Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 3:58:23 GMT -8
Brian, Those four boxcars are mighty sweet looking cars. The tank car looks great. As far as the Baby Ruth car.. I'm shock to see a modeler of your caliber having one But, let me be honest. I'm very bias against such cars so, that weighs in heavily even though the weathering makes it look decent.. Brakie, thank you. There is a reason I have that Baby Ruth car. And the Naugatuck Plastics car and the KO&G car. Those cars a a few others are part of my nostalgic series. Cars that I had as a kid when I was first introduced to model trains. My brother and I received our first trains for Christmas 1971. They were N-Scale and we ran the piss out of them. I still have most of what we had as kids. There are a number of them that I am re-creating in HO scale. Many that are complete foobs. Currently I am working on one right now that is an out and out foob, but it is the very first model train I ever bought. I got it for my brother that first Christmas. A Gulf three dome tank car. Never existed, so it does not mean anything to anyone else but me. Model trains are more to me than fine scale modeling. RPM is over for me. I am bored with it. Time to enjoy what the hobby "means" to me. Brian
|
|
|
Post by brakie on Sept 6, 2019 6:25:17 GMT -8
Brian, IMHO having nostalgic cars and locomotive is part of the hobby..
I still enjoy using a BB SW7, GP7 or BB GP35 from time to time even though I have better engines..
Why?
Because those are the engines I used for at least 50 years. I still have the Model Power RS11 my late wife got me for Christmas the year we was married. I take it out of its box and run it back and forth maybe once a year.. It s what it is a nostalgic locomotive that to me is priceless.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 18:06:48 GMT -8
Tonight I finished car #13. I have been wanting to build this car for a long time. Not an exact match to the prototype, but a decent representation. Accurail 50' center door boxcar. I replaced the Youngstown door with a Superior door. Tangent brake wheel Kato 70 ton roller bearing trucks Moloco cushioned draft gear box Kadee couplers Paint is MRP International orange. To me it is a perfect match for early EJ&E equipment. www.hobbyworld-usa.com/Store/index.php?id_product=3457&controller=product&search_query=International+Orange&results=194Decals are from Mask Island. The large EJ&E is a little to small, but it works. www.maskislanddecals.com/product/eje-railway/I did not want to go to heavy on the weathering. The roof had a couple thin medium brown washes applied and then a pin wash. Let that dry and follow it with another thin wash. Sides and ends had a couple thin washes applied. Let it dry. Ends got a few more coats of wash. Sides got a slug wash and then it was removed. I used a makeup sponge lightly soaked in mineral spirits. Let it dry. Followed up with some streaking on the sill and a few heavier pin washes in specific areas. Let that dry and then unify the whole car with one last thin medium brown wash. EJE_BOXCAR_63002_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr
|
|
|
Post by edgecrusher on Sept 9, 2019 12:26:03 GMT -8
Brian this looks great. I have an undec Kadee car and the Mask Island decals in my to do pile. But I was hung up on what orange to use. What is MRP paint? I'm not familiar with that one.
|
|
|
Post by lvrr325 on Sept 10, 2019 1:10:41 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by brakie on Sept 10, 2019 4:41:33 GMT -8
Brian, That's another great looking boxcar and the weathering makes the car look like its seen a lot of mileage since it last paint job. A excellent touch.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 5:12:40 GMT -8
|
|
|
Post by edgecrusher on Sept 10, 2019 8:56:13 GMT -8
Thanks for the info and links, I hadn't heard of that brand or site yet. Looks like lots of good stuff there.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 11:00:48 GMT -8
Another car done. Train Miniature coal hopper. This is a stand in car for the prototype EJ&E car. The prototype is a rebuilt offset side hopper. The TM car is the closest in model form to the prototype. It should have two more panels. I replaced all the brake gear with Accurail brake components. I also added diagonal bracing at each end of the car. The model does not have this. The coal load that came with the kit was pathetic so I crushed some real coal and glued it in over the plastic load. Trucks are From Tahoe Model Works. Brake wheel is from Tangent. Kadee couplers. Decals are my own design and printed by Highball Graphics. Weathering is simply a wash. Started with a light wash and ended with a heavy wash. EJE_HOPPER_40555_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr Brian
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 5:12:12 GMT -8
This car is purely foobulistic. This is a recreation of an N-Scale car. The very first car I ever bought. Christmas 1970, a gift for my brother. I found the car again and had to do it up in HO. Using the N-Scale car as a reference, I designed the decals. Highball Graphics printed them. I took some liberty to add a few more bits of lettering than what the N-Scale car had. I added the capacity for each compartment and all the lettering along the frame and lower portion of the tank as well as the end of car data. The blue was a mix of Tamiya paints. I finished the car with a brown artist oil wash and then used Tamiya Dark Brown panel line wash as a pin wash. I did not want to go to heavy with any of the weathering. Just enhance the car. WRNX_TANKCAR_14502_WEATHERED_01 by Brian Banna, on Flickr I have a few more nostalgic cars on my list to do. These cars are a lot of fun to recreate. Brian
