MODELING Weekend Photo Fun August 27, 2021

r_i_straw Aug 27, 2021

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

    22,210
    49,629
    253
    An old Con Cor J3a Hudson that was given the Santa Fe treatment.
    [​IMG]
     
  2. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

    4,587
    16,153
    90
    The Northern Hills model RR in Deadwood was pretty decent. Push a button with a dollar and two trains run laps, both diesel powered, but fun anyway. Lots of little and big details to check out, too! Here's a couple of shots,

    PIC_0769.JPG
    PIC_0771.JPG
    PIC_0772.JPG
     
  3. SP-Wolf

    SP-Wolf TrainBoard Supporter

    2,585
    13,692
    74
    ATSF GP-7's

    [​IMG]

    Thanks,
    Wolf
     
    logging loco, fordy744, Tad and 21 others like this.
  4. dti406

    dti406 TrainBoard Member

    1,389
    11,336
    56
    Good morning from sunny and hot Northeast Ohio!

    This weeks output!

    [​IMG]

    Eastern Car Works N&W H2a coal hopper kit, painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Greg Komar Decals. From 1948 to 1956 the N&W built 13,500 of these cars for use hauling coal, I used the 1948 paint scheme on this car and will do some others in the latter paint scheme.

    [​IMG]

    Intermountain Railway 5283CF FMC Boxcar kit, painted with NP Dark Green and Silver paints and lettered with a mishmash of Herald King and Highball Graphics decals. These cars were originally ordered by the Milwaukee Road and became available to the BAR after the pullback from the West Coast by the Milwaukee. So I used the Milwaukee Decals for the CAPY and Dimensional Data and the Highball Graphics for the BAR and numbers. The BAR used these cars in paper service from the mills in Maine to the rest of the country.

    [​IMG]



    [​IMG]



    [​IMG]

    Kato GP35, added detail parts like antenna, lift rings, and hood mounted bell, then painted with Scalecoat II White and Black paints and lettered with Microscale decals.



    Thanks for looking!

    Rick Jesionowski
     
    rjthomas909, fordy744, Tad and 22 others like this.
  5. Paul Liddiard

    Paul Liddiard Staff Member

    1,367
    4,735
    63
    An Athearn RTR SD45, 5333, for your Flared Friday.
    FB_IMG_1630083085589.jpg
     
  6. gmorider

    gmorider TrainBoard Member

    2,093
    6,282
    65
    Nice looking stuff here. (y)
     
    Tompm, gjslsffan and SP-Wolf like this.
  7. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

    10,676
    44,848
    142
    From some years ago on my N Scale road, a pair of Atlas RS-11s that I painted in Lehigh Valley lead a freight.

    2017-11-12 DS&N Near Coal Breaker - for upload.jpg
     
    logging loco, fordy744, Tad and 19 others like this.
  8. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

    4,867
    12,443
    92
    Messing around with a neat toy, a USB microscope, and an Atlas HO scale Train Master dressed as CN 2900:

    CN2900_UpCloseAndPersonal.jpg

    Up close and personal.

    Access door handle, handrail stanchion joint, louvers, lettering... One can even see the engineer waving back at me...

    There's always something new and fun to discover!
     
  9. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member

    2,626
    5,747
    69
    The QA&P needed a couple company sand service cars, so I took a couple old MDC cars and painted them with Scalecoat II Oxide Red. Made some decals up and applied them. I figure that I have had these two cars for over 30 years LOL, this is the third paint scheme for them too.

    DSCN3761.JPG
     
  10. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

    10,676
    44,848
    142
    Wish I could click [Like] twice Tom -- your sand hoppers are gorgeous! (y)
     
  11. JimJ

    JimJ Staff Member

    1,574
    2,271
    51
    I agree. Great job on recycling older cars.
     
    Hardcoaler, gjslsffan and BNSF FAN like this.
  12. Tompm

    Tompm TrainBoard Supporter

    2,648
    7,736
    78
    New York Ontario & Western 2-6-0 Mogul by IHC handling a coal drag past the Water Tower'

    [​IMG]
     
  13. JimJ

    JimJ Staff Member

    1,574
    2,271
    51
    That’s a sharp looking Mogul.
     
    gjslsffan and Tompm like this.
  14. Candy_Streeter

    Candy_Streeter TrainBoard Member

    2,582
    6,039
    71
  15. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

    13,965
    6,903
    183
    Very pretty. I like the winter storm entrance, nice touch.
     
  16. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

    4,867
    12,443
    92
    Very nice!(y)

    It's making me hungry...:D
     
  17. fordy744

    fordy744 TrainBoard Member

    309
    304
    21
    information on usb microscope needed please?
     
    Candy_Streeter and Mike VE2TRV like this.
  18. rjthomas909

    rjthomas909 TrainBoard Member

    260
    3,881
    50
  19. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

    4,867
    12,443
    92
    I scanned the box:

    [ USB-Microscope.jpg

    I picked it up cheap a couple of years ago at an electronics surplus store nearby. I occasionally bring it to work to check on soldering quality after our boards come back from the company doing the soldering work.

    The software says "Cooling Tech". On the side of the box it's ticked as model U500X. It's an older model that works on Windows 2000 up to Windows 7. I tried it on Windows 10 but it won't work.

    The magnification is variable from 50-500x (at 500x the ridges on your fingertip look like mountains and valleys - and if you have a minuscule speck of dirt, you'll see it). It also has a light to illuminate the target. Viewing is direct live video with the possibility of taking a still snapshot.
     
    fordy744, in2tech, badlandnp and 4 others like this.
  20. Philip H

    Philip H TrainBoard Member

    1,007
    2,938
    54
    My mom gave my parents a version of this for Christmas. Its pretty cool and has decent resolution. You can even do screen grabs on your phone of the images in the app.
     

Share This Page