My CP Rail D&H division

Jan:

I like them all! But I think I agree with Tbone's selection:



I love the swath of meadow grass in the foreground - very natural looking. My only suggestion might be to include a little bit more sky -- if you cropped it in the original photo -- just to open the scene up a bit. It's so nice.

Fireball's suggestion to submit them all and let them choose might be the way to go too.

Really nice work - I look forward to seeing it in print!

Best,
Gary

P.S. Maybe you should post this to the MR forum, in the N scale thread that Lee started (unless that somehow affects publishing it).

 

Thanks for the advice guys, here is some final recropping:



Gary, do you have a link to the MR forum you wrote of?

My best,
Jan

 

:tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin:

 

Excellent! Very nice composition. Here is the MR thread:

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/167970.aspx

in celebration of the 50th anniversary of N scale. [I encourage all TB'ers to contribute a shot to show MR what N scale can be.]

Good luck with the submission Jan,
Gary

 

Hope nobody is sick of pictures, because I took a load of them this morning, so here is weathered or custom rolling stock and locos on my D&H division:

First is an FVM Guilford boxcar with some freehand graffiti, FVM wheels, and a fade coat:



Next up is a nasty nasty Railgon scrap service gondola by Athearn:



A lightly "browned" Omya covered hopper:



Here is a better shot of a CSX boxcar I previously posted:

 

Next up is a NOKL centerbeam:



a CHTT centerbeam:



A better picture of a CN covered hopper:



An LBF CP box:

 

Here are a trio of Ciment Quebec hoppers:



A UTLX tank car:



A Procor tank:



A DJJX scrap gon:

 

For the coal trains:



PPLX :




Please Atlas, make more of these!

RBMN:



CP 5419, an ex-MP unit with a high headlight, reloacted the horn, added sideview mirrors and weathered:

 

A sister unit to 5419, 5427 is also an ex-MP unit with highheadlight and reloacted horn but no sideview mirrors, but weathered:



a top shot:



An MWCX hopper:



and from the "nearly finished column" here are shots of my waiting for BLMA wheels 40' 5-unit cut-down Walthers thrall wellcars:

 

Last shots of the cut-down wells:





Thanks for looking and have a good one!
my best
J

 

Wow...great photos. Love the looks of those CP Rail locos!

Thanks for posting the pics!

 

It's a RR a fashion show! Really nice work Jan - I really like your taste in rolling stock, and there is a lot to study and admire here.

What shade of blue did you use on the hubs of the cement hopper trucks? That looks just right.

I really wish someone (like ExactRail) would come out with a new 60' high-cube box, like the old LBF/Huberts model, which is somewhat hard to find now.

Best,
Gary

 

Thanks Gary,
the blue is Polyscale St. Lawrence blue.

I could also really use 60' high-cube boxcars in CP and TTX, you gotta figure exactrail is gonna get to them sooner or later, they're a guaranteed seller...

As for my choices, I try to stick with what I see in the videos of CP action in the northeast.

Love your CP AC4400, and are you up to something with a reefer boxcar? (I was checking your Thrall wellcar photos as a reference and saw some new stuff on your picasa photos!)

Here are 2 more I took some photos of:




My best,
Jan

 

Great, I'm going to give that a try.

Ah, that's why it all looks so authentic. I'm a big believer in using videos as reference for things like this. I've watched my Tehachapi and Cajon videos dozens of times!

Thanks! The reefer was my attempt to make an ARMN model from the Athearn/MDC car. I botched the paint job somewhat, so I gave it to Tom Mann and he's going to rescue it and have some fun with it now.

Is that a Microscale graf decal? Really nice job on that hopper.

Also, a few more questions if I may: What loads are you using on the center beams in yesterday's post? And how did you do the rust on the door of the CSX box, it looks great!

Thanks,
Gary

 

Hiya Gary,

thanks once again for your kind compliments. As for the grafitti, that is indeed a microscale decal, although I can't recall what sheet its off- I throw remnants of all my various grafitti sheets in an envelope to pull when I need so that was a remnant of one of those sheets.

The centerbeam loads are colombus trainmaster loads I got from www.pwrs.ca they are real nice and have a lot of variety, including half loads, torn loads, 3/4 loads, etc. (as I have upgraded my freight with wheels and weathering I have been trying to upgrade loads as well, from Colmbus and Hays brothers amongst others)

The door on the CSX box was done with brushes and acrylic paints in the umber and sienna series, and a whole lot of luck!

I'm getting ready to do 2 or 3 locos- another CP SD40-2 and a RBMN snoot SD40-2 and then back to the layout to get it in shape for the summer train season (its Florida-- outside in winter, inside during the summer rains!).... of course, the exactrail CP gons just came in....

my best,
Jan

 

SWEET!!! I am a gon junkie.

 

Really beautiful models here, nice work!

 

Thanks guys!

T-bone, I have been loving the gons also, got two more athearns to do and 3 of the new exactrails to pick up, good stuff to come!

my best,
Jan

 

I finally got through another Maxi III (my last one!), here are shots of this weathering, graffiti, and some paint-outs:

 

More of the Maxi III, and the other sides: