Show your models!

simulatortrain

jointed freaking rails
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.

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That looks as good as your digital models. What's with the blue on the end cap of the roller bearing? I see that on freight cars all the time. New wheel set or something?
 
Latest aquisition

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My LGB Stainz Locomotive and Chiquita Bananen boxcar orphaned from a Train set that was issued in the 1970s and has long been discontinued.

And yes its surrounded by a lot of dissected/otherwise HO stuff. I have HO trackage on the floor in two loops where I've been running my HO and On30 equipment.

Carpet railways happen to be fun. :D
 
Great Modeling!

Wow! I could NOT tell that SimulatorTrain's model was not the prototype! If lginc's last 2 cars had been on a different background, I would have thought they were real, too. Great modeling, folks!

-- Russ
 
Here some things I have done to modify the On30 4-6-0. I have had to redo the whole cab.....way tooooooo inacurate for the locomotive. The throttle was so far back on the back head, the engineer couldn't get to it, and a lot of other things were modifyed to make it more prototypical with a Baldwin 4-6-0

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Here some things I have done to modify the On30 4-6-0. I have had to redo the whole cab.....way tooooooo inacurate for the locomotive. The throttle was so far back on the back head, the engineer couldn't get to it, and a lot of other things were modifyed to make it more prototypical with a Baldwin 4-6-0

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I wondered if you had one of these... :hehe:
 
My old MDC HO shay that looks much better than it runs. Background was photoshopped in (still trying to perfect this technique). Good thread idea, lot of nice models from everyone.

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doodlebug :hehe:
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nice set of weathered cars and engine
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I personally would like to see a caboose in game with a figure attached as so, maybe can get off the car and perform a switching motion (pipedream)
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