I agree that the excavator looks great - could you share some of the details on how you weathered up the running gear? Looks really good and I'm always collecting techniques!
More or less everything. It's spring cleaning time, everything is getting a good dusting, repair, and oil change before it goes back into storage. Except that one boxcar, I felt like weathering something for old time's sake and I wanted to try something new...
Thanks! The tracks were actually just weathered using very light washes of PollyScale "dirt", that's it. I built the color up in layers to make sure I didn't go too heavy.
Still pecking away at things for the harbor area. I have three smaller float planes covered earlier in this thread so it was time to finish up the bigger seaplanes. One is a USCG PBY WWII era to Korean War timeframe. the other is from the spoils of war. A seized WWII German Flying Boat now stripped of it's armament and turned over to NUMA as a research aircraft. Now I need to build a big enough hangar for the PBY which has the widest wingspan and since I haven't found any that will accommodate the 115 foot wingspan it will be a scratch built job.
a bucket with a sump pump underneath I have had record rain here and I am battling another flood in train room
With 3 days now of plus 90 degrees here I moved back in the workshop and the AC for awhile and I decided to start the seaplane hangar. Even scaled back it will be a large structure and has already ate up most of a sheet of Evergreen styrene. The fun is going to come in trying to figure out how to do the hangar doors.
I have recently purchased a Kaslo Shops C44-9WL cab to replace the normal dash 9 cab on my dash 9. I will be painting the locomotive to CN 2505.
Excavator Redo Over the last few days I cut the bucket down to a smaller size on one of my two Hitachi look alike excavators. I also painted the upper half in CAT yellow as the orange does not look right to me, even though it is the color Hitachi uses on their equipment. Next comes painting the hoses black and the moving parts of the hydraulics silver. .
I just swapped out some motors in two of my Kato U.P. Gevos. I hate the fact that some of the Kato motors are speed demons and run very fast. So I had some Atlas scale speed motors and I installed them in the locos now they run at the speed they should.
Nice work. The diner would look good with my heavyweight Pullman and observation that are destined for a NP business train that are also in the Pinetree paint.
