(Big Pix Warning) Hardly Workin': My Attempts to be a Contributing Member of Society

Gorgeous N&W stuff. :Y:

If you are open to a request for the GP18, I'd dearly love to have a chop-nose version in T&P, if you ever want to give it a go.

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Thanks for all the feedback guys. Really helps with the learning process. Things are really starting to get into a groove now and I can focus on adding things rather than going back and correcting mistakes. I've got some 6-axle locos in the pipeline, but no SD30. Maybe at some other point in the future I can tinker with fictional what-if stuff. Stay tuned in the next couple of days as I am nearly finished with what I am calling "Hoppermania". It's always been my goal to diversify my 1960s to 80s hopper fleets, but I finally got a bunch of them up to snuff. At least 9 different variations from 60 ton L&N rebuilds to 100 ton Southern "Silverside" gondolas (okay, not really a hopper).
 
Here's a small company town house based on one a few, long since demolished, examples in Tom's Creek, VA. Still haven't decided on a door style so no way to get in the house yet. The union might have something to say about that. It's not meant to be this tall - the stilts are to allow it to be placed on the side of a mountain.

 
''What in the world happenedto My door!!!! Honey did you know the door is missing?'' 'We never had one use the Windows '' :p
 
Bleh, I don't have an accurate diagram to make one of these, but I've always liked the big Alcos. Probably won't be able to take this any further though.

 
I second that, please continue. The only source of ALCo locomotives we have right now are from N8PHU, and he might have stopped converting locomotives. Your locomotives are great looking.
 
snaps1912 said:
I second that, please continue. The only source of ALCO locomotives we have right now are from N8PHU, and he might have stopped converting locomotives. Your locomotives are great looking.
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Nope, I haven't quit, just learning to walk without a cane was more important (car wreck in Feburary).
 
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n8phu said:
Nope, I haven't quit, just learning to walk without a cane was more important (car wreck in Feburary).
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You don't need to walk (and therefore use a cane) to sit at the computer and convert locomotives!!!!;)

(Just kidding, Chris- keep at it: We'll get what we get when we get it. REAL life takes priority any day of the week)
 


The sheer size of the six-axle Centuries always impressed me when you consider that they, at nearly 70 feet long, are almost 10 feet longer than the contemporary offerings from EMD and GE. Too big and heavy for their era.
 


Another 6-axle project. These are interesting just because of the phases they went through and being the last hurrah for the 567. The late model SD35, like those operated by Southern, have nearly as many external features in common with an early SD40 than they do with a Phase I SD35. They aren't a particularly common model, but of the 360 produced 245 went to Appalachian coal haulers so they are nearly ubiquitous for Chessie System (including all 3 predecessor roads), N&W, and Southern routes. This render incorporates features of different phases, but I'll correctly sort them out as I start painting them up.
 
I don't mean to sound rude, but have to released anything you've been making so far? I've been checking and you seem to keep starting really good models, but I never hear of them being release, maybe you don't plan to I don't know, am i missing something? Anyways keep up the good work.
 
Chadd04 said:
I don't mean to sound rude, but have to released anything you've been making so far? I've been checking and you seem to keep starting really good models, but I never hear of them being release, maybe you don't plan to I don't know, am i missing something? Anyways keep up the good work.
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He said something a few pages back about a mega release...
 
Yes, I am planning on releasing a whole bunch of stuff at once rather than doing one item at a time. Not everything I have shown will be released, but I like to show it anyways in the hopes that it might inspire someone else to go ahead with it or simply just for feedback. I'm also learning some scripting stuff so I won't have to rely on anyone else to release my stuff. So some models, like the GP30 and the GP18, are finished, but they are useless hulks with no scripts.
 
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