Sunday Scenic Showcase October 23, 2016

WOW, Al......when you hold that building up outside, it looks real! Great work!.

I am orgainizing pics, I found some oldies....here is some urban renewal. This is from my 1993-2003 layout.

The early downtown area shows K-Line buildings with a building-under-construction using a Kenner Girder & Panel, Bridge & Turnpike set....remember them, fellows? I loved to play with them as a kid.....they kept me busy for hours......

Fast forward about 8 years to 2002-03.......the quality of O gauge buildings really took off.... Buildings Unlimited, Walthers, Lionel, etc

Peter

I am almost done with my first craftsman style kit. It is an old Gloorcraft kit which was in turn based on a fantasy building featured in the Nov 1958 Model Railroader Magazine. I built this at my club for that layout. I had a lot of advice from other members and I feel pretty good for a first time out. 

Wired up a new signal,

Silver Lake posted:

I am almost done with my first craftsman style kit. It is an old Gloorcraft kit which was in turn based on a fantasy building featured in the Nov 1958 Model Railroader Magazine. I built this at my club for that layout. I had a lot of advice from other members and I feel pretty good for a first time out. 

 

Looks great SilverLake, I'm assuming your artist skills were key to making this thing look so nice, I'm certain a no-artist-ability person like myself could NOT pull something off half as nice as this one!

Andy/Silver Lake, Yes, I would agree with Rich. It came out very nice!

Tom  

Nice looking Signal. 

Nice work, everyone.  Alan, that hospital looks terrific!  Here's my contribution for this week...

I finally had a little bit of time to get back to my 5-car Weaver PS-1 40' boxcar custom painting/detailing/lettering/weathering project.  The first car (D&H #19600) is now finished: primed, painted, lettered (with CDS dry transfers) and weathered (inside and out) in attempt to loosely represent the age & condition of the prototype car pictured below. 

I decided to "3-rail scale" this car by adding Kadees and lowering the ride height a bit.  I also added Weaver die-cast 3-rail trucks, replaced some of the molded-on plastic grab irons and stirrup steps with scale-sized metal ones, and added some extra weight to improve tracking.

Here's the prototype on which my weathering is loosely based...a car with 15+ years of hard service still wearing its "as-delivered" paint scheme.  Some of the car dimensional data has been re-stenciled as a "patch job" until it makes it way through the shop for a complete repaint. 

A lot really beautiful pics this Sunday. I send some new scenery & rolling stock pics.

The contractors have been pouring the concrete infill on the southern end . . .

still lots to do.

The raffle train table is basically done. If it does not rain tomorrow we will transport it to the mall, put some bumpers and structures on it and showcase for the Christmas raffle. Pretty much everything was donated and the raffle is free. Once we get the table set up at the mall I will post more pictures.

Joe

Mark is making sure the locomotive runs

Stan is busy cleaning up the cars

We just delivered the raffle table to the mall for showcasing next to the other raffle prizes.

Enjoy the photos!

Had to have a picture of me.....................