Weekend Update 3/13/16

[wm3798]

This may or may not fit with the weekend update, being as it was Monday...  But my kid sister does some pretty intricate work herself, and I thought it would be appropriate to show it here...



Note the rivet detail on the chocolate fountain, and the nice work on the scale Oompa Loompas...


The scenery work included giant chocolate bars, golden eggs, gobstoppers, and more Oompa Loompas...



Oh, and they won $10,000 on Food Network's Cake Wars.  Who says good models don't pay!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I have found that Model Master "Light Earth" spray makes a great tan brick color. The paint separates as it sprays and ends up spraying a couple colors of brown, tan and black to give the brick a multi color effect without all the work.

I like that. I like the effect, and that's interesting to hear about the color separation.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This may or may not fit with the weekend update, being as it was Monday...  But my kid sister does some pretty intricate work herself, and I thought it would be appropriate to show it here...

Oh, and they won $10,000 on Food Network's Cake Wars.  Who says good models don't pay!

That's awesome! Congrats to her.

Was it a .... chocolate cake?

[wm3798]

Not just chocolate, but several different types of chocolate, with a delectable filling of pecans and butter cream that... Oh... I have to be alone...

[Lemosteam]

I see a strong resemblance to Brohamus in the Oompa Loompa in the bucket there! 

[JMaurer1]

Looks more like G scale...and delicious

[Kisatchie]

Hmm... are the Oompa
Loompas edible...?

[wazzou]

@SkipGear - That building is awesome.  Nicely done.  It reminds me of a newspaper building in a small town, maybe.

[James Costello]

@SkipGear - That building is awesome.  Nicely done.

Yeah, great looking build @SkipGear - which kit is that?

Love the finish and paint job.

[SkipGear]

Yeah, great looking build @SkipGear - which kit is that?

Love the finish and paint job.

Thanks for the compliments. There is much more to do on it. I'm deciding on interior and lighting or not. I need to at least make floors in the building so you can't see in one window and out the other floor. Still need to decide on a name and purpose for the building and add a main entrance driveway on the big blank front face. It's going to serve as a backdrop for a small steam service area that has a coaling tower, loco shed, and machine shop so far.

The kit started as a DPM Good Night Mattress Co. I rearranged/unfolded the parts to make it a background building. The two short 3 story walls were glued together to make one long wall and maintain the same window spacing.  The back of it will be up against the backdrop. The rooftop access is some scrap Walthers modular parts as well as the vents which are all just setting on the roof for now.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Don't think I posted the basement dimensions before. Now I need help with a track plan.

[eric220]

The Oil City-Olean line was ridden by my father 'commuting' on this line in 1925-28, riding to Warren every day to go to business college.   The first year he said it was a self-propelled car (doodlebug), the second year he said it was a regular steam train.   I've always found that interesting and wondered if those gas-electric cars were really that unreliable, or what, but for some odd reason, the D16's stayed on the run until the bitter end in 1937, and it's documented in photos.   The WNYP book by Pietrak states this was the last regularly scheduled passenger run by D16's, but that leaves the Delmarva ones that ran even later unmentioned.     I've had the good fortune to ride and photograph 1223 before she was stuffed and mounted back in the museum at Strasburg.   I also had one of those American Flyer 4-4-0's in the 60's that sorta-kinda looked like a D16, so if there's any PRR steam that I have an actual emotional attachment to, it's the D16.    When it ran on the Strasburg, I was impressed by how fast it could accelerate, maybe not pull the heaviest train, but could make a short train stand up and notice for sure.

Here's one of them - at the north/west end of the run at Olean, NY:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PRR_6217_Olean,_NY.jpg

There's a really old shot published in the Pietrak book at Irvineton about 1890 with three of them on three different trains - and before the drivers were reduced in size.   This was really D16 county here.

I have the L1, two PRR cabooses, the doodlebug (Bachmann) already; just enough to establish PRR flavor.

I also remember riding behind 1223. When I got the set of Athearn cars lettered for the Strasburg (of course, purchased at Strasburg), I asked the guy at the store what locomotive best approximates one of theirs. He gave me a few ideas, but admitted that none were particularly close. Then I discovered the old Model Power Atlantic. It even came lettered in PRR with guess what number on the cab: 1223.



It's not a perfect match, but it's pretty darn close. It's at least as close as any of the cars are to their prototypes.

[basementcalling]

Don't think I posted the basement dimensions before. Now I need help with a track plan.

@daniel_leavitt2000, how are the stairs positioned to go up? Do they start at the top of that indent and rise as they run down the drawing, or the reverse?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

@daniel_leavitt2000, how are the stairs positioned to go up? Do they start at the top of that indent and rise as they run down the drawing, or the reverse?

The stairs go up moving towards the closet.