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Post by packer on Oct 29, 2023 15:05:25 GMT -8
Surprised no thread yet: Ignore the messy bench I built a bunch of CNW covered hopper kits, I might be out of the appropriate COTS stencils though  ![]() ![]() I actually installed my first of the whole step conversion thing for Genesis Geeps (also filled in the big gap in front of the DB):  However the attachment method isn't for the feint of heart (just clamping it in so I don't get CA everywhere):  Also weathered a few cars. Fist off was this genesis PCF boxcar that was floating around in a box of tyco stuff. I rebuilt most of the underframe, gave it Exactrail stirrups, Moloco draft gear and cut levers, backdated the car data to the original date, decals and added and various pieces of wire to rebuild the underbody.  I then took my first stab with oils. I used odorless mineral spirits for thinning, but it seemed to dry faster than I though it would: 
All the weathered stuff on my club's layout
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Post by Christian on Oct 29, 2023 15:09:15 GMT -8
This is another antique. I built this sometime in the 70s. HOn3 which is rare on this forum. It's a WestSide Lumber Co (I think) fire control car dating from the twenties. It is from a kit - again the memory is fading - from Rio Grande Models. The tank is resin and about the only time I've had success with a resin part. The rest of the cr is board by board with soft metal castings sprinkled here and there. The trucks look like they are on the ground because they are. Metal failure.  |
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Post by onequiknova on Oct 29, 2023 16:02:06 GMT -8
Here is a quick project I worked on over the weekend. It's a Rapido F30A flat car with an American Model Builders wood deck and pipe load. The deck was stained with Tamiya's gray and black panel liners, and the car was quicky weathered with a dark brown enamel wash followed by some pan pastels. The car was very light after removing the metal Rapido deck, so I filled the pipe with lead to add back some much needed weight. Looks like I need to address that floating cribbing.   |
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Post by simulatortrain on Oct 29, 2023 18:11:24 GMT -8
Doing something incredibly unfamiliar to me, which is a Bethlehem Car Works WM coach kit. This is the newer version of the kit based on a Branchline core, with resin sides.  I long ago promised myself never to get too far in the weeds modeling passenger equipment. Still, I couldn't bring myself to use the kit's air conditioning box, and it only came with two of the wrong style battery box. None of it's really in the right location (note the mismatch between battens and crossbearers) but I'm satisfied. The right stuff is nearly where it should be.   The second of this kit I got strangely had no rivets, so I already modeled the sides in CAD with all the windows blanked per WM instruction car 100... but that's a story for a future SPF. |
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Post by mdq on Oct 29, 2023 18:37:07 GMT -8
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Post by danpik on Oct 30, 2023 5:05:00 GMT -8
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Post by surlyknuckle on Oct 30, 2023 6:53:07 GMT -8
Scanning lots of old prints I've acquired. Some, such as this one...were quite yellow'd. An ongoing project of collecting photos and slides of my modeling era, and location (Which has extended to the area I grew up in, and work (ed). Here's an old B&O C-18 wagontop (built as class I-12) being dwarfed by a tri-level rack at F Tower in Washington DC, alongside Ivy City. No photographer listed.  B&O C-2464 by Freight Engineer, on Flickr |
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Post by dti406 on Oct 30, 2023 7:17:16 GMT -8
I did not complete anything this week, but I have some pictures of a Tangent Sam Rea Class H51c 4600CF Covered Hopper kit I was working on. This first picture is the kit after I completed all the bracing and adding the main air line to the model. _IMG_0495.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) These next two pictures show the end cages on the A and B ends of the car after adding all the braking piping and rods and the grabs and ladders. _IMG_0497.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) [ _IMG_0496.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) This is the finished kit, ready to apply paint, with the sill steps, roof, coupler lift bars and outlet gates all installed. _IMG_0498.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) A Kato GP35 and Stewart U25B with a general freight train, running on the Strongsville OH club layout. _IMG_0407.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Have a great weekend! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by ICG1411 on Oct 30, 2023 13:22:49 GMT -8
I did not complete anything this week, but I have some pictures of a Tangent Sam Rea Class H51c 4600CF Covered Hopper kit I was working on. This first picture is the kit after I completed all the bracing and adding the main air line to the model. These next two pictures show the end cages on the A and B ends of the car after adding all the braking piping and rods and the grabs and ladders. [ This is the finished kit, ready to apply paint, with the sill steps, roof, coupler lift bars and outlet gates all installed. A Kato GP35 and Stewart U25B with a general freight train, running on the Strongsville OH club layout. Have a great weekend! Rick Jesionowski Rick- Who made the green Rock Island 40' boxcar?? |
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Post by dti406 on Oct 30, 2023 16:42:34 GMT -8
Who made the green Rock Island 40' boxcar?? I used a couple of Branchline 40' Boxcar kits with 8' Doors, modified the side sill to match the Evans rebuilds, then painted with a mixture of PC Green and Dark Green paint, lettered with Mask Island Decals (Now available from High Ball Graphics, if they don't show on the website, send an E-mail and he will make arrangements to send to you.)   Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Oct 30, 2023 19:59:55 GMT -8
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Post by ICG1411 on Oct 31, 2023 5:03:40 GMT -8
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Post by ICG1411 on Oct 31, 2023 5:06:11 GMT -8
Who made the green Rock Island 40' boxcar?? I used a couple of Branchline 40' Boxcar kits with 8' Doors, modified the side sill to match the Evans rebuilds, then painted with a mixture of PC Green and Dark Green paint, lettered with Mask Island Decals (Now available from High Ball Graphics, if they don't show on the website, send an E-mail and he will make arrangements to send to you.) Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by ICG1411 on Oct 31, 2023 5:08:14 GMT -8
Rick- The cars look great. There was a hobby store near me who did a custom run of 5 Branchline cars about 20 years ago, and I was wondering if they were those.
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Post by wagnersteve on Oct 31, 2023 9:01:54 GMT -8
Oct. 31, about 1 p.m., EDT
Rick, did the Rock Island actually have any boxcars in the good looking paint job you applied to your model?
I still remember how surprised I was in Worcester, Mass. in 1977 when I saw a dark green 50' boxcar with yellow billboard graphics for the Delaware & Hudson. That turned out to be an ex-Reading car the D&H got when Conrail started up that it fully repainted. I thought it. one of the best looking D&H cars I had ever seen. I have a commercially produced car in that livery that doesn't quite match the full-sized cars.
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Post by dti406 on Nov 1, 2023 6:57:52 GMT -8
Oct. 31, about 1 p.m., EDT Rick, did the Rock Island actually have any boxcars in the good looking paint job you applied to your model? I still remember how surprised I was in Worcester, Mass. in 1977 when I saw a dark green 50' boxcar with yellow billboard graphics for the Delaware & Hudson. That turned out to be an ex-Reading car the D&H got when Conrail started up that it fully repainted. I thought it. one of the best looking D&H cars I had ever seen. I have a commercially produced car in that livery that doesn't quite match the full-sized cars. Ten year old picture! www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=68721Six Year old picture www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2379432Four year old picture rr-fallenflags.org/ri/ri47346ssa.jpgEight year old pictue rr-fallenflags.org/ri/ri48264dha.jpgThe picture in the Rock Island color quide is as delivered. Rick Jesionowski |
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