|
Post by tankcarsrule on Dec 28, 2014 5:39:47 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by buffalobill on Dec 28, 2014 5:47:25 GMT -8
Bobby: Beautiful model. Incredible detail. You are the king of span bolster and cryogenic tank cars. Bill
|
|
|
Post by mlehman on Dec 28, 2014 6:08:46 GMT -8
It was a week for station-building on the Cascade Branch of the Four Corners Division. First, a big one at Purgatory. Built of stone, because that's what they do there. Digging in the scrap box brought a shelter at Camp 10... and the lonely station at Summit.
|
|
|
Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 28, 2014 7:19:23 GMT -8
Another fine tank car, work of art.
Mike, the last station, Summit, sure has an unusual design to it. Any other angles of it?
|
|
|
Post by onequiknova on Dec 28, 2014 8:00:12 GMT -8
I needed some winterization hatches for a BLI E8 I'm working on. No body offers an aftermarket E unit hatch, so it was time to get creative. I whipped up the hatches on my mill and designed the etches to finish them. These will be going on Ex UP units which had the snow shields removed, so all the extra bits are from the rather hasty removal of the shields.
|
|
|
Post by mrsocal on Dec 28, 2014 8:06:44 GMT -8
Very nice John, I really like the riveted patches. Way cool!
|
|
djh4d
Full Member
Posts: 205
|
Post by djh4d on Dec 28, 2014 8:09:32 GMT -8
Latest addition to the fleet CSX 8707 and CSX 7551: Crossing the Tennessee River Taking the siding at James (Ladds, TN) Enjoy, -Dave
|
|
|
Post by tankcarsrule on Dec 28, 2014 8:30:15 GMT -8
Bill, Karl, thank you both.
Regards, Bobby
|
|
|
Post by runs2waynoka on Dec 28, 2014 8:31:46 GMT -8
MTH 60' chain flat that I finished recently-
Brad
|
|
|
Post by onequiknova on Dec 28, 2014 8:33:19 GMT -8
Very nice John, I really like the riveted patches. Way cool! Those are the remenants of the snow shield and horn mounting brackets. The Rock Island just torched off the brackets, leaving the bases bolted to the hatches.
|
|
djh4d
Full Member
Posts: 205
|
Post by djh4d on Dec 28, 2014 8:41:20 GMT -8
MTH 60' chain flat that I finished recently-
Brad
This weekends SFF is really setting the bar high. That's a cool car, Brad! Are you going to do a train or is this a one-time project? -Dave
|
|
|
Post by mrsocal on Dec 28, 2014 9:15:40 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by markfj on Dec 28, 2014 9:45:10 GMT -8
Finally finished my yellow CNW covered hopper. The “B” end detail is far from complete, but I didn’t have any good reference material to determine how and where all the components should go. So, other than the modifications I showed last time to the bolsters, I just added P2K wheel sets and touched up the paint with Polly Scale CNW Yellow (which is much brighter than the yellow IMRC used). In one shot, I left the styrene pipe coupler unpainted just to show you all how I joined the .020” rod to the kit’s trainline hose detail. All I did was drill out some styrene rod to fit over the piano wire and that provided a nice glue surface for the hose detail. It worked much better than I thought it would. Thanks, Mark The prototype:
|
|
|
Post by mlehman on Dec 28, 2014 11:23:16 GMT -8
Another fine tank car, work of art. Mike, the last station, Summit, sure has an unusual design to it. Any other angles of it? Karl, The 2nd and 3rd stations are scrap box designs. I worked with what I had, even to the point of using painted stuff leftover from other projects. I was going to cut the front wall down to fit the rest of the building, but thought the "ears" had a certain charm to them. In this case, I'm also riffing off the fact that many Colorado ROWs were built on toll roads, so these sometimes had structures that were incorporated and re-purposed when the rails were laid. The "false-front" that resulted captures that theme -- or at least that's my intent. I added some more detail since the last pic. Here's a rather revealing view from an angle not normally seen. I'll tidy it up back there in the future, but you can't see it so no hurry. I also added signage and some window shades to my Hotel Mears complex. Needs some people, etc out front. I was experimenting with eye-level pics along the tracks last night and came up with good ones. Here's an example of a technique I'll use more of in the future.
|
|
|
Post by TBird1958 on Dec 28, 2014 12:06:11 GMT -8
Wonderful work on display here this week gentleman! I'll try not to drag it down too much, I just have some ACF's from Atlas and Intermountain after being painted for BN and SP/SSW, I'll be out of town most of next week so this is about where progress will stop for awhile.
|
|
|
Post by runs2waynoka on Dec 28, 2014 12:49:50 GMT -8
This weekends SFF is really setting the bar high. That's a cool car, Brad! Are you going to do a train or is this a one-time project? -Dave
Thanks. I plan on doing some of the ITTX 89' flats at some point, and I have one of the new DODX AMF flat car kits that were released recently to build. It's just a matter of time and other projects vying for modeling time.... One things for sure, loading several of those flats gets expensive really quick.
