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@up148 posted:

Beautiful propane turbine. I recently acquired an OMI custom ptd standard turbine and the paint looks just like yours and is one of the best painted turbines (except the 8500HP) turbine models I've owned. Whoever Tom used at that time was fantastic. It also has the addition of new u-joints and is the smoothest running tank drive turbine I've own........a first on both accounts.

That’s a beauty I saw this one on American Scale Models is this the one also a custom painted by overland same as mine. The propane turbine runs very good the best of all the turbines I have except the coal turbine that one runs also very good.

Yes it is.  A good friend told me about it or I would have missed it.  By far, it's one of the nicest of maybe a dozen 4500HP "baby" turbines I've owned over the past 30 years, including a very smooth running re-powered unit.

I bought this turbine for it's looks and thought it would be a display piece only, so you can imagine my surprise when it ran smoothly and quietly, which is not a trait of stock OMI "tank drive" turbines and like another unpainted "new" standard turbine I own, it's a real clunker.

@up148 posted:

Yes it is.  A good friend told me about it or I would have missed it.  By far, it's one of the nicest of maybe a dozen 4500HP "baby" turbines I've owned over the past 30 years, including a very smooth running re-powered unit.

I bought this turbine for it's looks and thought it would be a display piece only, so you can imagine my surprise when it ran smoothly and quietly, which is not a trait of stock OMI "tank drive" turbines and like another unpainted "new" standard turbine I own, it's a real clunker.

Wel mine also came from American Scale Models I think those two turbines from one person because I want to buy you have but to late and was sold, so there was a other the propane he had two and indeed also I was very surprised that it ran smoothly and quietly. We both bought very rare turbines I enjoy it every day😃

Truly beautiful turbines, guys! Would be nice to see them running 😉

@Bob "O" posted:

I'd say you nailed it, Edwin. Your modelling continues to inspire!

Bob

That would be nice, but not sure there would be enough interest. The OMI's are starting to come out of the woodwork, as older collectors are selling or dying off. I have an unpainted natural brass model as well, and I will try and copy whatever was done to the AOS model to make it run better. And, finding a good painter these days is like winning the lottery and you need decals as well.

My unptd model barely runs and sounds like a threshing machine, which is typical of unmodified 1st generation OMI turbines. Lovely models, but a reputation for shedding details (poor solder joints) and absolutely horrible runners in stock condition.

a while ago I'm not yet continue with the service facility for my turbines or even weathering cars, locomotives. the hobby is standing stil at the moment I hope to go forwards in time but it is a hobby. I want to share some pictures in black and white hope you like it also the Turbine with propane and the Jordan Spreader. The color pictures have been adjusted.

The last pictures before I break down my layout in the area what you see the 818.

I like to take pictures of my cars.

You have a gift for weathering!  Really adds to the image you're creating with your layout.

@up148 posted:

You have a gift for weathering!  Really adds to the image you're creating with your layout.

Thank you UP148, I have a lot to do in weathering and how more you do it how more you learn😁it is also a challenge for me how to weather the next car, but I always use pictures in books and the internet and have enough material to do fun things.

@ED3945 posted:

a while ago I'm not yet continue with the service facility for my turbines or even weathering cars, locomotives. the hobby is standing stil at the moment I hope to go forwards in time but it is a hobby. I want to share some pictures in black and white hope you like it also the Turbine with propane and the Jordan Spreader. The color pictures have been adjusted.

Great lighting!   Wonderful detail!   Sooooo realistic!

Cheers, Dave

@darlander posted:

Great lighting!   Wonderful detail!   Sooooo realistic!

Cheers, Dave

Thanks😁

Absolutely gorgeous shots. Great work.

@WITZ 41 posted:

Absolutely gorgeous shots. Great work.

Thanks I do more in time like to do it😁

With the right depth of field and lighting, several of those shot could really pass for the real thing.
Ik vind het geweldig om je uitstekende modelwerk te zien!

@p51 posted:

With the right depth of field and lighting, several of those shot could really pass for the real thing.
Ik vind het geweldig om je uitstekende modelwerk te zien!

thanks P51 and in dutch😁

Edwin, your modeling is wonderful!  I don’t know how I missed your topic you started 3 years ago!  I need to go back to the beginning and look over it all.

