Model Railroading > Sunday Photo Fun 10/18/09

Well here it is another Sunday;

I finished up a very classy Penn Central E8. It started its life as a Proto unit that was factory painted for the Southern. I think it looks much better now in the former Pennsy paint, but that's just me.

I weathered up two more Athearn FP45's after adding a few extra details. This time around it was numbers 1 and 5.

Then I did a little experiment. Replacing the incorrect BLI truck sideframes with Proto's correct E8/9 sideframes. This project didn't turn out all that bad and went easier than I thought it was going to be. I like the results, and plan on doing the two A units.

Happy Modeling.

DMIR230

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Just for the fun of it, the other FP45.


DMIR230

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Nice Work DMIR230 - love the grungy PC E unit!

Here are a couple projects I completed this weekend during the Fort Wayne NMRA regional convention. Tangent PS4740 for Bunge Corp. and and IMRC 4750 for ICG.

-Ryan

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Nice work by everyone above! I like the Pennsy unit better too!

Here are my submissions:

1-2 : These are both Genesis models factory painted. One of the units, 9640, is a dummy, that my friend wanted as a DPU. He found some photos with an EOT device on this particular unit, so his wish is my command. DW MAC detail kits were used, as well as a few other DW and DA parts. Weathering is airbrush and powders.

3 : Here's a few, that I've done for him, from his fleet.....8814, is a Kato, that began life undecorated. I mixed the paint, painted, decaled, etc.....

Rick
http://www.fourrocksmodelworks.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/09 08:53 by drgwguy.

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A few more......


Rick

http://www.fourrocksmodelworks.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/09 08:54 by drgwguy.

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Here's three Bachmann consolidations that I've knocked into some hopefully closer approximations of SP power: 2865, 2829 and 2760. Yes, there's a lot of compromise, but it allows me to have a small, capable fleet of the type of locomotive that was so common in the early-to-mid 1950s. "Close enough", until either my budget can afford brass, or we get something nearer to what an SP 2-8-0 really looks like in plastic...

Brian Moore
Plymouth, UK

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Just a bunch of construction stuff...

South turn works the Muncie & Western interchange
http://candoindiana.com/mr/100909/smuncieturn_12thstreetinterchange.jpg

Chessie power waiting at Muncie "Vine Street" yard.
http://candoindiana.com/mr/100909/muncieyard_powersouthend.jpg

Staging is getting full, as the southbound trains wait to go.
http://candoindiana.com/mr/100909/staging_yard.jpg

Brian: Nice work on the Bachmann 2-8-0s!! I really like the way you've "grungied" them up!

DMIR230: I love the chipped paint on the noes of the Politically Coreect unit...Penn Central unit!

Ryan: Nice hoppers! How did you do the fade on the IC one?

PHL

I'm working on a few Utah Railway units...

Paul Liddiard
Spanish Fork, UT

Paul,
The fading on the ICG orange hopper was achieved by using an opaque yellow color of gouache that was then dabbed onto the car with make-up sponges. the gouache was thinned using windex. The lettering was faded with a "Nick-Sander" prior to the first coat of weathering. After applying the fade, the logo and ribs were cleaned to represent a photo of a similar car, and then the car was dullcoated. A final application of rust streaks was also done with gouache and windex and the model sealed once more with dullcoat.

Thanks for the complinents!

-Ryan

well here is my post and there my lovely sd9 the kodachrome is a team effort between me and drgwguy and the grey and scarlet is one of my own brass that i did repairs on and fixed and touched up the paint. ive been trying to specialize in fixing brass

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next is 4390 and i know about her rear step and i did just fix it

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and here is one more joint effort between me and my buddy rick he painted and i detailed the locomotive for our club

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Those covered hoppers are fantastic...

Andy

wheel_slip Wrote:
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> Those covered hoppers are fantastic...
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> Andy


They get my vote too!

MrOGDEN

I have a pentex movie on the "Todays Pacific Northwest" it basically about the SP with the SD9, on a line from Eureka CA south.

as for your Columbia Cascade and Western

I have the Columbia Cascade

the RS-1 is now repainted into SP&S no 50.

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Excellent work everyone, thanks for posting photos and comments.

DMIR230

Brian exceptional modeling of the SP steamers, great work, do you have a web site that you post your model photos on or a image gallery page?

Frank

bxmoore Wrote:
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> Here's three Bachmann consolidations that I've
> knocked into some hopefully closer approximations
> of SP power: 2865, 2829 and 2760. Yes, there's a
> lot of compromise, but it allows me to have a
> small, capable fleet of the type of locomotive
> that was so common in the early-to-mid 1950s.
> "Close enough", until either my budget can afford
> brass, or we get something nearer to what an SP
> 2-8-0 really looks like in plastic...
>
> Brian Moore
> Plymouth, UK

Frank

Thanks for the compliments - I do indeed have a Photobucket site, on which I dabble. There's other images on it too, but it's mostly HO trains - club and home layout, plus some conversion stuff - set out in several galleries/sub-albums.

http://s.127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/bxmoore/

Happy days.

Brian

wildcat12 Wrote:
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> I have a pentex movie on the "Todays Pacific
> Northwest" it basically about the SP with the
> SD9, on a line from Eureka CA south.
>
> as for your Columbia Cascade and Western
>
> I have the Columbia Cascade
>
> the RS-1 is now repainted into SP&S no 50.

My road is the Columbia Northern Railway runs from Eastern Washington up into British Columbia Circa 1970 - 1980

Yours,

John Ruehle