Weekend Update 2/3/19

[randgust]

This has been an interesting project - I was commissioned to build the USAF MRS1 2104 (Vandenburg, now at the Campo railroad museum).   The shell was originally a Shapeways design that didn't really make it in FUD, was passed around and reprinted by another service and sent to me....and this was just amazing.  This is the best RP printed shell I've ever seen.   No sanding, no prepping, no nothing - other than a whole lot of detail and paint work on handrails, wire details, and getting the entire thing to work over a Kato RSC2 chassis that I got last year down at Altoona.   For those of you saying that an Atlas RSD4/5 would work better, I strongly disagree, as the performance of this chassis was just outstanding, and very little material had to be removed from the cab frame area to do it.







Yes, the door handles are individual bits of .010 wire, etched walks added, .010 wire handrails, and fully soldered end rails with rectangular .010x.020 stock.   Micro-scale decals, and computer-printed number boards.



Like most RP designs, it was done without much consideration for how it was ever going to work on a mechanism or a finished model, so if anybody else is trying this I've got two pages of detailed notes on all the dimensional modifications I had to make on the shell to make this work.

[Dave V]

Rico, Colorado; September 1941.  War is raging in Europe, North Africa, and China, while the Imperial Japanese Navy prepares for what it hopes is a decisive blow against the US 7th Fleet at Pearl Harbor.  For now, though, life in this mining town goes on much as it has for the last 48 years following the big Silver Panic of 1893.  The afternoon calm is shattered by the shrieking whistle of RGS 40 bringing a southbound freight into town.

[mu26aeh]

No modeling this weekend, yet, but I did place an order with BLW as he finally listed the few remaining Intermountain FP9's he had left.  It will be repainted to represent ex Algoma Central 1755, currently PREX 1755 on the Gettysburg & Northern railroad.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3367883

[dougnelson]

Doug,

Looks good. Which wheels did you use?

Truck wheel sets are from Cars N Scale. No idea if they are still available, but check with Fine N Scale products. I believe they sell the Cars N Scale line.

[chuck geiger]

New work at Dirt City, CA

[cbroughton67]

Here's my latest (more or less) completed scene on the Oregon Joint Line - a ranch at the summit of the grade at Snowline.  After looking at a lot of different trackside eastern Oregon ranches on Google Earth I decided I wanted one that would span both sides of the track.  So what better place for a road/cattle underpass than where a creek bed already passes under the tracks?  The backdrop photos are still in mockup stage and forthcoming adjustments are likely.   I used Z scale cattle towards the backdrop to force a little perspective.   
 

@coldriver That's some of the best, most compelling scenery I've seen. It's absolutely wonderful.


Chris

[nscalbitz]

Rico, Colorado; September 1941.  War is raging in Europe....

Ahhhh, sorry to dispute Dave, but depending upon your definition,  excepting commando intelligence raids and heavy bombing, there wasn't 'war' as commonly held. Nazi slaughter and oppression yes... just sayin'.
Allied didn't return to 'Europe' until July 1943,  the invasion of Sicily.
-- dave w--

[Dave V]

Ahhhh, sorry to dispute Dave, but depending upon your definition,  excepting commando intelligence raids and heavy bombing, there wasn't 'war' as commonly held. Nazi slaughter and oppression yes... just sayin'.
Allied didn't return to 'Europe' until July 1943,  the invasion of Sicily.
-- dave w--

Yeah, I know.  As an Air Force guy I tend to think of the Brits bombing Germany as "war raging."

[Tom Todd]

As most Americans tend to forget there was a lot of WAR in Eastern Europe.

Tom Todd

[nkalanaga]

Coldriver:  Looks good to me.  As for signs, how about a gate sign for the ranch?  Many had log "portals", often with deer or elk antlers, and a large plank hanging from the cross log with the ranch name on it.

Are those Atlas C630s?  They look better as substitute C636s than I thought they would.

[jagged ben]

Ahhhh, sorry to dispute Dave, but depending upon your definition,  excepting commando intelligence raids and heavy bombing, there wasn't 'war' as commonly held. Nazi slaughter and oppression yes... just sayin'.
Allied didn't return to 'Europe' until July 1943,  the invasion of Sicily.
-- dave w--

The definition of Europe is pretty well settled.   Google 'Operation Barbarossa' and compare the timeline to Dave's post.  (Also the USSR was one of the Allies.)

[wazzou]

Are those Atlas C630s?  They look better as substitute C636s than I thought they would.

The shape of the top of the cab reminds me of the shell being offered here on TRW.
Was it by @orionfield ?

[Bill H]

A yard shot most might not have seen - Yangon Myanmar aka Burma when I was growing up...
Kind regards,
Bill

[Bill H]

And an interesting truck arrangement on the yard switcher,
Kind regards,
Bill

[Carolina Northern]

Dave V.

Without the discussion of the War -  The scene you've built is terrific.

Don