Weekend Photo Fun September 26, 2008

Wow! That looks painful!
Mike

 

I nominate this photo for Model Railroad Photo of the week. The weathering on the AC unit is phenominal.:tb-rolleyes:

scott

 

This is an area I've been working on where most of the rail has been removed from an abandoned section of track.

 

A 2nd contribution for SNFF 2008 09 28.

Santa Fe PA1s in the desert, in early 1950s:



Have a good week, all.

 

Those PA's are beautiful John !!!

 

Bundler building at the scrap yard in Diamond Valley.



Wolfgang

 

Westerfield C&EI inside stake coal car - no hopper or discharge doors, gone by 1935





Jon

 

Jon,

Love the billboard:tb-cool:

 

backdrop started

I've got one portion of my backdrop started. I,m almost happy with the clouds and will start the mountains soon. This picture is 3 pictures photostitched together.
Glenn

 

Just finished a custom assembly and paint of one of my N GE 70-tonner resin conversion kits. I'm no SP fanatic, but if I WAS, this one and the Daylight scheme would do it for me. Just plain fun to do.





I'm taking additional names for the production 'reservation' list for these kits, if you already sent me your name this last spring you'll get emailed when they are ready - I fill in order of interest. Casting is going well this fall! Email for this kit list is 70-ton@randgust.com

 

I always like well-done late fall or early spring layouts. Dried-out foliage looks good when it's good. (Okay, that sounded a bit silly.) How did you do the weeds and bare trees?

 

put some grass down on a t-trak module. smokey the bear car was the only one I could find quick with all it's wheels

 

A few cabooses just finished for Brian DeVries, the man B&O fans need to thank for the majority of 2 bay coal hoppers we have available.







They are painted/decaled different on each side. The same side of the car will always face the operator durring a session so the cars are unique on each side to effectively double the amount of unique cabooses available

 

Wow I love those cabooses!

Triplex asked: How did you do the weeds and bare trees?
The bare trees are done with fine wire [speaker wire] along with some melaleuca twigs from brush screen fencing used in gardening and landscaping. The twigs are too brown and I paint them more grey.
Grasses are a mixture of unpainted jute twine tufts individually snipped from a length of twine and butt glued as well as scraps of cleaning cloth from the supermarket - painted with acrylics and snipped to the right length. Brushed with a wire brush to make the fibres stand up.
Small twiggy bushes are coconut fibres from hanging basket liner.
Maybe these show them in more detail



Cheers,
Mike