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Here's a little diorama I just finished of a roadside lunch stand. It's a Bar Mills laser cut wood kit called Swanson's Lunch Stand. Like all the Bar Mills kits, this one went together very nicely, no problems. After construction of the kit, I built the diorama on a piece of 8" x 10" masonite.

Great looking trees, very nice indeed! The whole thing looks great.

Thanks for all the kind words, guys. I think I got bit by a wood bug now. :)

I finished my first wooden structure kit tonight (see pic below). It's the first time I ever worked with wood kits, so was a real learning exercise. The guys over at the Railroad-Line forum were kind enough to answer my questions, always with a cheerful and helpful reply, on working with wood...

Beautiful pics, I love the colors. Great modelling there!

Hoyle - I'm set in 1963, so no moderns will be crossing this one. It's a time of early GPs for my layout.

Davera - I use the Xuron rail nippers and they work beautifully. You can nip and nip at the track to nibble it down to exactly the length you need. I would never use anything else. To me, they are the perfect, fast, precise solution.

Thanks for the kind words, all. I plan on working on installing it this week and getting some scenicing started, so will post pics afterwards.

I've been following this layout Tyson, and it is simply AMAZING what you've done in a 1 x 2! Never again can anyone say "I don't have room for a layout."

Finally finished my bridge project At least the construction portion of it anyway. Just need to install it on the layout now. It's made from 3 of the Walthers double-track through truss bridges, with 2 of the Micro-Engineering steel viaduct towers. The ME towers are nice looking when...

Jimmy is winding up for the pitch as Willie is ready to knock it clear out of the yard. The summer has never ended for these guys.

Here's a pic of a GP boxcar patiently waiting on a siding for someone to come back and reclaim it.

We spent the week at Branson, Missouri this week, and one of the highlights of the trip was taking a 2-hour ride on the excursion train provided by the Branson Scenic Railway (BSRX). So, here’s a little narrative of the trip along with some photos. The entire consist was made up I believe of...

I've been trying some more weathering techniques, and on this one I was going for a severely oxidized look, as well as the rust and grime. I used a base wash of diluted acrylic (burnt sienna) first, to get rid of the sheen and give the following applications some "tooth" to hang on to...

That is really beautiful scenery work. Can you give us a quick rundown on how you did it??? Thanks,

Re: BETTER THAN BRASS!!! Mike - I've got 2 more of these to make and plan to take pics of the process this time since I worked the bugs out during making the first one. Hopefully, the 2nd and 3rd ones will look better, since I've got a few things I plan to do a little differently to improve...

Thanks, Guys. Dash - The one I did is referred to as a "Short Bay Window Caboose", sometimes called a Shorty, Party Barge, etc. These were actually road cabooses that replaced MoPacs ageing fleet of cabooses in the late 1970's and were used over the road. The transfer cabooses looked...

Below is a pic of a project I finished up tonight, which is a kitbash of a Missouri Pacific Short Bay Window Caboose. I used the Walthers Bay Window Caboose kit as a starting point. I chopped out a section of the roof and rejoined the ends, and cut out the walls and made new walls from...

Thanks, guys. Arlaghan - I think I'll try to take photos along the way next time to document the process and will post them here. Regards,

I've been experimenting some more with some weathering on cheap freight cars (like the previous pics, I'll probably toss most of these on eBay since most of them are not really my lines or period...just looking for cheap $5 cars to experiment on. So don't ask me what that B&O line car is...