Weekend Update 8/30/20

[dougnelson]

1941 Nash 4-door sedan. Casting by Raspten.

[DKS]

Those look good, but where do you find them? I can't even figure out what the names of each color are.

Home Depot, Lowe's. Availability is spotty.

Colors (I assembled this from their shingle brochure):

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This weekend was a bunch of freight car weathering.

[dnhouston]

I've been working on support buildings for the refinery
The office building:



The loading dock and storage shed:



And started on the coal bins:

[sirenwerks]

If Rustoleum would just sell a little baggie full of spare nozzles I wouldn't need a new can all the time...

Just pull somme off of the other cans on the shelf.  Geez, do I have to explain everything?...

[sd45elect2000]

1941 Nash 4-door sedan. Casting by Raspten.

LOVE IT !!! I need some ! great job on the color choice and the painting/

Randy

[DKS]

I've been working on support buildings for the refinery

Nicely done--I really like the lighting.

[Chris333]

Just pull somme off of the other cans on the shelf.  Geez, do I have to explain everything?...

I thought of this yesterday  Just put a few extras under the cap 

That Shingle paint must be a location thing. I've never even heard of that company and they make shingles. Around here it's Owens Corning.

[peteski]

I thought of this yesterday  Just put a few extras under the cap 

That Shingle paint must be a location thing. I've never even heard of that company and they make shingles. Around here it's Owens Corning.

You probably don't remember the GAF View-Master?  The GAF logo instantly brought back memories of my View-Master.

[C855B]

... I've never even heard of that company ...

Pete beat me to the View-Master reference. As to roofing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAF_Materials_Corporation . They've been around a while. Prob'ly don't see 'em at HD, etc., since they don't play HD's particular game of tiddlywinks with suppliers. 

[Chris333]

I had a Viewmaster, but I never knew who made it.

This whole thing just ticked me off. I have an excellent track record of leaving the house for a simple item only to find out it is impossible to find. Just a few days ago I hit 3-4 craft stores looking for Sculptamold and no body had it. The camo paint and Sculptamold were both items in the past I could find within 2 miles of my house from multiple sources. 

[DKS]

This whole thing just ticked me off. I have an excellent track record of leaving the house for a simple item only to find out it is impossible to find. Just a few days ago I hit 3-4 craft stores looking for Sculptamold and no body had it. The camo paint and Sculptamold were both items in the past I could find within 2 miles of my house from multiple sources. 

Face it, we're moving to an online economy. Better get used to it...

[peteski]

I had a Viewmaster, but I never knew who made it.

Depending on the age of your View-Master, it could  have been made by another company. The Wiki link I put in my post shows a complete history of the View-Master. The white/red one was made by GAF.

[JMaurer1]

I'm planning on building a 16x20 shop/layout room. Got approval from the GM to go ahead and do it. Today I reorganized the half of the garage that currently houses about 12 of the clubs modules and a bunch of donated N scale trains and parts. The garage is looking MUCH better...can't say the same about the family room as I carted a bunch of stuff in there to sort and organize. I still have until 5pm to get it all cleaned up...

I remember my Viewmaster being gray and no GAF on it.

[C855B]

GAF was also known for photographic film. Memory having been jogged, they had a 500 ASA color film in the '70s that was a go-to for low-light photography, but wasn't fully appreciated in the railfan community since it was too grainy for daylight. I also bought a few cases of GAF phototypesetting paper when I was running a large-scale typography operation, but when the Hunt Brothers were monkeying around with silver prices, GAF got out of the film business. It was a mess buying industrial photosensitive media from anybody at the time.

I remember my View-Master being dark brown, so according to Pete's link that would have put it circa 1955.