Well folks, it's CHANTILLY time! What do you say we start a little earlier to give John and the others an opportunity to post some pictures? Just having moved, I got no modeling done, but I did catch a whole mess of Rock Island blue babies For those wondering how to weather their Rock Island boxcars, maybe this will provide some inspiration...
No photos, BUT, there is a 3D CAD drawings of our new Angled Cab Sunshades in the "Whats New" section of the BLMA site. Also, in about a month, Walthers will be carrying BLMA products! That means that you will be able to find or get BLMA products through nearly every hobby shop in the US!
No odeling. Was at the Colorado Railroad Museum, ALL DAY Friday and Saturday!! Hoping to watch a couple of locomotives being moved in. Instead, I got to see Colorado Midland observation car #111 being moved to its new location at the museum. Here's the car being slowly loaded onto a flatbed trailer: Here's the same car, loaded, and being moved around backside of museum property: And here's a shot of the car being unloaded from trailer, in its new resting place: More pics can be seen Here.
Well, I did some modeling this week. First, I checked out, lubed, and Neolubed the wheels and rods of PRR H10s Consolidation 9885, which I built 30 years ago and was the subject of an article I had published in Model Railroader's December 1975 issue. She still runs just fine: I also added a load to a Red Caboose flatcar while painting the deck to look like aged wood and blocking and bracing the load to withstand the shocks of rail transport: eNjoy!
Hi, all, as we speak, I'm typing and uploading the final Sun Aug 8 Chantilly pictures now. Will post here notice of that when I get them uploaded to my Community Webshots pages; it'll take a couple of hours from now. In the meantime, here's a shot that I put up earlier. Greg Scott of GHQ is a master locomotive model builder, and I attended his clinic today. Greg is very adamant that we all can aspire to something special; it's just a matter of how much time and effort we wish to focus on whatever talents we have. You can see some of his talents!: That's Greg in the upper right:
Great modeling by the two Gregs! All I aspire to right now is time/space to reset-up my little layout after the move!
Gregg - Congrats on the loco still running nice. It really looks great. Is the flatcar load a commercial product or did you scratchbuid?
Someone had a recent post about glues and procedures for building wood kits, and that reminded me that I had never posted a photo of my Nit Pickers Union Hall on SNFF. In fact, I never even photographed the building, which was my attempt to build an N-scale structure from the framework out, with full framing, floor joists, roof rafters, every stick of wood that would be in a prototype structure. Every thing a nit picker could ask for. So I called it the Nit Pickers Union Hall (Local 257 of the United Farm Workers). Individual boards for walls, flooring, scratchbuilt double-hung windows. Non-working lights. Individual shingles from cedar cigar wrapper. Restroom in inset at center of composite photo- sink and toilet bowl carved from beads. Toilet-tank made from thin but hard-surfaced paper stock so it could be modeled hollow and left open—as if someone habitually had to remove the tank lid to jiggle the mechanism inside and get it to stop running. Tank lid is sitting aside on floor. That allowed me to model the ball-and-float mechanism inside the toilet tank (again, non-working) using a bead of epoxy on thin wire. Another picture I posted this week, for those who didn’t see it on Colonel’s MOPAC thread. http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/acm.jpg An N-scale Saint Louis, Brownsville and Mexico fishbelly-underframe mill gondola bashed together from two Lima gons.
Thats SP steam engine is a BEAUTY! Thanks for the great coverage, and photos John. Wish I could have been there to meet you and others, and see the great show!
ACLer, the load on the flat car was made by Rapido and came as part of a set of "loads". Heico now sells it on a skid as a load. Kenneth, I agree witrh Jerry: William Cowie, I am in awe of the work done by the other "Gregg". He is truly an inspiration. You've got to say "That's N scale??? when you see his work.
Little work on the layout but did get this souvenir from the beach this weekend... Xtra 8315 , SD40-T2 drifts past Cape Blanco on way to Siskiyou Yard...
Holy Moly!!! Another nano-modeler!!! Randy, Chris and John Widmar just got company! Kenneth, well done is an understatement!!
Speaking of steam Greg, as in Thirdrail Greg , great job on your 2-8-0! Also great job on the flatcars deck!
Here's a shot of my Atlas WP VO-1000. I need to take care of the backwards tilt of the cab (which can be easily seen), and add WP's full handrails. Anyone have any suggestion on how to make the supports for the handrails?
I finished up my MDC 2-8-0 this week. I got a few detail parts from Republic Locomotive Works. These included DA sunbeam headlamps, air pumps, steam generator, and GHQ snow plow pilot. I also ordered some DA flared stakes but RLW sent an extra set of stacks marked “shay n/a” and they looked more like what I wanted so I used those. The tender cover was made from some HO MDC overton parts, a gun door from a pirate ship, and a RC car body mount post. The coal was made from fresh hand ground coffee grounds. The decals were also from RLW. I numbered it #234 because it made it really easy to cut out the decals, and because that number was never used by DRGW.
Nano-modeler? Hmmm.... Love the stuff tonight. The Rio Grande 2-8-0 is sweet stuff - I'm another RLW part fan..... that SP loco....magnificent..... Third_rail, great flat..... I don't remember back that far about the 2-8-0 project, so tell more when you get round to it. That union hall is great stuff, too. I did a Railcraft brass-side observation car as a private car to that level - including napkins and plates on the table, just to pi$$ the HO guys off on what could be done in N, and got the NMRA regional award many years ago. I suggest you do the same on that one!! That toilet tank really takes it over the top, nice work! As for me, I'm still hacking La Posada walls out of strathmore and I won't bore y'all with a week by week on that until it starts to LOOK like I've accomplished anything. It's still a lot of very precisely cut cardboard scraps.
