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Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33306 anbhurst Moderator Premium Member Posted - 03/05/2005 :  3:58:08 PM     What a challenge! Thanks for helping me see what I've been missing. All of your finescale works are great examples to follow. Thanks for sharing. Allen Discovering the East in the West! Allen Modeling the East in the West on the Northeastern Pacific RIM, Oregon, that is! Country: USA | Posts: 7259 Shamus Crew Chief Posted - 03/06/2005 :  03:20:54 AM       Anyone else see red X's on my photos?? I can see them okay. Shamus Country: United Kingdom | Posts: 535 bpate Fireman Posted - 03/06/2005 :  05:20:24 AM     Hi Paul, I can see your photos all too clearly, I now have to build up courage to post a photo of my railway station! Some most excellent photos of scratch building so far everyone. I am very pleased this thread has been started. It will be one to return to again and again. Country: Australia | Posts: 3090 Bbags Administrator Premium Member Posted - 03/06/2005 :  06:49:38 AM     Great pictures all. Paul, I can see your pictures fine. I have seem most of them before but every time I look at them I find another interesting detail that I have not seen in the past. Again, thanks all for posting pictures of your work. John Bagley Modeling the Alaska Railroad in HO in Wildwood Georgia. Country: USA | Posts: 13331 MontanaRed New Hire Posted - 03/06/2005 :  9:36:47 PM       I built this over 20 years ago. It is built board by boad and is constructed of balsa cut to dimension (or close enough...). The roffing is aluminum foil cut to size, then pressed into a single cut file, and rubbing with a very soft piece of balsa. Paint and weathering is done with water soluable tempra paints. I now weather with chalks, but 20 years ago I used dry brushing. The roof is beat up due to several moves, but the model now has a fulltime home. It is not up to craftsman standards, but it sure looks good in my diorama. Download Attachment: Monarch_mine4.JPG 96.83 KB Country: USA | Posts: 7 Scott McCabe Engine Wiper Posted - 03/07/2005 :  08:54:35 AM     quote: Originally posted by Bbags Scott, I meant to ask since not only is your model impressive but the collection of yellow boxes in the background caught my eye. Are those full waiting to be modeled or are they empty meaning that you have constructed them and maybe could post some pictures. John thanks for all your compliments, I have many yellow boxes, have built stuffys and franklin watchworks as dioramas, also have many scratch built originals, re-shooting pics and will post soon. Thanks Scott McCabe The LL&M Lawrence, Lowell & Manchester Railroad Circa 1935 Country: USA | Posts: 281 postalkarl Fireman Posted - 03/07/2005 :  09:48:23 AM     Bruce: Nice Ice house. Karl S Country: | Posts: 6957 wvrr Fireman Posted - 03/07/2005 :  10:06:28 AM       There's some really great projects, already. I don't have anything built from scratch...yet. Chuck Country: | Posts: 6658 MikeC Administrator Premium Member Posted - 03/07/2005 :  10:21:01 AM     David, your Monarch Mines looks pretty darned good to me. You did a nice job of scratchbuilding! Bruce, I still like your C1 ice house. It's a neat little structure! Speaking of Challenge 1, here are a couple of photos of the "abandoned" freight house I built for the project. This was done board-by-board over a 4 X 4 framework. I drew the template on ordinary graph paper and went from there. Country: USA | Posts: 21584 Chuck Doan Fireman Posted - 03/07/2005 :  10:23:17 AM     Here are a few pictures of one of my more ambitious scratch building projects, an On3 freelanced logging tank car. The flat car was pretty simple, but the tank was another story. I started with a solid acrylic rod (only after I was done did I realize the rod made the car so heavy, it was almost too much for a loco to pull!) I embossed rivets into separate segments of .005 styrene using a home made rivet tool mounted in a (non-running) drill press. I scrapped so many wrappers, I must have kept Evergreen in business buying all those replacement sheets! Each segment was applied in a prototypical overlapping manner. While I was pleased with the end result, my railroad will have to make due with one scratch built tank car! A construction article and a plan of this car was published in the Jan/Feb 1993 Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. Chuck Doan Download Attachment: 395 R.jpg 76.27 KB Download Attachment: 354 R.jpg 72.55 KB Download Attachment: 365 R.jpg 74.88 KB Download Attachment: 407 R.jpg 70.14 KB Edited by - Chuck Doan on 03/07/2005 10:35:43 AM Country: USA | Posts: 1560 Bbags Administrator Premium Member Posted - 03/07/2005 :  7:29:58 PM     Great pictures all. I am glad we are getting to see all types of scratch building from some very simple things to some that are quite elaborate. You never know when you might see something that you can use on your layout and rather than buying a kit will give scratch building a try. Chuck, That is an amazing piece of rolling stock that you have constructed. It is definitely very worthy of a magazine article. Great work and amazing detail. John Bagley Modeling the Alaska Railroad in HO in Wildwood Georgia. Country: USA | Posts: 13331 Marken Fireman Posted - 03/07/2005 :  7:57:14 PM     Chuck, that is a work of art. Amazing detail. Very, very nice In memory of Mike Chambers Country: USA | Posts: 2972 postalkarl Fireman Posted - 03/07/2005 :  10:45:14 PM     Chuck: Very nice tank car. Karl S Country: | Posts: 6957 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 03/08/2005 :  07:02:42 AM     Chuck, That tank car is beautiful and the modeling is impressive. I have not scratchbuilt a car yet, but have recently read some old issues of MR (1950's) where the car-building articles have attracted my interest. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33306 Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 of 67 Topic    New Topic |    New Poll |   Reply to Topic |  Previous Page | Next Page Jump To: Select Forum Railroad Line Administrative Forums       Forum News       Administrative Posts General Forums       WorkShops, Garage, Machines and Tools       The Tour Bus       The Arrival Track       RR-L Member Personal Websites       The Crew Lounge       The Classroom       Interchange Tracks       Rail Events       Reference & Research Model Railroad Forums       The Sn3 Branch       Mike Chambers' Craftsman's Corner       HOn30 and HOn3 Forum       Early Rail Forum       Dead Rail Forum       The On30 Line       Railroad Photography Forum       Small Scale Model Railroad Forum       Mid Scale Model Railroad Forum       Large Scale Model Railroad Forum       Logging, Mining, & Narrow minded       Model Railroad Construction       Micro & Mini Layouts       Layout Design / Operation Sig Forum       Startin' from Scratch       DCC, Computers and Electronics for Model Railroads Shop Talk       Vehicle and Non-Rail Transportation Modeling       The Steam Shop       The Roundhouse       Rolling Stock: the Car Shops       The Diesel Shop Company Store       Railroad-Line Swap Meet       New Product Announcements Fallen Flag Railroad Forums       Erie / Lackawanna Railroad Forum       Raritan River Railroad Forum Railroad Software Forums       Atlas Right Track Software       Railroad Line Software Library Model Railroad Club Forums       The Model Railroad Club Forum Sponsor Forums       Rusty Stumps Scale Models       KingMill Enterprises Railroad Line Weblinks       Badger Creek Lumber Co.       Central Missouri & Southern RR       Raritan River Railroad       Thor's All Gauge Page  -------------------- Home Active Topics Frequently Asked Questions Member Information Search Page Railroad Line Forums © 2000-2020 Railroad Line Co.
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