Weekend Photo Fun 1-13-12- ??

Wow Scott, did you wet the bed?

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Wow Scott, did you wet the bed?

The dog I didn't want got sick.


Scott Smith

Here are some great pics from Altoona.

I posted this elsewhere, but here's a Dockside that made it to Australia.

Thats great Dave,given me an idea what to do with my red Christmas docksider.
James

Our new Power Plant Complex that Alan Graziano built.

Happy weekend everyone!

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Francis J. Leavy & Sons Coal Co.

Built with Evergreen styrene, Plastruct roofing, PVC Tubing and Grandt Line windows and doors. The Decals were made with CorelDraw and printed on an Alps MD1000 printer. The signs were printed on photo paper with a HP inkjet. The coal conveyor is scratch built with Grandt Line wheels and the billboard was a scan of an ink blotter and edited in Coral PhotoPaint. The coal truck is a custom painted Ertl 1/43 1937 Ford semi tractor fitted with a Berkshire Valley dump body.

The late Frank Leavy is the father of my close friends Mike Leavy and his brothers Glenn and Art. Frank must have been one of the last domestic coal customers as heated their family home with coal until 1967.

I built the model for use on a Flower City Tinplate Trackers module.

Some various shots around the layout.

Updated the OEM Polar Express Observation car with:

lighted taillight

lighted Drumhead

lined inner shield w/Aluminum foil to brighten the car

Added MV lens #137



Night shot

WOW.......super pics so far! A wonderful way to get me through my Friday in the office!

Peter

Well, it is early into WPF and I am already "blown away!!"

The power plant is beautiful and the red/white stacks really draw you in (at least it does for me).

The re-painted milk car is a masterpiece!

The coal dealership is outstanding!!!

No more fantastic modeling for today, I can't take any longer!!! Is this what my Friday the 13th is going to be like, tortured with beautiful, outstanding masterpieces all day long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Malcolm

This is from the old layout. I pulled this one from my file database for the "favorite scenes" thread. It's from about 2003 on my old tinplate/hirail layout. I used to love moving engines around in the yard.



If you notice along the back, I had a 5 foot kneewall and I simulated a "concrete retaining wall". To fill the gap I used all my 310 billboards.

Peter

Some sneek previews of the power plant facility. I have been working on this off and on for a while. Not as good as Bill's (Popsrr) but it is still a work in progress. I have a lot more to do including additional insulators to install, a steel framework in front of the transformers to support the electrical grid leaving the plant and various plumbing, ladders, glazing in the windows, etc.

Looking at many pictures of power plants indicated I needed to have the red and white stripes on the stacks...still not used to those yet!! More pictures as I get closer to completion of the project...

Thanks,
Alan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59048208@N08/6689719117/

TRYing again!

A 224 steamer leads a vintage freight consist on the upper level-



PWC remake of the 1957 edition of the mighty 736 Berkshire pulls into the station-


A 1615 switcher drills tank cars on the oil spur-

Long Day at the office over .