Sunday Scenic Showcase October 30, 2016

A little painting on Friday. 

 Dave, that looks great. Not only their engine. The scenery.  What you did on a Friday would take me a month.

I bought this Plasticville gas station for $1.00. It had the broken neck/tower problem so many of them get. Some styrene and super glue and it was stronger than new.  Paint and decal set from Microscale Decals and I have a replica of my neighborhood Shell station back in 1965. Unfortunately my 55 Chevy was on the back of that tow truck a couple times.  Yes I know the gas price on the billboard doesn't match the street signs but it is to go else where on the layout.  These pictures are on my work table not the layout.  Azgary

Some pictures of a Dave's Super Station I customized back in 2015.

Some scenery work has been done on this weekend.

Lots of good stuff this week, guys.

I'm still working on the southern end of the layout.

Almost finished landscaping the turntable pit. Still need to add a few weed tufts and some taller grasses around the walls, then a final weathering of the walls. Also finished all the detail assembly of the bridge itself. Now to weather it as well then add the power supply line from the utility pole to the arch, that should be interesting...

Some really nice stuff posted once again this week!  Here's my contribution...

Work continued this week on my 5-car Weaver PS-1 40' boxcar custom painting/detailing/lettering/weathering project.  Cars #2 and #3 (CNJ w/ large "Miss Liberty" herald and DL&W w/ Lackawanna "billboard"-Phoebe Snow scheme) are now finished: primed, painted, lettered (with CDS dry transfers) and lightly weathered.

Both cars received Weaver die-cast 3-rail trucks and some extra interior weight to improve tracking.  However, I decided to "3-rail scale" the Lackawanna car by adding Kadees and lowering the ride height a bit. 

The CNJ car received the more-traditional "lobster claw" couplers instead of Kadees.  The 5th photo below clearly shows the difference in ride height between the two cars.  Again, same trucks on both...

Three cars down...two to go.  They've come along way from where they started!

Model Structures posted:

Some pictures of a Dave's Super Station I customized back in 2015.

Joe this is fantastic 

David,

The engine is awesome.

Bar,

Great backdrop

Joe,

The gas station looks great

Joey A

You have become a master detailer

Max,

Your scene just keeps getting better and better

Ben,

Great engine house scene.

Alan Graziano

Max:

The scenery detail is awesome.

Bar JP7:

I like the tunnel portal a lot.

Two years in the new home and I am still wiring track. Notmuch time for the layout because of the business however I hope to have the track done, turnouts wired, signals wired etc. by mid 2017 so I can start on some scenery.

Joe 

Thanks, guys - and thanks for the 10 likes!  Awesome.

You've got a good start there, Joe. 

Model Structures posted:

Max:

The scenery detail is awesome.

Bar JP7:

I like the tunnel portal a lot.

Two years in the new home and I am still wiring track. Notmuch time for the layout because of the business however I hope to have the track done, turnouts wired, signals wired etc. by mid 2017 so I can start on some scenery.

Joe

Joe: Thank you. We try made something own and we use 3D -printer those tunnel portals.

-Johan

Ben Snyder posted:

Almost finished landscaping the turntable pit. Still need to add a few weed tufts and some taller grasses around the walls, then a final weathering of the walls. Also finished all the detail assembly of the bridge itself. Now to weather it as well then add the power supply line from the utility pole to the arch, that should be interesting...

Ben, Turntable looks fantastic!. Beautiful job on the scenery.

Dave O'Connor's Dunkirk on the AGHR club On30 logging line.

Alan Graziano posted:

Good Morning Everyone,

I am posting some pictures of a bridge that I am constructing.

 

Let's see what everyone has been working on this week.

 

Alan Graziano

What is this made of?

Great Sunday stuff!

hrspla,

The bridge is being constructed using Plastruct ABS beams and sheet material.

Alan Graziano