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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Aug 11, 2019 6:12:32 GMT -8
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Post by sd50f on Aug 11, 2019 9:24:45 GMT -8
Hello again everyone. This weekend I'm sharing two units that I'm still working on. 5245 is a heavily kitbashed Athearn unit that is going to be getting weathered soon. Parts from Cannon, Details West, Plano, Railflyer, Detail Associates, and Smokey Valley are all over this unit. I'll do all the lighting and adding windows as soon as the weathering is completed. 1359 is a Proto 2000 shell on an Athearn chassis. I'm going to be finishing up the decals and making this into Southern Ontario Railway 1359, which operated out of Hamilton, Ontario. It features parts from Juneco and KV Models. Paint on both units is by Italeri, and decals are by Microscale. Highball Graphics decals will be used to make 1359 change into an SOR unit. One of the great things about taking these pictures is that I'm actually able to see errors in my model work and can then correct them. I'm starting to see my camera as a modelling tool. Love those Frisco switchers. Very nice work. |
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Post by TBird1958 on Aug 11, 2019 9:58:43 GMT -8
Nice CN units! I have way too many projects on my desk...... One of them is replacing most of the plastic parts with wire on the Broadway Cryo tank. The cast plastic blue parts are rather waxy and thick looking, here's a bit of one end, I've since replaced the cut bar as well.  Something I finished up awhile back, a Moloco Wabash General American RBL.  Happy Sunday, Gentlemen. Mark Hills |
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Post by kpack on Aug 11, 2019 15:47:23 GMT -8
CEFX 33390 is a 52' inside, 57' outside, open gondola built by Thrall in the Spring of 1999. It was originally lettered for CP, easily seen by the unique red and white safety stripes. It was acquired by the CIT Group/Equipment Financing (CEFX), re-stenciled and updated with current safety stripes. The 2743 cubic foot capacity with open top allows these cars to carry virtually anything. Given that they are open they tend to get used and abused by hauling junk and other less desirable things. 33390's sister cars have spent a lot of time in Brooklyn, NY and it is likely that 33390 was there as well. These cars have not fared well with graffiti recently unfortunately. The model 33390 has evidence of old graffiti that has since almost totally faded away and has been painted over with new scribbles. This graffiti was copied from a sister car only one number away. This car was outfitted with placards and covered with a tarp for particular load in 2010 (here) The placards are hard to make out in the picture, but it is likely the car is carrying contaminated soil. There are four braces holding the tarp up, and many bungees to tie it down. The model is an Atlas Master, which is quite a nice model. I re-lettered the car, updated the safety stripes (per request), and weathered the car using almost exclusively acrylics. I used brass bar to create the tarp supports. The tarp is heavy-duty trash bag material cut to size and stretched over the top of the car. I carefully glued it down to the sides. The bungee cords are 0.008" brass wire cut to size and carefully glued in place. The tarp is very tight indoors, but once exposed to any sunlight the material warps slightly. You can see some of this in the pictures.       Thanks for looking! -Kevin |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Aug 11, 2019 16:02:03 GMT -8
Kevin, you are a master at this. If it wasn't for the coupler trip pin I would have a very hard time telling these are model photos. That second one looks like a prototype view. I'm guessing you are one of the RPM modellers as this work is way above and beyond the "average" model. I am truly humbled with each photo-share of yours. Please keep sharing. Thanks so much.
P.S. My guess as to the load contents would be small, lightweight, loose material (small metal shavings?) rather than contaminated soil. Seems to me the latter should be packaged in its own sealed container to contain the spread of loose material and contaminating the car as well as handling equipment.
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Post by cr9617 on Aug 11, 2019 16:07:32 GMT -8
amazing work kevin!
