Nice shots! Always love to see N&W equipment featured, even though it seems like a lot of fuss for a single furnace... :tb-wink: No new shots or progress on my layout. I've pretty much taken the month off. For some reason it's hard to get motivated to work in the basement in the middle of summer. :sun2::sun:
Here's a couple more photos from some work I did back in the spring, learning painting and weathering. A couple of Athearn undec flats, sprayed Tuscan Red, lettered, then weathered. The deck is painted gray acrylic that I then sanded to give wood grain. I painted the new boards with a mix of yellow and brown, then "washed and wiped" the deck with thinned maroon, black and brown acrylics, just trying different things till it sort of looked OK. George V.
Here's what I've been slaving away on this past week. I recently put up a new backdrop background. As usual Murphy had to make his contribution. This time it was in the form of one of the background panels being put together incorrectly. Guess which one went up first. By the time I realized I'd put up the one that would be incompatible with the others it was too late. So the scene where the two panels join shows a radical shift in scenery which you can see in photos 5 and 6. I'll work in some scenery components later to make the error less obvious.
For a change of pace, a few overall pictures of the layout. More under my photobucket folders Larry http://s527.photobucket.com/albums/cc354/ClinchValley/
What a showcase this weekend! I haven't posted this image before. It is similar to one I shot at the same time where I showed a FM H24-66 emerging from this tunnel. It has been about a year now, so here is the same setting, but with none the less than our favourite K4s, #1361.
Very fab shots this week! Setting the bar high! I'm at the other end: just completed laying a wee bit more of track down to the end of the first section to a crossover/two turnout fixture & back into an industry siding. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWVp29OYRs"]YouTube - D&BS RR to 1st Crossing & back to Queequeg's Caskets n' Harpoonz[/ame] Forgot there was a mic on the camera, so deep & moving soundtrack bonus Notice the charming helicopter shot at the end. cool: Keep 'em rollin', lads! Cheers & happy weekend! --Mark
SNFF 2009 08 22 Hi, all, My contribution for this week is two informal product review photos of the new N scale Walthers 72' smoothside baggage cars (Walthers p/n 932-55092): And some short comments: Nice cars. They come without numbers - a decal sheet for all the road names is included with the instructions, in the proper font for the railroad. The Santa Fe numbers are 3555 through 3564 ( a total of 10 different numbers, and each of these Santa Fe numbers is repeated 4 times (i.e. there are 4 decals for #3555, for example). Rides smoothly, no problems running it at head end of a 8 car train, couplers look like Accumates to me, and they couple nicely with standard Kato passenger cars couplers (both the older corrugated cars as well as the newer Super Chief cars).
SP Bay Window caboose follows a Piggyback train with red light on to protect the rear. Caboose is a MT model, and the lighting was installed by David Mac Kinnon. I met him at the N Scale Convention in Portland.
Here's a different angle on a RBOX I did a while back. It was sprayed with alcohol and lightly scrubbed with a small brass bristle brush. After a quick rinse it was sprayed with an alcohol/black acrylic wash.
