Tag, you are it.

 Doing some modern weathering and graffiti on a few cars. 
 

Following

Following

Your Graffiti looks great Greg

I seldom see hoppers that aren’t tagged so for modern railroading this is very real.

Are these commercial decals, or did you use your own photos?

I have shot some cool art over the years and often wondered about turning the images into decals, but know nothing about doing it.

Hand painted

Mike: All the weathering and tags were hand painted. I use very small brushes and Vallejo paints that I have thinned with water on a wet palette. Time consuming, but I like the results. 

Nice graffiti

Looks great Greg! I’d like to try doing my own graffiti sometime, but I haven’t gotten past doing it on paper and making it look any good. Did you base this on real graffiti you saw? Are you using acrylic paints? 
 

Cheers

Building Trusses

First one took a few minutes but a fixture has helped. Four down and 7 left to go!

Graffiti

All my graffiti is copied after car is found off the internet. Most of my photos come from RR Picture Archives. I use Vallejo acrylic paints thinned with water. I usually start with the outline of the graffiti then fill it in as I go a little bit at a time. 

My work this month is on the

My work this month is on the layout room. I am adding a drop ceiling over the lounge area.  

Last month i swapped out the lights with new LED.s. And added the ceiling in that area and the valance 

When i get the ceiling done i will add a drink ledge and a self under the layout for car cards and such.  And the window from the staircase landing into the trainroom.

I hope to have all this finished by early November so i can get back to building models but the room not heing finished has been bugging me for a while.

-Doug M

More Truss Rods and Accurail Mods

Continuing the work on a series of 190x boxcars.   This weekend, I did manage a bit of work on this CRI&T boxcar, a modification of an Accurail 36-ft car (Double sheath with wood ends). The decal set is from K4 decals and is based on an available photo.  

I seem to have not cleared out the molded grab irons completely, and the remains caught the light here. Maybe some sanding before final clear coating. Getting the decals to lay down in this photo, still a work in-progress. A bit more decal prep, add the air hoses, and will be ready for weathering.

Take Care All, 

-Bob T. 

A box of Tichy Flatcars

Last month was boxcars, this month it's flats.  I'm painting these six cars in two different colors and will letter them for three railroads, the C&O, N&AC, and THLC.  These are destined for lumber and miscellaneous freight service.

I started with Step 5, painting, using an airbrush, and I used Tichy's method for making the gray styrene look like weathered wood.  I really like the method!  I think I used it on the last flatcars I built, but that was years ago, and I'd forgotten.  The trucks and wheels are also prepped.

Atlas O SW9 Motor

I’m programming a Soundtraxx TSU-2200 for my Atlas O SW9. Testing with a Tang Band 1925S Speaker.

Turnouts

I need three #8 turnouts for the classification yard throat (Main to Drill Track and Drill to A/D tracks) and I expect to reach the point of needing these in place by the end of the year, so it’s time to get crackin’!  

Just remember.. when you

Just remember.. when you unload that C&O flat car to send it on home to the C&O.  The war is causing a HUGE shortage of flatcars for us….  

-Doug M

C&O Railway, circa fall 1943.

Not glamorous.....

more on the tech side, heavy duty 15A on/off toggle switches for the staging tracks, and a few extra for that just in case I might need one else were on the layout.....

Ladder Steps on Proto 2K shell

A couple of days ago I received a Proto E7 loco in the mail. The power unit had broken loose and jammed up under the shell,...resulting in a broken ladder-step and hoses.

Any suggestions for repair? (perhaps a link to another discussion?)

Fixing the steps

If you have the parts then plain glue for plastic should work. Let it dry completely before remounting the shell. 

Bernd

Wartime Shortages

Will do, Doug!  The car card says "When Empty Return to Hinton".  We're all in this together!

More progress

The Waipahu engine house is coming together. 
 

Looking good Neil!

Cool shot from the inside out.  

Heading to the weathering bench

Purchased the last of too many pulpwood cars for the Paper Mill. Next stop is the weathering bench. Couplers first, then the new steel wheels need to dirtied along with the trucks. The decks will get torn up and onto the rust and dirt. 23 total to do!

TomO

Cool paper mill facility, Tom

Mine is still a blank slate . . .  

Thank you

Michael, thanks for the comment. 
 

Removed the paper mill picture as it’s no longer being worked on my workbench

Tom

Russian cryogenic car #2

I am just getting back into model rail after a break, and am working on my second TT scale Russian 8G512 cryogenic car.

I got some photo etch made for it and it has come our really well. Just need to sort out decals for them. The car was based on a flat car chassis, in this case made by Peresvet.

SRMW's brick roundhouse

Just begining my South River Modelworks 8 stalls brick roundhouse.

These are the hydrocal floor castings now glued down to the base.

I think this will be on my workbench for the next few month's.

  Greg