CattyPatty
CEO of BTL RR
This is my BNSF Dash-9-44cw #617 followed by my BNSF 54 ft PS covered hopper #470231 both by Athearns.
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Wm I know this was the first pic in this thead but you cheated. That's a real photograph. (Just kidding, but it really looks real.)I thought we should have a thread to show any train models you want to. Can be your whole collection, something new, or your favorite.
I'll start with a tank car I recently finished weathering. It's a Walthers car, done with chalks, oils, and acrylics, no airbrushing (it hadn't arrived yet.) Graffiti is done with an india ink marker. I replaced the couplers with Kadee SF shelf couplers with the trip pins removed. Eventually I'm converting all my HO stuff to Sergent couplers and semi-scale metal wheels and it'll look even better. This is the first car I've actually finished weathering.
Here's your Brass Betsy, sawyer. A PFM Missouri Pacific P-73 4-6-2. An early one; the 1000 series. Later ones had a feedwater heater mounted on top of the smokebox, and side mounted air compressors, versus pilot mounted like mine. I would love to have one in-game, but my gmax skills are nowhere near good enough to build one. So I'll stick with real models for now. At least until the IRM opens again.
I'm scared to work on this one. I've never really done anything with brass before. This model is from the 70's at least. I inherited it from my Grandpa when he passed. Still had the card my mom wrote when she gave it to him for Christmas when she was a kid. I'm tempted to save up and pay to have it remotored, painted and lettered, and have DCC sound and lighting installed. First I have to find a good group of modelers up here. All my contacts are back in St. Louis.
My layout is an empty bookshelf......oh well.
Sorry for the large pictures, I'm using a phone. :/
Nice models!
I would check the track in the front. It looks like the rail joiner didn't connect and the rail rode up on top if it. I hate it when that happens!