This thread has improved as it has unfolded...wow. My compliments to all posters. Flash, what a wonderful "recycling" theme you have there. Colonel, you have my admiration...this is an excellent image on an excellent layout. Congratulations. The foam structure looks very interesting and involved. I can't wait to see the final product. OC Engineer, I don't know what this engine is called, if it had a name, but it is impressive. I like the skyline fairing. Impressive array of drivers under that boiler. Good looking hillside, too. I submit a second image this week from a brand new vantage point on the layout. It is as if the viewer has taken to scrambling up a high bluff in order to take the image of a PRR K4s thundering out of a stone portal and continuing to haul its string of heavyweights up grade.
Hope y'all are ready for more pancakes! This week's progress on the N scale scratch-built IHOP (International House Of Pancakes).
Great work by everyone... The BearCatRR has started to log out some old growth and fire damaged trees so just got a used Willamette Steam Donkey:tb-smile:
there was no paint used for this one, clearcote only. that's the color of the raw plastic undec MT car, and doors. All I did was shoot glosscote, decal, and dullcote. I think though, that the doors are/were for the DODX cars.
It is a little early for "Sunday Night" you-now-where. I railimaged some pitchers to post over there but I was just looking here after uploading, so I guess I will post em here too. Slow progress on Sue's. "Sue sells seashells by the seashore." Showcast Miniatures "San Gorgonio Land and Water Co" Spanish-revival-style store kit. Actually, this is just the base. I am doing interior before enclosing it with the walls. The kit comes with a few counters, but I added various and sundry scraps to make more. Train-set sign posts were used for rotating garment racks. One has been stocked with a similation of sports made by cutting and folding up paper awnings from some old European kit. Lots of just "stuff" from the junk box. The shells are, well, shells, or fragments of shell found and sifted from Ropes Park Beach, 8 blocks from my home in Corpus Christi. I am building a shell and souvenir shop similar type of operation as this one at Galveston. But my Sue's will be a Spanish style in garish pastel colors, and will be across the street from the seawall. Old mockup of the scene... Sue'ws will be where the plain cardboard box is, at the left of the picture on "Seawall Boulevard"
Now THAT lil' mule's got some kick!! Awesome. Crandell, love the steam emerging from the tunnel...in fact I like all of the photo fun shots this weekend!!!!!
At first glance, I thought the locomotive was a Rock Island switcher. The red & yellow colors are reminiscent of one of the Rock's many schemes. Nicely done, Wolfgang!
SNFF 2008 04 28 Hi, all, here's my contribution for this week. I do the NMRA Pacific Coast Region, Coast Division Model Contest, Show and Tell, and web-mastering. Every quarter, I put up a web page documenting the Coast Division's quarterly Meet. We always have great models and photos to look at. Here's the March 2008 Meet page: http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest/Contest_Mar_2008.shtml And here's a sample photo of the lucky winner in the Caboose category: I really suggest you check out Bob Booth's "Dollar Cars" - i.e. former junk - bought at auctions, poorly constructed, missing parts.... etc. With a few nights work and some loving care -Bob has turned them into the stellar models that you see below. Bob recommends for us all to search our junkbox - start a little "project" and restore one at a time. The satisfaction of turning junk into treasure is immeasurable! So much so, that over one-half of Bob Booth's rolling stock consists of these kind of restorations. http://www.pcrnmra.org/coast/contest/Contest_Mar_2008.shtml#Bob_Booth Finally, I do participate as well, always in the Show and Tell, so here are my Show and Tell for that meet: Hope you enjoy! Have a good week.
