mako
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Post by mako on Dec 6, 2015 2:34:33 GMT -8
Hello everybody,
after several years on the shelf, i built two Greyhound buses form a resin kit made by a german manufacturer "MEK" (the kits ar sold out). I painted and decaled the models by my self. Windows are tinted with a self adhesive black car window foil over a clear Evergreen sheet styrene. Next week i recieve e decal sheet for my homeprinter. Than i make the missing rear lights. Enjoy.
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Post by slowfreight on Dec 6, 2015 4:33:39 GMT -8
Those are exquisite, Mako. I'm surprised no one in the US has found those models.
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Post by dti406 on Dec 6, 2015 6:14:39 GMT -8
Got a few things done this week!  Anderson's car #7 done, still have 5 to go as I picked up another one cheap! Tichy Kit painted with green tinted Model Master Aluminum paint and lettered with kit supplied decals.  When the 45' Trailers were introduced in the late 70's the railroads did not want to put up with only 1 trailer on a 89' Flatcar. So the Southern Railroad, scrapped some old boxcars and made them into 50' Intermodel Flats to handle 45' and 48' Trailers. Since most trailers were now loaded by crane there are no bridge plates and the light weight of the car was lowered by omitting sections of the flooring. This is an old Front Range kit that was molded after an article of kitbashing these cars in Model Railroad Craftsman Magazine. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Trailer was also supplied by Front Range, painted with Floquil Platinum Mist and lettered with Microscale Decals. (This is a two for one special!) Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 6, 2015 6:41:16 GMT -8
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Post by tankcarsrule on Dec 6, 2015 6:47:20 GMT -8
This is the brass version of the Tangent acid car. It was imported by Lambert in 1979. The prototype for this car hauled Hydrochloric acid to our local pulp mill. It's also the first brass car I painted.  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 6, 2015 7:27:03 GMT -8
A fine variety of great models already this weekend. The Big Dogs are great looking buses.
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Post by mlehman on Dec 6, 2015 9:08:12 GMT -8
Really nice work, everyone. The vehicles are almost upstaging the trains today, but they're exquisite nonetheless. I'll start with some standard gauge action in Durango, with the passenger local westbound after a station stop and meet with an eastbound coal train.  Then it's time for a test run as a consist of two of my narrowgauge diesels, a "Whitcomb" hack of Athearn parts and a DL-531 that started life as an Australian Alco export prototype. Needed to play with some CVs to get them happy with each other, but the pair can really pull.  Passing the mill at Rockwood.  Crossing the Rio de las Animas just below Silverton.  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 6, 2015 9:55:57 GMT -8
Really nice Wrecker! Here's a few of my trucks, some are well over 20 years old as model projects...So go easy on me  Athearn and ? parts!  I don't even remember the mfg's of this stuff.  Mostly Herpa parts...  This needs some oversize flags.  This is much more recent...  |
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Post by kcjones on Dec 6, 2015 10:01:58 GMT -8
Morning guys, Mako...Love them pups. Your dogs are perfect. Right in the middle.. Not too old and not too modern. And people too! Wow! Oh...and let me guess. Your favorite car is a 68 Corvette? Just a little auto history there. Well since I model the 80's, my layout is full of short line per diem boxcars. You can say that starting in the late 70's, railroading had started to become quite colorful. After the craze died, many of the cars fell into neglect. I just picked up another boxcar from my friend over at The Whistle Stop in Portland. I think I'm going to be keeping him very busy.  |
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Post by riogrande on Dec 6, 2015 11:08:14 GMT -8
Got a few things done this week! When the 45' Trailers were introduced in the late 70's the railroads did not want to put up with only 1 trailer on a 89' Flatcar. So the Southern Railroad, scrapped some old boxcars and made them into 50' Intermodel Flats to handle 45' and 48' Trailers. Since most trailers were now loaded by crane there are no bridge plates and the light weight of the car was lowered by omitting sections of the flooring. This is an old Front Range kit that was molded after an article of kitbashing these cars in Model Railroad Craftsman Magazine. Car was painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Trailer was also supplied by Front Range, painted with Floquil Platinum Mist and lettered with Microscale Decals. (This is a two for one special!) Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski Since NS is too new for me I picked up for cheap a kit for the NW version of that flat car. Challenge is it is very light. Sure, I can add weight to the trailer and put metal wheels on, but the flat car itself needs weight too - and there lies the challenge how to get weight into the flat car. |
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Post by dtinut on Dec 6, 2015 11:22:24 GMT -8
Hi, Great stuff - the Greyhounds look awesome - could use one of those myself! Same for the tow truck! I belong to a modular club, and was asked to add the scenery to this module which I did in about a week. I created the road using foam core, and sand for the shoulders, and the drive for the lot to the mill is also sand. I used a lot of woodlands sceneics materials for the rest, and I tried out the Realistic Water product they have. I still have more water to add but this is as far as I got before the trainshow we held last Sunday where it was used in the setup we had.   The train running is a Toledo Terminal S2 I custom painted along with a exC&O TTRR wood crummy on the end. Regards, Brian |