|
|
|
Post by stevef45 on Sept 16, 2019 6:05:47 GMT -8
These cars I finished last year when I started my Club Runner series. Then I took a break to work on some EJ&E stuff. Now back on this series. NYSW_BOXCAR_505_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr Nice job on that susie q boxcar.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2019 4:28:41 GMT -8
After about two months of procrastinating, I finally finished my three Bowser C&EI cement hoppers. I do not know why it took so long to get them done. I replaced the trucks with Kato 70 ton trucks. They were painted to match the car body color with True Color Paint C&EI Freight Car Brown (TCP-189). The cars were weathered with a series of thin washes and finished with a pin wash using Tamiya dark brown panel line wash. On a couple cars I tried to apply some heavy pigments to represent spilled cement. It did not look natural at all so I cleaned it off which left a good light gray streaking effect. The third car was just finished with a pin wash. The color saturation in the photo makes the couplers look greenish. They are not. They are brown. On a side note. Has anyone had any issues with the factory workers being a little to aggressive with putting in the truck screws? On these three models, the bolster posts were mushroomed. I had to clean them up to get the new trucks on. I also had to open the holes in the Kato trucks. The diameter was a lot smaller than the post. CEI_COVERED_HOPPER_80001_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr CEI_COVERED_HOPPER_80002_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr CEI_COVERED_HOPPER_80014_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr Brian
|
|
|
Post by nebrzephyr on Oct 2, 2019 7:45:36 GMT -8
Nice job on those Brian.
Bob
|
|
|
Post by csxt8400 on Oct 2, 2019 9:46:20 GMT -8
I like the varied effects that give each car a slightly non-uniform appearance. Definitely something that us weatherers need to keep on top of.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 6:38:10 GMT -8
Another car done. I do not believe the EJ&E had 4-bay hoppers like this. This car is another part of my nostalgic series where I recreate cars I had in N-scale. I did do the same road number as the N-scale car, but my distressing the decals just looked like a crappy decal job. I stripped the car and redid it all. So it got a different road number. This is an old Athearn Blue Box car. Inside the end cages was rebuilt using styrene angle. All the brake gear was replaced with Accurail brake parts. The brake wheel (which you cannot see in this photo) is by Kadee and the trucks are kato 70 ton. The last thing I did was to remove the cast on side wire supports and add them back with brass wire. The little bit of work really enhanced the car a lot. I also removed the weights at each end under the slope sheet and filled it all in with styrene. Weight was added back to the inside of the car under the coal load. The car was painted using Stynylrez primer black. Then a clear coat of Alclad Aqua Gloss. Decals are my own design and printed at Highball Graphics. The CHICAGO OUTER BELT LINE logo was scaled off a prototype photo. The weathering was a simple few coats of dirty brown artist oil wash. The load is crushed coal glued over a plastic load. EJE_HOPPER_70064_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr Brian
|
|
|
Post by Colin 't Hart on Oct 7, 2019 0:43:07 GMT -8
Really nice, Brian!
|
|
|
Post by kpack on Oct 7, 2019 9:49:34 GMT -8
Brian - I have some old blue box cars from when I was growing up that I've detailed and weathered, solely for nostalgia's sake. There's something about them that keeps old memories alive.
I like what you've done with these cars. Not everything needs to be hyper-detailed and prototypically accurate to enjoy the hobby. As much as I like detailing and such, sometimes it's just nice to pick up a cheap car and weather for fun. So many ways to enjoy the hobby.
-Kevin
|
|
|
Post by milgentrains on Oct 7, 2019 10:17:25 GMT -8
Brian - I have some old blue box cars from when I was growing up that I've detailed and weathered, solely for nostalgia's sake. There's something about them that keeps old memories alive. I like what you've done with these cars. Not everything needs to be hyper-detailed and prototypically accurate to enjoy the hobby. As much as I like detailing and such, sometimes it's just nice to pick up a cheap car and weather for fun. So many ways to enjoy the hobby. -Kevin BRAVO! With my eyes I'm finding that working with blue box cars is the way to go. I have some high end cars but to be honest I really can't see all the superdetailing that is there.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 4:48:39 GMT -8
Thanks for the nice words. I do appreciate it.
I am done chasing the prototype rabbit. I am done with RPM. I do not care anymore about high fidelity models for myself. My focus and interest in the hobby has changed and I'll leave the crusade for better models to the younger generation that cares about it. I am getting more done now with this kind of modeling that I ever did with prototype modeling. The great thing about my change is that I can buy about 10 older RTR models for about the price of 1 current high end model and those 10 models do not sit on the shelf in their boxes waiting to never be used.
