Sunday Scenic Showcase 6-16-13

Definitely a winner!  

That's outstanding Vulcan!  If you ever open a school for scratchbuilding & weathering, I'm enrolling.

I'm still chipping away at this passenger station backdrop.

I picked this up a couple weeks ago.  Gave it a dusting last week.

Atlas Caboose

Dave

Cool stuff guys!

Found 3 trolley shells on ebay ready for the garbage can. I managed to save them....

UNCLE DK's Fathers Day present!

Next weeks ebay preview -

Thanks, Guys !!

Looking great, Sean.

Dave, very nice weathering and shots.

I like those trolley loads, Steve.

We may be lacking in quantity today, but we have the quality.  

Not doing any scenery per se at this time, but here's a pair of cabooses that I've been working on....  Ok, I've got the sides done,

With a little luck, I might be able to get the ends done this weekend and then I can get started on the floor assemblies.

I'm looking forward to seeing that come to fruition, Martin.

Drover's caboose?

Yes.  Two different ones; differences in length, roof types, and era that will require different underbodies and brake systems. 

I'm only about 16 months behind......

Sirt,

Great stuff all the way around.  Are the trolley bodies steel?  With your talents I can't tell if that's real rust, see texture on red trolley and around signs, or your weathering talents at work again.  The load for the gondola could be concrete rebar cages for street light or traffic light pole bases or rolls of steel reinforcing fabric for concret.  Did you use hair rollers for those rolls?

Joe

Those are Lionel #60 plastic trolley cars.

They had 3 layers of enamel paint, lots of drilled holes and cracks.

Looks like the work of Mr. Mc Goo, one of those old school traction fellers.

In my 50 years of RR modeling, I never experienced such a botched up modeling job as those were.

After soaking them in brake fluid and scrubbing them down, most of the roof paint appears as you see them by accident.

The lower rusted and bent sections are just spray painted scrap sheets of paper.

Rust around the paper signs is applied burnt umber oil paint.

As for the steel gondola rolls, they are rolled and spray painted mesh found in the drywall section of Lowes and Home Depot.

Steve

     Gorgeous work. Now tell me how you can did these in 15 minutes each. Keep it up.

Best

Ray Marion

Trolley Cars -

As always with a first of anything including R&D and deciding where to go with it, much time is spent. These took 4 days. They were basket cases and started out only as an experiment.

The next one will take under 2 hours. The shell should be on its way soon from a kind OGR member. The sheet of signs is cut up and ready to install.

The other cars were under 3hrs ea.

Thanks Ray