02-09-2017, 04:25 AM
Not a lot to report this morning, as I didn't really get chance to do a lot yesterday.
I did make and fit a fence around where the derelict garage is going to sit, and swarmed it in greenery.
I also applied some static grass to the extension and made up some creeping vines from poly fibre and ground foam/noch leaves. On top of that, I removed the rail bumper from the end of the handy co spur on West Allen Street ready for the track to be extended into the Handy Co board, and fitted a decoder to a Proto 2000 GP7.
Some more supplies arrived yesterday, a box of 10 freight cars, and an AHM Grusom Casket Co kit (remember those?
) - that will be getting kitbashed and the David Rarig treatment of covering it in clevermodels textures to improve the horribly oversized brickwork.
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by Dan Beresford, on Flickr
The freight cars are all Roundhouse, and all needed knuckle couplers - which put a considerable dent in my supplies - but they worked out at £1.30 each, and are mostly Appalachian paint schemes - L&N/SCL, B&O/C&O, Clinchfield, etc. The Cotton Belt and WM cars will likely end up getting repainted at some point, but for now they are there if I need them.
I also won another Ebay bid last night - an SPSF gondola, a box car, a 4 car articulated TOFC set and 4 semi trailers to go on the back of them, all for £15 delivered. I'm happy, as I was planning on putting a TOFC ramp on the next extension to the layout, so that's just gravy!
I've got a LOT of cars to weather before the end of the month!
I did make and fit a fence around where the derelict garage is going to sit, and swarmed it in greenery.
I also applied some static grass to the extension and made up some creeping vines from poly fibre and ground foam/noch leaves. On top of that, I removed the rail bumper from the end of the handy co spur on West Allen Street ready for the track to be extended into the Handy Co board, and fitted a decoder to a Proto 2000 GP7.
Some more supplies arrived yesterday, a box of 10 freight cars, and an AHM Grusom Casket Co kit (remember those?
) - that will be getting kitbashed and the David Rarig treatment of covering it in clevermodels textures to improve the horribly oversized brickwork. by Dan Beresford, on FlickrThe freight cars are all Roundhouse, and all needed knuckle couplers - which put a considerable dent in my supplies - but they worked out at £1.30 each, and are mostly Appalachian paint schemes - L&N/SCL, B&O/C&O, Clinchfield, etc. The Cotton Belt and WM cars will likely end up getting repainted at some point, but for now they are there if I need them.
I also won another Ebay bid last night - an SPSF gondola, a box car, a 4 car articulated TOFC set and 4 semi trailers to go on the back of them, all for £15 delivered. I'm happy, as I was planning on putting a TOFC ramp on the next extension to the layout, so that's just gravy!
I've got a LOT of cars to weather before the end of the month!