Weekend Photo Fun 11-13 September 2015.

[NittanyLion]

JaBear

Nittany Lion, if that was my house I’d be Very pleased!

 

Thanks, I'm really happy with how it ended up, although I still can't get the courage up to do the ridge cap.  The shingles turned out to be easier than I'd expected, but the ridge cap scares me.  Its inspired by this house: https://goo.gl/maps/RZGAJ

I rushed the shingles on the second one because I was too comfortable after the first one.  The two sides are uneven at the ridge, but I suppose I can pretend the guy that reshingled it did a terrible job.  

The second was much more ambitious a departure from what City Classics put in the bag:

Also lacks steps and I haven't mortared the brick on the addition.  Based on these houses https://goo.gl/maps/dCLIM, but I didn't care much for the awnings myself.  Thought green shingles might have more of a pop on the maroon house than black or tan too.

[snjroy]

Hello everyone. The peak of my model railroading season for 2015 has now passed. School has started for the kids (as well as hockey) and most of my vacation days are gone. I did manage to work a bit on my dual gauge turntable this week. Here she is giving a ride to my Keystone shay, that is patiently waiting for the connecting rails...

 

Simon

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This is what's currently on my workbench:

It's an HO scale EMD GP18 that I put an Athearn GP38 cab on. I also put Athearn trucks on it, as the original ones only had a 9:1 gear ratio, and the Athearns ones have a 12-13:1 gear ratio. Have some custom exhaust stacks made from the csleeve bearings for the worm gears of the old trucks:

Pretty cool, eh? I had flappers on them stacks made out of pieces of thin cardboard, but, they broke off, so, I ain't gonna bother with that.

["JaBear"]

Amongst that very long list of future to dos is painting my locos into my yet to be decided freelanced paint scheme. It certainly won’t be as ambitious as your well down repaint Allan.

 

That you have based your houses on actual houses makes them even cooler.

NittanyLion

 The two sides are uneven at the ridge,

There is nothing wrong with being critical on our own work; in fact I’d argue that we don’t improve otherwise. That said as long as we don’t make the same mistake again, we need to be kind to ourselves. I’m quite sure that if you don’t point your mistake to a viewer then they won’t notice it, and I certainly won’t tell.

Speaking of cool things, that looks good Simon.

Cheers, the Bear.