Ringo58, congratulations on becoming a dad! I'm not a parent but I have a lot of friends with kids and the time does fly! Enjoy every second as much as you can!
Love everyone's work this weekend as always and wishing everyone an excellent Fourth of July weekend.
Here's more pics of the brick sections of the South River Model Works Wrisley Papers kit I am building. I painted individual bricks and did small "patches" using, PollyScale ATSF Red, Zinc Chromate Primer, Rust, Grimy Black, and Model Master Aged Concrete. Craft paints would've worked fine too but I already had these on hand. The base color was Krylon red oxide primer. For the mortar, I used a technique I learned from Jason Jensen Trains who used washes of joint compound. I bought a container from Lowes two days ago and was excited to try it. Next step will be doing a thin coat of a dark red airbrushed on, more like dusted on, to tone down the mortar and further blend things in. I'm liking how this turned out, love to hear what others think too. The stones were done with Krylon gray primer to start, than Model Master Reefer gray, Tamiya gray primer, and washed of india ink and alcohol, dry-brushed black, and I did the mortar with a very thin wash of reefer white with a bit of 91% alcohol mixed in.
Alvie
SeeYou190Mike: Good looking tank car. Hmmm... what would the USAF need all that liquid oxygen for...
Well, there's all the standard uses, for breathing systems and missile fuel. But it wasn't the oxygen that dad and his buddies were after, it was stuff that they found in making the oxygen from whole air when they attached what was called the "classified manifold" to the output of the oxygen generator.
Most significant of these was a very rare gas that is largely man-made, krypton-85. An atom of it is created every time a atom of Pu-239 is created in a nuclear reactor. If you derive the total atmosphereic presence of Kr-85 in a sample, then certain knowledge of US/UK/Canada production rates of Kr-85 was then substracted from the known total. The net outcome showed how much Pu-239 was being produced by the USSR and, thus, how many weapons they were capable of making.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Welcome to the long weekend...
Toad: I like the colorful commemorative boxcar you made.
Shane: That HOe caboose looks like an interesting project.
Alvie: I am really impressed with the coloring of the bricks on your building project. The smokestack is very good looking.
Mike: That is interesting information about the extraction of atomic by-products from the atmospheric samples.
-Kevin
Living the dream.