Sunday, uh Weekend Photo Fun

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twhite


Here's one more, shot today. It's the South Yuba Canyon where the fishing is good and the trains are frequent:

That's another great shot Tom. I love the trees. Any tips from the master on those???[:D]

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy

Hey Aggro, great looking shots as usual of your stuff, heres a thought for you, I notice on your F3A that the windows look mighty dirty, would it be posible to clean off the areas where the wipers would wipe, that I think would look pretty cool or is there something in there we shouldnt see.

That was just me being lazy. I was supposed to clean those windows after I weathered the body, I just never got around to it. There is no cab interior, so you'd just see weight and electronics.

[Anonymous]

Space Mouse- Nice kit! Who makes it? It looks like it'd fit perfext on my layout.

Well, no modeling pictures this week, either. I won a P2K Conrail SD60M on ebay yesterday, so I'll post a pic of it next week when I get it. Did see a few real trains today. Here's a CSX coal train and a CP mixed freight:



And here's the CP mixed freight again:

[selector]

I see some good technique here, both in terms of execution in modeling and in photography. Big change, Tom! [tup]

Love that retaining wall. Nice effect.

[AggroJones]

Nice pictures everyone!

Midniteflyer--thats awesome!

Cheese--congrats on the progress.

Darth--that thing should be quite the hauler when finished. How does it run?

Matt 284--who says Athearns suck? enjoy that switcher.

Sporktong-- Welcome to the forum.

[Anonymous]

Hi folks,

Some N scale this week since I'm multi-scale offender:

[twhite]

Karl--I'm with the other Tom--those vehicles look fantastic!
Ken--those New Zealand trains are fascinating--the RFDTV channel here in the states had an hour-long special on New Zealand steam about a month ago on South Island--wowser!
Art--ONLY 95 trees to go? Wish I could say that, LOL! Looking good!
Craig--you need to post more--that's some really fine modeling, there.

Here's one more, shot today. It's the South Yuba Canyon where the fishing is good and the trains are frequent:


Tom

[Anonymous]

Retaining Wall i built today.

[ukguy]

Thanks, I'll get to it this week for you as their is some interest, looks like you have several great candidates in your sigpic Tom.

Have fun & be safe
Karl.

[tommyr]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy

Well guys unfortunately I dont have an engine house to show but heres some things till tomorrow.

Some castings I made a couple months ago, along with their originals. I made the mould with WS latex as I couldnt find a local alternative.









And finally some of the details and figures I just painted ready to go into a scene tomorrow. Then I can take some pics of the new stuff I've been working on for a day and half.



Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

Karl:
Great job on those vehicles!! Any chance of putting on a clinic explaining how you did it?
Tom

[eng22]

Hello, have not posted in a while, so here goes!

[Darth Santa Fe]

My Bowser Challenger with the boiler on the mechanism

The Challenger's Tender

One of the Challenger's modified valve gears

[Train 284]

Hey everyone, great pictures! Here some pics of my Shasta Central Railroad. These were taken at about 8:30 this morning and it was already getting close to 100 degrees in my garage. It has been about 100-113 here this past week.



The Central Valley Express stopped by a lazy cow. Luckily, the train was 2 minutes ahead of schedule so the passengers were not late to there destinations.



The new locomotive display at the Juniata depot. It is UP #3179, an 0-4-0



Here is the Athrean Southern Pacific SW1500 #2638 I bought last weekend at Railroad Days 2005 in Dunsmuir, CA. The best $26 I ever spent! It runs great and has a lot of power. As you can see, many of the detail parts have not been added and it does need to be weathered.



#2638 shunting cars at the Stevenson Coal Mine.

[Anonymous]

Here's what I've been working on over the past few days - a Dapol Presflow kit. The real thing was a covered hopper designed for cement transport and built in the late '50s. The model actually dates from around the same time, as it was originally tooled by Airfix, Dapol obtaining the moulds a few years ago. It's a good kit though the tooling is showing its age now - there's a fair bit of moulding flash. Tricky part is keeping it square as there's no single floor moulding - it has the two "floor" sections either side of the hopper but that's all. The hopper body has a good quantity of lead fishing shot inside, fixed in place with PVA glue before the hatch covers were added - no derailment problems with this one!

