Weekend Update 8/12/18

[tehachapifan]

Really great stuff this week! Some fantastic modeling! Really diggin' the S-12, Wolf!

I'm going to add to the SP-related contributions with photos of my second SP SW1200 build, which I just finished....

[JanesCustomTrain]

Very nice Russ, and those number boards, outstanding.

Jane 

[Cajonpassfan]

Yes, outstanding work Russ! And very eSPee!!
And Denton's FM's, inspirational as well.
Some great work here!
Otto K.

[bnsfdash8]

I tried adding some brake chain onto a B40-8W. I'll have to do something about that ugly frame gap too.

[jagged ben]

Russ, I think you'll need to tell us how you did those numberboards. 

[skytop35]

Bill ( @skytop35 ),
I really enjoyed leaning back, folding my hands over my gut and zoning out watching your switching moves.  Loved the sound too!  Sort of a zen experience.

However, it looks as if engine 773 needs to have the lead truck's wheelset looked at and put back in gauge, which will keep it running smoother through the switch.  Just sayin'...

Also, as I was nearing a kundalini experience by watching your switching moves, the highlights glaring off of the shiny black exterior wheel surfaces on a lot of the cars you were switching made me abruptly stop saying "ohmmmmm...".   

The irony of lovely weathered and detailed rolling stock but with shiny black wheels kinda bopped me over the head, and awakened a doubt about the brown Delrin MT low-pros I've still got on my cars that haven't yet been converted to FVM narrow low-pros...which I paint before installing.  I don't think the brown color is going to stop the highlights from forming the next time I video my own switching moves, so I should probably start painting the wheelsets on my most photographed cars, even if they haven't been converted to metal wheelsets yet!

Thanks for the unintentional heads-up!

And, as usual your work is inspirational.

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

Bob,

While I don't mind the constructive criticism, you sure have a strange way of expressing it.

Bill Denton

[Lemosteam]

Russ, I think you'll need to tell us how you did those numberboards. 

@jagged ben

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=42822.msg541948#msg541948

[jagged ben]

@jagged ben

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=42822.msg541948#msg541948

Aha.  Thank you.

[cbroughton67]

@tehachapifan Those SW's are beautiful! Incredible modeling, sir!
Chris

Really great stuff this week! Some fantastic modeling! Really diggin' the S-12, Wolf!

I'm going to add to the SP-related contributions with photos of my second SP SW1200 build, which I just finished....

[garethashenden]

I've made a pair of Bluebirds, one GP9 and one GP18. They're not perfect and still need weathering, but I'm happy with them. Eventually I'll add sound, but without a layout I'd rather spend the money elsewhere.

[JanesCustomTrain]

Well done, not an easy job all these crisp lines between black and white. Just one thing thou if I may, see the blue part of the shell inside the cab,  paint that part black as well.

Jane

[central.vermont]

NWP extra 2842  approaching tunnel #7 along the Russian River

Very nice Mike!!!!
Jon

[coosvalley]

Wow, great stuff so far this week!

A little more B&M to keep things going...

[Philip H]

@cbroughton67 how heavy is that thing with the tungsten mixed in? That does seem like an easy way for resin cast folks to add weight and still get fine details.

[mu26aeh]

Nothing photo worthy this weekend.  I went about the task of cutting and taping car cards for my layout, and repopulating it with the cars I got finished.  Approximately 230 cars are in my system now with car cards and temporary blank waybills.  I cut scrap cardstock for the waybills for now, will fill out basic stuff on them to move cars around until I print the official ones.  Using Shenware for the process.