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Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« on: May 10, 2009, 09:53:13 AM »
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It was Gondola Week here...


I started with this more or less stock Micro Trains car, complete with high rise lift kits from the factory.  The load is a rebar load I made using some stranded wire.  I modified it by completely cutting the floor out of the MT shell, and lowering it over the frame to get a more proto ride height.



I also weathered it with some acrylic washes.  To replace the floor, I used some v-groove styrene sheet from Evergreen, and used acrylic craft paints to weather it to look like beat up old wood.



I also lettered up this LBF car for my "home road" the Laurel Valley.



It's weathered lightly with an airbrush, and I added Fox Valley wheelsets.  This got a similar floor treatment to the N&W car above.

What's on your workbench?

Lee
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2009, 10:01:59 AM »
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Nice gon's Lee .

Beaver Logging Company gets some tanks






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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2009, 11:06:55 AM »
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Nice work gents - as always !

Finally finished the windows and shades on the 2200 series coach - what a job that was !

Here she is in service.....



I also finished another custom decal trailer and a CP Rail flat with rub rails....



Van Kam is a B.C. trucking firm (Vancouver -Kamloops) and can be seen to this day all over Canada.

Here she is on a flat with another friend....



So, what's next ? 8)
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 11:11:37 AM »
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Kind of busy myself ..

A rough in for some scenery .. will probably put a small village, mine activity here




The current mine..





And a rough in for the lumber mill



Near the mine .







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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2009, 11:23:27 AM »
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Just finished the last of these 3 Z scale cars (the boxcar) for a client on thursday.(shamoo)







and this one for me



I have 3 more of these to finish up.

Lee, nice to see you applying the old custom/hotrod trick of channeling the body over the frame to lower a car,I never thought of doing that to freightcars. ;D Looks good.
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2009, 11:42:35 AM »
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Got a couple of L1's in the works one I started years ago but gave up on the other one I have had for awhile and just wanted to get done.

I am doing two styles one with modern front end and one the older front end have alot of details to put on yet but they are coming out alright.






Allen.....
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2009, 11:48:15 AM »
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A westbound growls upgrade toward Afton on the door layout (with help from photoshop ;)).



Besides that, I'm leaving for the U.K. with my family on Monday so I'll be away from the comp' for a while.
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2009, 11:59:28 AM »
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Quote from: envirodude on May 10, 2009, 11:48:15 AM
A westbound growls upgrade toward Afton on the door layout (with help from photoshop ;)).

Wow. Just wow.
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2009, 01:00:29 PM »
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I see the B&O between Brunswick and Sandy Hook.  A two lane road, some houses and businesses, and maybe even a C&O canal treatment on the aisle side.  A good opportunity to get some Preiser bicyclists, and some naked campers!

Lee
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2009, 01:46:26 PM »
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Well, my week was taken up with doctor and hospital visits. I now have a Prussian Junker dueling scar on my left cheek instead of a mole where someone stabbed my with a pencil in first grade.

Worse this week, I have to be at Bay Medical at 5:30 AM Tuesday for surgery to stop fluid accumulating on my right lung.  :(  If this works, then I face thyroid surgery. Alas, one pays for burning the candle at both ends earler in life.  :'(
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2009, 02:06:12 PM »
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Quote from: 3rdrail on May 10, 2009, 01:46:26 PM
Well, my week was taken up with doctor and hospital visits. I now have a Prussian Junker dueling scar on my left cheek instead of a mole where someone stabbed my with a pencil in first grade.

Worse this week, I have to be at Bay Medical at 5:30 AM Tuesday for surgery to stop fluid accumulating on my right lung.  :(  If this works, then I face thyroid surgery. Alas, one pays for burning the candle at both ends earler in life.  :'(

I wish you the best of results and findings . As my Father used to say once he reached 70 or so , " You have to be tough to be old " , speaking of aches and worse . This from a guy that prided himself on never wincing or bellyaching at life's bad side .
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2009, 07:35:13 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2009, 09:56:09 AM »
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This weekend, I cut the rails so my drop gate would function, built two more #7 turnouts, and laid some additional track in the staging yard.

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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2009, 01:00:32 PM »
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I'm too lazy to post pics, I blogged it this morning at work.  ;D

http://trainboard.com/grapevine/blog.php?b=1695
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Re: Weekend Update 5-10-2009
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2009, 03:37:47 PM »
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That Clarksville depot looks alarmingly like a WM east sub depot....
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