Been at the bench again.....well, still.....got another couple of projects done.
The first is the Spectrum 4-6-0 that I ripped apart in this thread.... http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,31358.0.html (http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,31358.0.html)
This one got named after my mother who passed away late last year. Done in my usual corporate paint job for the Lye, Stihl and Djheet.
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Next up was this Mantua/Model Power GP-20. I had picked this thing up for around 20 bucks a while back. These type of models are good practice fodder. If ya screw it all up you're not out a ton of money. My first attempt at diesel weathering was done with a rattle can and the mist was way too coarse to look right in HO scale. In the close-ups, the 1st loco looked like it had cow patties thrown at it. This time I went out to the garage and brought the airbrush back into the studio.....the results are as follows. This is only my second attempt at weathering a diesel model. I also tossed in a Digitrax SDH164D decoder with a rectangular MRC speaker for the hell of it. Comments? Criticisms?
Enjoy!
Sid
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looks good, well done.
Roger T.
Nice job. I like models that or not fresh out of the paint shop. Just one question, or remark. Red marker lights on a steam locomotive. The only ones I have ever seen are clear (white) or green.
Quote from: RAM on February 19, 2016, 09:58:54 PM
Nice job. I like models that or not fresh out of the paint shop. Just one question, or remark. Red marker lights on a steam locomotive. The only ones I have ever seen are clear (white) or green.
You're probably right. I'll repaint em green. Like I've always said.....I know nothing about real railroads at all really. I'm a model builder who happens to be fascinated with railroad themed models at this time of my life. ;D
Thanks for the heads up......I think I went with red cause, well, red and brass just look good together..lol.
Sid
So....is the light on the back of the tender the wrong color too?
Quote from: WoundedBear on February 19, 2016, 10:44:17 PM
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Like I've always said.....I know nothing about real railroads at all really.
Sid.
I noticed both the class lights and the red backup light but didn't want to say anything when we were chatting this evening.
Always feel free to ask questions about the prototype and if I can answer them, I will. If I can't, I know people who can. :)
Cheers
Roger T.
Great work as always Sid! :)
Re: The diesel: the work and weathering look terrific. This, is not a criticism of your work, but the wide open pilots and super thick handrails and stanchions on these maker's models, make me go, blech! I realize you worked on it bc it is what you had and the price was right as you point out, so any screw up is not the end of the world, so it makes all the sense, but I still go blech! If I had one, I'd use it as practice piece too, but not sure I would go buy one of these to practice on. :)
Roger;
Hi. I noticed on one of your locomotives you only have one class light; a 4-8-2, in one of your photos. Was it lost off by a 'collector' or perhaps re-possessed?
Rich C.
Quote from: electrical whiz kid on February 20, 2016, 09:56:46 AM
Roger;
Hi. I noticed on one of your locomotives you only have one class light; a 4-8-2, in one of your photos. Was it lost off by a 'collector' or perhaps re-possessed?
Rich C.
Hi Rich.
I just went thought the photos and all class lights are in place. I can't actually check the locos as they are still all packed away.
Cheers
Roger T.
Gosh it all looks good .I have just been inspired to step up and work on my weathering techniques.I learned to build them up and paint them like they rolled off the assembly line over many years ,but need to get more into this weathering fine art of the hobby since this is just fantastic to my eyes all the grime and grit .Jut really nice work.Thanks for sharing!
Johnny Adam
Nice looking power, including the GP-20 from what would often be considered a "toy" source.
Of course, what I really like are the shots of the 4-6-0. On my monitor the model comes out looking like it's in O scale, and all the details really show up. Bachmann had a nice engine in that run.
Just acquired a high-boiler 4-6-0 myself recently, might have a little fun doing it up as a deep South passenger hauler. . . and I have my eyes on a Russian Decapod as a light axle load freighter to go with it. . .
Love them steamers ! I like the way the piping really stands out against the 'brass' fittings. As far as
prototype goes...I didn't give the 'brake' light a second thought.
Ken
Hi Roger;
Number 541, it is a 2-8-2. Your work much being in evidence of superior craftsmanship, I just thought I'd mention it.
It looks good. One question I have: I notice a blue-black sheen on your steamers. How did you get that-or is it just the photo effects? I had been playing around with a mix of engine black and enchantment blue; but I am just curious.
Rich C.
Wayne;
Nice neat work! Doing grab irons kind of separates "the men from the boys", and yours was a beautifully done job.
