Weekend Update 5/29/16

[mopacaustin]

Been working on redevelopment of Wentachee on the B side of the 2x4 layout. It's coming along
slow but sure.

Photo doesn't seem to work for me

[chuck geiger]

Worked on sedium trees as well. Bob Followfield is right. You need to bind 4-5 of the sprigs together with a clamp
or clothespin and run white glues in and among the trunks, this will cover the multiple trunks and look like one
big one and then paint. Using http://www.sceneryexpress.com/products.asp?dept=1126 6mm California Gold
Static Grass with homemade fly swatter static applicator. Got the idea of the grass close to the rails from Followfield
from his superb layout.

[nkalanaga]

Chuck:  Looks nice and dry.  Watch out for fire season!

[Specter3]

As the first tropical system of the season moves in and soccer is officially over I have some modeling time once again.







All of these are foobish but rule 1 applies.





Also have the last downtown building for my 1920 module under construction in the background.

[Hamaker]

Chuck:  It's looking great !  The dry grass is outstanding !

[bbussey]

Got test shots back from Shapeways of MTL coupler pockets for the Fleischmann Rc2 (eventual AEM-7) and the Kato GG-1. Since I will be performing engine changes in New Haven, I need reliable functionality on the magnetic uncoupling.

[Dave V]

Took a break from the Colorado Midland for some Pennsy fun today.

Before and after... Red Caboose 42' flatcars lettered as PRR class FM.



I used craft paints primarily...  Folk Art paint from Hobby Lobby.  "Country Twill" for the deck (with some other random grays and browns on individual planks) and then a thin wash of Americana "Soft Black" (which is essentially a very dark grayish-brown) covered everything.  The trucks and couplers were hit with fine rattle-can mists of Floquil Rail Brown and Rustoleum Weathered Wood.  The wheel faces were painted PolyScale Railroad Tie Brown, and lastly the MTL "glad hands" were coated with Neolube.

[mmagliaro]

Looks like one of my summer “train projects” will be to clear the garage so that I can get a car into it. One of the impediments is 55+ years of stored train magazines (mostly Model Railroader) dating back to 1958. What a trip down memory lane this is, since naturally I will want to scan them for keepers (both magazines and articles).

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Memory lane indeed.  Even for someone like me, who wasn't born until the 1960s....   I pick up old MR and RMC from the 1940s and 1950s at train shows.  I do it because sometimes there are darn useful pieces in those old magazines: prototype drawings, and scratchbuilding techniques that should not be forgotten.  But there is another, deeper, more emotional reason.  The truth is that reading those old magazines fills me with a sense of calm and good will, a feeling from a time when
the world was simpler and kinder.  Maybe that's too much information...        But it's the truth.

[Cajonpassfan]

Made a little more progress on the removable Summit wye, scenery contours and track. Installed the "Gapmasters" (thanks MC) across the of the gaps on the removable section. The "Gapmasters" are neat little gadgets.
The last one will be be a challenge in that the track spans the gap at an acute angle...still trying to figure that one out.
Well, off to a family barbecue, more later...
Otto K.

[bnsfdash8]

Nice!  Some people just have the eye and talent for realistic weathering.  It's an art!

Thank you. I've ruined quite a few cars training my eye for weathering.

[Dave V]

There's a thunderstorm sitting over my house, so it's a perfect excuse to keep cranking out Pennsy goodness.  Here I've weathered one of my M1bs using acrylic washes and chalks.  The glue in the coal load isn't yet dry, but that's the @davefoxx Hobby Lobby black craft sand trick.



Just for schnitzengiggles here's a comparison with a clean one...  I went heavy on the 6716 because they were filthy beasts in 1956, but I'm likely to go much lighter on the 6704.

[Ntrainz1]

Repainted cylindrical hopper.



Bob.

[mu26aeh]

In follow up to my post Friday night, we now have autumn foliage !

20160529_194352 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

[OldEastRR]

Been working on redevelopment of Wentachee on the B side of the 2x4 layout. It's coming along
slow but sure.

Pictures not showing up on my screen.

[GN63]

I keep looking for the "like" button, all of this is great - Chuck really like the Wenatchee scene (I grew up just on the other side of the mountains on HW2 and the GN main line) and loved the weathering on the Pennsy "goodness" - great job, most realistic