Weekend Update 2/9/14

[VonRyan]

It's the particular artist's name that he goes by.
He is known to abbreviate it as "ICH" and also will use "ICH!".

[MEC_FAN]

Haven't posted anything for awhile but have been working on the layout a lot. The last couple of weeks I have been doing some scenery and a lot of ballasting of Waterville Yard.
From the east end

801 and 802 headed to the house

From the west end.

Looking from west end.

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Working on detailing my streets. What do you guys think of them?

Hey Miles!
Good to see you and your work here.
Groovy tar lines, and I like the newer street in the background (or is it still awaiting treatment?)

Isn't this your Oakland 3rd street module?
(The Horribly Oversized one  )

It's ok to post HO stuff here too, just usually people indicate any scale other than N.
Just as in a perfect world, any modeling we see here on this Weekend Update we assume to be "N for Normal" 

Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff!

[Wardie]

Haven't posted anything for awhile but have been working on the layout a lot. The last couple of weeks I have been doing some scenery and a lot of ballasting of Waterville Yard.
From the east end

801 and 802 headed to the house

From the west end.

Looking from west end.

Very Nice!

[Puddington]

Just got back home from the Copetown, Ont. train show where I met George Irwin, author of the Unofficial Micro Trains report an Canadian freight car expert Chris vanderHeide (CV_ACR), both of whom are first rate fellows - always nice to put a face to a name !

[railnerd]

Got a good start on Pier 52 for China Basin:



This will become part of a 12" x 42" Free-moN module; and yes MC that does fit in the Mini Cooper Clubman.

More updates here: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=31751.msg359412#msg359412

[Zox]

I'm finally getting some work done on my Kankakee station project.

Here's a sample of layers 2-4 (of six) of the laminated sandwich that will make up the walls, cut from 0.005" styrene on my Silhouette cutter:



Layer 1 will be the window "glass"; layers 5 and 6 will be a printed "color" layer over cardstock to form the outer brick wall.

It looks like a couple of the radial muntins in the oval window failed, but that shouldn't be too noticeable once they're in their final dark gray color against the glass.

[dougnelson]

In progress shot of my new D70bR diner.  Someone broke up the brass 1938 Broadway set and was able to get the one car I wanted from the set on ebay - the diner.  #4420 was built in Altoona in 1910 and returned to Altoona with three other diners to be rebuilt for the (almost) all new 1938 Broadway Limited.  Ramond Lowey designed the diner's interior.  Within a year, new lightweight diners were built for the Broadway and 4420 and its sisters were assigned to PRR's diner pool and assigned to other PRR trains until scrapping in 1961.

The car came with a bad decal job, so I removed the decals and repainted the car.  New decals and a car interior where done this weekend.  Work still to be done includes glazing, window shades, diaphragms, and final clearcoat and weathering.

[NYNE]

A few years back I tried my hand at painting my own graffiti and the first one I chose was an Ichabod car that I photographed on a siding in Medfield, Mass. From what I understand, he was from eastern New England somewhere and painted a lot of cars in this area. He used to paint skulls for awhile too. I used ink to paint the car. I didn't love the way it came out, but it was close to the prototype.
This is a second car I tried to paint up based on a prototype photo along with my Bay Colony RS-1. I photographed these cars on the Bay Colony's siding in Medfield:

[Alwyn Cutmore]

Hi Doug,



Saw that car there and thought about it but decided against it. Too many other things to do. I finally got my BM70Ks to-day so will need to spend somee time looking at them and working out what I am going to do with them. More than enough. Great acquisition.

Regards

Al

[The Beer Baron]

I took a look at that transpressnz.blogspot.com site listed on your header image and came across this post about a book that some of us my find interesting. Or maybe it's old news.

New book on Alco locomotives

[conrail98]

I finally got the benchwork and layout cleaned up to the extent it was before I used it for shelving way back for Sandy. This combined with cleaning up the other side of the basement, I started cutting up some plywood strips I had for the sub roadbed and have my masonite up against the walls ready to be screwed into the studs for the backdrop. Then I started the inventory of all my rolling stock since I have changed focus about 10 times in the last 4 years, I know I'm going to have to jettison some of my rolling stock and pick up others. Also got all the turnouts I need for my staging yard, which is where I'll start track work, i.e., if I screw up there, it's a staging yard and can be redone. That's the end-of-month goal for now,

Phil

[mmagliaro]

Working on detailing my streets. What do you guys think of them?

I think they look great.  Not just the cracks, but the faded white lines and letting, and the gentle "hump"
as the crown of the road.  Very few people bother to model that.

[Dave Schneider]

I'm finally getting some work done on my Kankakee station project.

Here's a sample of layers 2-4 (of six) of the laminated sandwich that will make up the walls, cut from 0.005" styrene on my Silhouette cutter:



Layer 1 will be the window "glass"; layers 5 and 6 will be a printed "color" layer over cardstock to form the outer brick wall.

It looks like a couple of the radial muntins in the oval window failed, but that shouldn't be too noticeable once they're in their final dark gray color against the glass.

Looking good! What adhesive did you use to laminate the layers?

Best wishes, Dave

[Zox]

Looking good! What adhesive did you use to laminate the layers?

Thanks! I used Plastruct Weldene, but instead of brushing it directly onto the pieces I brushed it onto a sponge applicator first:

http://www.staples.com/Staples-Envelope-Moistener/product_160788

...and used the sponge to "stamp" the back of the plastic pieces. This made it a bit easier to apply a consistent layer of solvent.

I was a bit worried that I'd end up chemically melting the thin styrene, but so far that's not been an issue, either during glue-up or during subsequent painting with Rustoleum black primer.