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Excellent nice job!

Great story and excellent job on Sonnys.

Lasm, Thanks for for such kind words. Its been over 30 years since I built any type of "model" I was pretty scared when I started this after lurking and looking I went for it. I must say my model building experience as a teen encompasses well over 100 1/25 scale cars and trucks, so I am not...

Thanks guys

So I am pretty much complete with the basic structures, vehicles, and cars so I took a few shots. Detail items will be added over time.

Very nice conversion.

With spring here and the duties of the farm and work I have not had much time to work on the Conway Coal layout. I finally stripped the B&M blue paint off the plow truck. Stripped with brake fluid, cleaned, primed and painted. I added head lights, blinkers, tail lights, side boards and Conway...

The nearest Hobby Lobby is 30 miles but since I travel a lot it's on the way home from the airport. I always use the smart phone coupon that way I can download it anytime. That 40% makes a big difference on a purchase. I have purchased the chalk sticks from General they have great colors for...

After looking at more photos of Cletrac / Oliver tractors I decided to cut up the Tyco tractor a bit to make a more realistic reresentation.

additional photos Finished piles in pockets, I will need to detail out the edges of the piles.

To make large piles of coal without a mess and waiting for glue to dry deep inside a pile I choose to sculpt a foam base first and test fit into the pocket and then coat with black paint full strength. I then wrap with saran wrap to protect the outlying structure from glue and place it in the...

Scale building progress I made the Fairbanks 20,000 lb pit scale platform and housing from coffee stirer sticks, the Fairbanks scale beam was cut out of styrene. The washes were a combo of Testors acrylic washes and enamel stains also some acrylic red mixed in with the wash, after that chalks...

Kaleb, Kevin, This is coming along fantastic. Kaleb your skills are really good!

Looks great Bob cant wait to see it progress.

Alot of hard work, great job Kevin.

Nice rigs!

Lasm, I here ya, I looked on the web and tried to figure out what brand represented the look of the casting. The orange looks like your greenish color. I took the liberty to go with the grey and red that I had seen on other dozers from Cletrac in the 30's. I will probably add an orange one in...

Weathered - before and after Well thats is works great loads a lot of Coal.

finishing up

progress