This is an N scale model of a 72-C-3 Coach built in 1925 by Pullman after the Harriman era but using similar design. I used J&J etched brass sides on a Model Power coach with a cast resin roof. The trucks are Microtrains and I used Gold Metal Models step boxes. Accuflex paint and custom decals. I can only get Microscale SP deals in gold and not Dulux like I need.
Very nice, as per usual. I have some decals left over from WOT baggage cars that are a different color than the MS decals that I have. Are the WOT decals Dulux? Ben
The next locomotive to join my logging/mining railroad fleet, a Bachmann 4-4-0. Going to detail this one as best as possible. Not a bad runner, but very fast. NGineers will have to watch the throttle!
Recently I completed this rotary snowplow. It's my first attempt at airbrush weathering (with some dry brushing as well). I need to work on my rust color but overall it came out OK. It's an old Athearn with a scrap tender. The decals are from RailGraphics. George V.
Very nice, George V.! The rust color looks excellent on my expensive, calibrated monitor, but not so good on my cheaper off-brand "tools" monitor, which is impossible to calibrate correctly. So just do what looks right to your eye!
A PRR L1-s Mikado kitbashed from a generic Kato Mikado using a GHQ pewter kit. There is a Lok-Sound decoder and speaker in the tender. Z scale couplers are mounted on the front pilot of the steamer and body mounted on the tender. The steamer and tender were airbrushed a Prussian Green. The steamer and tender still have to be weathered. The siderods and drivers were blackened with Neolube # 2. The tender also needs a coal load.
Here's my contribution this week. The ship dwarfs the roadway and railways behind it, but it's not totally gargantuan. Ships are "airy" for most of their length. The hull "snuggles" down in the harbor, so I have a lot of posts, beams, and rigging for most of it's length. It's on a shelf about 5 inches wide. I've left the edge visible at the lower left, so you can see it doesn't take much width. Fitting the superstructure takes some patience. The main deck is curved in two dimensions--bow to stern and side to side. The front of the superstructure is also curved. Errors multiply rapidly! Rigging this behemoth was a nightmare. I stopped about halfway through--no one could see the difference.
Hello all, Really nice photos from everyone. It's been a long time in posting but I do look in from time to time as I can. I am going to share a picture tonight as I am excited about this unit. RSD-5 in SP Bloody Nose. Now this one won't sit in the display case, I am going to run this one. The lights are super.
Russell Great looking car! OC Engineer JD Nice steamers! George V Cool looking rotary snowplow! Bob Great looking PRR Steamer! Pete Great looking ship! Chad Sweet looking loco!
india ink weathering well here are two models that I used an india ink wash on for the very first time.
Looks like a super beginning to WPF. I return to gray scale in this image of two NYC steamers at Seneca Sub Yard.
I really don't know. The only Wheels of Time car I have, an older resin kit, came with white to be applied to a two tone gray paint scheme. I painted it green instead so used my own Dulux deals.
I always enjoy this thread every week! Such great work from so many modelers, maybe one day I'll get around to laying some scenery work. But it will never be as good as any of yours. Got a new camera and a new loco, an OMI EMD SD60 leased to Oakway, so if no one objects, heres the pic. I had just got through re-assembling it, had to put in real lights and add weight to it. You'd think as much as these cost, they'd have real lights and enough weight to pull something with, lol. HERES A LINK TO A EXTREMELY LARGE IMAGE, but I think probably my best pic ever.
I'm on a business trip, so no new photos.... so here's one from last May 2007: By the way, anyone have any good recommendations for hobby shops or railfanning in Seoul, Korea, or in Tokyo?
