The pealing paint effect on brick is great @Trainchief
Thanks! My first time using the peel paint look. Spray a little hairspray on the base coat and then put on your final coat over that. You're now ready to destroy your project by scrapping off the paint. It turned out much better than I anticipated. Learned the technique from the military model guys. They are great at weathering and paint peeling.
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Came home to find my previously clean workbench covered with my son’s projects.
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Trainchief, the building looks terrific.
I agree with Rod and that is impressive. You should post it tomorrow in the scenery section; specifically on “ Sunday Scenic Showcase “.
I chuckled when I saw your picture. I'm going to a meet tomorrow and am hoping to sell the coal elevator, lumber loader, and coal ramp!
@texgeekboy posted:I chuckled when I saw your picture. I'm going to a meet tomorrow and am hoping to sell the coal elevator, lumber loader, and coal ramp!
His plan is to do the same thing in a future show. It’s part of an estate he picked up.
@jstraw124 posted:Came home to find my previously clean workbench covered with my son’s projects.
EXCELLENT........ great to see new blood moving into the greatest hobby . 
@Dallas Joseph posted:EXCELLENT........ great to see new blood moving into the greatest hobby .
How true! I hope to have someone to pass the hobby to someday. 😢
Bob, that’s great Jon was able to help you out. We will be watching for your project reports.
A mess, I need to get it cleaned up! Sorry, not showing any pictures!😁
MTH - this Hudson in not painted - well, it is below the waist, but not the main castings (the nose fin only had been painted, however). I found it disassembled on eBay some years ago, minus all boards, with the little boiler/tender parts in plastic bags.There were almost no screws in the box, but I had all that I needed left over from my scratch-bashing activities (except the main boiler screws, which I found at Ace Hardware). I put ERR Cruise Commander in it, no sound, no smoke; operating coil coupler.
Lately I decided to letter it, and emulated the 5445 in Mercury service, as shown in 2 photos in Know Thy Hudsons. Apparently, cast zinc has the NYC Century gray dead to rights. The builders plates and the oval came in a bag, as well as the brass coupler cover. The piping was in place.
No casting paint here either. Brass coal cover doors.
Still no paint. The white stripes and aluminum lettering follow the prototype photos well enough. The road name is from an old Walthers NYC set.
Actually, it is painted now - it had 2 coats of Glosscote applied after I assembled and cleaned it, and some Dullcote after the decaling.
As received a few years back. I have trouble resisting this sort of thing. Enjoyable.
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I had to do some rework on the front of my RI U boat. I have to touch up a couple of dings and it will be ready for decals. I may get around to decals this weekend.
I need the decorative horn and brake wheel. Any leads on a parts supplier for MPC stuff would be appreciated.
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Very nice job D500 and Mike D! Paint jobs look great!
Decided to pull my Mi Loco K5 apart and do some repaining. It was a runner anyway, so I didn’t want this project to stall out. Picked this one up from Carey Williams last year. 1935 loco and big at 17/64ths scale. Going back together and next will be stripping the boiler and tender for some paint.
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Re-started my S2 project......and then re-stopped........
The CEO was otherwise occupied today so except for a small detour to the MIL's house to hang a drape, I had some time at the bench today. Some mid-afternoon rain helped the cause as well.
I did the truck assembly, installed the frames, pilots, pick up wires, and Lionel electro-couplers.
Speaker and prog/run switch went into the fuel tank and the tank was installed.
I wired up the motors and tested them, again all is moving in the right direction.
Then I took a good look at the Cruise-commander and railsounds boards and the a aforementioned stop occurred. It doesn't look like the boards will fit under the small narrow hood of the S2...... I tried various arrangements but even if I could fit the boards, forget about connecting any wires. I even considered putting the RS board in the cab but then the engineer and conductor would have to run the train from the back porch. 
So unless I'm missing the obvious then I may drop back and punt on this engine getting an ERR upgrade and might try a Flyer-chief or Lionchief board.
At least I got to see it move.....
To be continued......
Bob
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Bob, small success, but that’s a disappointment about the ERR boards 😢
