Sunday Scenic Showcase April 2, 2017

Really great.  What did you use for the tank ends?

Bill,

i used dished heads that were 2-1/4"diameter from plastruct. The tank shell is abs tubing also from plastruct.

alan graziano

ALan

Super job on the tank car!!!  Do you have pictures that depict a close-up of the piece you installed between the trucks and the tank car body.?

Steve

Alan,

Nice job!    Did you use Weaver tank car parts for the platform at top and the pieces the trucks attached to?    

Steve,

I have a bill of material I can send you.

Randy,

I used various type trucks over the years. I used both weaver 027 and scale trucks. The platform pieces are all made using Plastruct materials.

Alan Graziano

Beautiful work Alan especially the paint and decals

Joe

Wow, first class work Alan.

-Johan

Awesome! I will have to remember this after getting rid of my backlog of projects. I could use a Quaker State tank train!

Very nicely done tank car Alan. I did a quick set up of the River Leaf Models  CNJ switchman shanty, and some of the items I made for the inside. The Atlas CNJ hopper was donated Joey A, AKA Joe Altavilla, to the Huber Breaker Preservation Society for a diorama I am planning to build. I made the coal load using Black Beauty fine grit. The dust pan, coal shovel and scuttle made from a foil lid on an iced tea container. The phone is composite decking, a piece of craft wire for the receiver, thin card stock for the dial, and a piece of black thread for the cord. The broom is made from strands of a wood back scrub brush, red thread for the broom binding, a strand of telephone wire for the handle binding, and a tooth pick shaped with a needle file. 

Don

Nice work, Alan.  Eighteen you say?  Wow!

Nice attention to detail, Don.

Here's my little shed . . .

Max you get the best results with brick paper over the MDF.  That combined with your recessed, scratch-built windows and doors give even your simplest builds a fine finish quality.  Some questions if you don't mind.  Are the edges and crown of the roof separate strip material on each side, angles or meticulously applied tape?  Do you use channels for your gutters and make the end caps or are you fabricating the gutters out of strip material? Any plans for an operational garage door?

Thanks, Joe.

The whole thing is offcuts of MDF.  Once I've downloaded the PDF's of the patterned paper, I can use them over and over.

The barge boards and ridge capping are simply strips of paper made in Excel, and stuck on using the usual UHU blue stick adhesive.

The gable is a piece of buff coloured copy paper stuck on to the MDF, with extra strips stuck on.

The gutters are Plastruct UFS-6 in packs of 5, called 90584.  I just cut a piece of 0.5 mm styrene and glue it into the ends and cut the excess off with fine side cutters, once the glue has set up.  Then I file the ends smooth.

No plans for operating garage doors, Joe. 

MaxSouthOz posted:

Nice work, Alan.  Eighteen you say?  Wow!

Nice attention to detail, Don.

Here's my little shed . . .

 

 

 

Very nice shed Max. Thanks for the compliment. After I finished taking the pics, I put all the little items back in the baggy I keep them in, and set them on the table. I was putting some things away, and when I came back, the baggy was was blown across the deck, and everything was gone! After a long laborious search through hundreds of sunflower shells, I found everything except the phone. I was going to call the number and listen for the ring, but I didn't program a number in it yet!

Don

 

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