Sunday Scenic Showcase April 17,2022

Again, you do amazing work!!! Happy Easter to you & your wife, Deb says hi!!!!!!!!!

Jeff

The end.No resurrection here.Car done by SIRT.

Morning everyone. Alan- great models as always - I really like the Sinclair. Don- that’s a great trackside scene. That flatcar from SIRT looks beautiful.

Here’s a K&P water column kit I assembled Friday evening. It was a nice small project. I may try switching out the brick paper for something more realistic, but am pleased nonetheless.

TW TrainWorx sent me shorter rods.

Canopies installed.

Next, it was time to paint the rods flat black. I was afraid that I would get black paint on the bricks....so, I made painting sleeves out of the thin cardboard of a yogurt carton. Chobani strawberry works best......

...a flat black acrylic is recommended and works fine......

Next step is a turpenoid/black oil paint wash of the red brick and sidewalk.....

Have a Happy Easter or a Happy Passover, folks....

Peter

Nice building Peter!  Might want to use a hi-cube box car for clearance? May have to raise the building by 1/4"???

Brewer's spent grain (BSG) or draff is a food waste that is a byproduct of the brewing industry  f Brewing waste, BSG is obtained as a mostly solid residue after wort production in the brewing process.

It becomes a  food additive, animal feed or fertilizer.

Here's another customer car I did with the Miller Beer logo...

@SIRT posted:

Nice building Peter!  Might want to use a hi-cube box car for clearance? May have to raise the building by 1/4"???

You are so right!

I haven't researched the prototype, which I will, but I suspect it is from the pre-Hi Cube ear.....

Peter

Alan and all Happy Easter and Thank You for another Great Sunday Scenic Showcase. Amazing projects.

Tom

Here is a link.....I may just have to talk to TW TrainWorx myself......

http://industrialscenery.blogs...eight-houses-at.html

Peter

@Putnam Division Raise the building.

I have enjoyed following process of the building. I have use a flat gray sponge cushioned sheet found art supply dealers or school suppliers in many different colors & Different thicknesses.  I believe as suggested the simpler cure to your current is raising the building by use of a sheet of gray sponge art material.

Have a Happy Easter!  

Also I will mention N95.

Every Spring since 2014 I have used the N95 mask from Lowes while mowing the lawn.  If I did not,  I had to quit mowing. Seriously! 😖
For whatever reason  Tuesday I mowed the lawn without my N95.  So the result, I have been in bed since Thursday suffering from a terrible sinus infection. 🥵 I was already a believer in my N95,   I am now here in front of the congregation with my recommitment.  I will continue to wear the mask☺️.

So with this, I recommend, if you are outside this Spring and you begin to sneeze, cough, gag! Wear the mask. 😷

My last day in the shop or train room was Wednesday.

Since my last post I have assembled most of my high school building the DPM Landmark structures from Woodlands Scenic. I have added floors, lights. I am waiting on four exterior lamps for the entrances. I will be adding the gymnasium floor and goal and backboards. I believe when recover I will make window blinds for the principal’s office.

Finally, from the roof of the Utacolzona Hotel, comes the creator of Utacolzona.
All of the Utacolzona build can be seen at...

Utacolzona Railroad in On30 (2 years in the making, 2020 - 2022) Update 4/10/22 w/ video

Thanks for looking.
Dennis.

@Alan Graziano posted:

Good Morning Everyone and Happy Easter. I will start with something I created in the past. Lets see what you have been working on.

Ya know Alan, i'm and im sure others are interested in that "right hand tease" in the picture above. What is yhat?

Mark,

That may have been the powerhouse that was on Marty Fitzhenrys layout that is now on the NJ Highrailers layout.

Jeff,

Happy Easter to you, your wife and family.

Don,

Great scene on a spectacular layout.

Alex,

Nice work on the water column.

Peter,

You did a great job on the building.

Steve,

Great work as always. Congratulations on your retirement. I hope you truly enjoy your retirement years and please do not stop creating your works of art.

Seth,

You are doing a terrific job on the school.

Dennis,

Great scenery.

Tom,

Thanks for your nice comments every week on the scenery displayed here.

I hope you all had a nice Easter.

@Putnam Division

Since I asked last week, here's some more unsolicited feedback.  I agree with SIRT that you should get some more boxcars to check the clearance. If you dont want to go as new as high cubes, the other concern is older boxcars with the brake wheel that sticks up above the roof line.  

I think the better choice would be to sink the track. If you only raise the building it'll create a few other issues (like the truck docks being too tall and the sidewalk being many scale feet above street level).

Can be done a few ways:

1. Set the track on the table substrate, and raise everything else around it (the building and the ground level). Use foam board or sheets of cork, to raise the ground level to the top of the ties, then bury the track "in the dirt" or pave it over like the track is set in concrete/asphalt.

2. Take a belt sander to the ties and make em shorter.   Would take a little work to transition the height down (use evergreen strips of different thicknesses, or if you're real good, sand the ties down at an angle.

3. Use Superstreets as a siding (ask Steve at York).

4. Make your own low profile track by soldering Ross or Atlas rails to PC ties (~1/16" thick). If you did it this way, you'd then go back to 1) and bury or pave the track over.

@Boilermaker1 posted:

@Putnam Division

Since I asked last week, here's some more unsolicited feedback.  I agree with SIRT that you should get some more boxcars to check the clearance. If you dont want to go as new as high cubes, the other concern is older boxcars with the brake wheel that sticks up above the roof line.  

I think the better choice would be to sink the track. If you only raise the building it'll create a few other issues (like the truck docks being too tall and the sidewalk being many scale feet above street level).

Can be done a few ways:

1. Set the track on the table substrate, and raise everything else around it (the building and the ground level). Use foam board or sheets of cork, to raise the ground level to the top of the ties, then bury the track "in the dirt" or pave it over like the track is set in concrete/asphalt.

2. Take a belt sander to the ties and make em shorter.   Would take a little work to transition the height down (use evergreen strips of different thicknesses, or if you're real good, sand the ties down at an angle.

3. Use Superstreets as a siding (ask Steve at York).

4. Make your own low profile track by soldering Ross or Atlas rails to PC ties (~1/16" thick). If you did it this way, you'd then go back to 1) and bury or pave the track over.

Thank you.......I am saving all the advce because it is excellent.....I do not have a built layout....I am waitng on a load of Mianne Benchwork to add to the amout I salvaged from my 6x16.

Knowing this BEFORE I decide where the building will go is invaluable.

Here is a tentative plan:

I'm thinking that it may go on the top side of spur in the center.....it will make a nice "view block" and I have ample room to "lower" the track.....

As an aside, the building is now finished........but, you'll have to wait for next Sunday for the pics......Thanks to all for their suggestions, encouragement and support......

Peter

This is the power plant Al did for me

@fl9turbo2 posted:

This is the power plant Al did for me

Looks fantastic.