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Post by cf7 on Sept 15, 2024 4:06:49 GMT -8
I like to mess around with other scales / gauges, so here is an On30 Lambert Locomotive Works kit that I've been working on. The motor block is completely below the deck so this opens up a lot of detailing possibilities. I am adding more details to the engine and additional deck bracing. Not sure how I'm going to handle the cab interior yet, but it will house a decoder. I know it's not HO, but it does run on HO track!
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Post by Funnelfan on Sept 15, 2024 4:35:14 GMT -8
Looks good. Were the hood doors recessed like that?
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Post by cf7 on Sept 15, 2024 4:45:39 GMT -8
Looks good. Were the hood doors recessed like that? Yeah, they are designed to fit like that. Didn’t really notice it until I looked at the pictures. Looks like something else I need to take care of. |
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 15, 2024 9:46:45 GMT -8
I really need to go shoot some models outside, meantime here's a couple Tangent 86' cars.  The pics of the Rio Grande cars on Tangent's website show them to be in pretty good shape during the mid '70s.  Some fun with the roofs, the Wabash car being the oldest and has had it's roof walk torched off, the two Rio cars have been salted, the middle one has had some Tamiya panel line washes applied.  |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Sept 15, 2024 11:02:24 GMT -8
, the two Rio cars have been salted, Would you describe this technique? It looks great! |
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Post by TBird1958 on Sept 15, 2024 11:44:52 GMT -8
, the two Rio cars have been salted, Would you describe this technique? It looks great! It's a fun trick, you mask the car roof off laying the tape on the eves so you have a flat "shelf" all the way around the car. I use a couple of different kinds of salt, Kosher and table salt work well. I put some of each into separate sealable plastic containers and start with the table salt size, just dropping it onto the roof of the model, finish with the Kosher. I them use some 71% alchol in a very small spray bottle to mist onto the salt without moving it around too much. Let it dry, the alcohol flashes off pretty quickly. You then paint the car roof, if it's already a metallic silver I usually shoot a dull thinned out light gray on with the airbrush, shoot a second slightly darker color if you're feeling ambitious. I use TCP cut with Auto Lacquer, it flashes very quickly. When the paint is dry remove the tape and scrub the roof with a dry, stiff toothbrush to remove the salt. Then weather. As this picture shows, you can reverse the process as well, this roof was all silver and I shot it boxcar red, this was my first "test" of the technique and I only used one size of salt as you can kind of notice.  |
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Post by hudsonyard on Sept 15, 2024 11:54:39 GMT -8
Finished a pair of cars this week   |
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 15, 2024 12:36:30 GMT -8
9/14/24, starting 4:32 p.m., EDT
hudsonyard, nice work! What did cars did you start with. The WM hopper looks like a Bowser model to me. The Santa Fe cars reminds me of the newer ATSF covered hoppers I saw in Abilene, Kansas, one summer in the early 1980s. The Santa Fe had an engine terminal near the Eisenhower Presidential Libary. Its line to an interchange with the BN in Superior, Nebraska crossed the UP's ex-Kansas Pacific main line. The Rock Island line paralleling the UP farther south looked woebegone. Guess which line in recent years has hosted excursion trains!
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Post by hudsonyard on Sept 15, 2024 17:44:06 GMT -8
9/14/24, starting 4:32 p.m., EDT hudsonyard, nice work! What did cars did you start with. The WM hopper looks like a Bowser model to me. The Santa Fe cars reminds me of the newer ATSF covered hoppers I saw in Abilene, Kansas, one summer in the early 1980s. The Santa Fe had an engine terminal near the Eisenhower Presidential Libary. Its line to an interchange with the BN in Superior, Nebraska crossed the UP's ex-Kansas Pacific main line. The Rock Island line paralleling the UP farther south looked woebegone. Guess which line in recent years has hosted excursion trains! WM hopper is a bowser release from late last year, I've got a couple more to do. SF car is a accurail kit, i gotta go back and adjust the fit of some parts and touch up the white on that tangent ACI plate. |
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Post by Donnell Wells on Sept 15, 2024 23:00:20 GMT -8
Here's a 30' precast concrete bridge and a 3' diameter culvert printed on my Flashforge Adventurer 5M. nozzle size: .25mm layer height: .1mm filament: Sunlu PLA+ black     |
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Post by dti406 on Sept 16, 2024 5:51:19 GMT -8
st got back from Denver, here is a car I completed before I left. The Ann Arbor received a number of Wabash Design Streamlined Cabooses and they went through a number of different paint schemes over the years. After the DT&I dropped the Ann Arbor from their control, they were to be included in Conrail, but the State of Michigan decided to fund the operation of the railroad and this scheme was the final one worn by these cabooses. I used an Overland Hobbies brass caboose and painted it with Floquil Daylight Red paint overall then lettered with Microscale and Herald King decals. _IMG_0766.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) In keeping with the Annie, an earlier era pair of FA-2's with a trainload of covered hoppers hauling sand from Yuma, MI to be delivered to the Ford Casting plant in Brookpark, OH. _IMG_1111.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by valenciajim2 on Sept 16, 2024 17:05:18 GMT -8
Oh, I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener...  |
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 18, 2024 16:04:20 GMT -8
9 /18/24, almost 8 p.m., EDT
Catching up with some posts I just now saw.
