"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Bear,
Great video! And "show and tell" trains are a great idea. We may have to see what can be done with that at our monthly division meets, which are typically at a rotating set of member layouts. They have enough to do getting ready, so for someone else to help by bringing a train or even just a few cars with a theme is an easy way to work in some more content without being burdensome. I know what I'm doing on the next visit here, in November -- time to go for the Golden Spike
Nice weathering on those LOs, especially seeing how some of them are Rio Grande I've got some similar to do to get my new cement transfer plent looking good. Here's a pic of the first delivery, with the hatches properly venting each compartment as one of my modified cement cars stands by.
I did manage to weather some cows and horses this week, though.
Also put up a lot of signs and a few billboards this week, although me and Photoshop are cursing at each other most of the time, so relying some on old Walthers catalog billboards.
Did get a few simple things out of Photoshop, like the Outlaw Mine sign, which in retrospect wish I'd included the elevation on, but looks pretty good.
My favorite was the Blackstripe Brewery logo's mascot, sabocat...
Downtown Purgatory is looking more lively.
Managed to rough together the Logger's Exchange, where you can get your saw filed, chain saw fixed, maybe a hot dinner, or a new pair of boots. Still needs details, lighting, and glass in the windows.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Welcome back Bear! Great to have you at the "helm" again—thanks for kicking off another round of great photos! Those BL2s actually look pretty neat in that paint scheme. Looks like one of Z-stripe's COEs on the roadway? Your closing statement sums it all up...
"Main thing is—we're having a bit of fun!" Amen!
Mike, I don't know how you fit all those new structures on your layout! They look great and every one is unique to your specific needs on the layout. Nice work!
After doing several sound decoder installs last week I needed a break from that kind of work. A few weeks ago I bought one of the AMB Laserkit New York Central low cupola wood cabooses.
Well, innocently enough, I took it off the shelf and said to myself, "self— now all we're going to do is open the box, read the directions and maybe shoot a little primer on some of the wood parts"... maybe just glue the sub-frame together and see how she looks.
Four hours later I had this on the bench
Well, I'm really into it now, can't stop when you're hot—
Got the cupola primed, glued together, glazing installed...
Tonight I spent a few more pleasurable hours installing railings and grabs, trucks and couplers.
I'm not real happy with the "pre-painted" grab irons. I thought I was doing the right thing by priming them with flat white then a light coat of yellow but the paint is just too thick and, of course, it gets mucked-up trying to install the grabs when they're already painted. Time for plan B, whatever that is?
Now the paint is just a prime coat so the shiny glue joints and the dark edges of the laser cutouts will be covered. Overall this is a great kit and if anyone wants a fun, yet challenging, project you should try your hand at one of the laser cut kits.
This is perhaps my third laser-kit, the first one for rolling stock, and doesn't a wood caboose look great when it is actually made out of wood? Looking at photos of these 19000 series cabooses on the NYC they all look pretty tired and road-weary. I think, by having wood parts to work with, it is easier to represent this look rather than the usual, pristine, plastic injection molding or even the brass models. It is easy to distress the wood parts as you are building the kit and I believe this lends a more realistic appearance.
I have two huge laser-cut projects in the future, the PRR "Harris" tower and the Lackawanna concrete tower from N scale architect (even though it is an HO kit?).
I had a great deal of fun building this kit. At this point it is becoming frustrating because of the delicate details (I crushed the end railings while trying to snap the coupler cover on) . Tonight I'll get the truss rods, turnbuckles and air brake details in place then get her ready for the final coat of paint.
This particular model is going to be lettered for Pittsburgh and Lake Erie. They had about 25 of this style and I have a few P&LE locomotives that are looking for a companion
Great Stuff so far! I'm looking forward to more!
Thanks everybody! Regards, Ed
Bear, thanks for opening, video looks great! At least you can take pictures of running at the club, we are dead in the water right now waiting for the new block wall to dry out for the next month before painting it and reassembling the layout.
Mike, nice additions to your scenery, don't know how you get so much work done in so short amount of time.
Ed, I like your NYC caboose, I have a couple of brass ones that I need to paint in the future, as a matter of fact, one is apart ready for paint, just have to do it! I may try one of those kits for a NP caboose to go with my Challenger when it comes in. I have had good luck painting grabs after I have finished painting the car/engine.
Got some work done this last week.Added some loads to a couple of Red Caboose Flat Car Kits that I had built!Acquired a AMB Lazer Cut load for these cars and assembled the load, then installed on the flat cars.Also managed to finish a couple of cars this week!Intermountain Phase II ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and letteredwith Oddballs Decals.Atlas Post 71 ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Orange and Black andlettered with Oddballs Decals.Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Another little exercise in photoshop.
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Bear... Thanks for starting WPF
Mike L ... Great looking buildngs.
Rick J .... Great looking freight cars.
Ed ... Outstanding modleing of the caboose.
Casey... Wow!... Fantastic photo.
F unitis are the topic of current threads.... Here are few....
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Great shots of your favs, Garry. Here's a few of mine.
Been adding lights
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Bear, cool video.
Mike, Those are some fine structures.
Ed, The caboose turned out terrific.
Rick, yet another great crop of rolling stock.
RDG Casey, Cool articulated and good job with the photoshoping.
