Building The CMMR


To cover up all the scrape marks I masked off the pad and airbrushed it with some Neutral Gray paint. I then sprayed some black at areas between the rails to simulate spillage and leaks. After the paint was dry I penciled in some expansion joints.

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Here it is with the buildings temporarily in place. I still need to add some lights and the fuel tank, so I won't put them down permanently right now.

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The final result looks very good

I did the same as you by making a thick layer and everything shrank, then you're stuck having to do lots of patching up.
I then needed to extend the area and used plaster of Paris and it was much easier.

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Hawkesburytrain said:
The final result looks very good

I did the same as you by making a thick layer and everything shrank, then you're stuck having to do lots of patching up.
I then needed to extend the area and used plaster of Paris and it was much easier.
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That looks really good Lloyd.

If you don't mind me asking what model is your container crane?
 
Tonight I finished up the fuel depot. It started with a kit from Busch. I had quite a few leftover parts from the maintenance facility so I decided to build a filling platform to make it a little more interesting. I made the piping from sprues and the handrails on the stairs are formed from wire.

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Here is everything assembled and painted.

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For the decals I downloaded some warning sign images and printed them off on Testors decal paper. I also used some Krystal Klear to make the glass for the pumps (still a little wet in the pictures!).

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What I like about building scratch stuff is letting your imagination run wild and coming up with stuff like you did
Nicely done!!
 
Well I haven't done much on the layout this winter, but I did work on a couple of locomotives. One is an Athearn BNSF AC4400 that I picked up at our local train show, and the other is a Walthers Trainline VIA F40PH. I added sound decoders and operating ditch lights to both of them, and I also detailed the F40PH. For details you can go to the Projects page at my website.

Here are a couple of videos with the sounds from the SoundTraxx Economi decoders. First is the AC4400...

[video=youtube;rU0W5LboRTQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0W5LboRTQ[/video]
 
And here is the F40PH...

[video=youtube;_5BCt9GPgEs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5BCt9GPgEs[/video]
 
Hey I was just wondering what you've been up to, now we know!
What did you use for speakers?
 
Rico said:
Hey I was just wondering what you've been up to, now we know!
What did you use for speakers?
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Hey Rick - both units have Digitrax SP53188B speakers, although I had to remove what I am assuming is a bass chamber portion of the speaker enclosure to fit it into the F40PH. The pictures of the install are on the website.
 
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Ah there it is! Thanx, sounds pretty good!

PS: can't remember if I sent you this yet? Ex IC ballast cars at Brunkild
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Well I still haven't accomplished much on the layout because I got another request to do up a locomotive for CEMR. Their GM is retiring at the end of April and they wanted to give him a retirement gift. This time they wanted an SD40. The unit they supplied was a Kato that was factory painted in BNSF colors but had been painted over in CIT blue.

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I disassembled the unit and stripped all the paint with brake fluid.

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Here is the painted and decalled finished product. For more details you can go to my website.

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They even scored me some swag this time!

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