Brad
|
|
|
Post by catt on Dec 28, 2014 16:10:04 GMT -8
I always enjoy these week end threads because I get to see some great modeling no matter what the scale.Maybe even pick up on an idea or two.
|
|
|
Post by oldmuley on Dec 28, 2014 18:28:08 GMT -8
MTH 60' chain flat that I finished recently-
Brad
What brand models are your vehicle models? They look great!
|
|
|
Post by Donnell Wells on Dec 28, 2014 19:07:17 GMT -8
Man! You guys are making me jealous with this excellent display of modeling skill!
Bravo!
Donnell
|
|
|
Post by stevef45 on Dec 28, 2014 19:44:09 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by 12bridge on Dec 28, 2014 22:43:27 GMT -8
I learned this week, that the definition of insanity, is to cut apart and re-solder a Details West horn together, rather then wait and get the proper one. I will not be doing this again... Before filing and clean up.. After paint and installation.
|
|
|
Post by stevef45 on Dec 29, 2014 23:48:42 GMT -8
Well i spent nearly 14 hours working on my models yesterday, maybe more like 11 after putting my kid to sleep and then falling asleep upside down on my couch. lol Started at 1pm doing leds in my tunnel motor. I really dont know how some of you guys do this all the time. I was getting so frustrated with just 2 leds i can't imagine doing a whole fleet or something even remotely complex. After I worked on the tunnel motor I went back to finsih my SD70M-2 undec. kit from athearn. I am 100% done with the plastic parts and only need to install the factory athearn etch stuff, which isn't much. Thank goodness I found 3 mini saw blades from excel in my toolbox. Nobody around by me carries excel blades, nobody. Initial cutting out the steps whole set done Side shot shows the Details west air filters and bell that i installed over the crappy athearn versions. Glued on the ditch lights, there's holes in the anticlimber for bulbs to be routed up. I'll ahve to double check if there were any holes in the faceplate for the wiring. But since I know how to get the leds in, im not worried about painting them seperately anymore. And lastly, I removed this large piece of plastic that was here. Whenever I install sound, i want to add more then the factory 28mm round speaker. So instead of gluing the radiator section down and then down the road trying to remove the piece, I just did it now before glueing it all together. Final paint shuold be sometime in january if their is a decent day of weather. Also sound will go in it, just not sure when. I'll be ordering tsunami 3rd gen 710 decoder for it, 28mm tcs wow speaker and will use some of my sugar cube speakers from tvw miniatures.
|
|
|
Post by stevef45 on Dec 29, 2014 23:58:43 GMT -8
oh i also spent about an hour or more fixing up a 25 plus year old tyco alco c636 i think in conrail paint. It had been sitting in box for the last 5 years after it didn't sell on ebay. With my 2 year old loving the bachman eztrack and setting it up. I decided to give it to him. But after running full throttle for about 5 minutes for the first time in probably 20 plus years the soldering joints all came apart. I re-soldered it all back up making sure nothing will come apart. It made my kids day today having it back.
|
|
|
Post by mrsocal on Dec 30, 2014 5:17:23 GMT -8
Steve that's great man, there is nothing like scoring some DADDY POINTS. ;-)
|
|
|
Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 30, 2014 7:31:40 GMT -8
Nothing like a full day of trains and being Dad.
|
|
|
Post by stevef45 on Jan 3, 2015 1:14:15 GMT -8
Nothing big, i assembled the athearn ptc antenna roof. Assembled 1 of these just to see how small it is. I'll have to order some sergeant spare knuckles to mount in them. Also tried to solder my smokey valley stanchions to some fresh DA brass wire. Stanchions didn't want any part of the soldering even with flux. The solder maybe held 2 or 3 stanchions and brass wire together. The solder just woulnd't stick to the stanchions. Also finishing my fuel tanks for the 5 SD60's. starting to run out of things to do
|
|
|
Post by runs2waynoka on Jan 3, 2015 8:18:10 GMT -8
MTH 60' chain flat that I finished recently- Brad
What brand models are your vehicle models? They look great! Sorry for the late reply, I overlooked your question somehow...
The vehicles are Herpa/Roco models, that were painted and detailed, the M984 wrecker uses a resin Trident conversion kit for the wrecker bed, it was a bit more involved since it required shorting the chassis on the Herpa/Roco hemtt to get it to fit. I'd probably just done a out of the box hemtt if I'd know that was going to get that involved....
I used Herpa/Roco chain tie downs, too.
Brad
|
|