Workshop Wednesday

Discussion in 'General' started by yardmaster, Nov 15, 2017.

  1. rjthomas909

    rjthomas909 Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Happy Wednesday Frisco Friends,

    Spent the last few evenings weathering up most of the balance of my 36-ft Accurail boxcars. Put them up on the mine branch for a couple of quick photos:


    It is a sickness, really. I think I have three more to go, and a few unlettered ones which I might force as SL-SF Lines cars, with limited prototypical value. Maybe I could find some predecessor line decals (KCFtS&M/G, etc. back to the leaky roof discussion).


    I really like these cars and am trying to get enough together for operations (along with coal hoppers/gondolas and a couple of tank cars). These with my comparable era 40-ft'ers should make for a good start.

    @Sirfoldalot , this one is for you:


    Take care all, catch you in the weekend.

    -Bob T.
     
  2. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    Hey Bob,
    I think you need sum QA&P Boxcars or 1 anyways.
     
  3. rjthomas909

    rjthomas909 Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Yes. Excellent point. What was I thinking? Any decal recommendations?
     
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  4. Sirfoldalot

    Sirfoldalot Frisco.org Supporter Frisco.org Supporter

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  5. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    This afternoon I mixed plaster for the diorama, installing it on all of the surfaces and pouring some in a rock mold.

    Joe

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  6. frisco1522

    frisco1522 Staff Member Staff Member

    I've been working on a Sunset USRA Light 2-8-2 off and on for a while. Got a touch of food poisoning last night and haven't felt like working on it today.
     
  7. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    I feel for you Don. I got some food poisoning about 3 months ago.
    Gives new meaning to the words "the trots".
     
  8. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    Finally got some weathering done on this Tangent Air-slide hopper. Tried to simulate the hammer marks on the sides of the hopper to reflect a picture in a book I saw.

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    Thanks for looking.
     
  9. All great stuff guys. Bob your scenes are just right on the money.
     
  10. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    image.jpeg Very nice train Bob. Great on the weathering. Nice on the hammer marks, nobody thinks of that. All good stuff. It's night so I can post mine, I was kind of holding back with all the good stuff I see on here, makes mine look kinda mediocre. The top kinda looks off a bit, but hey that's the breaks. It looks better from a distance. Ha Ha !!!
     
  11. Looks good Bill. Best looking lighthouse in the Ozarks!
    Whose kit is that?
     
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  12. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    It's Builder in Scale, but I wouldn't recommend it. Very difficult to align all the parts.
     
  13. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    Looks good to me William! That light house is kinda cool looking. Dont see many of them on MRR's.
     
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  14. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    Seen those hammer marks, Tom and made a few of them on cars. Takes a railroad guy to think of that !
     
  15. w3hodoug (Doug Hughes RIP 03/24/2021)

    w3hodoug (Doug Hughes RIP 03/24/2021) 2008 Engineer of the Year Frisco.org Supporter

    I packed a lot of my models in the summer of 2005 prior to the move from Annapolis to Ann Arbor. I never got into MRing in Michigan and left them packed. The past two weeks, I've unwrapped them, listed them in a spread sheet, photographed each, and stored them in plastic boxes. I found many I'd forgotten about building, including a MDC metal stock car I built in 1955 or 1956 prior to getting into ham radio. There are even scale cows in there I'd forgotten about. Those kits were crude.
     
  16. Doug, I'd like to think that happens to all of us where we find things we forgot we had. Not just you and I. HA
     
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  17. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    • I finished installing rock castings to my diorama, will start painting the landscape here in a little bit.
    Joe

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  18. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    Just finished the first round of paint on the diorama. After it dries a little I will start painting the highlights on the rock castings.

    Joe

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  19. looking good joe
     
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  20. Mine for the week. Still the GMC.
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    Just balanced together but you get the idea.

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