Sunday Scenic Showcase February 13,2022

Slowly, I am making a coaling tower combining two Plasticville coaling tower kits.

Been working on this for a few weeks, finally starting to take shape.  Working on paving around the tracks right now.  It's a kit bash with 3 older Lionel Factory Buildings, it's going to be a LCL terminal warehouse on two facing point sidings off the interchange that's shared between two RR's.   Managed to get sidings that I can access down the front and rear of the warehouse, so double the switching opportunities.  After some trial and error, found the best "pavement" material (for me), was to use MidWest Cork Road bed, initially painted with Camouflage Khaki and ready for more weathering once it's all glued and "pin nailed" into place between the rails.  I have used the cork before for curbs, sidewalks, cap stones on walls.   For the sections between the rails, I actually used my table saw to cut the strips, worked great. 

Impressive work! Thanks for sharing.

Peter, ChrisA.

Nice work and thanks for sharing.

These are my hand made structures that I salvaged after tearing down my layout. I may reuse them again one day...

Finished this 3rd Rail BM70m today. I am trying to find an alternative to the old Model Masters acrylic Grimy Black and tried some Vallejo Model Air Black Gray on this project.  This car needed a bit of work when I got it but now it should be ready for the mail:

Looks good Norm.  Years ago I read some good reviews on Mission Models Paint. Pretty forgiving as far as spraying. They deal mostly in military colors. I found their Tire Black is a good stand in for Grimy Black.

Thanks Dave. I will check them out sometime. I found Tamiya’s German Gray works pretty good too, that’s what I used on the B70a I showed last week.

@Dave_C posted:

Looks good Norm.  Years ago I read some good reviews on Mission Models Paint. Pretty forgiving as far as spraying. They deal mostly in military colors. I found their Tire Black is a good stand in for Grimy Black.

Dave

Totally agree on mission Models Paint as well as Tire Black ! ! ! !

Steve

Nice work this week guys.

My contribution is an Atlas Trainman tower kit I've been working on. While not a PRR design, I tried to paint it to give it the feel of towers like MO or BANKS on the middle division in the Conrail era. Since the window frames were all molded into the walls, there was a lot of masking to do.

@chris a posted:

Been working on this for a few weeks, finally starting to take shape.  Working on paving around the tracks right now.  It's a kit bash with 3 older Lionel Factory Buildings, it's going to be a LCL terminal warehouse on two facing point sidings off the interchange that's shared between two RR's.   Managed to get sidings that I can access down the front and rear of the warehouse, so double the switching opportunities.  After some trial and error, found the best "pavement" material (for me), was to use MidWest Cork Road bed, initially painted with Camouflage Khaki and ready for more weathering once it's all glued and "pin nailed" into place between the rails.  I have used the cork before for curbs, sidewalks, cap stones on walls.   For the sections between the rails, I actually used my table saw to cut the strips, worked great.

A very interesting kitbash. It almost looks like a korber kit in some ways.

The sawtooth shaped window housings up on the roof are from a Korber  Factory building. (Maybe the smaller Lionel Factory kit).     Picked it up at a train show, many years ago, but it was so poorly assembled with hot glue and wood parts that I decided to salvage the roof light windows and probably toss the rest of it. 

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Finished this 3rd Rail BM70m today. I am trying to find an alternative to the old Model Masters acrylic Grimy Black and tried some Vallejo Model Air Black Gray on this project.  This car needed a bit of work when I got it but now it should be ready for the mail:

I switched to Vallejo Model Air and Model Color paints long before Floquil and Railroad Colors disappeared, and have been super happy.  Even the bottles are better designed for storing paints for long times, and only dispensing what you need.  Huge range of colors.  But I still thin the model air and use more as filters, with maybe up to a dozen coats, and vary colors

Started roughing out an Erie Freight house.  Design is based on the LCL Forwarding Erie freight house at their 28th street yard in NYC, it’s just shortened a bit.  Trusses were just temporarily set in place.  Structure will have open doors, so finished interior, including brick walls,  interior partitions, freight, and lighting.   I’m working on a mockup of garage door tracks, with operational doors (manually)  but if it doesn’t work out, I’ll just glue in place.  

Skull Mountain and the Mountain View Estates trailer park.