Gondola & Flat car loads

[Blake]

Someone on the HO section was asking about loads so I posted this. Thought my fellow Optivisor wearin' N scalers would like to see them too. The first one has debris in it (2 pics), the second one has a scratch built machinery load with a parts crate (2 pics) and the last one is a flat with 2 scratch built crates and an unused tie down strap on the deck (2 pics).

 

[Drew1125]

That's some really excellent modeling Blake!
I especially like the bent-up sides on the gon...whether you planned that, or it was some kind of "happy accident", it's a great effect, & very prototypical for a veteran frieght car that's had a lot of really heavy stuff slammed down into it...
I think I've said this before, but it's guys like you that have pushed N scale into the realm of "finescale" modeling.

 

[Blake]

Thanks Charlie, I appriciate the compliment.

 

[csxnscale]

Great looking loads on very relistic looking gondola and flatcar.
I hope one day will come that I will be half as good as you are with detailing.

Paul

 

[Tyson Rayles]

Excellent work Blake!

 

[Blake]

Thanks guys.

 

[SD90]

Great work on those loads! How did you make the crates?

 

[Blake]

I used Evergreen scribed siding and trimmed them with Evergreen strips. I painted them a very dark brown (almost black) and then drybrushed them with depot buff and then aged concrete.

 

[Blake]

The large machine in the one gon is just a bunch of scrap styrene (mostly model spues) glued together and covered with white glue soaked tissue. The small crate in the gon with it was made from wood.

 

[ezdays]

Impressive, maybe someday I'll have the courage to try something like that. At least I know what level to shoot for. Great stuff....

Don

 

[JMD3]

Blake

Great work on the loads. I like the weathering on the gondolas too. Is the deck on the flat original or one of the laser cut wood detail parts?

Jim

 

[UP_STEVE]

those look great!

 

[MCL_RDG]

I like...

...the blocking fore and aft of the large cases on the flat car Blake. The load in the gon- well, I like it but the "JGL" apparently transmission parts enroute to the John Galt Line of Gary P. Pfeil must have been painted on with rollers.

As a fellow nitwit, I mean- nitpicker- uh- get a microscope and repaint the tarp so I beleive it's not a billboard. By the way, do they sweep out those gons when they get back to the yard or are my digi-photo-optivisors not working so good not no more?

Mark (A concerned guy who needs to build a railroad)