Got some work done this last week. Added some loads to a couple of Red Caboose Flat Car Kits that I had built! Acquired a AMB Lazer Cut load for these cars and assembled the load, then installed on the flat cars. Also managed to finish a couple of cars this week! Intermountain Phase II ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II MofW Gray and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Atlas Post 71 ACF 4650CF Covered Hopper Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Reefer Orange and Black and lettered with Oddballs Decals. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
Here LV #189 backs out of the roundhouse onto the turntable to get ready to take out a local freight.
Candy, we're used to seeing your superbly detailed scenes from the outside, and now you give us a tantalizing glimpse of the inside! I can picture Gramps sitting there, reading the newspaper and smoking his pipe, while Grandma sits quietly nearby, knitting socks (that will eventually evolve into a scarf and then a sweater... one of those shapeshifting woolen beasties that are the creation of many a genteel old lady and her knitting kit). Of course, the soothing tick-tock of a clock sets the beat. I swear, if one day you give us a scene of an open kitchen window, with the inside details showing, and a pie on the sill, I'll get hungry! Paul, that first photo of your SD45 is great! That is one macho machine!
Thanks, Mike! SD45s are very cool locomotives, and hiding that 20 cylinder, 3600 HP engine took quite the car body!
Very nice scene. Also nice early evening sun effect. Also, the Alcos and all the vehicles really nail the early 50's time period.
Well, I pulled out an old Atlas caboose, painted for the D&RGW and numbered 01500. I changed the number to 01501, and then realized that it needs ladders and running boards...But they're fun anyway. I also need to add the aditional six scale inches to the cupolas...
\ THANKS HANK, BUT I DIDN'T DO IT. IT WAS SCRATCHBUILT BY SCOTT LUPIA YEARS AGO. AFTER HE DISMANTLED HIS LAYOUT, HE GAVE IT TO ME. I ADDED IT TO MY LAYOUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN IT WAS DISMANTLED FOR A MOVE. IT'S NOW THE CENTERPIECE OF MY LAYOUT. FYI, IT'S PAULINSKILL VIADUCT.
Finished the backdrop behind Albemarle City. Some before and after shots. I have all the buildings. They need some work at the bench and still quite a few more to be unpacked. Here are the buildings in Virginia, 8 years ago: Here's the backdrop framed 8 years later: And here's the backdrop I finished painting this morning:
Great pictures! We've been out of town, and will be this coming weekend so no pictures to share. Squeezing out the last days of summer fun! John