Gary, Nice F Units running on a cool layout.
Grampy, Love the Pennsy equipment.
Terry, The lighting looks great.
I'm nearly finished with Gallitzin. The major project was planting trees. Unlike the area by Horseshoe Curve, where I used painted goldenrod to mak trees, this time I went back to Woodland Scenics. Despite the cost, they look much better. I did find the Elmer's spray adhesive works better for assembling them than does WS Hobby Tack.
Here's a through frieght rolling past Hitzman's Feed Mill and Farm Supply, which is kind of a local landmark in spite of Mr. Hitzman's disposition. He's a crotchety old man who loves to hollar at his employees, especially if they don't jump at his call.
Here's a eastbound hotshot passing MG tower and the MOW shed.
Downtown Gallitzin:
Overall View:
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Great pics this week everyone... I finished a NYC coil car, and almost finished a L&N woodchip hopper..
Tony
EK Sub in HO Scale
Some great stuff here as always. I am enjoying seeing your photos and work! you folks amaze me at times.....I have gotten a bit more done on the old fashioned wooden fence for the pasture near Milo Mills on the layout. This whole pasture is long and narrow as it makes use of the land the RR didn't take from the farm....
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Well I did find time to get to the Club on Wednesday night
Bear, I was pleased to see a Bangor & Aroostook BL-2 made it all the way to Rotorua. Tell your pres 'good on you mate' from a native Mainer. I grew up an Bangor
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Great work everyone!
Bear: Good looking train, especially your hoppers!
Mike: Lots of great scenes. You are prolific!
Ed: Nice looking kit. Personally I think the grab iron paint looks ok. I had to make the same decision when I did my fleet of Algoma Eastern cabooses. I decided that the minor amount of excess paint was acceptable.
Rick: Great work as always.
RDG: Nice photoshop!
Garry: I love the Fs!
Grampy! You're cheating! That's not a real 'F' unit! Just kidding!
Terry: Nice lighting. Great night scene.
GP-9_Man: Great scenes. You have made tons of progress in the last couple of years!
Tony: Excellent weathering. Not excessive.
Howmus: The vegetation and trees look very realistic.
I have started on a passenger 'trailer' for my McKeen Motor Car. I just discovered that Funaro and Camerlengo were offering a proper trailer. I had been considering bashing a motorized Motor Car shell but the new kit eliminates that necessity. The only real differences between the motorized car and the trailer are that the trailer has a round nose instead of the pointy one, and the rear windows are square.
You might recall that I wasn't exactly impressed with the quality of the resin casting when I was writing about working on the McKeen Motor Car. Well, this one is no different, infact it is worse in a couple of places. In addition to a lot of flash, the shell is not properly lined up at the mold joints. It's not out by much, but it is offset enough that I think the missalignment would be rather obvious once the model is finished. Specifically, the riveted strips along the edge of the main body roof do not match the strips on the ends. I will have to file off the edges of the end roofs and install a proper sized strip plus the rivet details. PITA!
The rivet details include rivets on the roof, unlike the first kit. However, all the rivets are really small (no doubt they are to scale). I'm worried about them disappearing once the primer, colour coats and gloss/dull coats are applied. I'll have to keep the paint as thin as possible. I may forego the primer. There are simply too many rivets to replace them with decals.
The roof vents do not quite match the motorized car so they will be replaced.
The supplied trucks are resin. They don't look too bad but I'm going to scratch build them out of brass anyhow so they can have real springs and much crisper detail. That's part of the fun of modelling!
Here is the shell with the supplied details. I have already removed most of the flash and roughly opened up the windows:
I'll keep you posted. Don't hold your breath. I'm not in any hurry.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Bear, Thanks for notching up another WPF and the mainline covered hopper action movie.
It's always fun seeing all the model railroading energy on display in WPF.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
Great stuff again this week. Thanks guys for sharing.
Some of my "favorite" F7s:
There are a few more on the BRVRR but these 7 are enough carry on the F7 theme.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Bear!
....mmmmmmm.... misbegotten...., ...misguided... mutterings!
Sorry to have offended you. I respect your opinions enormously, except that is, when you are wrong! Alco FAs....
Cheers Bear! You are a lot of fun! You add a lot to the forums! We'll have to agree to disagree on the FAs.
hon30critterBear................when you are wrong!
I've been around bears since I was a child. That's what happens when you have a cottage in Northern Ontario. Up until now I haven't offended any of them. Mind you I have yelled at a few, and I even banged one in the nose with a screen door (totally unintentional. It was first thing in the morning and I had to go for a pee). I hope you're not the first one I have really upset, but if I have I figure that I'm at a safe distance, that is until we decide to visit NZ.
Take care!
hon30critter Bear! ....mmmmmmm.... misbegotten...., ...misguided... mutterings! Sorry to have offended you. I respect your opinions enormously, except that is, when you are wrong! Alco FAs.... Cheers Bear! You are a lot of fun! You add a lot to the forums! We'll have to agree to disagree on the FAs. Dave
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
That way, when he gets mad you will be a mile away and he won't have any shoes.
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Dave!
Like Bear said, "".
Thanks for the laugh!
hon30critter Dave! Like Bear said, "". Thanks for the laugh! Dave
Yrah.... I got a kick out of that, too. It was good for the sole. ...