Weekend Update 11/13/16

[Mike Madonna]

Doug,

VERY nice... sounds good and the weathering really "ties" everything together. Thanks for sharing!

[Dave Schneider]

It's been a while since I posted any modeling. Maybe a couple of years. Here are a trio of shells from Shapeways that I used some Mr. Surfacer 1000 in an attempt to minimize the 3D printer artifacts. This may work, it might not. This stuff creates spiderwebs in mid air if the product to thinner  ratio is off. Probably more frustration than success so far, but there is some progress.

Best wishes, Dave

[Missaberoad]

It's been a while since I posted any modeling. Maybe a couple of years. Here are a trio of shells from Shapeways that I used some Mr. Surfacer 1000 in an attempt to minimize the 3D printer artifacts. This may work, it might not. This stuff creates spiderwebs in mid air if the product to thinner  ratio is off. Probably more frustration than success so far, but there is some progress.

Best wishes, Dave

Have you reordered them in FXD? mine is much better then the original FUD ones...

[Dave Schneider]

Have you reordered them in FXD? mine is much better then the original FUD ones...

Yes. The one in the front is FXD, the two in the back are FUD. Better, but as you know it isn't perfect. I cleaned the wax residue with a Bestine wipe rather than a soak.
What is your experience with the FXD in terms of print artifacts?

Best wishes, Dave

[davefoxx]

I'm making progress on my former SAL station:



More on the Seaboard Central 2.0 thread in the Layout Engineering forum.

DFF

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Seems to be a heavy Shapeways weekend so I'll add my little projects.


I still need to finish weathering, add a windshield, rear view mirrors and attach the cab at the proper angle. This is probably 95% prototypical for Conrail.

Finally painted up some Shapeways GMC work trucks:




These still need silver decals for headlights, light weathering, mirrors, beacon and crap in the back. This was the go-to work truck for Conrail in the 90's. Every yard had a small fleet of them. These models are available from Rapidpro and  printed in FXD. I used a Bestine soak, automotive sandable primer followed by Polly Scale Railbox yellow. Windows were bare primer followed by a wash of grime black then several layers of diluted Testor's Clear Parts Cement.

So yes, FXD can be cleaned up pretty well, but it does take a bit of effort.

[craigolio1]

Those  trucks are awesome!

[John]

I haven’t posted much lately but I did have the time to try out some weathering techniques on an Intermountain hopper this weekend. Inserted replacement hatch applied an acrylic wash followed by weathering powers and a light airbrush of grimy black and dirt. It certainly toned down the “newness “of the car.



Have a great weekend and keep up the great work everyone.

Chris Dittmar
BC Rail Chetwynd Sub.

Very nice effect ... I have to do that to all my cars some day ..

[bnsfdash8]

My smurf.

[jgiovenni]

Hi to all,
I'm writing form Italy, quite far from pacific northwest, but I like the early '70s era, where you was able to find consist like this:



Ciao!

Jgiovenni

[chuck geiger]

Trinidad, WA BNSF Columbia River Sub

[nkalanaga]

Jgiovenni and Chuck:  Nice to see the Northwest.  I remember a lot of consists like that on the early BN, which I why I'm modeling that period.

At the time it was also a practical decision.  Given the limited offerings in N scale in the early 70s, modeling a road with that many paint schemes made it a lot easy to find usable locos.  Walthers made GN BSB and BN decals, BN, GN Empire Builder and CB&Q red were fairly popular with manufacturers, and NP could usually be cobbled together from HO sets.  One of the few good large diesels of the time was the Minitrix U28C, which was available painted form the NP, which helped.

[mu26aeh]

Got some naphtha this morning and resoaked all parts again, then ran thru ultrasonic cleaner.  Did come out cleaner, some spots still fuzzy.  Painted up a couple extras, here is result

20161113_143549 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

20161113_150941 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

20161113_152327 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

[jpec]

These rock, Daniel! Where did you get the graphics for the doors?

Seems to be a heavy Shapeways weekend so I'll add my little projects.


I still need to finish weathering, add a windshield, rear view mirrors and attach the cab at the proper angle.

These still need silver decals for headlights, light weathering, mirrors, beacon and crap in the back. This was the go-to work truck for Conrail in the 90's. Every yard had a small fleet of them. These models are available from Rapidpro and  printed in FXD. I used a Bestine soak, automotive sandable primer followed by Polly Scale Railbox yellow. Windows were bare primer followed by a wash of grime black then several layers of diluted Testor's Clear Parts Cement.

So yes, FXD can be cleaned up pretty well, but it does take a bit of effort.

[jpec]

These are some newer offerings from Outland Models on eBay.  I knocked them out passing time at a train show yesterday. I think that the larger one might end up as an auto showroom. I added the air handlers on the roof from my Father Nature stash but more detail work to do. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

Jeff