I never seem to have any photos ready to post on WPF. So under the category of simply posting photos of what I'm working on without any hoopla, here are a couple of 3D rendering views showing a pile cap for a bridge project.
I machined a pair of these from a block of fine-grain basswood a few years ago for another project, but I have recently decided to go into the 3D resin printing business (not really an actual business, just a figure of speech). So, I pulled out an old .STL file and modified it a little for my new printer. The first issue was Systeme Internationale d'Unites. That's right . . . the metric system. You know, millimeters and grams and whatnot. No problem. It's not like I'm sending a multi-billion dollar spaceship to Mars or anything . . .
Robert
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Hi everybody!
I started finishing a bit of scenery on my CNW Lander branch a few weeks ago. The last step was placing static grass. With the help of some forum members over on another thread, I wound up with this:
The grass is a little sparse-looking, maybe, but it's supposed to represent an area of somewhat sparse vegetation.
Mark P.
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Howdy... Unfinished business from last weeks thread..... I need to acknowledge comments from last weeks thread. Kevin, Peter, Alan, Rick, and anybody I missed: thanks for commening on my steel mill photos.
Kevin ... That look like a fun kit. How soon will you have time to put it together?
Ed .... Your work on the industrial scene is excellent.
Bear .... LOL. Listen to Rick's advice about getting back to modeling.
Rick ... I like this week's freight cars and the photo with Wabash locomotives next to a scrap yard.
Jimmy .... Your gondola loads look good.
Here is a GP7 on a bridge.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Nice start
I don't have anyhting to share.
I like the NKP covered hopper. I have more covered hoppers than any other car, not sure why I just like covered hoppers.
Great work all,here's what I have to offer
3D printed car specific loads. The base rust color is airburshed, now to highlight the individual pieces
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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).
Good morning from cloudy and cold Northeast Ohio! Rain then rain and snow mix coming later today.
Kevin, thanks for starting us out, looks like and nice kit, I hope I can start on building some layout sections this year, as I am dropping to 10 hours a week for a time then retiring fully.
Ed, you sure get a lot of work done and it always looks really good.
Bear, I have to follow a Bear-Toon, I think you should get back to modeling.
I managed to finish up some cars this week:
IMRC 1937 Mod AAR Boxcar kit, did not install roofwalk and cut down the A-End ladders along with installing Yarmouth Scale Models Sill Steps. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red #3 and lettered with Mask Island Decals. The Erie received several thousand of these boxcars in 1941, they rebuilt them sans roofwalk and cutdown ladders in their own shops in the 1970's. Car was in general service on the EL.
Tangent Scale models PS 4000 CF Covered Hopper kit painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used on the NKP hauling grain and fertilizer, one of the plants serviced was the Diamond Shamrock plant in Painesville,OH.
Since I have not been going to the club recently, I have been going through my old pictures for new perspective shots and here is one with my Wabash U25B and GP35 in the industrial area at Madura Curve.
Thanks for looking!
Rick Jesionowski
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"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Thanks for kicking-off yet another fine 2021 WPF, Kevin! January is half-over? How did that happen?
Your kit looks wonderful. I love building structures, too. I probably have enough various buildings to completely cover an entire second layout, and then some it IS a sickness!
Here's an update on my Hulett shop and boiler house project. I got some "dirt" in place and some static grass down.
Hulett_shop-1-15 by Edmund, on Flickr
Hulett_power-1-15 by Edmund, on Flickr
I put an access road and crossing in along with that little shanty and semaphore signal.
Hulett_road by Edmund, on Flickr
Two weeks ago it looked like this:
Hulett_fuel by Edmund, on Flickr
I have a couple other projects coming up but haven't taken any photos of them yet.
On to more great contributions, folks!
Cheers, Ed
This has been quite a week. Nothing that I should talk about in Weekend Photo Fun, but I have shared a bit on other threads.
My fun photos this week are of a thoughtful gift from David (NorthBrit) from the other side of the Atlantic. A few weeks ago David posted an amazing scene with a stone bakery building, and I fell in love with it. He offered to send me the kit, and I enthusiastically accepted.
It arrived this week, and it is lovely.
I am familiar with these printed high quality cardstock kits. They are fairly commonly used in wargaming, and some are amazingly detailed.
Try to think of these more as laser-cut craftsman kits than as cardboard kits. Instead of wood siding they have beautifully printed cardstock pieces. They assemble much like a craftsman kit, and when done they are fantastic models.
The only change I will make is that I hope to find Tichy windows that will fit into the cut window openings in the walls.
This one will definitely occupy a prominent corner in Centerville on the layout.
OK... now it is everyone else's turn.
Please contribute any fun shares you have for this new edition of Weekend Photo Fun.
-Kevin
Living the dream.