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Post by cr9617 on Aug 11, 2019 16:38:36 GMT -8
Hard to follow up kevin but here we goes nothing... Finished up some storage racks for my MOW yard.   and lurking in the background are these beauties that just came last week...    Overland brass Conrail E8 Executive Unit set. Cost me a pretty penny, but well worth it. |
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Post by dti406 on Aug 11, 2019 17:16:16 GMT -8
Managed to complete a couple of cars this week.  First is another BAR 50' boxcar, car was rebuilt in 1971 from the 10000 series of ACF Boxcars, the railroad added end of car cushioning, removed the roofwalks and lowered the ladders. I added the end of car cushioning using a Moloco kit and then painted the car with Scalecoat II ATSF Red, Black and Silver paints then lettered with Highball Graphics decals. Car was used in hauling paper products from Maine to all over the country.  Next is the next car in the DT&I ACF 4600 CF Covered Hopper Fleet. Car built from an undecorated Athearn kit, then painted with Scalecoat II UP Covered Hopper Gray Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was used serving grain elevators on the southern portion of the DT&I.  Picture taken at the Strongsville Model Railroad Club of my PRR GP9's with a mixed freight. Thanks for looking, and now looking forward to the good stuff. Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by slowfreight on Aug 11, 2019 18:05:05 GMT -8
I haven't been able to do anything but look at the layout for months now, so thanks everyone for showing off such incredible work...it'll help keep me motivated for when I have time again.
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Post by kpack on Aug 11, 2019 21:13:34 GMT -8
Kevin, you are a master at this. If it wasn't for the coupler trip pin I would have a very hard time telling these are model photos. That second one looks like a prototype view. I'm guessing you are one of the RPM modellers as this work is way above and beyond the "average" model. I am truly humbled with each photo-share of yours. Please keep sharing. Thanks so much. P.S. My guess as to the load contents would be small, lightweight, loose material (small metal shavings?) rather than contaminated soil. Seems to me the latter should be packaged in its own sealed container to contain the spread of loose material and contaminating the car as well as handling equipment. Thanks, glad you liked it. It was built for a friend and he wanted Kadee's with the trip pins left on, otherwise I would have used Sergents. I do enjoy prototype modeling. I don't have the space for a layout yet so I spend my time building and weathering rolling stock and locomotives. It's fun and relaxing. -Kevin |
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Post by kpack on Aug 12, 2019 10:02:10 GMT -8
Hard to follow up kevin but here we goes nothing... Finished up some storage racks for my MOW yard. Great detail in that scene. The racks with parts are really an eye-catcher for me. I'm assuming a lot of those parts are 3D printed? Tell me about the concrete as well....that is very convincing. Nice work rusting the tops of the rails as well! Of course, the MOW equipment is very well done also. Excellent use of details on those models, as well as the subtle weathering. The scrapes on the bed rail of the flatbed for example....nicely done. |
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Post by cr9617 on Aug 12, 2019 15:24:12 GMT -8
Hard to follow up kevin but here we goes nothing... Finished up some storage racks for my MOW yard. Great detail in that scene. The racks with parts are really an eye-catcher for me. I'm assuming a lot of those parts are 3D printed? Tell me about the concrete as well....that is very convincing. Nice work rusting the tops of the rails as well! Of course, the MOW equipment is very well done also. Excellent use of details on those models, as well as the subtle weathering. The scrapes on the bed rail of the flatbed for example....nicely done. Thank you. Actually the only thing that was 3d printed was the original of the red welder. I made a mold of it and cast copies in resin. For those in the know its really a Miller welder but its in disguise as a Lincoln right here. There is another one (painted correctly) on the back of the wreck truck behind the tall shelf. The shelves are a Preiser kit that I cut down and painted. The tie crane axles on the top shelf are scratchbuilt from z scale wheels, brass rod, and American Model Builders pillow blocks. The hydraulic cylinders on the are also scratchbuilt from brass tube/rod and styrene. The flat pieces are meant to represent plow blades that you would find on ballast regulators and the like. They are just painted strip styrene. The rest are random white metal parts from the parts bin. I have a few damaged MOW machine kits that I pick for parts. The concrete is made from patch cement. I laid the track, built a small form around the area I wanted and poured about a 1/8" layer of the cement. When it was almost dry, I scored the expansion joints and ran a junk freight car truck down the tracks to form the flageways. It dries a dark gray color so I sprayed it with some model master aged concrete color followed by some washes of india ink with a little lite pastels here and there. It cracked when it was drying which I though ruined it but it actually turned out better. I pushed down on the corners and edges to crack it some more to beat it up like old concrete. The rail head is just painted rust color. This is on a small 2x6 diorama so the rails on the pad come in off the side and aren't connected to anything so they are unpowered. The tracks in the back behind the fence that the E8s are on is clean and can be powered if desired. Here's a general overview.  |
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Post by ncrc5315 on Aug 12, 2019 16:31:33 GMT -8
CR9617, if I'm seeing correctly, the miller welder is decaled, how did you do this?
