Here are some scenic shot of the now removed TMB model train club. Most of the materials here especially the bridges were preserved and made it to our new location. I hope you can get some ideas. Lets see what you have
Steve
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This week's project was my first attempt at "heavy" weathering of a freight car. I wanted to try my hand at making a car look pretty beat up, yet still serviceable.
My candidate was an Atlas Trainman gondola in Reading livery. I used a soldering iron with various shaped tips to make bulges in the sides, nicks, dents and scrapes, then weathered with a combination of oils and acrylics...
The "muck" load pictured below was made for me by fellow-Forum member "Rail" (Don)...
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very nicely done. thanks for the post.
Steve,
Nice layout pictures.
Joe,
You mastered the effect on the car. The car contents by Don looks great.
I completed a couple of round houses this weekend taking advantage of the bad weather here in Jersey. I was happy to add a little color to the roundhouse on the left.
Alan Graziano
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I worked on a scenery remodel and new industry addition over the last few weeks. I have a corner of the layout that had a nice scenic hillside beyond the tracks. (Note that you can click on any photo to see it larger.)
At one end of the hillside is a tunnel leading to one of my staging yards. I never liked the way you could see the hole in the wall and lights on in the staging room through the portal.
I cut out the old hillside...
... and added space for a 2-track coal loader.
After building some new scenery, re-installing the old hillside that had been cut out, lining and shading the inside of the tunnel and adding a cardstock mockup of a coal loader:
The final scene retains the look of the original background hillside (which I always liked) but now includes a new coal loader where we can switch 7 or 8 cars.
More photos and details on constructing this new area are available on my blog at http://pennwestrr.blogspot.com/
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Really nice scene.
Caboose (17) figure project completed...
Very nice work. The railroad scenes visible are maybe even better!
Looking up from Beercan Hollow...
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Great modeling guys!
Norm, thanks for the rare shot of the Q1 when she wasn't in the shop! The new layout is looking great.
Thx Bob, I could imagine resealing those rear cylinders over and over and over again, ha! Your layout's looking great!
Originally Posted by joeyA:
This week's project was my first attempt at "heavy" weathering of a freight car. I wanted to try my hand at making a car look pretty beat up, yet still serviceable.
My candidate was an Atlas Trainman gondola in Reading livery. ...
The "muck" load pictured below was made for me by fellow-Forum member "Rail" (Don)...
Total, absolute success! I have seen that car hundreds of times, as a youth during the 1950's, while walking a low bridge that spanned a RR yard between Duquesne and Duquesne Place, Pennsylvania, often taking note of the gondolas beneath for their loads, remnant loads, and physical conditions. You got it perfectly, so perfectly that you gave me an immediate zap, in my imagination and memory, right back to those good old days of hikes over that train-yard. Wow. Thank you, and congratulations.
FrankM
Originally Posted by Moonson:
Total, absolute success! I have seen that car hundreds of times, as a youth during the 1950's, while walking a low bridge that spanned a RR yard between Duquesne and Duquesne Place, Pennsylvania, often taking note of the gondolas beneath for their loads, remnant loads, and physical conditions. You got it perfectly, so perfectly that you gave me an immediate zap, in my imagination and memory, right back to those good old days of hikes over that train-yard. Wow. Thank you, and congratulations.
FrankM
Thank you very much for the kind words and complements, Frank. It really means a lot to me!
That is a beautiful weathering job. It looks realistic, like a "seasoned" car. Very nice.
Joey that is he best weathering job I have seen.
