Yes, these are HO, white metal kits - I don’t remember who made them, this was a while ago - maybe a long while ago! haha - with some scratch add ons - I think mostly pins etc to hold them together, etc , maybe a few extra braces and so on.
You make me think tho, building a variety of not so common kits, in all sorts of scales and materials, certainly helped me get comfortable enough with building/assembling things, to get into scratch work. In fact, I think the HO world also got me into dio building!
That is a fantastic layout segment. Your buildings and rolling stock and scenery - incredible. Thanks for showing us this - and saving it in the first place.
Are those Campbell structures and/or FSM?
I hope to someday attain a fraction of your skill.
Recent work ~ Just some fairly standard Bachmann On30 freight cars and add to that a bit of custom paint, lettering and some occasional added detailing: They have all now been Rio Grandized! ~ And weathered with washes and pastels.
For the moment this project is still just a photoshopped image but I have serious plans to section a Bachmann Coach and Combine together to create just such an On30 Motorcar: (I am pretty good in the “chop-shop” department.)
I have seen a derelict US flat car being used as a loading ramp in this manor (in Model Railroader Magazine) so I thought the same might be true in wartime Europe. This is the Dragon 4-wheel flatcar, shortened and with one axle removed.
Understand sentimentality. For some reason, way back when, I started saving certain parts from models I burned/stomped/BB gunned/firecrackered, and now I have bins of parts. Every now and then when I build an old model for the fun of it, if I find a part from the original, I use it in the new model.
Thanks mate, actually there’s another dead giveaway in the first of those images that still ticks me off I didn’t notice at the time…anyhow I still have dreams of blasting dry ice & smoke out of appropriate areas, maybe one day. A couple more from that session…
Tim - Did I find the right spot that was bothering you in that first photo?
It looked as though someone in a red shirt was walking into the righthand frame of the photo - I turned him into a barn. (I hope I did it right? - just call me Casey)
I thought the original “1890’s” coal tender looked a bit too small relative to the very nice, rather chunky engine so I put together a drop-in oil bunker and added a back up light. (Non-working)
Tim - I would be hard pressed to INTENTIONALLY create that lighting affect. That “bright morning sun burning in over the top” of whatever dark object it was I was trying to shoot. (Though as a photographer I have had to suffer the real-life condition any number of times.)
To consciously create that affect in a model photograph is seriously impressive!
haha - with some scratch add ons - I think mostly pins etc to hold them together, etc , maybe a few extra braces and so on.