hudsonyard, thanks for answering my question.
dti406 / Rick J, I THINK I saw a similar Wabash semi-streamlined caboose lettered for the Ann Arbor's subsidiary Manistique and Lake Superior at Manistique on the south shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula back in the summer of 1963. An Ann Arbor car ferry from Frankfort on the lower peninsula reached that very short line. Decades ago I put in the winning bid of $9 or $10 for three unmounted prints of paintings Howard Fogg had done for Alco at a model railroad club's auction in Boston. I wanted the one with a D&H RS2 pulling the Laurentian. The only other bidder was a New Haven fan; I sold him the one showing an NH unit or unit for 1/3 of what I paid. I wrote MR's Jim Hediger asking if he'd like to have the one with Ann Arbor Alco cab units at the ferry terminal at Frankfort, which I knew he had modeled from a photo in the magazine; he said yes; so I sent it to him.
valenciajim2, very nice cars, bakery and track work. I also have always liked the Oscar Meyer jingle and Little Oscar and his Wienermobile.
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Post by dti406 on Sept 19, 2024 6:06:47 GMT -8
9 /18/24, almost 8 p.m., EDT Catching up with some posts I just now saw. hudsonyard, thanks for answering my question. dti406 / Rick J, I THINK I saw a similar Wabash semi-streamlined caboose lettered for the Ann Arbor's subsidiary Manistique and Lake Superior at Manistique on the south shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula back in the summer of 1963. An Ann Arbor car ferry from Frankfort on the lower peninsula reached that very short line. Decades ago I put in the winning bid of $9 or $10 for three unmounted prints of paintings Howard Fogg had done for Alco at a model railroad club's auction in Boston. I wanted the one with a D&H RS2 pulling the Laurentian. The only other bidder was a New Haven fan; I sold him the one showing an NH unit or unit for 1/3 of what I paid. I wrote MR's Jim Hediger asking if he'd like to have the one with Ann Arbor Alco cab units at the ferry terminal at Frankfort, which I knew he had modeled from a photo in the magazine; he said yes; so I sent it to him. valenciajim2, very nice cars, bakery and track work. I also have always liked the Oscar Meyer jingle and Little Oscar and his Wienermobile. Yes the Manistique and Lake Superior had one of the streamlined Ann Arbor cabooses on its roster, it was returned to the Ann Arbor along with the S-1 switcher when the M&LS was abandoned in the 60's. As a side note during the winter the LS&I would send 20 loaded ore cars a day to the M&LS which were loaded on the car ferry and sent to Ford Rouge Steel plant via the Ann Arbor and DT&I. Jim Hediger told us a story at one of the DTI Modelers meets about having to pickup those 20 ore cars in the dead of winter with the temperatures well below "0" and it was all the two leased LS&I U25C's could do to move the 20 cars with the frozen journal boxes. Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 21, 2024 1:30:36 GMT -8
9/21/24, shortly after 5 a.m., EDT
Rick, thanks very much for your highly interesting reply. I just realized that my only that my visit to Manistique was probably in 1964 rather than 1963. In the earlier year my family of origin used the then new bridge over the Strait of Mackinac, crossed into Ontario at Sault Sainte Marie and used a new stretch of the Trans Canada Highway north of Lake Superior to Fort William and Port Arthur before recrossing the border, seeing an open pit iron ore mine in Minnesota, stepped across the Mississippi near its source and visiting Milwaukee. In 1964 we headed farther west on Michigan's "UP", rode the the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist train pulled by a former LS&I steam loco, -- at the time I had never heard of the DSS&A and when a crew member told us he'd worked for the South Shore I thought he meant the former Insuall interurban from Chicago to South Bend -- and used a highway paralleling the DW&P to get to International Falls, where we crossed into Canada and proceeded all the way to the Pacific. A great trip. I never have ridden an Ann Arbor ferry carrying railroad freight cars as well as autos and highway trucks. My wife and I did ride such a ferry to Prince Edward Island in 1971 before a bridge to that province was built. A late good friend of mine who served in the USAF was stationed in both Michigan's UP and at Fairbanks, Alaska and told me that the winter weather was worse in the former.
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