Weekend Update 5/3/15

[coosvalley]

Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your comments are very encouraging!...Now if only I had sweet trackwork like Chris333's to run it on!!!

[skytop35]

I continue to make progress on repainting my City of Los Angeles set. Sleeper-Lounge Ogden is fresh out of the shops with silver trucks and tinted windows. Only two more cars to go !

[chicken45]

PRR R50b.


Details here:
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=35130.msg426086

[dick green]

Chicken great job.

A little hint for those who don't know it. If you save the photo and open it paint (only cause everyone has it and its simple to use) and reduce to actual size on your screen you'll see just how real this car will look on the layout.

Dick

[dick green]

This is what I got done this week.



That's a lot of windows! and the lamp is pretty bright

Dick

[Cajonpassfan]

Josh, that turned out really good! 
Otto

[milw156]

Spent part of the weekend making up a couple sets of larger pipe loads. Having second thoughts about the height, but they are within a few inches of a Red Caboose auto rack and are a little over 4 scale feet in diameter.



Thoughts....

[johnb]

This is what I got done this week.



That's a lot of windows! and the lamp is pretty bright

Dick

Nice, DPM components?

[Lemosteam]

PRR R50b.


Details here:
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=35130.msg426086

Gorgeous, filthy work of art!  Really nice Josh!

[dick green]

Nice, DPM components?

Thanks John

Kinda sorta but not really. Its one gripps luggage it. I cut the walls at the pilasters, sand the edges square and glued them together. That's the kinda sorta part
I'm surprised I got an eighteen inch building out of one kit.



Dick

[carlso]

milw156,

I think those pipe loads look very prototypical. The walls of the pipe are not too thick, what did you use.

Carl

[basementcalling]

The Idaho Belt continues to wait anxiously for Inland Empire Paper to complete construction  of their new pulp and paper mill.

Progress is ongoing. With the nice weather, spray bombs could be used outside safely, though some leakage under the masking tape complicated matters on the new recovery boiler. The background is a simple 8-10 print on regular paper just to test an image. Thinking I may be able to get away with several photos cropped and mounted on the backdrop rather than a long collage or mural take continuous print.



Although not completely ready for prime time, the penthouse of the paper machine building is almost completed. Rooftop details and some touch up on two corner joints is needed, but playing around with using Durham's Water Putty brushed on  for mortar proved successful, I think. Weathering to come, but after a misting with wet water to set the powder, it seems to hold well.



See more on my layout engineering thread.

[milw156]

milw156,

I think those pipe loads look very prototypical. The walls of the pipe are not too thick, what did you use.

Carl

K & S brass tubing. If I do any more, I will use aluminum instead, the pipes weigh in at 2 ounces! I had gotten some of the Protoloads (see the 3rd flatcar) and just wasn't that impressed with them, or the choices available in N, so that led to this. I have a few different sizes, and am trying to come up with a way of making them interchangable with each other and a girder load just so I am not running the same loads all of the time, or just running them empty
Rick

[nkalanaga]

Removable loads:  If there are holes in the floor, from removing trailer hitches, or whatever, align some of the dunnage with them, and put pins on the bottom of the boards.  They'd stay in place, be easily removed, and wouldn't require any further modification of the cars.

[johnb]

Tried using chinchilla dust as dirt......not happy with the results