Weekend Update 5/22/11

[up1950s]

 
What have you done while the last week of everybody failed to deliver once again ?

[chuck geiger]

[Scottl]

I figured if the world was going to end, I'd get some time in working on the layout!

Mostly recent work rather than today's progress. 

I have been working on the lake scene and added a ME bridge, weathered with Tom Mann's salt technique:





I also reworked part of my yard for the engine shed and a new steel products yard.



More fascia work underway- the glued and screwed joint is curing.  Hope the world is still around tomorrow to see if it holds.

[mark dance]

Well we are still waiting for the end of the world up here in Vancouver...another 60 minutes to go!

This week I finished painting and weathering Snowslide Bridge and its abutments



I also added plater cloth, sculptamold and castings to the final 20' of upper decking without scenery.  Next week I have to cast a long retaining wall and begin carving the remaining rock work (the castings will account for about 50% of the exposed rock).



md

[SecretWeapon]

Looks great Mark.

[TrainCat2]

Spent the week testing the PRR N6B Centered and Offset Cupola kits. Here are two pics of the Centered Cupola:

[wm3798]

Enjoyed a visit from my nephew, and worked up a little something special for him...

The elephants are a just about right on for N scale, too...

[eric220]

I have been spending way too much money recently. First, I got a few new freight cars. They include a Bowser hopper in CN and all four of Craig's G31's in circle keystone.



Also, in order to round out my non-PRR fleet with other roads popular on The Railwire, I got a trio of these:



Now, close observers of that last photo might be wondering what that thing is that's coupled to the WM boxcar. Well, while I was perusing BLW for the aforementioned freight cars, I ran across one of their many tantalizing listings for something that they've been sold out of for a long time.  I decided that I wanted one anyway, so off to theBay I went. I found exactly one with a reasonable buy it now price, and four days later, it was in my hot little hands:



This is the Sunset Imports DD-1. It's my first brass locomotive, and I love it!



It almost looks quizzical. I made a short video demonstrating its running characteristics.

I have since installed a DZ123, and it's taken a few laps around Altoona. Still some tweaking to do as far as the DCC installation is concerned, but it's just about ready for service.

[S Class]

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more appropriate, less black and white and none of that pansy 'love' you humans like to go on about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

[Day One]

I've been working on a few projects this week.
-Painting more DPM structures and adding window glass to the buildings
-Adding resistors to FVM wheel sets and painting the wheels. I did 19 tonight as that's all the resistors I could source locally and so far I'm 0 for 19 in getting them to work.  > I'll let the silver paint dry over night and see if I can measure resistance across the wheels again tomorrow. If they still don't work I'm going to scrape the resistors off and try a different method for the next ones.
-I weathered a boxcar. Crappy iPhone pic for now because I didn't want to drag out the DSLR tonight.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

1967 Ford/ALF short wheelbase pumper
Athearn Cab and chassis, Bachmann pumper body.


The engine is visibly smaller than the Athearn SWB pumper.


Ford L8000 pumper

And I been working on a Linside cement mixer. The kit wasn't pretty, here is the manufacturer photo:
http://www.linesidemodels.com/images/cement.jpg

After rebuilding the body and chassis, this is what I have:

[James Costello]

Nice work Dan.

Got a Chuck-Pak this week with the Walthers Greenville hoppers. Overcast and rainy here most of the weekend, so not good conditions to weather these up, but played around for a body mount solution. MTL 1015s (countersunk screw) into the pre-drilled hole, BLMA 100T trucks and a MTL washer. Can't wait to give them a fade and some grime.... and hopefully Hay Bros rock load soon?

[sizemore]

The Rapture: God 0, Macho Man Randy Savage 1

The S.

[wm3798]

Nice catch on the DD-1, Eric.  That's a pretty handsome boxcar she's totin' there, too. 
Scott, the scenery's coming right along. 
Daniel, you've really salvaged that cement mixer.  The finished product should be your usual standard.  Nice.

[diezmon]

I decided to add a loop and staging to my shelf layout.. spent the afternoon extending the ends and reworking some track.

from this:


to this: