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Odd gondola?
I've had this old S scale gondola laying around for a while and am thinking about painting and lettering it. It's a 40 foot gon with solid bottom and pretty high sides. It has some strange looking large side ribs and large end corrugations but pretty scale sized ladders, steps, and grab irons. It looks like a cast car, some kind of shiny metal,perhaps aluminium. Probably from the early days of S scale. Anyway does anyone have a suggestion for a paint job that might look somewhat like a real car? Any roads that ran high side 40 foot steel cars? ...DaveB
Weathering book
I am looking for suggestions for a great book on weathering.
Thanks
Parting out my collection
As much as I love model railroading, op's sessions, the forums etc and everything that comes with it... this is taking up too much of my time. I am struggling to keep up with the everyday basics of cleaning and cooking and maintaining my home, so something has to give. I will be getting rid of my collection.
Below is a list of what's available. Serious inquiries only, and please don't insult me with low offers. Please be paypal ready.
Thanks for reading and understanding...
1. Dustpan and broom
December Update
Hello,
today I uploaded the December Update to Youtube. During the last few months not much happend to my modelrailroad projects. But last October some friends and I spend a weekend in Berlin to built about 20 curved modules to FREMO N-RE standards. After these I spend a few days in the Harz Mountain region and took a trip on the HSB (Harzer Schmalspurbahn) from Gernrode to Wernigerode and back.
What 3D printer?
Prices on 3D printers are coming down significantly, to the point I feel I can justify one. I can’t afford (or use inside my future residence) a resin printer, which would obviously be the best and most expensive option in current technology, particularly for smaller scales... so I’m looking at filament printers, with enough print space to do N scale objects 100 feet long at a minimum, and with resolution as high as possible, while keeping the cost within my limited budget. I know there will unavoidably be artifacts such as layers, but I want to minimize them.
Scratch Building an O Scale Trolley Plow
Early this week, a Pittman Freight Motor in O scale, that I had bought online, arrived in the mail. Seeing the size of the car, the detail, and how much fun it was to operate, made me realize that I really wanted to have more O scale trolley equipment. Unfortunately, there isn’t much out there that is readily available, and my preferred prototypes, line cars, are even rarer in model form than photographs of real ones! So I decided, for better or worse, I was going to build my own.
USAF paint match vehicles in the 60's & 70's
I need some help finding a hobby paint that will match the USAF Strata Blue used on vehicles in the 60s and 70's. I have a couple USAF flatcars that I would like to add some loads of air force trucks and will need to paint them.
Thanks, Rodney
Help with color selection
Color selection is defiantly the Achilles tendon of my modeling. Having zero education in art/light/etc.. I truly struggle with this aspect of the hobby. What I have learned on this forum has helped...the conversations about color temperature are very interesting and will guide me on what lighting to purchase. But then comes the conversations about what color 'palate' is being used....mixing colors...blending....tying everything together...its just terrible for me to understand.
Scale change sanity check
First off I know this topic comes up in nausea, let me add to the funk.
a quick run down is that I've been collecting in N scale for about a decade now, main reason was to be able to model large industry (steel) in a reasonable space. The center piece of my dream layout is to be a large steel mill. Currently I am heavily kit bashing the 1st of 3 blast furnaces....
Modeling from reality
Doug had an excellent point in another thread: let's base our modeling on reality, rather than tradition.
Interpret and portray it however you wish, and be aware of your choices.
I'll add that this includes making an independent judgement about scenery materials and other products labelled for specific scales.
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