Weekend Update 3/13/11

[up1950s]

What's shakin' this week folks ?

[up1950s]

UP 1243 now goes into the paint shop.
 

 

[Bsklarski]

Well last week....started to lay track. Tonight and tomorrow, much more will get done (hopefully)

[CBQ Fan]

UP 1243 now goes into the paint shop.
 

 

Richie, Looking great!  If Kato had a 4-6-4 I would asking for a quote on a custom CB&Q model!  Keep the pictures coming!

[conrail98]

I finished my helix base:



and finished the last piece of benchwork to connect the peninsula with the wall-mounted benchwork:



I'm going to try and get the front-bracing all done tonight or tomorrow and then it's on to running bus wires,

Phil

[DKS]

In homage to the man:
 

[Zox]

I've been playing with my Silhouette cutter, with a very specific target, namely the upstream portion of this wall:

[wcfn100]

I don't think I posted the finished Havelock baggage drawing.



I don't think I ever showed my tower from Silhouette either.



I still need to square the edges on the tower.  The walls warped pretty bad and with the windows cut out, I pretty much need a fixture of some sort to keep everything square for gluing.

I've been fitting my SD-7 chop nose to the drive I just got.  Once you break down the atlas shell into smaller pieces, you start to find a lot of slop and flash that keeps things from staying flat or lined up.  :-\


Jason


Jason

[BCR 570]

Today saw a new locomotive and ten new freight cars added to my fleet.  I finished detailing these RTR models a few weeks ago and my friend Jeff Briggs applied the weathering for me.

First up is the Atlas ALCO C-420 632, which was my first attempt to detail and touch up a ready-to-run locomotive:






Next is one of two forty foot RTR boxcars from Intermountain.  This is a 4001-4072 series boxcar in the Pacific Great Eastern map herald scheme.  These cars served the grain elevators at Dawson Creek:




This is one of two 4601-4642 series newsprint cars from True-Line Trains also in the map herald scheme.  These cars were used in veneer service on the north end:




BCOL 4700 is one of three cars from the subsequent 4651-4750 series which has been repainted into the British Columbia Railway dogwood logogram scheme:




BCOL 1227 is not exactly a new model - I built it years ago but it fell to the floor and broke in half.  I managed to resurrect it and it is pictured here with a lumber load from Details N Scale:




With so many new models joining the fleet, it was time to take them for a test run!  Here is 632 leading the new cars across the Pine River bridge:




C-630M 701 has gone to the paint shop, and I have started work on two M-630 locomotives to run with it.


Tim

[ArtinCA]

Got a shorty baggage car cut down for the tourist train...



It's now stripped down and getting it's green paint to match the rest..

[Chris333]

Lightened backdrop and a few trees:

[Dave Schneider]

Very nice Chris! That came together very well and the photos themselves are great. What do you use for lighting?

Best wishes, Dave

[dwyaneward]

Work on  the staging area, test fitted track. Waiting on supplies to finish this area.

[up1950s]

Yeah Chris , looking good .

[seusscaboose]

Arrived in Denmark on business.  Rode a train from Copenhagen to Kolding watching windmills and countryside whiz by.

EP