Weekly Photo Fun 9-19

jeffrey-wimberl

Active Member
Recently I got a couple of old Mantua flatcars from a friend. They both looked rather toylike with the scale ten inch high lip around the tops of them. I cut the tops down and leveled them with wallboard joint compound. After they had dried I repainted them both teal blue and flattened the finish with Matte-Finish.


The two flats went from this:


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To this:


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I needed a couple of gravel roads and kinda turned the glued down sandpaper idea on it's ear. I made a basic roadway with wallboard joint compound and gave it a semi-smooth appearance. After it had dried I spread 1:1 white glue over it and applied a generous layer of fine WS gray ballast. I finished up by sprinkling a little green blended turf on it.


Here's my gravel road:


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Kevinkrey

Member
Kyle, I recently purchased a very similar set of cars only in CNW paint. Yur weathering is AMAZING, although a little heavy for what I want. What did you do to weather them?
 

Ralph

Remember...it's for fun!
This is my favorite thread! This time around a KP&W switcher works the car float yard...

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Ralph
 

UP SD40-2

Senior Member
NICE START to this weeks thread folks!:thumb:

I posted this pic in another thread about two weeks ago(sorry to those that have seen it:eek:ops: ) , but i liked this pic, and i haven't taken ANY pics this week, so I'm posting it here:119: .

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Packers#1

Ultimate Packers Fan
Great photos everyone.
it's amazing what you can do to a RTS track plan with MS paint:
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The green=trees, dark gray=roads/parking lots, the teal=buildings, and the dark blue lines=staging limits. The unmarked building is going to be a church, and the black rectangle across from it will an N scale Pillar concert going on, with music supplied from two earbud headphones.
Hopefully I'll start this next summer!
 

jeffrey-wimberl

Active Member
Thsi is what I call my GP35/S6. If you look closely you will see that it 6 wheel trucks instead of the normal 4 wheel trucks.
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Anybody for a crackup today?
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jeffrey-wimberl

Active Member
For running on branches with light rail, I assume. There are some similar rebuilds in Chile.
Exactly right. I like having a fleet that can go anywhere, do anything and have respectable power to do it with. The weight of a 126+ ton locomotive can be spread better over twelve wheels than eight.
 
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