[ARTHILL]

UK Guy, Great autos. It was a week of tall trees for me. I started with Aggro's ideas
Tore out more filter and got better.

Started the small forrest. 95 to go.

Then tried a White Pine



I hope practice improves all this.
Back to rocks next week.

[TrainFreak409]

LOOKING GOOD ADAM!

[mustanggt]

Here are some random pics

A CSX GP40-2 I saw a few weeks ago
[http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aat?full=1/url]

A Lego Trackmobile I built
[url]http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aaw

My Lego Green Goat switcher in a fictitious Massachusetts Central paintschemehttp://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aax

My new Kato F40PH which I might outfit with a sound decoder
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aav

And finally, an N scale station I built, complete with yellow line on platform
[url][http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davideoliva/aau?full=1/url]

Hope you all like the pics[8D]

[grandeman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy

Well guys unfortunately I dont have an engine house to show but heres some things till tomorrow.

Some castings I made a couple months ago, along with their originals. I made the mould with WS latex as I couldnt find a local alternative.

Karl, those look fantastic!

[cheese3]

Ok, I have the basic grade built on the layout now. Here are some pics. Sorry about the mess. There are 2 large gaps in the foam, one by the river and the other is crossing another track. There will be two tressells spaning these gaps.

[NZRMac]

Went to a train show today, these are from the local Sn3.5 scale club modular layout, it's all my local area trains.





Ken.

[NZRMac]

Continuing the engine house theme, My little house just finished too.



Ken.

[ukguy]

Well guys unfortunately I dont have an engine house to show but heres some things till tomorrow.

Some castings I made a couple months ago, along with their originals. I made the mould with WS latex as I couldnt find a local alternative.









And finally some of the details and figures I just painted ready to go into a scene tomorrow. Then I can take some pics of the new stuff I've been working on for a day and half.



Have fun & be safe,
Karl.

[twhite]

Great photos, guys, as usual--Aggro, that Trainmaster is drool-inducing!
Chip--neat enginehouse, really great job.
Grande Man--oboy, I wish I could get closeups like you do--
Anyway, here's some 'borrowed' power on the Yuba River sub:

Pennsy 2-10-0 a long way from Horseshoe Curve.


Colorado & Southern 2-10-2 with a caboose hop heading light toward Deer Creek.


Colorado & Southern Mikado #497 with short freight headed down Yuba Pass..

Tom

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffshultz

Mouse... love the paint job on that Geep!

[:D]

[jeffshultz]

Mouse... love the paint job on that Geep!

[Darth Santa Fe]

My restored Bachmann F9:

The F9's Chassis:

This version of the F9 was only made in the early 70s. It had 8 wheel drive and electrical pickup, a 5 pole can motor, all metal frame, black plastic gears and nickle or steel axle gears and horn-hook couplers with the boxes mounted with screws. It had a few problems when I got it, so I restored by:
Fileing the ripples in the metal fuel tank casting off and painting over with gloss black
Oiling the gears, bearings and motor bearings
Repainting the frame flat black because the paint was chipping off and
Fileing the seams off the horns and repainting them silver.

Now, my highly detailed Genesis SD75M:

Photo with the flash so you can easily see it

Dark photo without the flash so you can see the lights

[AggroJones]

One more just because....

[ukguy]

Hey Aggro, great looking shots as usual of your stuff, heres a thought for you, I notice on your F3A that the windows look mighty dirty, would it be posible to clean off the areas where the wipers would wipe, that I think would look pretty cool or is there something in there we shouldnt see.

Another question for you, did you weather it with the glazing in place and thats the result? if so have you thought of cutting out 2 little semicircles out from a sticky label or low adhesive tape and putting them on the windshield to shield those areas, then after the weathering is done remove the stickers and you will have nice clean windows where the wipers would have cleaned.

Just thinking out loud, maybe I'm way off base, appologies if so.

Great shots everyone,

Have fun & be safe.
Karl.

[Anonymous]

Chip, your engine house looks GREAT my friend! The lights and other inside details really make it stand out! [bow] [:D] It never ceases to amaze me how a little more time spent on "the little things" can turn what may have looked like a toy, into an outstanding looking model!! Keep up the good work!

Aggro & Grande Man, what else can I say other than your modeling is/should be an inspiration to all who read this forum!!

[Anonymous]

Looks like Engine Houses are the subject this weekend.