Weekend Update 5/29/16

[milw12]

In addition to my soldering adventures, I've been working on a backdrop and installing track work:



More details on the project as a whole in my new layout thread.

Thanks for looking!

[Dave V]

Having a weathering attack today!  Did my K4s also.  The 1361 had a red cab roof and tender deck in 1956 so I fixed mine.  PRR paint specifications called for Freight Car Color (roughly an oxide red) on the tender deck and a 50/50 mix of FCC and DGLE (Brunswick Green) on the cab roof.  There's the @davefoxx black sand coal trick as well.



And with that, I think I've done enough damage for one Weekend Update, LOL...

[nkalanaga]

mmagliaro:  The local hobby shop in Pasco got boxes of old magazines in the mid 70s, a couple years before we moved.  I bought most of the 1960s, some 50s, and a few from the 40s that looked like they had interesting articles.  It's surprising how many of the old techniques translate to N scale, either directly, or by substituting modern materials.  Very useful in a scale with few supplies when one also has little money.

[eja]

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.

Wow! Well done.

Exactly the look I want to achieve on a couple of bulkhead flats that have recently joined the roster.

Thanks for the how to information.

eja

[altohorn25]

Just so Dave doesn't think he's the only one running Pennsy steam.  I dragged one of my modutrak modules outside to take some photos in the natural light.  While this bridge's prototype is Wisconsin Dells, WI, I don't think it looks too bad with Pennsy motive power on it 

L1 Mikado (Kato/GHQ)
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M1 (Broadway Limited)
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K4 (Bachmann)
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K4 and L1
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Double headed M1's
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[eric220]

I keep looking for the "like" button, all of this is great

Upper right of the post, right next to the "quote" button, click the up arrow.

@altohorn25 that is incredible! Beautiful module, a little weathering, some natural lighting, and a realistic camera angle. Beautiful!

[jagged ben]

Altohorn25 I thought that was G scale for a minute.

[altohorn25]

Altohorn25 I thought that was G scale for a minute.

yea - that pic of the M1 by itself does not look like N scale 

[sd45elect2000]

@altohorn25 , wonderful modeling !!


Randy

[Iain]

@chuck geiger Your photos don't seem to be showing up for several folks.  Photobucket a while back has decided that they're going to detect a Firefox on Linux useragent and simply refuse to serve the photos.  This is not a case of Linux is broken, but, rather, Photobucket being intentionally so.

[jereising]

@chuck geiger Your photos don't seem to be showing up for several folks.  Photobucket a while back has decided that they're going to detect a Firefox on Linux useragent and simply refuse to serve the photos.  This is not a case of Linux is broken, but, rather, Photobucket being intentionally so.

I'm running Chrome on Win 10; he's linking to Google (which has done some weird things of late to photos), not Photobucket - and I can't see 'em either.

[nkalanaga]

Firefox on Windows XPsp3 here, and they don't always show.   The first time I dug through the source code for the forum page, found the URL for the picture, and entered that.  Google gave me a logon screen...

[mmagliaro]

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.

Great improvement!  I especially like the black on the cab roof and tender deck.  Those bold red oxide decks were almost always covered with black soot unless the engine was freshly shopped.    I don't think the dirty one looks the least bit overdone.  It think you elevated it from
"outta da box" to a realistic model.

[wm3798]

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

20160529_194352 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

Those colors look great.  So often fall foliage comes off way to bright.  Did you start with muted colors or did you do something to tone them down?

Lee

[mu26aeh]

Those colors look great.  So often fall foliage comes off way to bright.  Did you start with muted colors or did you do something to tone them down?

Lee

I didnt do anything.   Just sprayed with hair spray or loctite glue.  Scenic express course, fine or blends over top the sedum.  Did get an extra coat of hair spray after application,  maybe that dulled it a little bit.

Edit: @wm3798 I did more trees tonight and I think the main reason they look muted is the sedum.  I'm not dumping tons of product on the plant, so the dark color of the plant/tops is showing thru the color.