Rick ... Thanks for opening Weekend Photo Fun !.... You set high standards for the rest of us regaridng freight cars.
(Edit ) ... I meant to complement GP9 Man for his outstanding photos. .... I too use modge podge for water. ... I use acrylics for a bas color under the "water". ... Also Im ix acrylics in the Modge Podge.
Casey..... and you set high standards regrding modeling steam locomotivies. You amaze me every week !
Jimmy .... Your W&LE fleet is impressive.
Mike L ... Good luck with drone photography. That may be too high tech for me, and I'll settle for standing on a ladder if I want overhead shots of the layout.
Here is Silver Fountain which is a diner/parlor/observtion car that I kitbashed a few years ago from a Walthers Budd observation car. .. ...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Rick, The C&NW car/paint scheme looks familiar. Might have seen one being unloaded where I used to work several decades back. Yep, foodstuffs.
GP-9Man, You never know about structure lighting...just pretend you're near the flightpath at a nearby airport and even low buildings, etc may get a light.
RDGCasey, Great action shot!
Jimmy, All those little projects soon add up to a motive power roster. Quite the fleet you have there now.
Well, I'd hoped I would have a nice little video of the RR scenes in the family video collection I've been working on. Three times this week I was within a few clicks of finishing what would be about 12 minutes of mostly narrowgauge (and you wonder why I ended up a narrowgauger?) rides at home and abroad...
All I can say is that the Nero video suite is garbage. Broken down into about 15 different parts, none of which clearly suggest what does what; Save seems to be a optional, erractic feature; the mysterious error mnessages cause more problems than they solve; and even when you figure out where all the parts of your project go when it just decides to stop working, there's no putting them back together if it didn't make it to the finished file; and yes, the cryptic GUI doesn't help one bit...
So I gave up for now. Maybe someday. Sorry.
So that leaves me with the drone project. Started a thread about it if there's any interest, as these little cameras with wings are approaching the status of useful adjuncts to layout photography. Meanwhile, I'm practicing my hovering skills with my training drone and its partially ineffective trim buttons by sending it into the air for virtual journeys to a fair land, far away...
As you can see, still working to achieve good focus. You can keep up with my R&D for drone ops here: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/260442.aspx
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Casey, those custom builds you do are AMAZING!
To everyone; I'm bad with remembering names, so if I forget your screen name I'm sorry.
DTI...those kits are coming along nicely.
GP9, I love the PRR engines you got.
Here's what I have this week- finished up 107, as well as WE 6982
Ex KCS unit. The Wheeling only renumbered it, as well as patching out the KCS before it entered service. Yes, the gray is supposed to be that noticable.,
WE 107 received glass on the doors. Since I'm running my eventual layout in fall, I modeled the 107 with the doors and windows open, to represent one of the last hot days of the year.
Yeah, I guess I'll have to show a photo of my Wheeling roster.
All of those except for 305 are custom decal and paint jobs.
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These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Reading I-7 on a local.
Plus Delaware and Hudson 4-6-0s in a very early state.
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Rick, that rolling stock looks terrific.
I've been puttering around my layout quite a bit lately.
First, I give you the "Cassandra Crossing" and no, not the bad movie staring Burt Lancaster and Ingrid Bergman. But rather the PRR's crossing of the Little Conemaugh River at Cassandra, PA.
The water is Mod Podge Gloss Medium.
I also got out the chalks and weathered some rolling stock:
Also threw together this Ticky Train Group Signal Tower kit:
And this Cornerstone Steel Water Tank kit. I added a blinking red LED even though it's not nearly tall enough to require aircraft warning lights.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Looks like I am first this week!
Managed to finish a couple of new cars.
Eastern Car Works 1958CF ACF Covered Hopper Kit built in the late 40's, Added A-Line Sill Steps, Plano Roofwalk, and various brake and air lines. Painted with Scalecoat II Black and lettered with Highball Graphics Decals. Prototype was used for cement service at the Dundee, MI cement plant and for sand service from Yuma, MI to the Ford Casting Plant in Brook Park (Cleveland, OH).
Walthers NACC 50' Exterior Post RBL Made in 1964, added A-line Sill Steps and a grab iron to left of door. Painted with Scalecoat II Yellow and Black, with Floquil Platinum Mist for the roof. Lettered with Oddballs Decals. Prototype used to transport food stuffs, mostly canned goods from the manufacturer to the grocery store warehouses.
Thanks for looking, and waiting for the good stuff!
Rick Jesionowski
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