Show Us your Weathering, Detailing and Scratch building!

[Santa Fe N Scale]

Bob, your stuff is great. Nice fades and detail.

Craig

[Santa Fe Guy]

Very nice weathering on the locos and cars.
Rod.

[GaryHinshaw]

Really nice Bob!  I like the treatment of the wheels and treads.  Great to see all the new work posted here.

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Did you know it was pronounced Mil-li-wah-kay?

[BobRunty]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. Detailing,painting, and weathering are my favorite aspects of the hobby. I really do need to get a layout started though.

Bob

[peteski]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. Detailing,painting, and weathering are my favorite aspects of the hobby. I really do need to get a layout started though.

Bob

But then you will be spending your hobby time on building the layout, not on super-weathering rolling stock. There are always tradeoffs.    I never started my layout (and most likely never will) because all my hobby time is already taken up by lots of projects.

[BobRunty]

But then you will be spending your hobby time on building the layout, not on super-weathering rolling stock. There are always tradeoffs.    I never started my layout (and most likely never will) because all my hobby time is already taken up by lots of projects.

You make an awfully good point there, Pete. I look at my growing pile of rolling stock and undec. locos and begin wondering if I'll live long enough, the typical modelers dilemma. This fall I started building a grain elevator diorama and have spent about two months on it so far and still have a ways to go. How do some of these guys get such beautiful large layouts built? I guess there's always Unitrack for me.

Bob

[bnsfdash8]

Here's NS 5273 I did awhile back:

[peteski]

You make an awfully good point there, Pete. I look at my growing pile of rolling stock and undec. locos and begin wondering if I'll live long enough, the typical modelers dilemma. This fall I started building a grain elevator diorama and have spent about two months on it so far and still have a ways to go. How do some of these guys get such beautiful large layouts built? I guess there's always Unitrack for me.

How do people build large layouts?  From my personal experience I can say that those people usually go for quantity vs. superdetailing.  Or another way is to find several friends who share their interest and build the layout as a team.  I belong to such group of people.  5 of us together, on Thursday nights for several years build a decent layout.  Each person has their specialty (some like trackwork, others electronics, yet another person might like to do scenery or superdetailing models).  Combined you have a team of people that can do a really good job building a layout. 

[Santa Fe Guy]

How do people build large layouts?  From my personal experience I can say that those people usually go for quantity vs. superdetailing.  Or another way is to find several friends who share their interest and build the layout as a team.  I belong to such group of people.  5 of us together, on Thursday nights for several years build a decent layout.  Each person has their specialty (some like trackwork, others electronics, yet another person might like to do scenery or superdetailing models).  Combined you have a team of people that can do a really good job building a layout. 

I had a pretty busy working schedule with lots of local, interstate and overs seas travel but made time for my hobby. In the early stages 1994, I had a friend help with the wood work, L Girder benches etc. Then we worked together on laying the track and wiring (DC block control originally) town by town. I did all the control panels and wiring. That done I built all the structures from kits, kit bashed or scratch built myself and did all of the scenery including the backdrop. Along the way I painted several locos and converted most of my rolling stock to M/T trucks. I have certainly had a lot of help and now that I am retired when the layout was extended to DCC and again when I introduced full CTC. It pays to have great mates with a like interest and different skills. It stimulates you and they in turn so it is a win win as far as I am concerned.
It's been a great journey for me and my mates and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Rod.

[Cajonpassfan]

How do people build large layouts?  From my personal experience I can say that those people usually go for quantity vs. superdetailing.  Or another way is to find several friends who share their interest and build the layout as a team.  I belong to such group of people.  5 of us together, on Thursday nights for several years build a decent layout.  Each person has their specialty (some like trackwork, others electronics, yet another person might like to do scenery or superdetailing models).  Combined you have a team of people that can do a really good job building a layout. 

All right, all I gotta do is find four more friends and I'm all set
Otto K.

[Puddington]

One of my better attempts from years gone by... I did a small brace of PC paper haulers and this one turned out kinda neat...



One of the better GN hoppers in my collection...



Got the roof right......



Makes Action Red look tolerable......



Just looks tired....



and one more hopper that got "gotten".....

[Bendtracker1]

A couple of Geep's I weathered a few years ago

[Santa Fe Guy]

A nice lot of weathering there. I really like them all.
Rod.

[Santa Fe N Scale]

Nice work by all!  Great variety in types and techniques.


Craig

[svedblen]

Wow! I love this one. I once had a CNW themed layout, and this brings out fond memories.