphia to Charleston, South Carolina!
In late 2010, down came the layout, and the helix is no more. I've got quite a pile of threaded rods, and about a thousand 1/4" nuts and hundreds of washers to boot! I also managed to salvage most of the track, which, given the current track prices, was a very worthwhile thing to do.
That's it in a nutshell. We'll see what the future brings!
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Layout of LION:
The first shot is five frames stitched together, the second is three frames. See the red train on the helix: It moved between the second and third frame.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
This weekend I have been designing another building using Even Designs Model Builder. The Bell Telephone building is based on the telephone building on Park St hill in Bangor, Maine where I grew up. I have mostly completed the front, and printed it out on plain paper to see how it fit. It is correct size and fits onto the hill, but the upper floor windows are about 25% too large. This is easily corrected in the program.
I started research on the building using the Street View in Google Earth. I saved a few views for reference. I found a stone wall in Model Builder that was close to the prototype, but no windows or doors were close. I used Photoshop Elements to extract windows, doors and other details from the reference photos, and imported them into Model Builder.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Working on two stores for the HO layout:
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
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
Mark, I dunno what happened, but your helix was a thing of beauty. Did you shoot the bolt over a few months and then "lose your mojo?" It seems like five or six years ago that you did that technical wonder, and then you dropped out of sight.
No matter any more. If you keep up like you are doing, you'll be posting nice completed works in no time. When you do post images of your work, it is top class.
Crandell
selectorI get the distinct impression that the quality of modelling has gone up a great deal since I joined the forum eight years ago. Wow!!
I'd have to agree.
Looking back over my pictures, I realized that I've been working on Mooseport, the carfloat terminal area of my layout, for over a year. It started as a group of cardstock mock-ups in November, 2011.
By July of 2012, the structures were pretty much done, but I still hadn't begun work on the apron and carfloat themselves.
Last month, I was here:
Now, with some careful camera placement...
There's still much to be done. The parts don't quite line up yet, and the float is perched on pink foam and will need some dirty "water" around it. But, it's almost there.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I don't know Mark, I wouldn't say your stuff brings down the average.
That looks like some nice looking benchwork and a great beginning. And look it's even level.
I saw your saga about getting the layout going in another thread. But, from the looks of this it will not be long till you have some trains running now.
Keep posting photos of your progress
Derek
I guess it's time to bring the average down a bit!
After a several-years-long hiatus, construction finally began in earnest yesterday on my new version of the CB&Q in Wyoming.
This is what my construction crew accomplished yesterday - the benchwork for the Laurel, MT layout peninsula.
Doesn't look like much right now, I know, but it's a start. Trains will be rolling (back and forth, but rolling!) in the near future.
Great photos and projects this week!
Nothing much new from me, been one of those weeks where I didn't have much time for modeling. Here's another shot of my Burlington Pioneer Zephyr on its 1935 tour of the west--on Bullard's Bar viaduct.
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!
Agreed. A lot very impressive photos this week.
DC
http://uphonation.com
I get the distinct impression that the quality of modelling has gone up a great deal since I joined the forum eight years ago. Wow!!
I still have nuthin' but oldies, so here's one I probably first ran in 2010.
Norfolk & Western power.
Did some weathering on my SD70Ace.
I made good progress today on the "West" switch detail work of my siding.
The radio tower is scratch built from styrene rod stock. 3 different sizes.
Some pics of the "East " switch details.
My You Tube
"Excuse me driver, but does this bus stop at the railroad station?"
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Good stuff again this week everyone!
Here is one from the BRVRR:
Invader! The loco is an Athearn Ready to Run I picked up at the Lakeland show. The cars are by Walthers and part of the consist usually run with our Challenger. I haven't decided if I'm going to go whole hog with the loco yet. If I do, more details and sound are in its future. In any case, I'm going to have to put out the fire in the cab.
Keep the good stuff coming guys. You always make this the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Some Cannon & Co. doors .......to replace the ones that cracked on the body shells of my SD45`s.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Built some shacks out of styrene for the Company Town on our Wye Knot Free-moN module:The outhouse does "double doody" as the knob for the slide switch turnout control (there's a cross-support directly under the throwbar so no Bullfrog).Also made a video on how to scratchbuild with styrene to try to help take the mystery out of it and get people to populate their layouts with unique structures instead of the Walthers catalogue. Here's the Abridged 5-minute version:
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And the two-part step-by-tippy-toe-step tutorials are on my website in the "Tips & Tutorials" section.Also started fleshing out the mine tipple scene with an office, tufts, and more trees:Also made 30 more pines while watching the US win a World Cup qualifier in a blizzard.Also just got Helicon focus stacking software, thus the going crazy with the photos More photos on the Layout Construction thread.Thanks for looking, and thanks for sharing all your nifty work. This thread is always inspiring!
M.C. Fujiwara
My YouTube Channel (How-to's, Layout progress videos)
Silicon Valley Free-moN
Okay guys and gals.....This is a really big deal. My first pictures posted to the forum and my weekend project.
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There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
I like the look of those cables. I used the smallest Clover House stranded cable (#282) on mine. Strong, looks good and cable-y, but it's not as delicate as what you used.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Yes, from Anvil (think you recommended it to me - many thanks). Used leather dye for stain and wife's elastic tread for cables. Attaching buckets was hardest part.
Terry
The third building for my N scale backlot western town might be called a a simulation of a simulation of a simulation of a simulation. I used thin basswood sheet as the main element of the walls, with scale lumber adding to look like framing. Of course, the stiff wood sheet actually supports the framing instead of the other way around. This simulates a Hollywood false front structure which would be made up of scaffolding and framing holding up lightweight plywood walls.
The front of this movie set building would have a little plaster painted to represent brick in the old days, or formed plastic or resin sheet nowaways with brick pattern. I used some old Walthers brick paper. The full-size Hollywood phony building would simulate a frontier bank, built of brick to project an image of stability above the rough wood other buildings of the town. The frontier bank might have some wooden columns or other wooden architectural elements as a frontier simulation of the carved stonework details found on the big city bank buildings back east in the 1870s and 80s.
But even those big city buildings were a simulation in a way-- commercial copies of styles from classic antiquity, the Greek temples and the Roman forum. Hence the model is a copy of a copy of etc...
Terry,
Nice work on the tram. Anvil Mountains Models, I presume? Got one myself. They're are sweet models and build-up easy.
Added an aerial tram (bucket tram) to get ore from a mine. Guys would ride in the buckets to and from.
a short amtrak train.
and some reeses pieces. I can't help it I like candy.
I just bought "Detailing Projects For Freight Cars & Locomotives" by Pelle Soeborg published by Model Railroader and was inspired to detail these Exactrail Gondolas based upon Pelle's project in the book.
I am switching to modeling Pan Am and am looking to up my level of detail.