Scenery - Structures
Pallet Painting/weathering
I have a couple dozen HO scale pallets from 3 different manufacturers/importers. Some are a light grey, some are very light tan, and the rest are dark brown. None of these colors are realistic looking. Any suggestions as to how to paint/weather these so they look more scale-like?
Kit Bashing the Great Western Loveland Pulp Warehouse
The last structure to be added to the model Great Western Loveland yard is the beet pulp warehouse. The warehouse received beet pulp and molasses from the factory. The pulp and molasses were pelletized and stored in bulk bins and burlap bags until it was needed. The pellets were shipped in covered hoppers and box cars to feed mills for cattle feed.
Modeling the Dubuque Railroad Bridge
The single track steel deck Mississippi River railroad crossing at Dubuque, Iowa to East Dubuque, Ill., is five spans of Parker Through Truss with a 350-foot Pratt swing span. (Pins are visible in photos.) I'm modeling the entire bridge at scale length (9-ft-plus in N scale). I will make the bridging elements with my CNC mill.
Photos:
http://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississippi/pagesA/umissAR03.html
Hope someone here will help me with questions:
Wharf pilings
I want to model some wood wharf pilings before they are driven into the ground. The area I model can have the height of the tides up to 11 to 53 feet.
How far would the piling have to go into the ground? I'm trying to figure out the overall length of them and have them brought in by rail.
Would there have been flat cars long enough to deliver pilings this long in the late nineteen-fifties? Or would they most likely be brought in by truck? Would they be already prepped with something so they would last in water and mud?
O.H. Wright and Co. Bartlet Building, custom diorama build
Life is pretty tough right now. Between the honey-do list, the pt job and the other pt job, I have come to the point where I am actually escaping to build these projects. Fret not though, I believe my best work always comes under duress and this sure feels like duress.
What's on your workbench - Aug 2018
With all the talk of Chinese factory closings, it maybe time to get back to the hobbies roots, at least as I remember it as building things especially kits. I just finished a vintage Campbell kit.(probably 50 years old) See attached photos
Mike Confalone new video Allagash Up close and personal
On the ad for Mike's video is a great looking scene. Use of a photo backdrop I assume. Looking for information such as an article by Mike about how he created that scene.
Thanks
It is on page 33 of the Vol. 101 July 2018 issue of MRH magazine.
Weathered Coal Tower Continues -- What I have tried
I posted a photo of a coal tower and a photo of the model of a coal tower I had made and asked for advice on weathering it . I have tried everything that has been suggested. Thanks to everyone who pitched it.
Rather than trying the options on the tower itself, I have tried options on sytrene which I have temporarily attached to one surface of the tower. See photos that follow,
Kentmere
Kentmere is a station in a "shadow box" on a lower level, it is connected to the rest of the railroad with a 3 turn helix that represents the Kentmere Branch. The industries are a combination of the Kentmere and Rockland Branches. There are the J.P.Bancroft textile mill, Brecks flour mill, and the DuPont gunpowder works (the prototype is now the Hagley Museum and Library).
Custom Model from a 70's MR Article
I am currently working on a project that is a wee bit out of the ordinary for me. But as it turns out, right up my alley.
Recently one of my Patrons contacted me about building a diorama scene for them. Thing is the project hailed from a long and drawn out process.
For Todd, it started with a Showcase miniatures kit
For me, it was all about that article.
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