Weekend Update 5/14/17

[fcnrwy23]

Big buoys like that are not generally seen in rivers. You find them well off shore or in large harbors. Rivers will usually have flat day marks of the appropriate size and color on pilings. Those would make great loads on a barge or flatcar however.

You maybe correct!
But, according to the feedback from our membership.  (a club, you must remember!).  The general consensus is that the port IS a Large Port.
And I AM tasked with making this WORK!!

Jerry G.

[Dave V]

Non-N Scale Warning!!!

More progress is made on my modified IHC Rico depot.  Additions include proper RGS eve brackets from Grandt Line, Campbell shingles on the second story (and eventually on the whole roof), and paint and detail per the 1940s (including arranging the curtains per 1940s and the different colored shingles on the dormer and south end post-1936 fire).

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[OldEastRR]

With the DCC work, pretty much completed.  The scenery is moving full speed ahead.

Matteford Paper...

Jerry G.

A plant painted all one color, including outbuildings, is something that happens in the real world. But the perception problem here is the green is too uniformly green everywhere. Our eyes expect to see variations, no matter how subtle, in the shades of green in different places. In this case you could paint one or more buildings completely with a lighter, faded version of green -- the plant is repainting everything but not all the buildings are done yet. And you can spray very light touches of white (or lighter green) downwards from  the top of walls leaving the lower sections untouched, to represent the more weathering that happens to higher surfaces than lower ones. Smokestacks and vents would have the opposite look -- the paint gets darker the farther up the stack you go, from all the heat and/or chemical vapors its exposed to. And a light dusting with ground up black chalk added to everything would highlight some texture here and there. Nothing like black streaks or smudges, just enough to catch in some of the rough parts of the walls/roofs. 

[nkalanaga]

John:  "   :  monkey, ape; also :  any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of primates that includes monkeys, apes, and humans" was basically the definition I saw on Wikipedia. 

That's why I was asking, I know we have humans and at least one orangutan, but what else do we have?  I'm semi-serious, as I can almost see some parrots posting here.  They can have the language skills of a 5 year old child, and could certainly work a keyboard.

[Missaberoad]

That's why I was asking, I know we have humans and at least one orangutan, but what else do we have?  I'm semi-serious, as I can almost see some parrots posting here.  They can have the language skills of a 5 year old child, and could certainly work a keyboard.

I'm sure some would say some of us are Jackasses posing here... 

Ba dum tss... 

[C855B]

... the perception problem here is the green is too uniformly green everywhere. Our eyes expect to see variations, no matter how subtle, in the shades of green in different places. ...

Actually... that deep a green in paints suitable for industrial buildings (that is, cheap enough) would sun-fade in a few months. And it would be uneven, of course, depending on how much sun exposure there is or isn't in any given spot. Sure, you can use the JD green formulated for vehicles and the color would last, but at 10X the cost, or more, of an industrial building paint.

But even expensive paints like Imron are not immune. Look how badly BN's green faded through the years, causing no end of teeth-gnashing by modelers attempting to be accurate, and sparking many a debate over the "correct" BN green.

FWIW.

[Point353]

I just did a screen print of the mentioned page. (33 CFR 118.65)

33 CFR 118.85 applies to vertical lift bridges.
See page 6: https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg551/Lighting.pdf

[Kentuckian]

33 CFR 118.85 applies to vertical lift bridges.
See page 6: https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg551/Lighting.pdf

You are correct; I did not go deep enough into the document.

[Lemosteam]

Let's try this again...
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[bman]

Tough act to follow that's some amazing work Lemosteam.  I did manage to apply some decals this weekend.  Now for the number boards and a top coat.  Oh, and I also managed to work on some other hobby stuff too.  I see one of the gaming figures managed to photo bomb the picture.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Running the Camden Pavonia Yard is not for the faint of heart, it is a very busy place,....

You mean, NOT because of the crossfire and crackheads?

[strummer]

Non-N Scale Warning!!!

More progress is made on my modified IHC Rico depot.  Additions include proper RGS eve brackets from Grandt Line, Campbell shingles on the second story (and eventually on the whole roof), and paint and detail per the 1940s (including arranging the curtains per 1940s and the different colored shingles on the dormer and south end post-1936 fire).

That's coming along nicely. Although Campbell shingles have been around forever, they still look great.

Mark in Oregon

[up1950s]

Let's try this again...
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That works . Holy cow , another bar setting effort .

[VonRyan]

You mean, NOT because of the crossfire and crackheads?

That all came after the era Rick models. Things really went to he11-in-a-handbasket in 1969 and 1971 when the whole city erupted into riots. During one of them, the city wear tear-gassed from helicopters. My father's family had moved out a few months before that particular riot, and returned to collect the last of their belongings the day after the gassing, but tear-gas was still heavy in the air. Their house had been the target of firebombing by the rioters, but the chicken-wire that had been nailed over the windows caused the firebombs to bounce back into the yard.

[Cajonpassfan]

Let's try this again...
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  Very nice!
How thick is the stainless etch?
Otto K.