Sunday photo fun 1/30/2022

[TBird1958]

 

 Work etc. has been keeping me pretty busy, had a little time to shoot some pics inside this morning before heading out to the salt mine.


A repainted Scaletrains F68 CH 

  

Repainted Scaletrains F68 DH 

    


A pair of Rapido SP B100-40s, with 'fixed" waffles, super easy, glad I went ahead and did them both. 

Have a great Sunday!

Mark Hills 

 

 
 

[simulatortrain]

What is the waffle fix?

This week I modeled and printed an SCL 100 ton Barber S-2:

[fr8kar]

Impressive fix on those waffles! Adam, great minds think alike? That looks great. Been working on trucks here, too.

I printed these National swing motion trucks years ago through Shapeways and those prints still hold up well today. But once Tangent made their rotating bearing wheelsets available I had to try this variation out. It works great. I could barely keep them on the table when I was taking the photos because they wanted to roll away. The Rockwell trucks are next on my list, along with some Mark IV RoadRailers now that I can utilize these wheels.









I've also been developing some Fruehauf flatbed trailers. All my paints are put away so please forgive the Krylon bomb finish. These are printed with voids for the wood deck which is cut and scribed 0.030" styrene, though 0.032" thick basswood or balsa would work, too. The white one is kind of a kludge since it has an early suspension and a late bumper, but for a test print it doesn't matter. The oxide trailer has a sliding tandem suspension (it's removable and positionable, it doesn't actually slide). I attached the deck parts with tacky glue so I can remove them and weather them when I get my stuff unpacked again. Having them be separate pieces definitely makes it easy to paint the "wood" and "metal" parts.

[simulatortrain]

Man Ryan, I really can't wait until all this stuff you've been showing is available!

[nsc39d8]

Adam,

Between you and Ryan both of you are going to end up hitting me hard when a lot of these item come available.
I know several things Ryan is still working on that have my interest, specially his cab kits for GE's.

[TBird1958]

Jan 30, 2022 9:56:45 GMT -8 simulatortrain said:

What is the waffle fix?



 I shaved them completely off with a 3mm Hasegawa chisel which only took a couple minutes, shaped a length of .015x.040 styrene in simple jig, this gives the beveled edge. Cut the pieces to the correct length and beveled the ends on some 2K automotive paper, taped them to an index card and shot them with some TCP Rich Oxide Red. Glued them to the car, taped off the panal and shot a thinned out color wash at it. Glossed the whole model, decalled the COTS plates, glossed the model, dullcoted, weathered with a wash of MIG Track Rust and dullcoted again. Sounds like a lot but once I figured out how to do it, thing went very quickly. 

Shaved waffles 
  

Styrene in a simple jig, this allowed me to pull the backside of a #11 down its length, flip it and repeat.  
 

Beveled the ends on some 2K grit.
  


   

[12bridge]

Was able to measure and photograph the prototype bumpers for my carfloat last week, so I drew them up and printed them.  






Same with the bridge hooks: 


Also drew up and printed a Benson Electric 20HP Capstan. 

[jako]

Moin

The new Truck Models from Brekina

[Funnelfan]

Saw this Woodland Scenics barbed wire fence kit at the local hobby shop the other day. So I bought it to install around the signal interlocking at West River City as a right-of-way fence on the River City Western RR (River City Modelers in Spokane, WA). This is a great looking kit that offers a lot of possibilities. The kit has about 2' of fence with a pair of wire gates and extra posts and bracing corner posts. I made a couple jogs in the fence around the signal installation. I added bracing at the jogs as well around the wire gate. I can think of a lot of other places on the layout where we can use a ROW fence. Next task is to weather and beat up the MOW truck and add tools and supplies to the bed, and add some MOW workers.

[Funnelfan]

Running the Coal Train on the River City Western with three Oakway SD60 locomotives. Shown at the mine, air testing the train at Cedar Springs and then crossing the steel lattice arch bridge over Whiskey Creek.

[ChessieFan1978]

Sunrise at the Yard
New by Matthew Fisher, on Flickr

[csxt8400]

Looks good, all. Loving the 3D printed stuff, can't wait to order a few of those SCL trucks from you Adam. Trailers are looking superb, Ryan! I have nothing but Adobe screenshots to post so I'll save it for another time.

[Gino Damen]

This spring the first US model convention is finally going to happen (if Covid keeps it heads down).

We (Fremo US Netherlands) are also invited to setup a modular layout. But a lot of mine modules are a bit lacking in the detailing on the greenery to the current standards. Not strange when most of them were build and sceniced almost 10 years ago.

Today the assortment of static grasses is grown and mine old Noch Grassmaster can't handle the longer fibres. So after 10 years it was time to get a new static grass applicator a RTS Greenkeeper 35kV. In comparison, the Noch is approx. 10 kV. With the RTS the static grass, also the longer ones, are applied without any problem.

So I started working on the modules. I added glue around the excisting greenery and added a blend of 2 mm (beige), 4 mm (yellow and beige) and 6 mm (shades of green wild grasses) fibers from Heki. The fibers are mixed using an electric coffee grinder. The fibers aren’t cut by the grinder but just mixed and made fluffy.

Adding grass using a Greenkeeper 35kv by G.Damen, on Flickr

I don’t want to make the whole landscape looking like an carpet so the glue isn’t covering everything. The next step is to add random dots of glue and add an additional layer with only longer fibers (6 and 12 mm) on top. When dry those will be lightly brushed with glue and dusted with fine turf to create small foliage.

[mvlandsw]

Jan 30, 2022 11:09:48 GMT -8 TBird1958 said:

Jan 30, 2022 9:56:45 GMT -8 simulatortrain said:

What is the waffle fix?



 I shaved them completely off with a 3mm Hasegawa chisel which only took a couple minutes, shaped a length of .015x.040 styrene in simple jig, this gives the beveled edge. Cut the pieces to the correct length and beveled the ends on some 2K automotive paper, taped them to an index card and shot them with some TCP Rich Oxide Red. Glued them to the car, taped off the panal and shot a thinned out color wash at it. Glossed the whole model, decalled the COTS plates, glossed the model, dullcoted, weathered with a wash of MIG Track Rust and dullcoted again. Sounds like a lot but once I figured out how to do it, thing went very quickly. 

Shaved waffles 
  

Styrene in a simple jig, this allowed me to pull the backside of a #11 down its length, flip it and repeat.  
 

Beveled the ends on some 2K grit.
  


   

What number True Color Paint did you use? I can't find any Rich Oxide Red in their listings. It looks to be a good match. Could it be TCP 082 Rich Oxide Brown?

Thanks,

Mark Vinski

[TBird1958]

Mark,

Yes, you're correct it's TCP082, check out TCP093 as well, both are very close to the model's original gloss finish.

Best,
Mark Hills

[stevef45]

Got another NJ Transit GP40PH-2B nearly done this week. Handrails were painted black and will be attached this weekend. Orange paint will be applied where necessary on them and the steps along with the correct colors for hep/mu receptacles. I'll be adding the leds this weekend to so hopefully i'll be able to fully assemble the shells so they look complete. There are just loosely assembled in the pics.
20220203_164449 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
Also painted CSX SD50 2488
20220203_103515 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20220203_105325 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr
20220203_124547 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr