N scale "What's on your workbench?"

I like it !!!

My kind of boxcar ^5

 

pics of the Camp Mabry storage building...I'm sending this back to Austin where it will get its roof and vent details.
Thanks,
~Bruce

 

What is on my workbench?

This .................................................



Well, actually it is this.......................................



It is hard to believe that these are all the sub-assemblies that make up this nice Key Challenger. I am going to put together another thread outlining my installation(s) of a decoder in this brass loco.

Carl

 

As my summer holidays come to an end, I have been focused on getting some projects to the finish line. The first two cars for my Provincial Museum Train consist are now complete. The museum acquired four ex-CP Rail mail storage boxcars which were equipped with steam lines for head-end passenger service. One became power car BCPM 4904 CHEAKAMUS RIVER and another became stores car BCPM 4908 NANAIMO RIVER. These are Intermountain 1937 AAR boxcars with Des Plaines Hobbies flat panel roofs and Gold Medal ladders and sill steps for the side doors. They were finished with ORO Decals.

Power Car BCPM 4904 CHEAKAMUS RIVER






Stores Car BCPM 4908 NANAIMO RIVER






Tim

 

Also, I have completed two more cars for my Prince George Auxiliary consist. This was the heavy lift train on the BCR north end.
Cable car BCOL 6504 is an ex-Great Northern 4400-4599 series lumber and grain boxcar with the left side door removed and plated in, end personnel doors added, and side windows installed for interior light. This car carried spare cable for the crane. The scratchbuilt model incorporates Intermountain ends and roof parts. It was finished with ORO Decals.

Here is the prototype at Prince George:




And here is my finished model:








Tim

 

Panel track car BCOL 6510 was converted from a bulkhead flatcar and carried up to seven 39' lengths of pre-assembled panel track. This model is entirely scratchbuilt with styrene and Gold Medal detail parts, and was finished with a combination of ORO and custom decals. Thanks to friend and fellow RW member Greg Kennelly for laying out all of the small lettering which didn't come with the ORO Decals set (grrr). The track panels were assembled from Micro Engineering Code 40 rail, Fast Tracks ties and Proto 87 Stores rail joiners, and the stack was wrapped with Athabasca Scale Models etched chain.

Here is the prototype:




And here is my model:








All of the models pictured here today were painted by Jeff Briggs, who also weathered them after I applied the decals.


Thanks for looking,

Tim

 

Really great looking models Tim. Excellent work ^5

 

Tim, wonderful work as usual. Quick question, how did you do those raised gaskets around the windows of 6504?

Bob

 

Thank you gentlemen.

Bob: My technique for modelling windows with frames or gaskets is to cut out a piece of .005" styrene which is the size of the window plus frame or gasket. In this particular case the window gaskets have rounded corners so those were filed in prior to installation. I then glue it in place on the model and let it dry overnight. I then file out the window opening, leaving just the width of the frame or gasket around the edges. I have also tried cutting out the window openings in the sides prior to gluing on the .005" piece which means less material to file away. That works as long as you are aware that with just .005" to file away, the material will disappear a lot faster. On this model the window gaskets were painted black as per the prototype.

Tim

 

Thanks Tim, very convincing results!

Bob

 

Here is my weekend project. I used Magic masker and Krylon paint to change colors on these Kato Volvos.







Thanks to Steve at banjol4595 on Youtube , I made the leap to modify a few of these.

Mike

 

So what's on my workbench? The beginnings of a micro-diorama depicting something like tobacco harvest on Cuba.

This was originally intended as an entry for the challenge on http://www.carendt.com/news/vacation-time-ready-little-contest/ where everything is supposed to fit into a box 222mm x 222mm x 210mm.
But due to other things interfering (and me trying to simulate concrete with concrete, rather than plaster - BAD idea!), there's hardly any chance it will be ready in time. Shame, that...

 

Turned a LL E6 Dummy B&O B-Unit into a Powered unit using an old Southern E8's parts. So excited! It actually meshes very nicely with the A-Unit to make a functioning Powered AB arrangement. I struggle so much to get MUs to work on my DC, crazy incline layout that I'm beside myself with excitement right now.

 

4 Southern SD45's, here are #3 and #4, getting ready for the paint booth, still a couple of details to add before I shoot paint.

 

Very nice. Always did like the look of Southern hi-hood SD45s running long hood forward so you could see those flared radiators.

 

I have 4 plastic structure kits under construction and something like 18 various pieces of rolling stock in varying degrees of dissaembly - each needs refinishing in Canadian colours and letting. It'[s a slow, slow process.

 

I just finished a tiny little diorama of 2ft gauge track. The setting is a Welsh slate mine.

 

Thought this was a model RR site not RC boat building.:cute:

 

I can finally say that something is finally off my workbench after metaphorically sitting there for 20 years. I finally got the replacement truck sideframes for my custom painted Atlas-Kato RS-3 that apparently started life as a Atlas-Kato GP9. It's just been one of those projects that was minor enough to ignore until I finally got my hands on a cheap enough donor locomotive.

Of course, now I just need to figure out what to do with the donor locomotive, NYC RS-11, and a pair of trucks that don't match. I'm pondering grafting on the newer Atlas RS-3 sideframes to the trucks and turning the RS-11 into a CP RS-18u.