EL 70368

Here is a photo of EL 70368 40' Box Car.   

Its Based on an Undec Intermountain kit.  More details on my Blog.  Thanks for looking.

Old On30 Layout

Some old ones from my On30 days.    

Weathering

Great start this week!  Here is the other side of the loco I finished weathering last week. I used oil paints for the majority of it with the fade and overall grime applied with an airbush.  I have to hit the fuel filler with some pink paint though and the smallest touch of powders around the bottom of the trucks.

I took a bunch of pictures with the cell phone and focus stacked them Photoshop with a just a touch of Unsharp Mask to sharpen it up.

Andrew

Rick's Ribs

This shot is from my former Richlawn RR V1.  A gentlemen is standing outside of Rick's Ribs after enjoying the "Best Ribs in the World".

BAR f3s

Both are Carey cast metal shells.  #49 is on a modified Athearn Genesis sound chassis.  #47 is on a dummy frame for now.  The boxcar is Exactrail.

Great Pics,

Shannon follow your blog but have to say thats prob the best photo from a prespective POV of your layout so far. Feels like your really there. Hobbez always enjoy seeing your photos so wish I was around for the BAR days.

2-8-0 consolidation in Sn42 - Yes, that's a scale.

You know, there is a ton of cool narrow gauge stuff in Latin America that's begging to be modeled.

This is a modified a Bachmann On30 2-8-0.  I shortened the tender, changed out the tender trucks, built a smaller cab, rearranged the domes and other detail parts, lengthened the running boards, wrapped and detailed the cylinders to make it into a piston valve engine, scratchbuilt a steel pilot and painted and lettered it.  Now it's an S scale model of a 42 inch gauge Baldwin export locomotive.

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Prototype Photos:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=167115&nseq=11

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3003704

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3059374

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3260860

Primer Breakthru

Dear Andrew,

Don't you hate when the primer breaks thru a thin/poor-coverage topcoat?

Any chance of a quicky description of the technique?

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

Ferrocarriles Ecuoatorianos

Love that consolidation!  Yes, the world is full of interesting things to model!  So tempting...

Must focus!

Primer on Primer

Hi Prof

Its easier than it looks, it just takes a bit of time.

After washing and letting the loco air dry for a day give it a fading spray of ModelMaster Light Gull Grey - make a very thin wash and build up the fade.  I usually do a few coats, waiting for it to dry between coats (its such a thin coat that you can't really see the color until the thinner evaporates).

I mixed up a flesh colored oil paint using some cadmium red, soft mixing white, bit of vandyke brown (I think those were the colors, but you get the idea).  This took a while to get right, and in the in progress picture you can see the primer picture is a bit too pink (ok --it's really pink)

I then put the model in front of the prototype picture (on my laptop in this case) and started dabbing on the color panel by panel, matching the photo where I could.  I used a fine bush with a light load of paint, almost dry brushing in fact, building up the color.

Streaks were added by applying the paint and using a makeup sponge (put on the paint with the brush, then drag the paint down using the sponge)

Once all the primer was added to the side I then went over the primer with a makeup sponge, in a tapping motion, avoiding the white stripes, to flatten out the brush marks (this also softened the edges).  I also used straight turpentine with a clean brush to remove some paint in some areas followed by more makeup sponge tapping.

The blacks were done using a mix of paynes grey and soft mixing white thinned with the turpentine, the white fade on the blower duct was done in the same way.

I let the paint dry for a week, and repeated the same process on the other side followed by another week of drying. Then the top and ends were done followed by another week of drying.  I then finished up with a spray of my grimy mix of ModelMaster Dark Skin tone and Dark Gull Grey, same as the fade coat  -- build it up in thin coats.

Finally, I shot some Model Master Aircraft International black on the roof.

Andrew

Great Consolidation!

That looks great!  Did capture enough photo during the build to make it an article for MRH?  Hey JoeF! Did you see this Consolidation?

Den

SP SD9E 4431...

SP SD9E 4431 on point of the morning RVFRL, idles in a siding awaiting to pull it's drag of mixed freight back onto the main once the EUWCM clears the busy line...

And yes,..I'm aware that the beat down dodge van is missing it's license plates!

Additional images of this Sacramento Shops rebuilt high hood Cadillac can be viewed here...

http://www.theweatheringshop.com/gspsd9e.html

Gary Christensen

Thanks kt9797!

Thanks for check out the VMID blog!  Been honing in on decent shots on the I-phone.  I was happy with it but then I saw the hair by the door :-(

Wow!

Really nice work all around this week!

Shannon, nice work on that SD20-2 rebuild.

Andrew, that CN Geep is stunning!  I love the primer work.

Gary, I've just plain run out of superlatives for your work and photos, but the word "Wow" goes through my head every time I see your submissions.

I already posted these to my blog, but since they're my first update pics of the YEAR, and it's already August, I'm going to take a chance and risk overexposure.   Below are a few pics of the backdrop photos I recently finished putting up on the section of the layout between Atlantic and Hancock Jct., Iowa.  I still have to add them to my entire peninsula plus a few feet on either side, but I hope to be done with all backdrop pics sometime in October.  I'm waiting until all are done to go back and touch up the seams and finish blending them into the adjacent 3D scenes, after which time I plan to get busy on my first bridges.

Walnut Creek:

Mainline between Atlantic and Hancock:

Hancock Elevator, with Hillis siding on the fill to the right:

More pics are on my MRH blog at  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/iaiss-west-end-is-this-heaven-12197724 .

re: Great Consolidation

Den,

Thanks!

I didn't take very many photos during the build unfortunately.  I'll certainly have to do that for my next project.  I have one picture from when I first started.  It's shown here laying over a side view of the prototype I found on Wikipedia, scaled to to size, which I used to get most of the dimensions.  It's remarkable how closely the Bachmann model fits the proportions of this prototype.

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Mike

Hair?

Thanks for check out the VMID blog!  Been honing in on decent shots on the I-phone.  I was happy with it but then I saw the hair by the door :-(

Believe it or not I really didn't even notice it till you said it lol. 

Excellent Gary!

Love those Bloody Nose Engines! Is the Dodge Van from Trident?

patched NOKL Car

I like to show you a patched NOKL Car from Rodney Walker pulled from a GN Rustbucket build by Tom Cox.

Great detailing, landscaping and weathering this week.

Nice photos everyone.

While, with my dog, I was snapping an S3 delivering a car

I sent the drone up for a different view

Mike

@MikeC

Wow!  I feel like I need my sweatshirt or something a little heavier looking at that photo!  Looks like a typical Spring or early Winter late afternoon in New England.  The 'drone' shot is great for the overall scene, but the ground shot - wow! - almost couldn't tell it was a model!  Great composition, great modeling and weathering, and just the right amount of haze in the backdrop to make it feel like it is a lot farther away than it is.  Makes me feel like I am back east!

Thanks!

NS heritage ES44AC

@Alan R

Thank you! I took another drone shot and replaced the original because I wanted to see myself and Rover in it

Smart loco, DJ

Mike

@VAMidlandRR - terrific!

More than decent.  Nice modeling, composition, and lighting.  At first I thought it was a diorama outside in the sunlight (then clicked on image info and realized it was indoors).  What kind of lighting do you have?

Thanks.

Lighting

It's just shop lights from Home Depot.  There about $12 and hold 2 bulbs.  I have 3 of them in my 10X10 office.