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Post by TBird1958 on Mar 9, 2014 10:18:35 GMT -8
How about some Sunday photo fun......... I had the chance to re shoot the first of 3 Genesis GP-9s last week, I really like the sunlight shining thru the slotted frame onto the small tank! I'm slowly working on lumber cars, the D&RGW got a lot of this eastbound traffic from both the WP and SP I can never have enough Pennsy cars either!
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Post by mrsocal on Mar 9, 2014 10:31:39 GMT -8
That bulkhead looks frick'in awesome man. All good looking pics man.
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Post by dti406 on Mar 9, 2014 11:29:17 GMT -8
Finished some more cars this week! Eastern Car Works Covered Hopper Kit with Round Hatches, added airlines and A-Line Sill Steps, Painted with Scalecoat II Reefer White and lettered with Herald King Decals. IMRC 50' PS1 Kit, widened door opening for 10'6" Plug Door from the scrap box,added A-line Sill Steps and painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Yellow and Floquil Dark Blue. Lettered with Herald King Decals. IMRC Undecorated PS 5277CF Boxcar, Car was completely assembled so all it took was some Scalecoat II Reefer White and Herald King decals to complete the car. Thanks for looking! Rick J
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Post by TBird1958 on Mar 9, 2014 11:53:37 GMT -8
Cool stuff Rick!
I really like that B&O car - Nice!
Thank you, Scotty!
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Post by markfj on Mar 9, 2014 12:53:31 GMT -8
My humble submission is this NAHX cylindrical hopper car built from an IMRC kit. It’s an out-of-the-box build with no modifications. Some may not be too impressed, but anyone who has attempted building one of these kits knows all too well what a PITA this kit is to assemble. It took me a week to get it together!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 12:58:14 GMT -8
My humble submission is this NAHX cylindrical hopper car built from an IMRC kit. It’s an out-of-the-box build with no modifications. Some may not be too impressed, but anyone who has attempted building one of these kits knows all too well what a PITA this kit is to assemble. It took me a week to get it together! I like to refer to this kit the IMRC PS 4750 and the Proto 4427 hopper car kits as "confidence builders". Once you've got the trifecta down, nearly everything else is easy. Except the Red Caboose composite gondola, now that is a pain in the rear.
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Post by mlehman on Mar 9, 2014 13:37:58 GMT -8
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Post by wp8thsub on Mar 9, 2014 13:50:48 GMT -8
My humble submission is this NAHX cylindrical hopper car built from an IMRC kit. It’s an out-of-the-box build with no modifications. Some may not be too impressed, but anyone who has attempted building one of these kits knows all too well what a PITA this kit is to assemble. It took me a week to get it together! I built a couple of those from kits, along with some P2K 4427 hoppers, Red Caboose drop-bottom gons, plenty of Branchline kits, etc. I can appreciate somebody doing a nice, clean job of assembly on one of these.
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Post by keystonecrossings on Mar 9, 2014 14:17:50 GMT -8
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Post by dti406 on Mar 9, 2014 15:37:06 GMT -8
My humble submission is this NAHX cylindrical hopper car built from an IMRC kit. It’s an out-of-the-box build with no modifications. Some may not be too impressed, but anyone who has attempted building one of these kits knows all too well what a PITA this kit is to assemble. It took me a week to get it together! I like to refer to this kit the IMRC PS 4750 and the Proto 4427 hopper car kits as "confidence builders". Once you've got the trifecta down, nearly everything else is easy. Except the Red Caboose composite gondola, now that is a pain in the rear. One of the reasons I usually build three of four of these kits at a time, while waiting for glue to dry I get to work on the next kit doing the same procedure so it does not feel so hard to do rather than doing each kit separately. I have recently finished three of these cars and have painted and decaled two of them, the third is painted and awaiting decals. Although building the Athearn Airlside Covered Hopper has made its way to the top of the list of PITA kits, as there are no instructions, the parts/assembly diagram lists parts that you are not using on the car you are building, the part numbers on the sprues do not match the diagram and there is no sequence of assembly. Rick J
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 15:45:11 GMT -8
I like to refer to this kit the IMRC PS 4750 and the Proto 4427 hopper car kits as "confidence builders". Once you've got the trifecta down, nearly everything else is easy. Except the Red Caboose composite gondola, now that is a pain in the rear. One of the reasons I usually build three of four of these kits at a time, while waiting for glue to dry I get to work on the next kit doing the same procedure so it does not feel so hard to do rather than doing each kit separately. I have recently finished three of these cars and have painted and decaled two of them, the third is painted and awaiting decals. Although building the Athearn Airlside Covered Hopper has made its way to the top of the list of PITA kits, as there are no instructions, the parts/assembly diagram lists parts that you are not using on the car you are building, the part numbers on the sprues do not match the diagram and there is no sequence of assembly. Rick J I had an undecorated GP15-1 CNW version that I HAD to buy a decorated GP15-1 CNW to figure out the parts and how they attached. The exploded view diagrams on the Athearn stuff may have been fine back in 1980, but when you've got baggies full of parts its not an option.
