Working on my next project. Got away from painting NS locos for a bit and started on the old coaling tower that sits in Bluefield yard. I've been putting it off for about 8years to build it. Started with a funnel and PVC pipe. Scott
That looks great! All kinds of building materials there. Where did you get that fancy magenta colored cutting board?? Or did you do that with computer graphics?
About ten or twelve years ago I scratchbuilt a similar concrete coaling tower in O scale using matboard, posterboard,and toothpicks. It has stood proudly on my O gauge pike in my basement. It is always a hoot to pick it up and hand it to a guest. Since it is mostly made of lightwiehgt materials it hardly weighs much and certainly not as much as it looks like it should weigh. I have access to an unlimited amount of matboard since my wife owns a picture frame shop. Matboard is a great modelling material and is (after painting) very sturdy. The hardest part of the project was the research and the preparation of the drawings. It made a pretty good model and cost next to nothing. Keep up the good work....it's guys like you that puts the "model" back in model railroading. Odd-d
Very nice! You have captured the lines of a very distinctive prototype quite well. Is this full scale or compressed? -gfh