When I first got involved in HO standard-gauge, I had bought three life-like RS-11s on line. I don't know what you had -but let's just say that I was less than happy. I wound up giving them away. Shortly after, I had "discovered" Atlas RS-1s, 3s and RS-11s-but not in complete form. I got the catalogue, and ordered parts. These parts were cobbled together, mix-and-match style. It was a good learning process. I created my own road decals (in black), and applied them. All in all, it was quite a learning process-a good one. Oh-and they all worked well. Says a lot about Atlas.
On your last photo, there is, behind the locomotives, a station. It looks like you might have modified an old Atlas station. It looks really good.
Rich C.
Really nice work Wayne. I now see where the bar is set....lol.
Sid
Nice modelling Wayne, very nice in fact. :)
Cheers
Roger T.
Quote from: doctorwayne on February 20, 2016, 10:00:44 PM
Here's a locomotive, two of which I bought by mail-order many years ago (pre-internet era). Hobbys For Men, in Beacon, NY offered them for, if I recall correctly, six bucks apiece. . . .
A quick test run....well, attempt at a test run, was equally disappointing. The locos had a pancake-style motor mounted atop one truck, and would move, rocket-like, only an inch or two at a time. . . .
When LifeLike later released their Proto2000 series of locomotives, I dubbed mine LifeLike proto-no-thousands.
Wayne
What a nostalgia trip to the "goodle days!" RS-11s for six bucks! Of course, look what you wound up with--and yet, look what you could eventually get, with persistence and vision.
Made me think of how many people worked around Mantua 4-6-2s (loosely based on a B&O P-7c), Mantua 2-8-2s (freelanced version of a large, modern Mike), the Pennsy steam from Bowser (plus a UP 4-6-6-4 and an NYC 4-6-2), MDC's die cast engines, and of course Athearn Blue Box units, and Rivarossi's various locomotives (including for a long time the only E-units you could get in plastic).
I do miss some of this, like the Bowser steam power (bullet proof as you could come in model locomotives, and repairable, too), but I won't argue about how much things have improved in the last 30 years or so.
Now, where are those wonderful threads by Jonathan where he was working on a Mantua Mike and that Varney Dockside he inherited from his grandfather, the latter such an iconic part of HO in the past?
EDIT: Some of the photos are gone and some links might be dead, but here we go:
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,12823.0.html
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,11331.0.html
We are, of course, more than locomotive modelers:
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,12480.0.html
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/board/index.php/topic,20371.0.html
Hobbies for men. One of my first mail orders. $39.00 for a ATSF 4-8-4 or 2-10-4. We are sorry but it is out of stock, we will apply the money to your next order. The next thing I knew was they went belly up.
They look good. Your colorful 4-6-0 brings to mind a photo in a book, somewhere over there on the shelf, where a little short line's little steamer is described as having green cab and bright orange lettering. Also noted was their caboose with a large chimney cap.
That's one of those things where you wonder why that has stuck so strongly in your memory.
Finish on GP20 looks good.
Way back in the 1970s I was doing military models with youthful zeal when my logic realized, "Hey! trains are models that do things!" and I was hooked.
Are no photos of it, and the model is gone, my first locomotive repaint in early 1980s was redoing a Bachmann Santa Fe F-unit for a freelance road in blue with white trim.
Hmm, I wonder if anyone makes lady engineer figures, so the engineer for Doris can be Doris? :)
"Proto-no-power" dummies, hehehe! Though initially disappointing, that's a cool story and it sounds like there was a lot of fun had in the detailing them.
Looking at those two depots, wonder how many people have how many of that Atlas depot and that Rico depot, which the plastic kit of has changed hands several times, painted in how many different colors?
Last summer I picked up the Bachmann Plasticville switch tower kit in box from one of the second hand stores here in town. Plan is to fix it up with some window sashes cut open, a floor, a figure up there, and a light, and use it on home layout, just because.
Wayne;
Very good work; all nicely done! I have seen 'Novelty iron Works" here and there over the last ten or so years, but never gave it too much thought for one reason or another. I do a lot with Rail Design Assoc. kits. One I picked up not too long ago was the 'Witch Hazel" plant. The original one is in Essex, Ct; but I think they took the design from the building that sits in Essex Depot (Valley Railroad). I built it, and am very satisfied with it. I am wondering how difficult it would be to kit-bash Novelty Iron with say, Delaney Iron Works. It looks like an interesting kit-bash; or even Novelty and Matthews Machine Works (Looks suspiciously like Mason Locomotive Works, originally in Taunton, Mass.).
Rich C.