Sunday Scenic Showcase January 22, 2017

Very neat, man! 

A few pics from my garage workshop.

Nice shop Mike.

Alan Graziano

I could never show my work space.  It is usually a mess! lol

Here are a couple weathering projects from last week.  

Alan Graziano posted:

Good Morning Everyone, A couple members asked for some pictures of my model room so that is what I will start off with,

Let's see what you have been working on.

 

Alan Graziano

Very impressive

You guys with your clean, organized workshops are my heroes!  With the quality of your work, this shouldn't be surprising.  Way to go. 

Art

Well it seems like this is Sunday scenic workshop week

However I will stay with a model. This particular model is very special to me. It is my very first structure constructed in the 1960/61 timeframe. A monthly publication called "Model Trains" often featured the work of a man named E.L. Moore, and his scratch builds were instructive as well as being unique.

So this young fellow just starting out in scale model railroading took the plunge, and built his Branchline Water Tank. It is as true to the original build as my youthful skills allowed for. I used what I had on hand...some balsawood mostly, a bit of chain my Mom donated from her broken Jewelry box, bits of paper clip, sewing thread and some masking tape, Elmer's White glue. Watercolor paint set added some color to finish. For tools I used a single edge razor blade, a nail file, straight pins, and some of Dads sandpaper. Note my primitive efforts to weather it. I still have it displayed today. In case you wonder...it is HO scale...hopefully that will not be an issue in our O scale Forum.

Bob

alan, you engineer types are always so neat        The secret mystery is what is in those 4 trash cans .

David Minarik posted:

I could never show my work space.  It is usually a mess! lol

 

You are not alone here! There is at least two of us. 

Alan, your work space is immaculate. Very nice setup and clean too! Makes me want to start cleaning and straightening up...

wow, 

Nice place to work guys!

here is my contribution.

Snow Job...........................

Alan:

That shop is way too neat and organized! I was going to post pictures of my shop - not now..................

What are all the garbage cans for?

Joe

Bob,

Your work was excellent when you started modeling and has continued to this day. Great job.

Wisdimenna/Joe,

The barrels are full of various colored and sizes of Plastruct pipe. I bought this material from a friend of a professional model builder that used to work for and engineering company named Hayward Robinson. They closed down their model building operations in the late 90's. I was called by a local hobby store that the fellow was trying to sell the materials to. I ended up buying quite a bit of materials that I use to this day.

Alan Graziano

Alan Graziano posted:

Bob,

Your work was excellent when you started modeling and has continued to this day. Great job.

Alan Graziano

I appreciate your compliment Alan...Thank you.

Bob

Very nice pics everyone. I made some track ballast work, next more green & flowers.

I've just tidied up between building sessions.

Lift off work bench.

Soldering, etc.

Sound and photo processing.

Lokprogrammer, QSI and Zimo programmer.

HO scale layout with RailRoad & Co™ computer programmer.

Sirt, nice job but the things need a tender. I did to mine what Milwaukee Road did to theirs. I put a pantograph on and made it electric not steam powered. Don

Great stuff everyone!  I haven't posted anything here in a while as I've been busy with non-train stuff lately.  I finally had a chance to add Kadee scale couplers and weather my Jersey Central plywood-sheathed caboose that was scratch built for me last year by Forum member "Brother Love"...

Very inspiring work areas. Alan, your's looks like you could do surgery there and not get any strange diseases. Unlike mine...

scale rail posted:

Sirt, nice job but the things need a tender. I did to mine what Milwaukee Road did to theirs. I put a pantograph on and made it electric not steam powered. Don

Thanks for pointing that out Don. I decided to convert it to diesel era. Here are the installed updates.

Thanks

S.

Joe,

That is a beauttiful caboose.

Myles,

I think I have hands of a surgeon. If you would like to be my first patient come on over and I will operate. I have plenty of needles and I am sure Plastic weld cement can knock you out.

Steve,

Excellent job. It looks awesome.

Alan Graziano