Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

[S&S RR]

Hi John:

If you are using commercial spray cans from the hardware store they a few colors of gray primer. I have a dark and a lighter gray primer.

Karl

Hi Karl


Thanks for stopping by the  thread. I'm currently looking for the lighter shade of gray that I used for years. 

[S&S RR]

That is a lot of casting John.

Yes it is.  A few hours of painting ahead of me. And I still have more to prepare for painting. It's all about the details - right?

[S&S RR]

John...

So what rattle can are you using. 

See ya
Bob

Bob


Here is a picture of the can.

[S&S RR]

I managed to get most of the castings through the paint booth and primed. I made a test casting out of piece of scrap to test my new grey primer color for a match after the chalks are applied with the Stone Roundhouse.

[S&S RR]

Here is what was drying in the paint booth at the end of the day.

[S&S RR]

I also made a couple more painting fixtures for the round pulleys and flywheels for the overhead belt system. It is basically a piece of wire strung between two posts. I think it will work just fine.

[S&S RR]

[S&S RR]

I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why sometimes the pictures are big and sometimes they are very small in my last few posts. I used the same process with the same settings. I don't know? It has to have something to do with the higher resolution pictures I'm taking now. Some of them are starting out at 30Meg. When I size them down I think the software is getting carried away with the down sizing - but only sometimes.
One of those computer mysteries that needs to be solved.

[bparrish]

John...

I use photoshop. I set the horizontal size to 4-5 inches and 120 dot resolution.  I get pretty consistent results.

See ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

John...

I use photoshop. I set the horizontal size to 4-5 inches and 120 dot resolution.  I get pretty consistent results.

See ya
Bob

Thanks Bob


I'm not sure what is triggering my picture sizing problem.  I have been taking the pictures lately with my iPhone and about every 20 pictures, I get a small one popping up. Last night,I tried resizing the same picture without changes the setting on my end and it worked just fine the second time.  It may be something on the forum end with what is happening to a picture when you add it to the gallery.

[S&S RR]

I will have a few more progress pictures to try, tonight.

[S&S RR]

Today, I spent most of the day preparing castings. The work bench is getting full - I have another day or two to get through this phase of the projects. I'm either priming them or using a blackening agent as the first step.

[S&S RR]

I also got started on cutting the walls for the roof sheds for the Locomotive Works.

[S&S RR]

Yes - I have a lot of window openings to cut.

[PRR Modeler]

Looks like great progress.