Hi guys-
Not sure I am in the correct fishing hole for this but if wrong the mods may move it.
I am Painting two OLD brass steamers.
One is an old Texas type 2-10-4- this steamer was covered with tarnish all over the place, no lacquer over coat was ever applied.
I sand blasted with 180 grit blast media , then washed with super hot soap and water and let air dry over night.
I am using ScaleCoat 1 for paint. I used an engine black (matte) finish on it.
even though the paint went on very smooth I am concerned about applying decals, as the surface of the paint does not look gloss finish.
How do I over come this so the decals can be applied ?
Thanks in advance.

Since the thread has not been started I guess I will begin this week.

This weekend finds my Bachmann Spectrum New York Ontario & Western 4-8-2 USRA Light Mountain hauling a coal drag past the Water Tower. The six New York Ontario & Western (O&W) hoppers are RTR GLa Type 2-Bay hoppers by Bowser, the next eight are Atlas Offset Side 2-Bay hoppers. The NYO&W caboose is an Atlas Trainman. I wasn’t sure at first if the loco could handle this trin length. I am pleased to say it handled it with ease. I think I could have added another four to six cars without any issue. If I had the coal loads available, I probably would have.

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True model railroaders will probably disagree but I like to display some of my locomotives on a shelf---this way I can enjoy them outside of the train room.

P1420398 (2) by Ed Creechan, on Flickr

P1420399 (2) by Ed Creechan, on Flickr

P1420400 (2) by Ed Creechan, on Flickr

Hi everyone, well I thought I could share with you my version of this "Vollmer" cathedral kit no. 3739
I changed mine a bit from the kit's original design. Trying to give mine a slate roof without the dormers.
Also adding some LED lighting into it.

   

I even built a temporary cardboard diorama so I could photograph my version of this cathedral on, here's how that looked.

   

I really built this temporary scene to photograph this cathedral at night.
Here are a few of the photographs that I was able to achieve as a result.
I hope you enjoy them!
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to All!

   

   

   

   

Greg

From all the staff at Big Blue Train Forum to all its members, we wish you the best for this holiday season, and may the coming year treat you well.

   

Hello,

i replaced in one of my Genesis GP9's the old OEM-TSU with the new Soundtraxx Tsunami TSU2:



It sounds great and i like the dynamic sound changes depending on acceleration and load changes.
You can move the light loco still in notch 1 without reving up into the higher notches or you can got straight to notch 8. It depends onto how slow or how fast you will open the throttle. And when the loco has accelerated to you pre-selected speed, the engine will notch down but the speed will stay consistent. With a light loco it notches down to notch 1. But if there is an heavy train to be pulled, the engine will notch down after acceleration only to notch 3 or 4 depending on the rolling resistance of the train.
Thee is also real brake function which i like.


Lutz

Been under the weather so here's a photo from two years ago.

Bruce

   

Something that's been bugging me for a long time, the computer age is great, keep in contact with the world, get thousands of answers for any question within seconds, find your way around instantly, but there's a cost to all this. Does anyone feel like venting their frustrations, irritations or general grips about today's technology that could raise your stress levels into the danger zone?

Why am I asking, well, I just turned on my laptop that's been off for a week or so, and when I tried to log onto Big Blue, I was interrupted with a message, "your subscription has expired", (to what, I haven't a clue), followed by "your virus definitions are out of date", then, "your virus app needs to be updated". Ten minutes later, I'm still not logged on, and, "Avast needs to restart your computer". There are times when I've tried to say, read my email, and I get these pop-up windows advising me that their updates are far more important than what I want to do. "We are going to restart your computer in 3-2-1...bingo and I have to wait while yet another app and Windows does it updating.
And yes, my laptop is still updating Windows 10 now so I'm back on my desktop.

That's my current grip with computers, what's yours????

WPMA-40 makes it's way down Division Street.

Bruce

   

This is the blog for my Southern Pacific's Jefferson Branch of Klamath Subdivision in Northern California. The Klamath Subdivision is proto-lanced line for my dream layout and the Jefferson Branch is a totally freelanced branch for the layout space I was able to get. This allows me to attempt to capture the flavor I want in the space I have………..

I’m moving my blog for my layout here to the Big Blue.  I am going to try and post about one entry a day so you can can catch up to the current status.

ratled