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Post by mlehman on Jul 5, 2015 5:44:18 GMT -8
The fireworks are kaput, the mess on the patio still needs cleaned up, and hopefully you and yours are recovering safely from a great Independence Day weekend. If you managed to get some modeling done this week or any other week, this is your chance to display it for everyone's enjoyment. I didn't get much done around here this week, except for a lengthy photoessay of a holiday Goose charter by a small group of well-heeled that I documented in my long running Cascade Branch thread: cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/219241.aspx?page=4Here are a few select shots... Climbing the grade out of Tefft  Approaching the Lime Creek Gulch Bridge leaving Purgatory  Almost to the top at Summit  The curve into Crater Lake  A little standard gauge action at Carbon Junction  |
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Post by dti406 on Jul 5, 2015 6:35:44 GMT -8
Managed to get some stuff off the workbench this week.  Got the Tichy Covered Hopper Conversion car painted and decaled this week. Car was painted with Model Masters Silver with a few drops of Green Paint along with Scalecoat II Reading Green for the extension, lettered with kit supplied decals. The Andersons purchased ex-Wabash Panel side hoppers, added an extension and canvas top for shipping grain from Maumee, OH to the export docks in Toledo, OH.  In the 1970's the Frisco rebuilt and modernized their 50's era PS1 boxcars by removing the roofwalk, lowering some ladders and repainting and renumbering the cars. This is an Intermountain 40' PS1 Boxcar kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Oddballs decals.  The Nickle Plate along with the C&O and Erie received some 1937 AAR Boxcars equiped with a Viking Roof. Luckily Des Plaines Hobbies had some Viking Roofs made which I purchased and applied to an IMWX 1937 AAR Boxcar Kit. Car is painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Microscale Decals. Thanks for looking! Rick J |
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Post by TBird1958 on Jul 5, 2015 10:24:18 GMT -8
Nice work this week guys! A busy week with outdoor work kept progress modest this week, this is a Tangent 60' GSC weathered with chalks, colored pencil, drybrush and a bit of airbrush. I have a load under construction for it, but love the look of an empty flat.   |
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Post by mlehman on Jul 5, 2015 11:56:21 GMT -8
I...love the look of an empty flat. Mark, Amen to that. An empty flat seems to always hold promise, a suggestion of great effort to come, loads to be borne, work to be done. It's Everycar. |
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Post by stevef45 on Jul 11, 2015 1:37:28 GMT -8
trying to finish my stuff as i have time. I only can do it at work now that im moved out of my aparment and back home with my mother (sarcastic yayyyyyyyy) Did not realize how much train stuff I had in my train closet till I packed it up, 3 large uhaul boxes full. FWWR 2024 rear long hood. No grabs till its painted. 2018 is pretty much finished. Both units just need air lines for the trucks and they will be done. My Genesee and Wyoming units will be finished aswell. Will be adding cut levers to those and air lines to the trucks and sander brackets to all.  |
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Post by lajrmdlr on Jul 11, 2015 9:06:29 GMT -8
TBird1958
You must be modeling pre 1972 as your flat has an ACI plate (1969) but no COTS(1972) or Consolidated Stencil (1978).
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Post by stevef45 on Jul 12, 2015 1:05:56 GMT -8
sd45 treadplate!!  |
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