Weekend Update 10/23/22

[Kentuckian]

My recent efforts in ballasting and the completion of the beer distributor’s warehouse have got me much closer to a finished looking scene on the Aberdeen side of the layout.  Oh, there’s still much to do, as evidenced by the picture below: structures, foliage to the right against the yet to be installed fascia, trees behind the city buildings, detail work, weathering, etc.  But, I’m getting there.

Here, it’s 1980, and the southbound Amtrak Silver Star is highballing through Aberdeen, North Carolina, on the Seaboard Coast Line main.  In the distance, we spot Aberdeen & Rockfish GP7 No. 205 (“John Blue”) trundling into its western terminus to interchange with the SCL.



More on The Carolina Sandhills Lines thread in the Layout Engineering Forum.

DFF

Killer! The train is great, but those background vehicles really set the scene.

[Jim Starbuck]

The latest piece of MoW equipment to enter service is Jordan spreader X158.
This is a Baldylox 3D print riding on modified Bachmann tender trucks. It has a function decoder and capacitor in the cabin to operate the headlight and work lights.

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[peteski]

The latest piece of MoW equipment to enter service is Jordan spreader X158.
This is a Baldylox 3D print riding on modified Bachmann tender trucks. It has a function decoder and capacitor in the cabin to operate the headlight and work lights.

Wow Jim, that is impressive.  The model's surface looks as smooth as injection-molded styrene. How did you get the 3D printed shell to look this smooth?

[Jim Starbuck]

Wow Jim, that is impressive.  The model's surface looks as smooth as injection-molded styrene. How did you get the 3D printed shell to look this smooth?

The resin print is quite impressive and extremely high quality to begin with.
I just airbrushed it with Tamiya surface primer then did some very light sanding but not much. It’s painted with TruColor then top coated with rattle can Dullcote. The light weathering was done with Aim powders.

[peteski]

The resin print is quite impressive and extremely high quality to begin with.
I just airbrushed it with Tamiya surface primer then did some very light sanding but not much. It’s painted with TruColor then top coated with rattle can Dullcote. The light weathering was done with Aim powders.

Oh,so this is not a typical waxy/fuzzy FXD (or whatever name they currently use) Shapeways print?  Or the primer (and sanding) smoothed it out this well?

[mu26aeh]

Planted some weedy grass this evening too

[Jim Starbuck]

Oh,so this is not a typical waxy/fuzzy FXD (or whatever name they currently use) Shapeways print?  Or the primer (and sanding) smoothed it out this well?

No, not Shapeways. This design and print was done by Brett Issacs. He sells as Baldylox Designs on Etsy.
I wish I would have photographed it before I started. It’s printed at an angle and had a massive amount of supports intertwined under and around it. Brett definitely knows what he’s doing as each of the probably hunded support points tapered down to a pin point and cleaned up very easily. The print lines are very fine and easily cleaned up as well. There were even tiny holes designed in to feed magnet wire out the bottom of the headlight housing and into the cabin.

[nkalanaga]

Nate:  Maybe the BN hopper doesn't need to be weathered.  They bought a lot of those things, over a long period.  Judging by the consolidated stencil style, this one could well be new, in the last years of the MILW.

One or two clean cars wouldn't be out of question, either new, or repainted.

[John]

OSB?  We get it. Your rich!   

Probably leftover from the addition construction .. or dumpster diving from new construction for all of the Maryland residents fleeing

[John]

No modeling this week :oa at no

[keeper]

No modeling this week

Are you down under? 

[davefoxx]

No modeling this week

I hope you’re not spiraling in!

DFF

[Dave V]

No modeling this week

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[fcnrwy23]

October 23rd, 2022

I am spending the day, cleaning track (that's the Layout's Track Cleaning Train, running) and putting in the final touches on the FCN.
Trainfest is just two weeks away. (Been two years since having a Trainfest and two years since my last Open House).

The Layout's Track Cleaning Train is running, past "Shops Yard".


Looking at the Center portion of the FCN layout...


Our Club (MNSE) is in the show and I plan on being open, Trainfest Saturday Night!

The FCN also, celebrates it's 33rd year of operations, Today!! 

Jerry G.

[altohorn25]

I weathered up a Kato U30C in BN Bicentennial paint that I picked up a few weeks ago.  Added Digitrax DCC as well.


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