@Allan Miller posted:

This is a layout I would like to feature in the magazine, and have contacted the builder. Very nice work!

Hey, did this ever appear in the magazine? I don't recall seeing it there...

@p51 posted:

Hey, did this ever appear in the magazine? I don't recall seeing it there...

P51, wish it was but unfortunately not, I hope some day.

@ED3945 posted:

P51, wish it was but unfortunately not, I hope some day.

We do too!

a few new pictures I know the same engine UP but I do more other versions in the future.

I think I've asked this before, but if so, I've forgotten the answer, but what camera are you using. The clarity of the photos is phenomenal. I'm using a Nixon D5600 and can't come close to the clarity of you photos.  It's most likely me, but can SD cards loose clarity after being adding and deleting photos many times?

@up148 posted:

I think I've asked this before, but if so, I've forgotten the answer, but what camera are you using. The clarity of the photos is phenomenal. I'm using a Nixon D5600 and can't come close to the clarity of you photos.  It's most likely me, but can SD cards loose clarity after being adding and deleting photos many times?

UP148, I’m using a Apple IPhone 12 Pro Max what you can do is amazing😁but don’t know about the SD cards loose clarity if you do many times adding and deleting. I also do a lot of lighting myself to make the best picture as possible.

Incredible modeling and weathering.  Just......wow!  Never seen better.

@Phil McCaig posted:

Incredible modeling and weathering.  Just......wow!  Never seen better.

Thanks Phil McCaig😁

What you can do with not so big layout is endless about the pictures you can take I do it almost every day that makes hundreds of pictures. Every one is different and what important for me is that I make the layout right and the colors of the landscape. Those pictures now is from today I hope you all like them. The shots are similar but let me know which you like.

Wonderful photography.  I like the evergreen trees.  They are fantastic!

Beautiful weathering and beautiful scenery!

Absolutely gorgeous. 

Thanks it’s a lot of fun doing this can’t get enough

@ED3945 posted:

Thanks it’s a lot of fun doing this can’t get enough

Can’t get enough!  That says it all for most of us here!!

This is a car done years ago about the sides only did the roof today it is not brass but a lovely UP box car. I did not used the airbrush the next car I going to do the roof with airbrush and than dry brushing. The way you can do it is many, this time I tried it like this. So the car on my layout you see on the black and white picture.

That boxcar looks great!

This is a set of AA E9 units CB&Q from Key is one of my collections that I not go to weather but if you see not so realistic in the pictures well I think If I do that than completely different pictures but I show it any way because I like them very much runs perfectly.

I have changed the roof completely today more better see the second picture the left one or the last one. You can do it with more rust but that is for the next car not changing the weathering what I have done years ago about the sides I do it more differently now see the last cars on my forum.

The next car is a Atlas one green version from Reading at first I always started with the roof with the brush and dry for a day before I go further because it was still wet after hours I thought maybe not the right paint but I gave it a shot.

Still not completely dry after a day but I can waited any longer so move forwards with the weathering. The roof is of course far from finished a let it dry for a week before

I go further done some dirt on it. The weathering is my style I always keep working on it even over a month maybe never finished. This is dry brushing not using the airbrush yet.

You see under that picture I going to chance the trucks I going to use Protocraft those are perfect from brass and beautiful runners. The trucks will also of course weathered and air hoses will be done.

A few pictures taken on my layout.

Ed,

The weathering looks wonderful! I will be referring to these photos when I begin weathering my cars.

Dave

Next project a old Atlas caboose I have this one for more than 20 years so I done not yet weathering cabooses before this one is my first, not yet glass or couplers and air hoses installed. I will use the airbrush yes but later if it is finished but not so much more under the caboose and a little the roof. The weathering I looked on pictures of Santa Fe and others. You can use only the airbrush but I tried to do this way maybe the next completely different.

the caboose on my layout.

still busy with this one a Atlas C&O plastic Caboose hard one to weather because of the dark blue and I'm not there yet but I hope on the end with mat varnish it will be more realistic. The roof I don't want it to be to rusty what you see on most cars for example freight cars and yes on freight cars you can go as far you can go almost everything there was. The 3 pictures I show not finished model.

To see it on my layout some fine weathering to do but I liked it it’s fun......I do not super this model air hoses and others like as the way it is.