Welcome to this week's edition. Lets see what we can come up with to out-do last week. Here is a view of the saw tooth roof on my cotton gin storage shed. Also, where is Waldo? He and his fellow lineman are hanging around somewhere.
Nice work Russ! Is that Waldo & Co. on the telephone pole? Took me a while to find them... Here's some recent photo's of my layout that I doctored the backgrounds on: One of those infamous LL GP20 UP 474 at work: A higher shot of the same:
Bruce, Those photos look superb, Loco, that coal handling facility is coming along nicely, are they bethgon hoppers with load? Well today is a milestone for me, I actually painted and decaled a locomotive all by myself . I decided this morning it was time to paint one of the stripped GP40's and wanted another model in WP. I bought a Atlas WP GP40 last week and needed a second in the same livery. The only problem is the modelflex paint is much lighter than the Atlas paint I decided it didnt really matter and set out painting the model. 1. The first photo shows the masking to the front and rear of the shell as well as the front areas. 2. The second shot is of the shell after it has been painted. I had a problem with coverage of the orange paint and it took multiple coats to fully cover, this resulted in the paint being very thick so will have to work out why this happened. In the end though it looks pretty good. 3. The next two shots are of the finished loco all decaled and ready for service. After I applied decals I sprayed the shell with Microscale flat which takes the shine of the paint. 4. The final pic shows a comparison between the modelflex paint and the Atlas paint, I'm sure the modelflex is way to light but I'll take some modelling licence on it. Here the train is leading a WP load of boxcars with UP boxcars at the rear. Looks like I will be keeping an eye out on some WP rollingstock now .
Russell, I enlarged the picture and Waldo and his friend jumped right out at me. Nice photo. Here's a few from the RGW Excursion train near Pueblo. Freight train at Texas Creek. Passenger train at Royal Gorge bridge.
Great photos everyone! Scenic work on my hillside drags on, but sometimes I throw some temporary track and an Amtrak train on it to make sure everything looks right. Maybe I'll get some permanent track laid in a month or so.
Super pics everyone. Some of you have been a lot busier than me! Paul, good work on the locomotive. I see you have mastered the airbrush
I finally got my first locomotive painted and reassembled last night (even though it was not really dry!) Also added some ground cover to make it look better
Russell: Waldo!! You can't do that! This is serious modeling here! Colonel, that is a very nice WP engine. Nice masking, too. As a general rule, I would paint the lighter color first, if you can. Orange may be bad to get it to cover, but yellow will be almost impossible to get it to cover a dark color. Your engine came out very well. Alan, nice engine and nice rails. Nice weathering on the track. Bruce: Pretty nice foreground scenery there, too. Have we seen your weathered boxcars? [ 29. January 2005, 17:06: Message edited by: sapacif ]
Russell: That is a heck of a shed with the sawtooth roof. Was it taken from drawings? Did you kit bash it or scratchbuild? Is the prototype still standing? Very nice job!
Flash, Thank You, all the places on the RGW are named after locations that are near or West of Pueblo Colo. There is a Texas Creek in the area. The only place that isn't named after a prtotype place is Grimy Gulch.
Thanks. I worked from photos to scratchbuild it. I used Evergreen styrene sheet. It was demolished back in the 1960's.
Flash, Alan told me the same thing, so would you paint the smaller areas first then the rest of the body? I'm getting the impression I did it the wrong way as I painted the green first but masked the orange are off so I was painting the orange to the undec shell and not over the green?
Colonel: Yes, that is the way I would do it. It can be that masking may be too hard the other way. It is a judgement call on each engine that you do, but the lighter color first would be best. I am not a brass painter, but the primer for brass is usually light grey. All other colors, including yellow, will cover that nicely.
I zoomed in on a proto photo to get a good look at Waldo from another angle. You can see that they wore cowboy hats instead of hard hats in 1953.
