Weekend Update 4/26/15

[SAH]

I think I'm finished with the SD9 redo.  Just the right amount of weathering, to my eye anyway.
And to think Miles is doing 25 of these brutes!!!!  A better man than I.

[unittrain]

I think I'm finished with the SD9 redo.  Just the right amount of weathering, to my eye anyway.
And to think Miles is doing 25 of these brutes!!!!  A better man than I.

Awesome  by the way what do you use for the trackside brush? It's done perfectly!

[strummer]

+1

Mark in Oregon

[Chris333]

Awesome  by the way what do you use for the trackside brush? It's done perfectly!

I was also wondering about the brush. Doesn't look like foam.

[craigolio1]

Out of the box Kato. must be the lighting!

Indeed. It looks very real.

Craig

[craigolio1]

Well, I received a couple of Pacific Great Eastern locos from the custom painter.  (Jim Vaughn)  Then I took them to a friends (Walt Huston) layout for photography.  The paint is from a "recipe" given to me by Greg Kennelly, and decals are by Daly Designs.  Anyway I like them, hope you do too.

It turns out my photos are too big. Railwire would not allow the posting.

Tom

I'd sure like to see those. If they won't fit here, do you have a photo bucket account where you can shrink them?

Here are a couple I did a few years back, for another modeller, using Daly Designs decals and Greg's formula.

[GN Fan]

Here is another try.
Tom


Another black box with X.  I cut the image in 1/2 meaning 1/4 of the pixels and still no good.  I'll try this.

http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/gntrains/media/c50b7306-0c67-4977-abf0-4567fe24072a_zpscvjknhwh.png.html?sort=3&o=0

[PGE_Modeller]

Craig and Tom,

Thanks for posting your PGE locomotives - nice to see others' results from the paint mixes I developed a number of years ago!  I would post the mixes here but, since the two colours (Seaboard Air Line Chinese Red and Railbox Yellow) needed to mix PGE Orange did not make the transition from POLLY Scale to Model Master Acryl, it would be rather pointless.  For anyone else wishing to paint locomotives, Budd cars (RDCs) or cabooses in the orange scheme, the colour you are trying to match is Pantone 1375C.  A swatch of this should be available from many printing shops.

Cheers,

[Missaberoad]

Tom,
Its not a file issue you need to right click on the image and select "View image" then copy that web address and put it between the img tags...

Here's Toms original photo... nice clean build!! 

[mmagliaro]

Current state of my "Klaus Bros. Furniture", which is a Bar Mills Pinkham's Pallets kit with some of the walls and loading
docks rearranged to fit the sidings I have in mind for it, and so it doesn't look like all the other Pinkham's Pallets kits out there 

The namesake is our dog.  I need to find an N Scale Doberman (or something close to it that I can repaint)
 to put on the loading dock following the owner around.

I am really enjoying making this.  The kit goes together very nicely, and it is fun and relaxing to just build a kit once in a while.

[Kisatchie]

Hmm... there's a big
hole in the roof...

[craigolio1]

Excellent work Tom.

And thanks Ryan for helping us see his work.

Craig

[SAH]

I was also wondering about the brush. Doesn't look like foam.

The foreground (viewers side of the fence) is 6mm static grass.  Silflor Autumn I believe.  On the other side of the fence are the scrap bits of Super Trees with ground foam applied in the usual manner.  The other side of the tracks has the Super Tree mixture and fake fur with finely ground foam (flowers in the WS catalog) blown on top.  The flowers are held in place with hairspray (prior to blowing the foam).  I think the reason it all works is because I did my best to give the roadbed, sub-roadbed and drainage ditch a prototypical form.  Thanks for your kind words.  Steve

[sirenwerks]

The foreground (viewers side of the fence) is 6mm static grass.  Silflor Autumn I believe.  On the other side of the fence are the scrap bits of Super Trees with ground foam applied in the usual manner.  The other side of the tracks has the Super Tree mixture and fake fur with finely ground foam (flowers in the WS catalog) blown on top.  The flowers are held in place with hairspray (prior to blowing the foam).  I think the reason it all works is because I did my best to give the roadbed, sub-roadbed and drainage ditch a prototypical form.  Thanks for your kind words.  Steve

The ditch between the rail line and field really do make a difference.

[peteski]

Out of the box Kato. must be the lighting!

I have noticed that Kato has done really good job simulating stainless steel on some of the recent passenger train releases.