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Post by stevef45 on Mar 9, 2014 16:47:46 GMT -8
those P2K 4427 kits are a breeze to assemble.
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Post by tankcarsrule on Mar 9, 2014 17:25:41 GMT -8
My humble submission is this NAHX cylindrical hopper car built from an IMRC kit. It’s an out-of-the-box build with no modifications. Some may not be too impressed, but anyone who has attempted building one of these kits knows all too well what a PITA this kit is to assemble. It took me a week to get it together! Yes, this a Bear of a kit! I did eight many years ago. I set up a assembly line and got the build down to five hours. Regards, Bobby
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Post by runs2waynoka on Mar 9, 2014 23:22:20 GMT -8
Garvey PS 4750 that I completed last month. It's the factory painted IM model weathered with oils, craft acrylics, and weathering powders. Yes, I know the roof popped loose, I didn't catch it until after I took the pictures and uploaded them. Oh well.... It's glued now.
The prototype-
www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=68474
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Post by mlehman on Mar 10, 2014 7:51:04 GMT -8
Garvey PS 4750 that I completed last month. It's the factory painted IM model weathered with oils, craft acrylics, and weathering powders. Yes, I know the roof popped loose, I didn't catch it until after I took the pictures and uploaded them. Oh well.... It's glued now.
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runs2, Nice work. Might try a needle applicator, run a bit of solvent in there, then carefully squeeze. If you can squeeze it shut while dry, it'll bond and look good, just be careful to not flood it when applying the solvent.
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Post by Spikre on Mar 11, 2014 9:56:26 GMT -8
lots of great looking Covered Hoppers this week !! Mark, the Cylinder cars with bent up or down end platforms can be a bigger challenge. but eventually they will go together. the P2K "Time Saver" 4427s are worse to assemble than the Original Kit versions. IMRC out did them selves on the Cylinder and 4750 kits with all the micro parts that hold the hatches or roofwalks on. Jerry, is Bowser offering the H30s as kits ? like the one here,but RTR just isnt as much "FUN" as a Kit would be. this coming from a guy that passed on the Rail Shops H30 Kit because of the Etched Brass ends. nice H30 line up ! Great Show Again Guys !! Spikre
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Post by riogrande on Mar 12, 2014 17:07:51 GMT -8
Nice job all. Finally viewing this from home where the photo hosts aren't blocked. Tbird, nice weathering job on the GP9 and freight cars. I too am in the process of trying to build up some lumber cars - partly by obtaining a few of the nice Athearn lumber loads which are hard to find, and some decent "stand-in" bulk head flat cars based on the MDC/Athearn cars. Have a Bulkhead Flat car w/load "C&C/Weyerhaeuser" on the way now although it looks like the plain lumber load was swapped out for a Tree Source load, which is ok.
What are the reporting marks on your yellow bulk head flat car?
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Post by TBird1958 on Mar 13, 2014 8:48:57 GMT -8
Hey Jim,
It's an OPE (Oregon Pacific Eastern) IIRC, it's funny but in reviewing my car fleet I find way too many MDC bulkhead cars, that's definetly going to change!
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Post by riogrande on Mar 14, 2014 6:39:13 GMT -8
Hey Jim, It's an OPE (Oregon Pacific Eastern) IIRC, it's funny but in reviewing my car fleet I find way too many MDC bulkhead cars, that's definetly going to change! That's funny too because I only ever had 3 MDC bulkheads for years (SP, SSW and BN), and recently I've doubled it to 6 by adding several Athearn RTR version. I've bought 4 RTR bulkheads in the past year but mainly because I wanted the loads. One was a ultra modern TTX with a lumber load - I kept the load and sold the bulkhead flat because it was too new. The others were road names I probably will keep as they are decent "stand-in's" - C&S, British Columbia and Weyerhaeuser. I may get one or two more if I can find a UP and a MILW, but due to the generic "stand-in" nature, I won't be loading up much more on them either. Some discussion with SP fans out west have suggested that some of the Walthers Canadian bulkheads might be good to mix in too, just a few, maybe even from True Line. And this brings up a major need. We have at least two decent or nice recently produced bulkhead flat cars by Atlas Trainman and ExactRail, but both are way too modern and incorrect for 70's or 80's modeling. With all the great new models produced in the past 6-8 years, we still badly need accurate 70/80's era western bulkhead flat cars!
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Post by riogrande on Mar 14, 2014 7:39:24 GMT -8
Have you checked out the F-70-7 bulkhead flats (two versions) from the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society? I ordered and received one of the SPH&TS F-70-7 flat cars last fall - forgot to mention it. They represent 1950's cars rebuilt in 1962 and were probably worn out by the 80's but still good for 1970's and they are really nice. At $54 I only bought one only but for SP fans of the 60's and 70's they are awesome. That being said, western bulkhead flat cars were a major staple moving lumber and still a major hole in the HO model market. I think there were some resin kits sold by Bruce's in Sacramento a few years back but that shop closed and I don't even know if the kits are sold anymore. I'd love to see a Genesis or ExactRail western 1970's built bulkhead flat car hit the market in the near future still.
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