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Post by dti406 on Dec 6, 2015 11:28:41 GMT -8
Got a few things done this week! Since NS is too new for me I picked up for cheap a kit for the NW version of that flat car. Challenge is it is very light. Sure, I can add weight to the trailer and put metal wheels on, but the flat car itself needs weight too - and there lies the challenge how to get weight into the flat car. Jim, you are correct on the lightness of the car, I usually place them at the end of the train so they are not subject to derailment. The all metal wheels help add some weight to the car. I think some people have convinced Hubert Mask (Mask Island Decals) to prepare some of the Southern Decals for this car which would backdate it some. Also Oddballs had the C&NW decals for this car but I think they were never made, one of my friends ordered years ago but was shorted those decals when he received his order and never got them. Rick J |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 6, 2015 11:41:29 GMT -8
Saturday I participated in an all day OPS session at Bruce Chubb's Sunset Valley Oregon System layout. Here combined Southern Pacific/Northern Pacific reefer Express #200 passing the Harriman Passenger Terminal...  A clear indication on the bridge at Haig heading over to a power change at the NP yard. Nearly the same location as the lead photo in Bruce's first article on Signals in the December 2015 Railroad Model Craftsman  T-Bird, love the trucks. I never understood the long drawbars on the West Coast tanker trucks. That style of truck is not seen here in Michigan where our gas tankers are humongous single trailers with up to 6-8 axles. Our drivers would be trying to squeeze into the opening between the tanks... |
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Post by mrsocal on Dec 6, 2015 11:53:01 GMT -8
Here is my fun photo for today. This is the set that I am working on for the sky box thread. I need to get them all done in various stages.   I really like all the layout stuff posted up this week. Great stuff!! |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 6, 2015 11:55:42 GMT -8
Speaking of trucks here's a 'fuel' truck of an older vintage, an old Federal coal delivery truck made from a Woodland Scenics metal kit.  |
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Post by Christian on Dec 6, 2015 13:42:54 GMT -8
Here is a tow truck I just finished. It has a resin cab I cast, a back dated Trident wrecker body, and numerous scratchbuilt and commercial details. 24 Hour Camel Tow. Ouch  |
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Post by wmrdgfan on Dec 6, 2015 15:15:42 GMT -8
Really like that tow truck!!!
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Post by Gary P on Dec 10, 2015 7:28:03 GMT -8
Here is a tow truck I just finished. It has a resin cab I cast, a back dated Trident wrecker body, and numerous scratchbuilt and commercial details. 24 Hour Camel Tow. Ouch I just caught that...... Mako - Really like those buses! |
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Post by Christian on Dec 10, 2015 14:46:19 GMT -8
Really like that tow truck!!! I was putting so much effort into being a smart a** that I forgot to compliment the modeling. Lots of little things to look at that really say "small town " tow service. The rear license plate is my favorite. This whole Photo Fun has lots and lots of little things to admire - every post. Starting right off with that pair of buses. |
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Post by riogrande on Dec 10, 2015 15:23:13 GMT -8
Christian,
I totally agree. There is lots of great stuff every week in Photo Fun, all of it inspirational and it's something I very much look forward to. I need to remember to compliment everyone's talent.
I have to say it was very cool to see photo's from Bruce Chubb's Sunset Valley ops session. I have followed Bruce's articles and layout over the many years and it's interesting to see it still going still! It was usually a family operation with his wife involved which was great.
Scotty, those Sky Box's are very nicely done!
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Post by dtinut on Dec 11, 2015 16:25:05 GMT -8
Late project, but didn't feel like creating a separate thread, This was a custom car fro Cooper & Ostemo, and checking prototype pics, found that it was close, but changing a few details would result in a accurate  The backgound car is exWabash, not really sure if all N&W B-101 cars were ex Wab, but I found another in the Black scheme, which had the 8ft superior door, and so modelled this car to match that. Carved off door details, narrowed a 9ft door to 8'-6", Added new sill, door stops, tracks, reinforcement plates, and WKW rivet decals, KD's, amd a set of Kato trucks. Made stirrups were some staples, still need to bend cut levers...Some paint, and an an ACI lebels.. |
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Post by packer on Dec 11, 2015 20:44:58 GMT -8
Dtinut, I noticed you have a 6-panel superior door. I'm trying to find a source for a 6'panel superior door for a project of mine, but I'm starting with a front range car.
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Post by dtinut on Dec 11, 2015 22:59:59 GMT -8
Not positive, but am pretty sure the Superior doors I had in scrap box are leftover from a RobinsRails kit based on the paint color - as I have a P&LE PS-1 50ft single door boxcar the same color. The door started out being 9'-6" wide, and I sectioned out about a scale foot from the center after carving off the little detail part at the bottom/center of the door, which I glued back on after splicing the door.
I probably should have just scratched the doors as there isn't a simpler door to build than these, but they were in scrapbox, so I used them... The splice is visible, but only in the right lighting...
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