You are right Kevin. There is something about the older cars that draw my attention more than the current high end cars.
My next project are five AHM Flexi-Flo hoppers. I am adding a body mounted draft gear box. Because I will be removing the truck mounted couplers and putting correct 100 ton trucks under them. I have to replace the bolsters. Interestingly, when this car was designed. One bolster is taller than the other. I'll remove the plumbing from one side of the car and I will cut the trough hatches off and add new hatches. I got some of the hatches from Spring Mills. Probably not the correct hatches, but the closest I could find to the round hatches used on the car. The signature hand grabs at each corner of the car need to be done so I'll bend the wire for this and I will add a better looking brake wheel. I'll dress the cars up in NYC garb.
While doing the above AHM cars, I will get another quick car done this week. An Accurail Atlanta & West Point boxcar.
Brian
|
|
|
Post by brakie on Oct 8, 2019 5:16:42 GMT -8
Brian, I agree. There is something about those older cars that has charm. The AHM PS 1 boxcar and the PS2 covered hopper was not bad looking cars for there time. I had several of those Jack Frost PS2 CH that I body mounted the couplers and used CV trucks on. I also changed numbers I had two PS1 Atlantic & Danville and West India Fruit & Steamship boxcars that received the same treatment as the CHs.
I dunno but, it seems I had a lot of fun back then improving my cars even if it was no more then changing out tracks from "rolls don't hardly" trucks to freerolling CV and later to Lindbergh trucks or Athearn RP25 trucks.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 11:18:37 GMT -8
This one was easy. Straight out of the box Accurail A&WP 40' boxcar. First thing was to assemble and paint the underframe black. Next was to apply a clear flat to the entire car. I let the clear dry for a few days and then a simple two coats of a thin dark brown wash followed by a pin wash using Tamiya Dark Brown Panel Line Wash. AWP_BOXCAR_38022_WEATHERED by Brian Banna, on Flickr Brian
|
|
|
Post by fr8kar on Oct 12, 2019 11:34:46 GMT -8
I love those Tamiya panel line washes. They're great for actual panel lines but work well in a number of other uses, too.
|
|
|
Post by grahamline on Oct 12, 2019 11:51:24 GMT -8
We have a 30x60 club layout with 800 feet of main- and branch-lines with about 800 freight cars available. Our focus is our monthly operating sessions and a mainline train is generally 25 to 30 cars long. Projects like these are right on target for us, good enough to look at and close enough to reality to be out there running.
A bonus is that our operators, some of whom are model builders and some of whom are not, treat the cars with more respect. Slot-car running has disappeared and people pay more attention to getting routes lined up. Our interaction with the trains comes from a couple of feet away, except for switching moves. We have detail hounds who worry about rivet patterns etc., but they don't bring it up during an op session.
We try to get things right (several railroaders in the crowd) but we've learned not to sweat the small stuff. It's fun to build a 100% correct model. No doubt. But I guess we'd rather be operating than wait for all 800 cars to reach that point.
|
|
|
Post by grahamline on Oct 12, 2019 11:55:05 GMT -8
Tamiya Dark Brown Panel Line Wash is a real convenience, but it isn't hard to mix and thin your own acrylic to create a similar wash. Road grime on the UP in Idaho is different than road grime on the Penn Central in Ohio, even if some of the cars may travel from one to the other. One of the biggest battles is getting a fine matte undercoat so the wash flows well and builds up along the panel lines.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 20:49:16 GMT -8
Tamiya Dark Brown Panel Line Wash is a real convenience, but it isn't hard to mix and thin your own acrylic to create a similar wash. Road grime on the UP in Idaho is different than road grime on the Penn Central in Ohio, even if some of the cars may travel from one to the other. One of the biggest battles is getting a fine matte undercoat so the wash flows well and builds up along the panel lines. If you want the wash to flow along the panel line, you do not want a matte finish. You want a semi-gloss finish or even a little closer to gloss. A matte finish will allow the wash to spread. I want my wash here to spread and stain the surface so I put a matte clear first. Brian
|
|
|
Post by brakie on Oct 13, 2019 2:12:08 GMT -8
Brian, Another great looking boxcar.. I need to try those Tamiya pins.. I like the results.
|
|
|
Post by gevohogger on Nov 5, 2020 13:59:19 GMT -8
What happened to the pictures?
|
|
|
Post by fishbelly on Nov 5, 2020 14:21:07 GMT -8
They will be back up soon. I have to load them into my new flicker account. I keep getting distracted with working on projects and playing WoT. I try to put in my account a couple a day at least and then I forgot.
|
|
|
Post by fishbelly on Nov 11, 2020 9:48:51 GMT -8
|
|