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Post by cr9617 on Aug 12, 2019 17:35:16 GMT -8
CR9617, if I'm seeing correctly, the miller welder is decaled, how did you do this? It is. The miller decals come with this kit: www.walthers.com/2-miller-air-pak-welders-6-on-site-job-tool-boxes-kit-pkg-8There is a seller on ebay that sells just the decals from that kit, but I can't think of the name right now. The warning labels are from different microscale and shellscale loco data sets. While not exact matches, they capture the look of what supposed to be there. Besides they are so small you can't read them anyway. |
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Post by jbilbrey on Aug 12, 2019 20:04:30 GMT -8
Good models all. I had hoped to participate by showing off couple F&C gons that I had recently been working on, but I ran out of time to finish them. There is always next Sunday, LOL.
My desire to finish the gons came about from a trifecta of bad luck/planning on my part. My son had three of "his" steam locomotives to either stop work working or never worked over the summer. And growing tired of seeing the disappointment in his eyes, I bought a BLI steam locomotive for the two of us to run. Doing so has also helped me with figuring out what to do with our home layout, and I hope to start the demo/rebuilding before the year's end.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 5:38:50 GMT -8
Kevin, you are a master at this. If it wasn't for the coupler trip pin I would have a very hard time telling these are model photos. That second one looks like a prototype view. I'm guessing you are one of the RPM modellers as this work is way above and beyond the "average" model. I am truly humbled with each photo-share of yours. Please keep sharing. Thanks so much. P.S. My guess as to the load contents would be small, lightweight, loose material (small metal shavings?) rather than contaminated soil. Seems to me the latter should be packaged in its own sealed container to contain the spread of loose material and contaminating the car as well as handling equipment. Thanks, glad you liked it. It was built for a friend and he wanted Kadee's with the trip pins left on, otherwise I would have used Sergents. I do enjoy prototype modeling. I don't have the space for a layout yet so I spend my time building and weathering rolling stock and locomotives. It's fun and relaxing. -Kevin Can we be friends?  Excellent modeling as always! Thank you for sharing. |
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Post by kpack on Aug 13, 2019 12:02:25 GMT -8
Thanks, glad you liked it. It was built for a friend and he wanted Kadee's with the trip pins left on, otherwise I would have used Sergents. I do enjoy prototype modeling. I don't have the space for a layout yet so I spend my time building and weathering rolling stock and locomotives. It's fun and relaxing. -Kevin Can we be friends? Excellent modeling as always! Thank you for sharing. Haha, that brought a smile to my face. To be honest, I really don't like doing work on models that aren't my own. It's still fun to do, but it tends to feel more like work and less like a escape. I prefer to work on my own projects at my own pace. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 12:07:46 GMT -8
Can we be friends? Excellent modeling as always! Thank you for sharing. Haha, that brought a smile to my face. To be honest, I really don't like doing work on models that aren't my own. It's still fun to do, but it tends to feel more like work and less like a escape. I prefer to work on my own projects at my own pace. I can totally understand and respect that for sure! However, if you ever need extra cash fast or want to sell a model, I call dibs!!! |
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