santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. 43° and clear, going back up to 70° again today, 80's for the rest of the week. It isn't supposed to be this cool again until Saturday night, so I am not done with the wood stove yet. Nice day outside yesterday for mowing and tree branch remediation. Mowed about half an acre on the SW area of the yard. My firewood stack for 2018-2019 already has seven weeks worth of heating fuel in it so it should be dry enough for burning by November. Actually still have dry wood leftover from this year plus two more dead trees to remove.
I did find some time to spend in the train shed yesterday. Did a little more detailing around the farm homestead and tidied the area up.
The Atlas switch tower is next to the aisle across the tracks from the farm and is included in the current project. Besides sprucing it up a bit, I added interior lights and a person inside as well as the two outside. Not seen in these views is the distribution center that I rehabbed last month. It's temporarily elsewhere while I did the stuff in the back. The three lineal feet that I am working on here represents 1% of the layout and brings the "complete" portion up to about 17%. Summer's coming and I will be spending more time indoors soon. More time for scenery since benchwork is now completed.
I'm not quite done yet. I still have additional vehicles. trees, animals, people and other inert details to add. And as I posted yesterday, I need additional fencing for the cows.
While waiting for glue to dry, I added graffiti, both decals and hand drawn, to four freight cars prior to weathering them. Blair Line has an extensive series of graffiti decals suitable for the early 80's to now. I use paint pens and felt tip markers for earlier stuff like "Kilroy was here", peace signs and "SRS '69" type markings. While I don't approve of graffiti, it is a reality that I do present on the layout. I noticed while railfanning in the 70's and 80's, that graffiti was more prevalent on RR lines like SP and UP than on KCS or ATSF; at least around here. I didn't remember seeing many eastern RR's at the time.
Garry - I took an additional look at that bridge that you posted in post # 1032 on Sunday, that is quite a structure. Looks really good.
Greg - Condolences on the passing of your MIL.
Curt - I can relate to the tree trimming. I am having to do a major push here to rectify the last ten years of "I'll get to it later". Several episodes of getting swatted in the face while mowing under them finally forced the issue. I planted over 300 trees in the early 80's so it has been ongoing lately. Hope that you are successful in getting back into the trainroom after your hiatus.
Joe - Nice work on the BB car, and the others that you posted last week. Some modelers look at BB cars with disdain, but I have over 300 of them and upgrade and weather them as you do. Can't tell the difference in a moving train at three feet.
Sherrel - I can't answer for Joe, but if I weather a car with weathering powders, I have not had a need to seal it. Earlier in my modeling days when I used powdered chalk, it did eventually wear off from cleaning and handling. The newer weathering powders have some kind of fixative in them that causes them to adhere to surfaces better. I do dull coat all cars first to give the powders something more than shiny plastic to adhere to. I dull coat all freight cars whether or not I am going to weather them.
Gary P - You posted while I was composing...absolutely great looking modules. I do not envy you on the chain-link fence.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
I did find some time to spend in the train shed yesterday. Did a little more detailing around the farm homestead and tidied the area up.
The Atlas switch tower is next to the aisle across the tracks from the farm and is included in the current project. Besides sprucing it up a bit, I added interior lights and a person inside as well as the two outside. Not seen in these views is the distribution center that I rehabbed last month. It's temporarily elsewhere while I did the stuff in the back. The three lineal feet that I am working on here represents 1% of the layout and brings the "complete" portion up to about 17%. Summer's coming and I will be spending more time indoors soon. More time for scenery since benchwork is now completed.
I'm not quite done yet. I still have additional vehicles. trees, animals, people and other inert details to add. And as I posted yesterday, I need additional fencing for the cows.
While waiting for glue to dry, I added graffiti, both decals and hand drawn, to four freight cars prior to weathering them. Blair Line has an extensive series of graffiti decals suitable for the early 80's to now. I use paint pens and felt tip markers for earlier stuff like "Kilroy was here", peace signs and "SRS '69" type markings. While I don't approve of graffiti, it is a reality that I do present on the layout. I noticed while railfanning in the 70's and 80's, that graffiti was more prevalent on RR lines like SP and UP than on KCS or ATSF; at least around here. I didn't remember seeing many eastern RR's at the time.
Garry - I took an additional look at that bridge that you posted in post # 1032 on Sunday, that is quite a structure. Looks really good.
Greg - Condolences on the passing of your MIL.
Curt - I can relate to the tree trimming. I am having to do a major push here to rectify the last ten years of "I'll get to it later". Several episodes of getting swatted in the face while mowing under them finally forced the issue. I planted over 300 trees in the early 80's so it has been ongoing lately. Hope that you are successful in getting back into the trainroom after your hiatus.
Joe - Nice work on the BB car, and the others that you posted last week. Some modelers look at BB cars with disdain, but I have over 300 of them and upgrade and weather them as you do. Can't tell the difference in a moving train at three feet.
Sherrel - I can't answer for Joe, but if I weather a car with weathering powders, I have not had a need to seal it. Earlier in my modeling days when I used powdered chalk, it did eventually wear off from cleaning and handling. The newer weathering powders have some kind of fixative in them that causes them to adhere to surfaces better. I do dull coat all cars first to give the powders something more than shiny plastic to adhere to. I dull coat all freight cars whether or not I am going to weather them.
Gary P - You posted while I was composing...absolutely great looking modules. I do not envy you on the chain-link fence.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
Nice layout shot.
