Weekend Update 7/25/21

[Dave V]

The first test of two simultaneous trains on my unfinished Colorado Midland N scale layout.

[sirenwerks]

Pretty much finished on a new design Budd Cab Car, but need to go heavier on the weathering to simulate washed sides and dirty roof. I designed the shells and 3D printed them on a Form 3 with chassis donors from the Kato CNW 400 set. I'll have the model(s) at STL RPM if any of y'all are going!

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Are those end ladders 3D prints or etched?  If they're 3D printed, there is hope for all of my IMRC boxcars yet....

[garethashenden]

Started work on my covered bridge. More in the Mill Street layout thread.

[Pomperaugrr]

Early evening outside the N scale HRRC shop.  The RS3M #9935 has a fresh coat of primer as part of its restoration.  All is quiet on this Sunday evening.

[craigolio1]

Over the last couple of days I built the module frames for two large bridges. Both are in the Malahat mountain range in Vancouver Island. The first is the Niagara Canyon bridge. It’s a spectacular 525ft double cantilever which will be built at some point, but for now us represented by a scale size wood mick up.





The second will be a curved (sort of a hockey stick shape) plate girder bridge which is slightly smaller. The photo doesn’t show it well but the ends are skewed (77 deg on the right and 84 deg on the left) so the module that lead into this one, and the one that joins the two will have nice S mountain side curves on them.








On the prototype the two bridges are only about 1 mile apart.

Craig.

[GhengisKong]

Pretty much finished on a new design Budd Cab Car, but need to go heavier on the weathering to simulate washed sides and dirty roof. I designed the shells and 3D printed them on a Form 3 with chassis donors from the Kato CNW 400 set. I'll have the model(s) at STL RPM if any of y'all are going!

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See thru fans on the roof, and side intake vents
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And a video of the lights installed inside:

Holy crap I thought those were HO for sure! Well done, Alvin, extremely well done!

[Wutter]

Are those end ladders 3D prints or etched?  If they're 3D printed, there is hope for all of my IMRC boxcars yet....

They are etched Trainworx 602 Freight Car ladders that have been modified to look narrower by folding the side rails perpendicular and by removing a few steps from the bottom. I did try a 3D printed ladder originally but it didn't have the thin look that I was going for even with beefy side rails, also by using an etched ladder I could stand it off from the surface of the shell easier to sneak the chevron signs behind the ladders.

[craigolio1]

Pretty much finished on a new design Budd Cab Car, but need to go heavier on the weathering to simulate washed sides and dirty roof. I designed the shells and 3D printed them on a Form 3 with chassis donors from the Kato CNW 400 set. I'll have the model(s) at STL RPM if any of y'all are going!

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See thru fans on the roof, and side intake vents
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And a video of the lights installed inside:

Those are spectacular! How did you do the windows for those cars?

Craig

[TiogaTracks]

Wow, great work everyone.  And here I just dug more dirt…

…then just ran a train!!! 

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More cool photos here.

-Steven

[Wutter]

Those are spectacular! How did you do the windows for those cars?

Craig

The window "glass" itself is actually a "clear brown PVC" sheet made by Dutch company called Maquett, https://www.maquett.nl/product/pvc-clear-colored-604/ but I'm not sure where to get it in the US, I suppose smoke tinted clear styrene would have similar results but I've never been able to get a finish that I'm happy with when using paint. Behind the clear brown PVC sheet is also strips of Rosco 4315 Cyan Filter to give it a slight blue tint, its subtle but it can be seen in the side vents picture on the upper windows, versus the clear windows of the doors.

If you're asking about the gaskets on the windows, they're done using a black paint pen after painting the entire cars metallic silver. Takes a lot of time but I found it easier to draw consistently with a felt tip versus a brush.

[craigolio1]

The window "glass" itself is actually a "clear brown PVC" sheet made by Dutch company called Maquett, https://www.maquett.nl/product/pvc-clear-colored-604/ but I'm not sure where to get it in the US, I suppose smoke tinted clear styrene would have similar results but I've never been able to get a finish that I'm happy with when using paint. Behind the clear brown PVC sheet is also strips of Rosco 4315 Cyan Filter to give it a slight blue tint, its subtle but it can be seen in the side vents picture on the upper windows, versus the clear windows of the doors.

If you're asking about the gaskets on the windows, they're done using a black paint pen after painting the entire cars metallic silver. Takes a lot of time but I found it easier to draw consistently with a felt tip versus a brush.

Wow. Very impressive detail. Thanks for the description. 

[w neal]

Debuted one of my new shadowbox layouts at the Spring Creek show this past weekend. Nice to connect with some fellow modelers. I managed to get some details accomplished for people to look at. Always more to get accomplished...









I have to add that the people who run Spring Creek Model Trains are wonderful people. They went above and beyond to make sure that my wife & I not only arrived safely at the show, but made it home afterwards. Wonderful people.

[milw156]

Debuted one of my new shadowbox layouts at the Spring Creek show this past weekend. Nice to connect with some fellow modelers. I managed to get some details accomplished for people to look at. Always more to get accomplished...

I have to add that the people who run Spring Creek Model Trains are wonderful people. They went above and beyond to make sure that my wife & I not only arrived safely at the show, but made it home afterwards. Wonderful people.

Loved that Whiskey Southern patchout! I have several of those in my fleet, and many more in my future.
Rick

[peteski]

Wow. Very impressive detail. Thanks for the description.

For flat "windows" theatrical gels are available in many, many colors!  Google search should bring up many suppliers like https://www.filmandvideolighting.com/gel-sheets.html

[bbunge]

For flat "windows" theatrical gels are available in many, many colors!  Google search should bring up many suppliers like https://www.filmandvideolighting.com/gel-sheets.html

Years ago, the midwest city I lived in had a stage/production store.  You could stop in and they would either give you a set of those roscolux gel sample packets or sell you a sample pack for $2.  Of course they thought I was going to come back to buy the large sheets that go over the stage lights.  I didn't tell them I was using them make filters to use in a 1.25-inch diameter telescope eyepiece to look at planets with (blue shows clouds on Mars, red shows dust on Mars, etc). 

I would think for a lot of projects, those sample packs would work great for a lot of n-scale projects.  They are about 3-inches long and about 1.5-inches deep and have about 100 different colors.

Bob


Bob