Weekend Update 3/27/16

[Chris333]

For the street into the building I would just put a building wall inside against the wall and let the road taper to a point. Unless it is direct view it should work out.

[Chris333]

I painted a river bottom this week. Went from this 


to this 

[mighalpern]

very nice Chris.  and thats all just paint, or did you pour something on top??

[Chris333]

Just paint, will add "water" later.

[up1950s]

Gonna put submerged and semi submerged stuff in before the pour ? Bike , fishes , rotten row boat , stones , box .

[Chris333]

I'm not going crazy just plopping down Mod Podge like this:

[arbomambo]

Getting ready to start adding pilot details to this lineup...

[altohorn25]

Got the last 12 of my FVM rib side boxcars decaled with individual numbers.  I have about 30 of these now.  Decals compliments of Mike Skibbe.
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[Puddington]

Another CN car on the Puddington RR ???

The flu ( or, memory test here the Flo) must be getting to you .

I just can't pretend that CN doesn't exist.... if wishing made it so.... I can, however, make as much fun as is humanly possible of "Crash Natural" and enjoy every minute of it......

CN, the Montreal Canadiens of my railroad..... Booooooo!

[BobRunty]

For some reason I decided I needed a CB&Q waycar...or three.  Anyway, this is a Micro-Trains kit-bash.  My question to you Q guys out there is;  Do you know of any 28' wood waycars painted red with the full color logo?  If so, what road number did it have?  Thanks!

Nice work Andrew. Would like to know what was involved.
I know you posted this question over on the Q list. I'm at work so I can't check my resources now but if you don't hear anything in a day or two I'll look through my books and photos and see what I can come up with.


Bob

[Bendtracker1]

Still waiting for some shop time to get my cabinet boxes cut out, I started getting the layout cleaned off and staged in hopes of another Ops session. While I was doing this an old nagging feeling arose which was the need for some loads on those empty open cars like flat cars, gons and open hoppers. One of the industries, Heavy Metal needs flat cars with steel loads. I have enough flat cars but was a little short on Bulkhead flats.
Started snooping around to purchase a few more and couldn't believe the cost of them these days! 

After digging through my detail stash I found some old Red Caboose bulkhead kits from years ago. They made some nice bulkhead kits to convert flat cars back in the day before anyone made them. So I sat down at the bench one night got three Athearn 53'ers converted.



You can see more on the Blog


Last night I played around with something I've been wanting to do for years! That is to do something about those FAKE looking wood decks!
I know there are some Peel-N-stick kits made from laser cut wood that look awesome, but at $3.49 per deck, I figured I could weather them myself for a fraction of that.
So I visited my old friend Google in search of "Making plastic look like wood" and stumbled across an article where a guy used cheap acrylic paint and a wash to turn plastic molded decks into realistic looking wood decks.

Here's a couple of quick shots until I get things posted to the blog.





May not be perfect, but beats the hell out of the factory, mono colored decks!
Next I'll have to get out my weathering kits and attack the whole cars.

[ncbqguy]

"For some reason I decided I needed a CB&Q waycar...or three.  Anyway, this is a Micro-Trains kit-bash.  My question to you Q guys out there is;  Do you know of any 28' wood waycars painted red with the full color logo?  If so, what road number did it have?  Thanks!"

Andrew-
I have a pretty extensive collection of known CB&Q Waycar photos mostly from Joe Douda whose collection was a large part of The Burlington Waycars book.

Going through them and the book I cannot find any standard 28’ waycars with the full color (Red Black & White) herald.

Most of the Chinese Red painted 28’ with Burlington Gothic lettering waycars had the plain white herald with no background:
  14118
  14584
  14096
Others had the same with a black background which made a black edge outside of the herald:
  14248 with white stripe under number to indicate local service
A few had the white herald with the white herald border broken by stencil ties:
  14602
Others had the same with a black background which made a black edge outside of the herald:
  14591
  14148 with white stripe under number to indicate local service
  14248 with white stripe under number to indicate local service
 
There were three window cars that had the full color herald but they were stretched to 30’ when they had the steel underframes applied….the extra length added on the long end before the windows  (14240, 14160 with white stripe under number to indicate local service), on the short end before the cupola, or sometimes in between the center or either end window!

If you did not shorten the Microtrains body to 28’ then you can use:
14539 ....but, as luck would have it, the window is offset on the other end of the car from the wide space you have between the front and center window.

Nice job on the overall look, especially the cupola!!  The Bachmann old-timer trucks are decent stand-ins but Eric Cox has the correct CB&Q #7 trucks available on Shapeways and they are excellent....he also has the longer similar #2 passenger car truck.

Best regards,
Charlie Vlk

[ncbqguy]

CORRECTED TEXT...PLEASE IGNORE PREVIOUS

"For some reason I decided I needed a CB&Q waycar...or three.  Anyway, this is a Micro-Trains kit-bash.  My question to you Q guys out there is;  Do you know of any 28' wood waycars painted red with the full color logo?  If so, what road number did it have?  Thanks!"

Andrew-
I have a pretty extensive collection of known CB&Q Waycar photos mostly from Joe Douda whose collection was a large part of The Burlington Waycars book.

Going through them and the book I cannot find any standard 28’ waycars with the full color (Red Black & White) herald.

Most of the Chinese Red painted 28’ with Burlington Gothic lettering waycars had the plain white herald with no background:
  14118
  14584
  14096
Others had the same with a black background which made a black edge outside of the herald:
  14248 with white stripe under number to indicate local service
A few had the white herald with the white herald border broken by stencil ties:
  14602
Others had the same with a black background which made a black edge outside of the herald:
  14591
  14148 with white stripe under number to indicate local service 
There were three window cars that had the full color herald but they were stretched to 30’ when they had the steel underframes applied….the extra length added on the long end before the windows  (14240, 14160 with white stripe under number to indicate local service), on the short end before the cupola, or sometimes in between the center or either end window!

If you did not shorten the Microtrains body to 28’ then you can use:
14539 ....but, as luck would have it, the window is offset on the other end of the car from the wide space you have between the front and center window.

Nice job on the overall look, especially the cupola!!  The Bachmann old-timer trucks are decent stand-ins but Eric Cox has the correct CB&Q #7 trucks available on Shapeways and they are excellent....he also has the longer similar #2 passenger car truck.

Best regards,
Charlie Vlk

[Scottl]

Starting to build up the scenery and sight lines in the Thompson Canyon.

[Cajonpassfan]

Oooh
Otto