Greg J. Turinetti posted:I realize that this thread is about buying or making things that are tinplate related. So this post is a bit of a stretch, but today my wife and I closed on a new home for the "Northwoods Flyer Collection" - which is mainly all tinplate.
This is where the collection and layout will be housed.
A new adventure begins....
Northwoods Flyer
Greg
Looks like fun Greg!
I’m experimenting with some ways to incorporate plastic models into my tinplate layout. Here is an attempt with my Atlas engine shed.
The gloss enamel paint in a rich color is intended to make it fit in better. I will have my Darstaed tin litho engine shed nearby on the layout.
George
Go up young man! close to 100.....
Only spent $5.00 at yesterday’s TTOS meet.
Steve
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Only spent $5.00 at yesterday’s TTOS meet.
Steve
nice little Chein trolley, Steve.
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Only spent $5.00 at yesterday’s TTOS meet.
Steve
Steamer posted:Go up young man! close to 100.....
That was $5 well spent!
George S posted:I’m experimenting with some ways to incorporate plastic models into my tinplate layout. Here is an attempt with my Atlas engine shed.
The gloss enamel paint in a rich color is intended to make it fit in better. I will have my Darstaed tin litho engine shed nearby on the layout.
George
That is an impressive engine shed! I agree the gloss roof fits well with Tinplate. Love it
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Only spent $5.00 at yesterday’s TTOS meet.
Steve
At $5.00 you got the deal of the show Steve. A beautiful trolley.
Congrats and thanks for sharing.
Lionelski posted:Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Only spent $5.00 at yesterday’s TTOS meet.
Steve
At $5.00 you got the deal of the show Steve. A beautiful trolley.
Congrats and thanks for sharing.
It keeps telling me it want's a motor.
Steve
Got this KBN Gütherhalle (goods shed) i the mail on Monday- excellent condition. The door was either replaced(should be solid blue) or someone painted the lines on it- otherwise I love this thing- it's become the center piece of my stub siding!:
Stub Siding includes: the Gütherhalle, Lionel switch tower kit, Lionel shed kit, Lionel "unloading" stand, Marx uncoupling sign, ertl truck(plan to replace with a RR named vehicle)manual o42 switch, plasticville figures(guys walking with cans), and either MTH or Woodland Scenics workers(woman in shed w/ hay bail, guy on platform with buckets)
Back view of the gutherhalle(TIMBER!!!!-FALLEN TREE lol)
Probably my favorite piece on the layout right now(until the next one!) If anyone was wondering, it is indeed supposed to have 2 shades of yellow. Picture of siding from the North End( with Bing & KBN/BW baggage cars)
Also got a heck of a deal on this Corgi forward March set!! Essentialy 60% off of the usual price-. WW2 era- German halftrack anti aircraft-gun truck and 3 figures( 2 in the background patrolling the border- hopefully the refugee and his dog make it across. These Corgi soldiers and vehicles are 1:50 scale(they measure a bit over half an inch) and finding soldiers that go with "O" is very difficult. Figure height is my biggest "pet-peeve" for my own layout where I try to have ALL of my figures on my main layout American O-scale. For soldiers, I have to settle between 1:43 and 1:50 scale or 1.5 inches +/- .25.
Battle in the international zone of the west end rages on as the (insert tbd name fr bad guys) try to overrun the United Nations base.
Picture from the south of the wes end- now with grass mat underneath. Finally got the Lionel 58 prewar Lamp Post to work(between the Glen Ellyn and Bing Stations). All stations on this end are part of an"International zone" but the stations to the left are exclusive to Allied(good guys) while the stations on the right are under the jurisdiction of the (TBD name for the bad guys). Tomorrow night or Friday the MTH RealTrax will be replaced by an O-22 switch b/c the spot where I stood to take this picture will have a nice 4x4 table and possibly a 4 by 3 table extending from that for a U shape. Can barely wait!
Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving
Awesome Steve! Your first few pictures aren’t displaying for me. 
I love how you mix toy soldiers into your layout.
It’s also great that you keep adding on. The real world isn’t static; why should your model railroad be?
George
George S posted:I’m experimenting with some ways to incorporate plastic models into my tinplate layout. Here is an attempt with my Atlas engine shed.
The gloss enamel paint in a rich color is intended to make it fit in better. I will have my Darstaed tin litho engine shed nearby on the layout.
George
Looks good. I try the same thing with my layout...color and texture is the thing. I am also adding wooden structure kits, walkways and the like. With the correct paint/stain it works.
Fendermain
George S posted:Awesome Steve! Your first few pictures aren’t displaying for me.
I love how you mix toy soldiers into your layout.
It’s also great that you keep adding on. The real world isn’t static; why should your model railroad be?
George
UPDATED !!!
Thank you @George S my grandpop was a HUGE antique collector, of everything- but his toy soldiers and other toy army items were always some of my favorites. The trailer in the last picture, the Manoil terracota gun in the "battle" scene, the Blue delivery van by the diner, the plasticville farm and the majority of it's contents, and more were all from him.
StevefromPA Based on your picture it looks like your #96 Flyer station is the second version - new treatment of the brick litho but no cutting and bending of either the baggage or the passenger doors. If that's the case - hang on to it - to the best of my knowledge the second version of the litho only came with uncut doors for either one or two years.
George S posted:Here’s my Dorfan engine running. It was a little sluggish and sparky at first, but after lubrication, she runs great!
George
Very nice.
Steve
Wonderful!!
Bob Nelson
George S posted:Here’s my Dorfan engine running. It was a little sluggish and sparky at first, but after lubrication, she runs great!
George
At some point I'll have to focus on picking up a Dorfan loco for my cars as well, looks great!!
I'll lay 2 to one if you look in that basement of yours you'll find a COUPLE Dorfan locomotives you've forgotten about and got buried by other projects.....want me to come and look? 
I just completed a simple project, restoring a pair of MAIN Street light posts.
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