Hello all !! For the scrap yard of a garage on my layout a needed a dumpster and the truck to carry it. This kind of truck but in a little bit older version : At this time ( 2 years ago) the NJI dumpste model does no exist. So i have fully scratch built one in evergreen card : There is 51 different pieces. Some brass round is used to made the grip and door clamps.
For the truck i bring a ford C van truck from Athern. I have removed the rear box. The telescopic arm is made with 2 different section of scare evergreen strips. Styrene car is use to make the fixation of the hydraulic jack. This hyraulic jack i made with 2 brass tube witch can be imbricated. Brass rod are solded at the end of each tube to fit the card fixations. The rails an U shape stips from evegreen :
For the primer aplication i have masked the factory painted part of the truck. The primer is the one from Alclad II. The dumptser have been painted in blue after priming. All paints opperations are made with an airbrush. The bumpster : The truck : The both togever :
Here is the truck on the scrap yard : The weathring and some load in the dumpster are the only things that remain to do ...
WOW!!! Nice scratch building and kit bashing work. One couldn't tell just by looking at the finished midel. Excellent stuff! The scenery details are awesome.
Some more pics : An old house : The painting is realised with a wash of china ink,some aceton is apply an airbrush white paint is done. Before drying you make the scrape effect with adesive paper. Another view of the warehouse : The farm shed is scratchbuilt buiding with styrene strips and campbell corrugated aluminium sheets :
Hello all !! Here is the last video made on my layout : 8 hours of work to film and on movie maker ... it my first video with editing. :tb-biggrin: It's shoot with a all new camera hight définition, so you can watch it in full screen on U tube. Dont hesites to put comments on my u tbe channel too.:tb-tongue: Here the link, i hope you will enjoy this video :
I just found this thread and all I can say is wow! You have some incredible tallent and your layout is very well constructed. Definately glad you're sharing your tallents here with us on Trainboard.
Hello all. To fit my garage with gaz pump, i need a fuel tank. The base is a small 2 axles french tank car from Minitrix. The railroads typical details have been removed from the tank. After that i have made the protection pit with careved plastic cardboard and sqare plastic rods from evergreen. I have solded some brass rods to make the pipes. Some parts of the car details (valves, support's ...) have been recycled to make valves and electrical box. The pump and it's motor have been built with a styrene rod and the exact imbricated pipe. A big square section of styrene rod repesent the electrical box. The differents pieces putted togever : More to come ...
The deferent pieces have been primed in grey : An home made texaco star logo have been realised with tamiya masking paper. A circal mask for the white: Had the star in the center for the red : The tamiya acrilics paints are applyed with an airbrush.
Finaly the weathering operations: And airbrush dirting is followed by addind black and rusty pigments touch to make leakages.
Hello all, a swal Video from a test run of the heavy moutain spectrum : It is a great engine !! And here are some new pics of the layout : I am starting an extention of the layout with an engine terminal and a yard. Here is the bench work :
Bonjour de votre ami "Little Puddy"....Vos trains sont encore fantastiques ! Je n'ai jamais vu un meilleur Rio Grande chemin de fer modèle. J'espère que vous allez bien; Little Puddy est de retour à la maison et travaillant dur! Merci !
