SUNDAY SCENIC SHOWCASE FEBRUARY 9,2014

Looks great, Alan!!

Very nice lights. It finishes off the interior.

Here is a lift bridge that I made this week for a member of my club. I posted it earlier on another thread but it died there. His aisle is 21" wide. Simple pine lumber with the Lionel girder plates for the sides.

working on restoring some brass hoppers with the help of the guys on the 3rs forum...coming along nicely

stripped

sandblasted

Cleaned and painted

Decaled & dull coated

Here's the BTS rural church kit built up that I reviewed for OST.  Truncated the length of it to make it fit the town better - things you can do with a band saw.....   All ready to be installed into my town of Lemasters on the layout.  Looks like that new piano is going to get delivered, too.










 

Martin, beautiful church. You have the touch.

Thanks!  I  hope to get to work on the funeral home that's going in just down the street from the church next week.

Really nice job Martin, the piano delivery cart and horse is a nice compliment and great idea...

Hi Alan, The lights are looking great. I know the lighting will add a lot to the unit especially with the Santa Fe ABBA Units all inside the Shop. Thanks for all your efforts on this project. Bill

Alan the lights are looking great, did you use LED's?

Don the bridge is extremely sturdy looking and well engineered, I have a 21 inch opening on my extension that I am working on.......want to build another one, lol?

Patrick love the N&W cars, great job bringing them back to new.

Martin the church rocks, great adaptation of the kit. Detailing is exceptional  of course. Nice to see more churches, any real town has several, even the smallest of towns have a few.

Got some work done on bringing back the old metal house. Found out that it was my friend's father's dating from the late 30's to 40's and he has no idea where his Dad got it from.

This week since there was no front windows or door besides the beautiful screen door I added a couple of fake ones, no way to cut through the metal without risking sever damage. The Mud Room on the side didn't have a door so I added one there also. I am waiting for a paint order and the screens will get a coat of flat aluminum paint this week. I will hang the porch swing as soon as the Artistta figures arrive. By using the small SMD Chip LEd's from Evans Designs, I will have a light on the inside porch roof behind the screens that brings out whatever is inside the porch through the screens in testing. Still have windows to paint, roof to weather, etc. This is the second foundation, the first one shrunk when painted leaving 1/4 inch of building overlap. This time I cut it extra wide and in a few hours since painting see that it has contracted in some.

 Started with this......

Now am here......

Paul, what a transformation to that house. Amazing.

Great work everyone. Been busy at the TMB club and not up to any scenery work and wont be for a while. I do get inspiration on this weekly thread

THANKS

Steve

Building high pressure tanks for a customer. He wanted to be able to load taker cars from the tanks so I designed a pumping platform to sit in front of the tanks. The tanks will be fed from an Alky Unit and Distillation Tower not shown.

Joe, beautiful tanks.

Thanks Don

I will post more pictures once I paint.

Joe

Joe - Very nice looking tanks! 

Art

MWB,

You're church is awesome.  I like small, rural churches like that.  Matt